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A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award, this novel follows Tomura, a young man who discovers his calling after hearing a piano being tuned at his school. He begins an apprenticeship under experienced craftsmen while learning to develop his own skill and purpose, with a 3.8-star average from more than 4,700 Goodreads ratings. A quiet, reflective choice for readers interested in Japanese fiction, music, craftsmanship, and finding one’s path.
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OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMES
What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making.
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more.
Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners – one humble, one jovial, one ill-tempered – Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes?
Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling – and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one’s purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation.
Mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler.
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A strong fit for readers drawn to epistolary literary fiction about aging, family, regret, connection, and second chances.
The Correspondent
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller and Women's Prize for Fiction winner hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration,” The Correspondent tells Sybil Van Antwerp's life through letters as she confronts old grief, family relationships, and forgiveness, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 155,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong fit for readers drawn to epistolary literary fiction about aging, family, regret, connection, and second chances.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD • Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.
“This novel is a complete and utter joy.”—Ann Napolitano, author of Hello Beautiful
“Quietly dazzling.”—The New York Times
“I cried more than once as I witnessed this brilliant woman come to understand herself more deeply.”—Florence Knapp, author of The Names
In development as a major motion picture
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Elle, Christian Science Monitor, She Reads
“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.
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Best for readers who like second chances, creative ambition, unresolved yearning, and relationships shaped by timing and fame.
Into the Blue
Literary Fiction · Romance · Women's Fiction
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An April 2026 Reese’s Book Club pick, this decades-spanning love story follows aspiring comedy writer AJ Graves and acting-dynasty heir Noah Drew. Seven years after Noah disappears without explanation, they reunite as cast members on an intergalactic television series, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 10,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like second chances, creative ambition, unresolved yearning, and relationships shaped by timing and fame.
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REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • An epic, decades-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy and charts a connection unlike any other.
“INTOXICATING.”—TAYLOR JENKINS REID, author of Atmosphere
“SMART AND ROMANTIC.”—GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“DEEPLY MOVING.”—KEVIN WILSON, author of Nothing to See Here
“The truth is there’s no such thing as a normal life. There’s just the time you get and how you spend it.”
In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves dreams of writing for Saturday Night Live; instead, she’s stuck working in a video rental store, with slim odds of escaping her small Massachusetts town. Then in walks Noah Drew, the enigmatic and intense scion of the Drew acting dynasty, and her life changes forever. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a deep, cosmic bond, first as friends, then as acting partners—until one day, Noah disappears without a word.
Seven years later, in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. As their on-screen characters grow closer every day, the lines between reality and acting begin to blur. Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront the truth of what happened years ago—and the devastating secret that will send their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw them together.
Blending unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry and yearning, and profound emotion, Into the Blue is a journey unlike any other—one that asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to forge your own story?
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This will appeal to readers who want serious literary fiction built around moral complexity and intersecting lives.
The Elements
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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From bestselling author John Boyne, four interconnected narratives examine crime from the perspectives of the enabler, accomplice, perpetrator, and victim, following characters confronting guilt, trauma, blame, and redemption, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want serious literary fiction built around moral complexity and intersecting lives.
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From bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption.
In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.
The narrative follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son. Each is somehow connected to the next, and as the story unfolds, their lives intersect in unimaginable ways.
Boyne’s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving investigation of why and how we allow crime to occur. With masterful, spellbinding prose, he navigates this complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty. The story resonates on a deeply emotional level, challenging readers to confront their own conceptions of guilt and innocence at every step. Amid the wildly engrossing storytelling, the book ultimately asks: What would you do when faced with the unthinkable?
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Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
Dragon Seed
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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From Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed follows farmer Ling Tan and his family as the Japanese invasion of China destroys their rural life and drives them into resistance, with a 4.1-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction about wartime China, civilian resistance, family survival, and the costs of occupation.
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A New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth.
Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed. They're in for a shock, as the attackers lay waste to the country and install a puppet government designed to systematically carry out Japanese interests. In response, the Chinese farmers and their families form a resistance—which not only carries grave risk, but also breaks their vow of nonviolence, leading them to wonder if they're any different than their enemy.
Later adapted into a film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Dragon Seed is a brilliant and unflinching look at the horrors of war.
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A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational literary fiction, small-town history, magical realism, and interconnected lives.
The Red Garden
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color
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A New York Times bestseller praised in a starred Booklist review as “gloriously sensuous, suspenseful, mystical, tragic, and redemptive,” The Red Garden traces 300 years in Blackwell, Massachusetts, through fourteen linked stories about its residents and the land connecting them. At the center is a garden where only red plants grow, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,200 Amazon reviewers. A warm, atmospheric fit for readers drawn to multigenerational literary fiction, small-town history, magical realism, and interconnected lives.
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From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption.
“[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The Washington Post
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives.
At the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.
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A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, family dysfunction, caregiving, and long-buried family secrets.
The Myth of Perpetual Summer
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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In 1960s Mississippi, Tallulah James grows up managing the fallout from her parents' volatile behavior while helping raise her younger siblings and protect the family's reputation. After building a life in California, she is drawn back home, where she uncovers the secrets and lies behind her family's collapse, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, family dysfunction, caregiving, and long-buried family secrets.
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From the national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes a moving Southern coming-of-age novel set in 1960s Mississippi that harkens to both Ordinary Grace and The Secret Life of Bees.
Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family’s reputation and raising her younger twin siblings onto her youthful shoulders.
If not for the emotional constants of her older brother, Griff, and her old guard Southern grandmother, she would be lost. When betrayal and death arrive hand in hand, she takes to the road, headed to what turns out to be the not-so-promised land of Southern California. But the dysfunction and childhood trauma she left behind continue to echo through her scattered family, sending her brother on a disastrous path and drawing her home again. There she uncovers the long-buried secrets and lies that set her family on the road to destruction.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age fiction about complicated mothers, foster care, identity, loneliness, and resilience.
White Oleander
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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An Oprah’s Book Club pick, White Oleander follows Astrid after her mother murders a former lover and receives a life sentence, leaving the girl to move through a series of Los Angeles foster homes while trying to understand who she can become, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 5,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age fiction about complicated mothers, foster care, identity, loneliness, and resilience.
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The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted…
Galapagos
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Called “a madcap genealogical adventure” by The New York Times Book Review, Galápagos follows a small group of cruise passengers stranded on the islands after an apocalypse, where they become the ancestors of a radically different human race. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted problems.
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“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.
Praise for Galápagos
“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”—John Irving
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A warm fit for readers who like contemporary women’s fiction about unexpected motherhood, lost possibilities, humor, and midlife reinvention.
The Life I Didn’t Plan
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Called “Extremely funny” by the Belfast Telegraph, The Life I Didn’t Plan follows Beth, who became pregnant at seventeen and lost contact with her daughter’s father. At a 2026 school reunion, a time-capsule letter offers a clue to his identity and forces Beth to reconsider the life she expected. A warm fit for readers who like contemporary women’s fiction about unexpected motherhood, lost possibilities, humor, and midlife reinvention.
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Beth didn't expect to get pregnant at seventeen.
Nor did she think she'd lose the name and address of the father of her child. Swept up in romance on her French exchange, all she remembers is that his hair smelt like mangoes.
Now, in 2026, at her school reunion, she opens the time capsule she wrote to herself at that time. Inside she finds a letter that alters everything Beth thought she knew about her past, and provides an all important clue for finding the father of her 19-year-old daughter, Maisie.
Hit hard by the difference between the life she hoped for and the one she’s living, Beth is faced with a choice: chase the adventures she once dreamed of, or embrace the new opportunities life presents?
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Half witch and half vampire, Larissa Norton is a forbidden hybrid with a ruthless vampire lord hunting the power in her blood.
Coven Cove
Teen + Young Adult · Magical Realism
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Half witch and half vampire, Larissa Norton is a forbidden hybrid with a ruthless vampire lord hunting the power in her blood. Sent to a hidden academy after her father’s murder, she finds supernatural allies, dangerous lessons, forbidden feelings, and secrets that could make her a target of the witch council. This complete seven-book collection delivers dark academy magic and found family.
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She is a child of two worlds — a vampire and a witch. A secret hidden from her and the world for nearly a century. The wrong person just found out.
The night her father died, her mother shoved a vial of blood into her hands, put her on a train, and told her she'd be safe. Larissa never saw her again.
The train delivered her to Coven Cove Academy — a hidden school where witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters study side by side. All orphans. All learning to master powers the outside world could never understand.
For the first time, Larissa has a home. Real friends. And Nathan — the headmistress's mortal son, and the one boy at Coven Cove she's forbidden to want.
Then an accident exposes the magic she still carries — magic no vampire should have. The same power her parents died protecting, and the one a man has spent nearly a century hunting.
Her teachers defy the council to train her. The council wants her gone before she grows too strong to stop. And the man who killed her father hasn't stopped hunting — he's simply been waiting for her to be found.
Some gifts are worth dying for. Others get you killed.
Perfect for fans of Vampire Academy, House of Night, and anyone who wished Hogwarts had a darker side.
This bundle contains all 7 books in the bestselling Coven Cove series.
- Book 1: The Secret of the Blood Charm
- Book 2: The Shape of Things to Come
- Book 3: BloodLust
- Book 4: The Curse of the Crescent Moon
- Book 5: The House of the Rising Son
- Book 6: BloodWars
- Book 7: The Revenge of the Shadow Witch
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