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She has never stepped outside her home, and love may be the one risk she cannot survive.
Everything, Everything
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction
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She has never stepped outside her home, and love may be the one risk she cannot survive. Maddy lives with a rare illness that keeps her sealed off from the world, until a new neighbor named Olly challenges the limits of her isolation. Everything, Everything is a contemporary YA romance about first love, fragile trust, and the courage to question the life you have been given.
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Risk everything for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nicola Yoon "Gorgeous and lyrical"—The New York Times Book Review
What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken.
"This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut. Tender, creative, beautifully written, and with a great twist, Everything, Everything is one of the best books I've read this year."—Jodi Picoult
My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world.I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
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Buried secrets resurface when human remains are uncovered at luxury beach huts on Mudeford Spit, tying the present to crimes long thought forgotten.
The Beach Hut Murders
Mystery · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Buried secrets resurface when human remains are uncovered at luxury beach huts on Mudeford Spit, tying the present to crimes long thought forgotten. In The Beach Hut Murders, DCI Lesley Clarke and her divided teams confront a thirty-year-old killing linked to an organised crime family and Lesley’s own wife. A layered British police procedural where professional duty and personal loyalty collide.
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DCI Lesley Clarke's two teams are in flux. The Major Crime Investigations Team has a new DI, and the Cold Cases team has a member back from parental leave. And Lesley herself is itching to get stuck into a case, instead of sitting behind a desk.
When a body is found at the luxury beach huts on Mudeford Spit, the Cold Cases team know it's one of theirs, as the remains have been buried for over thirty years. But then evidence is found connecting a member of the Kelvin organised crime family, as well as Lesley's lawyer wife Elsa.
Are Elsa’s ties to her former clients about to be revived? And will the new DI, with her experience of financial forensics, be able to solve the murder of local taxi driver Mark Ashforth and identify just which criminal gang are responsible? Most importantly, will Lesley find an opportunity to get her hands (and those walking boots) dirty?
The Beach Hut Murders introduces a much-loved character from Rachel McLean's 'Deadly' and Cumbria Crime series to the Dorset team, and continues the investigation into the notorious Kelvins and their police associates, both past and present.
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When a bond shatters, the silence between siblings can feel louder than grief.
I’ll Give You the Sun
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction
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When a bond shatters, the silence between siblings can feel louder than grief. In I'll Give You the Sun, twins Noah and Jude once shared everything, until betrayal and loss drive them apart during their most formative years. Told in alternating timelines and perspectives, this luminous young adult novel explores first love, artistic longing, and the fragile work of finding your way back to family.
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A New York Times bestseller • One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time • Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Stonewall Honor Book
The radiant, award-winning story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Becky Albertalli, and Adam Silvera
"Dazzling." —The New York Times Book Review
"A blazing prismatic explosion of color." —Entertainment Weekly
"Powerful and well-crafted . . . Stunning." —Time Magazine
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
At first, Jude and her twin brother are NoahandJude; inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them.
Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways . . . but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor.
The early years are Noah’s to tell; the later years are Jude’s. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they’ll have a chance to remake their world.
This radiant, award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.
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Family history blurs when memory begins to slip away.
The Memory Bracelet
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Family history blurs when memory begins to slip away. In The Memory Bracelet, college sophomore Tessa Wilde uncovers a secret from her grandmother Esther, whose Alzheimer’s clouds the truth even as it reveals it. Guided by the stories tied to a charm bracelet, Tessa searches for clarity, confronting betrayal, identity, and the fragile bonds between generations in this emotionally grounded contemporary drama.
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When college sophomore Tessa Wilde visits her Alzheimer’s-stricken grandmother Esther, a shocking secret slips out, one that threatens Tessa’s identity and raises old feelings of betrayal and rejection. The only way to pursue the truth, though, is to explore those unreliable memories.
But can she separate Esther’s ramblings of a storied past from the effects of Alzheimer’s?
Relying on Grandmother’s stories that live in the charms of her beloved bracelet, Tessa pushes her grandmother to reveal the truths that have been hidden for too long. As Esther’s health deteriorates and communication fails, Tessa faces the ultimate question: can she forgive Grandmother for half-spilled secrets and an unreconciled relationship? And face the fact that they’re more alike than they are different?
Perfect for fans of Barbara Davis and Kristan Higgins, The Memory Bracelet is a gripping yet heartwarming novel about the pain resulting from complicated relationships, carried from one generation to the next, and the fierce determination to heal them.
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A mother’s final message forces two estranged siblings to confront the life she never shared.
Black Cake
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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A mother’s final message forces two estranged siblings to confront the life she never shared. After Eleanor Bennett’s death, Byron and Benny receive a traditional Caribbean black cake and a recording that reveals a past marked by flight, reinvention, and buried secrets. This multigenerational family saga explores inheritance, identity, and the fragile ties that bind siblings across decades and continents.
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NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored” (Time).
“Wilkerson transports you across the decades and around the globe accompanied by complex, wonderfully drawn characters.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar, Book Riot, She Reads
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become?
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
Charmaine Wilkerson’s debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.
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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi Adekola as she rebuilds her life through art, intimacy, and unexpected connection after profound loss. This contemporary romance centers emotional healing, complicated attraction, and the quiet risk of choosing love while still carrying the past.
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A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the overwhelming desire Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits—his father.
This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss.
Half a World Away
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss. When they reconnect years later, buried truths about family, class, and identity come to the surface. This Richard and Judy Book Club selection holds a 4.2-star average on Amazon with over 25,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Strangers living worlds apart.
Strangers with nothing in common.
But it wasn't always that way...
Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past.
Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back.
When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever.
By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page.
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice.
Indian Horse
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice. Hockey becomes Saul Indian Horse’s escape, his identity, and the source of new wounds in a world shaped by racism and silence. Readers call this coming of age novel heartbreaking and essential, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 ratings on Goodreads.
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"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub
The Basis for the Award-Winning Movie
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother—and then his home itself.
Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul's victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred—the harshness of a world that will never welcome him, tied inexorably to the sport he loves.
Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story.
"Shocking and alien, valuable and true . . . A master of empathy." —Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
"A wonderful coming-of-age novel." —Outside Magazine
"Wagamese has sneakily written one of the great works of sport literature." —Literary Hub
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Set during a tense Cape Cod summer, this literary family drama follows two adult siblings and their unraveling father as long-buried secrets come to light.
Little Monsters
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Set during a tense Cape Cod summer, this literary family drama follows two adult siblings and their unraveling father as long-buried secrets come to light. Ambition, dependence, and loyalty collide inside a small, volatile household. Little Monsters is a national bestseller with 4.1 stars on Amazon and more than 18,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A National Bestseller!
“Juicy…simmers with tension as secrets explode out into the open.” —The Washington Post * “So alluring…I raced happily through the pages.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable.” —Vogue * “An absolutely captivating read.” —Elin Hilderbrand
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets.
Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings’ lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother’s goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works.
As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his mortality and fading relevance. He has always managed his bipolar disorder with medication, but he’s determined to make one last scientific breakthrough and so he has secretly stopped taking his pills, which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile, Abby and Ken are both harboring secrets of their own, and there is a new person on the periphery of the family—Steph, who doesn’t make her connection known. As Adam grows more attuned to the frequencies of the deep sea and less so to the people around him, Ken and Abby each plan the elaborate gifts they will present to their father on his birthday, jostling for primacy in this small family unit.
Set in the fraught summer of 2016, Little Monsters is a “smart, page-flipping novel…[with] shades of Succession” (The Boston Globe) from a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief.
This Book Made Me Think of You
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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After losing her husband, a woman receives an unexpected gift: twelve books and twelve letters to guide her through a year of grief. As reading reconnects her to the world and to herself, new friendships and possibilities emerge. From bestselling author Libby Page, this heartfelt novel celebrates love, loss, and the quiet magic of books.
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A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.
Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago....
When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him.
At first Tilly can’t imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe’s tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens—Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. Monthly trips to the bookstore—and heartfelt conversations with Alfie—give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to share her journey with others, her story—like a book—becomes more than her own.
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This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
The Life Intended
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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More than a decade after her husband Patrick's death, Kate is engaged again when vivid dreams of Patrick make her question whether she's ready to move on. Her search for meaning leads her into a sign language class and the New York City foster system, with a 4.2-star average from more than 16,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about grief, second chances, and the lives we might have lived.
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Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You in this richly told novel from the author of The Sweetness of Forgetting about the struggle to overcome the past.
After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate Waithman never expected to be lucky enough to find another love of her life. But now she’s planning her second walk down the aisle to a perfectly nice man. So why isn’t she more excited?
At first, Kate blames her lack of sleep on stress. But when she starts seeing Patrick, her late husband, in her dreams, she begins to wonder if she’s really ready to move on. Is Patrick trying to tell her something? Attempting to navigate between dreams and reality, Kate must uncover her husband’s hidden message. Her quest leads her to a sign language class and into the New York City foster system, where she finds rewards greater than she could have imagined.
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After a devastating loss, a grieving mother faces an impossible choice when a condemned man offers her daughter a chance at life.
Change of Heart
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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After a devastating loss, a grieving mother faces an impossible choice when a condemned man offers her daughter a chance at life. As faith, vengeance, and mercy collide, both are forced to confront what redemption truly costs. This emotionally charged novel holds a 4.5-star Amazon rating and wide reader acclaim.
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The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of the craft of storytelling” (Associated Press) weaves a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s chance at salvation.
One moment June Nealon is happily looking forward to years of love and laughter with her family. The next, she is facing a future as empty as her heart as she waits for a miracle.
For Shay Bourne, life has no more surprises, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, his life is changed by one last chance for redemption through June’s young daughter, Claire. But between June and Shay lies an ocean of bitter regrets and a mother’s rage.
Would you give up revenge against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy’s dying wish?
Soul-stirring and haunting, Change of Heart is “another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner” (Publishers Weekly) from Jodi Picoult.
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