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Best for readers who like emotional literary fiction about grief, redemption, found family, rural refuge, and healing from the past.
Where the Wildflowers Grow
Literary Fiction · People of Color · Women's Fiction
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Where the Wildflowers Grow follows Leigh, the last of the Wildes, after she survives a prison transport crash and finds refuge on a rural Alabama flower farm where found family, tenderness, and buried secrets force her to face what she can survive, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like emotional literary fiction about grief, redemption, found family, rural refuge, and healing from the past.
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookBub, and more!
From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Leigh is the last of the Wildes. She knows this because she watched them all die.
Grief never truly fades and even as the tragedy haunts her, Leigh carries on, because survival is in her blood. So, when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what's in her nature. She survives.
While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn't expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives. Especially Jackson, the farm's owner, who sees through Leigh's defenses, offers her small moments of tenderness, encourages her to face her own tragedies. Slowly, Leigh finds peace with the hard pace and soft nature of the farm, taking comfort in the life blooming around her. Maybe she's not beyond redemption, not too broken for something good. And maybe, just maybe, Leigh starts to heal.
But the past isn't so easily buried.
No matter how far she runs, the truth of who she is and the ghosts of the Wildes follow. And when those secrets catch up to her, threatening everything she's come to love, Leigh will have to truly face what she can survive.
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In 1968 Buffalo, six teenage girls are sent to a Catholic reform school where punishment, forced labor, and silence rule daily life.
Wayward Girls
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Women's Fiction
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In 1968 Buffalo, six teenage girls are sent to a Catholic reform school where punishment, forced labor, and silence rule daily life. Wayward Girls follows their fight to endure, protect one another, and eventually seek justice for what was done to them. Inspired by real historical abuses, this is an emotional, gritty novel about survival, female friendship, and the strength it takes to reclaim a future after cruelty tries to define you.
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"After decades of bestsellers, Wayward Girls might be Susan Wiggs' opus. A gut-wrenching story of survival, friendship, and justice. Masterful."—Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
"The magnificent Susan Wiggs takes a leap into the history of women..a page-turner, replete with mystery and suspense."—Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs, a wrenching but life-affirming work of historical fiction based on a true story of survival, friendship, and redemption. Set in the turbulent Vietnam era in the All-American city of Buffalo, New York, six girls are condemned to forced labor in the laundry of a Catholic reform school, an institution reminiscent of the notorious Magdalene Laundries.
In this compelling coming-of-age story, we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd in 1968—a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns—locked away merely for being gay, pregnant, or simply unruly.
Mairin— free-spirited daughter of Irish immigrants, committed to keep her safe from her stepfather.
Angela—denounced for her attraction to girls, sent to the nuns for reform, but instead found herself the victim of a predator.
Helen—the daughter of intellectuals detained in Communist China, she saw her “temporary” stay at the Good Shepherd stretch into years.
Odessa—caught up in a police dragnet over a racial incident, she found the physical and mental toughness to endure her sentence.
Denise—sentenced for brawling in a foster home, she dared to dream of a better life.
Janice—deeply insecure, she couldn’t decide where her loyalty lay—except when it came to her friend Kay, who would never outgrow her childlike dependency.
Sister Bernadette—rescued from a dreadful childhood, she owed her loyalty to the Sisters of Charity even as her conscience weighed on her.
Wayward Girls is a haunting but thrilling tale of hope, solidarity, and the enduring strength of female friendship as young women who find the courage to break free and find redemption...and justice.
"Compelling...This powerful and unforgettable novel is a poignant and enlightening look into a sad chapter of recent history."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Heart-wrenching...sweeping. This one lingers long after the last page."—Publishers Weekly
"Wayward girls is all about the power of female bonds...this isn't just a moment in time—it's a cautionary tale."—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name
“Susan Wiggs is at the top of her game. Through the skillful weaving of an endearing cast, Wayward Girls displays the power of sisterhood to survive, conquer, and ultimately heal from the most harrowing of times. An evocative tale packed with resilience and secrets that kept me reading late into the night. I loved it.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Girls of Good Fortune
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This will appeal to readers who want historical suspense about domestic expectations, identity, memory, and psychological instability.
The Mad Wife
Thriller · Historical Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Lulu Mayfield has spent years becoming the ideal 1950s housewife, but her carefully constructed life begins to unravel after her daughter’s birth and the arrival of a mysterious new neighbor. As Lulu investigates Bitsy’s secrets, suppressed memories return and she begins questioning her own mind. This will appeal to readers who want historical suspense about domestic expectations, identity, memory, and psychological instability.
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live.
They called it hysteria. She called it survival.
Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife. Despite the tragic memories that haunt her and the weight of exhausting expectations, she keeps her husband happy, her household running, and her gelatin salads the talk of the neighborhood. But after she gives birth to her second child, Lulu's carefully crafted life begins to unravel.
When a new neighbor, Bitsy, moves in, Lulu suspects that something darker lurks behind the woman's constant smile. As her fixation on Bitsy deepens, Lulu is drawn into a web of unsettling truths that threaten to expose the cracks in her own life. The more she uncovers about Bitsy, the more she questions everything she thought she knew—and soon, others begin questioning her sanity. But is Lulu truly losing her mind? Or is she on the verge of discovering a reality too terrifying to accept?
In the vein of The Bell Jar and The Hours, The Mad Wife weaves domestic drama with psychological suspense, so poignant and immersive, you won't want to put it down.
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A young girl loses her family and faces a frontier that offers no mercy.
The Blood of My Mother
Historical Fiction · Western · Women's Fiction
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A young girl loses her family and faces a frontier that offers no mercy. After surviving enslavement and unimaginable hardship in early Texas, Eliza escapes and fights to build a farm, a family, and a fragile community of fellow outcasts. Her struggle for land and dignity unfolds in this sweeping historical saga shaped by endurance, violence, and hard-won hope.
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"Lonesome Dove meets Where the Crawdads Sing" in this "gripping saga about a perilous time in our nation's history and a woman who survived it against all odds" (Patricia Wood, author of Lottery, shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction).
"I could not stop reading." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural choice of Oprah's Book Club
After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas.
After enduring unimaginable cruelty as a slave, Eliza escapes, marries, becomes a mother, and realizes her dream of having a small farm. But she must fight—and kill—to keep it. And survival means welcoming others who have been shunned or forgotten by society into her world. Living and laboring together, will these outcasts find the strength and community they need to survive and flourish?
Acclaimed author Roccie Hill, inspired by the story of her great-great grandmother, now presents an unforgettable, deeply research, and wildly popular historical saga of a woman and a place, each growing and enduring under multiple flags through the sorrows and turbulence of history.
WILLA Literary Award Winner for Historical Fiction
"A saga with many layers . . . [A] riveting, addictive journey." —Joanne Hardy, author of The Girl in the Butternut Dress
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This will appeal to readers who like family fiction built around complicated mother-daughter relationships, estrangement, memory, and buried secrets.
Good Days Bad Days
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Charlie McFadden has been estranged from her parents for thirty-one years when her father asks her to return home and say goodbye to her mother, whose failing memory begins revealing a life and family history Charlie never knew, with a 4.18-star average from more than 4,700 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who like family fiction built around complicated mother-daughter relationships, estrangement, memory, and buried secrets.
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A daughter reconnects with her estranged parents before it’s too late in an emotional novel about memories, secrets, and finding home by the bestselling author of When We Chased the Light.
Charlie McFadden was fifteen years old when CPS removed her from her hoarded home. Her mother, Betty, chose her worthless collectibles. Her father chose Betty. Neither chose Charlie.
Thirty-one years later, a mother herself and cohost of a popular reality show with her husband, Charlie is proud of what she accomplished without her parents—relative strangers she never saw again. Until the day Charlie’s father pleads with her to come home and to say goodbye to her mother, now confined to a memory care center. Betty has her good days, recognizing her daughter with familiar resentment. And her bad ones, lost in the past as a blissful young mother with a cherished newborn. Those days make Charlie feel loved.
For Charlie, each memory is a journey and a revelation. She sees a mother she never knew—bright and beautiful with so much promise. But hidden away is also a fiercely guarded secret. Shared, it could finally bring hope and healing to a broken family. If Betty can bear to remember it.
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Left in charge of failing plantations at sixteen, Eliza Lucas refuses to accept ruin as her inheritance.
The Indigo Girl
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Left in charge of failing plantations at sixteen, Eliza Lucas refuses to accept ruin as her inheritance. In The Indigo Girl, she pursues the secret process of producing indigo dye in colonial South Carolina, risking reputation, fortune, and safety amid political unrest and slavery. This historical novel explores ambition, forbidden alliances, and the moral cost of building wealth in a world defined by constraint.
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In this incredible story of ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial South Carolina defies all expectations to achieve her dream.
The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.
Upon hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye, Eliza believes it’s the key to their salvation. But everyone tells her it’s impossible, and no one will share the secret to making it. Thwarted at nearly every turn, even by her own family, Eliza finds that her only allies are an aging horticulturalist, an older and married gentleman lawyer, and a slave with whom she strikes a dangerous deal: teach her the intricate thousand-year-old secret process of making indigo dye and in return—against the laws of the day—she will teach the slaves to read.
So begins an incredible story of love, dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.
Based on historical documents, including Eliza’s letters, this is a historical fiction account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of US history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral.
This book is set between 1739 and 1744, with romance, intrigue, forbidden friendships, and political and financial threats weaving together to form the story of a remarkable young woman whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl.
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A childhood dare at a cursed quarry leaves a sister vanished without a trace.
The Past Is Never
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Women's Fiction
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A childhood dare at a cursed quarry leaves a sister vanished without a trace. Years after Pansy disappears from the Mississippi Delta and their father follows, Bert and Willet remain tethered to the loss that fractured their family. When new clues draw them toward the Florida Everglades, The Past Is Never unfolds as a Southern Gothic novel of grief, myth, and the long shadow of unresolved truth.
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**WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction**
**WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association**
**WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction**
**WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction**
**Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction***
"An ode to William Faulkner. . . . As Southern as it gets."—Deep South Magazine
A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.
Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.
Years pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can't move on. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy's mysterious disappearance . . . but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.
Perfect for fans of Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Allison, The Past Is Never is an atmospheric, haunting story of myths, legends, and the good and evil we carry in our hearts.
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War tests loyalty as fiercely as it tests love.
When the World Goes Quiet
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction
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War tests loyalty as fiercely as it tests love. In When the World Goes Quiet, Evelien navigates occupied Bruges in the final days of World War I, balancing a dangerous resistance mission against the fragile hope that her missing husband may still live. As art, friendship, and longing complicate her resolve, this historical novel explores survival, sacrifice, and the cost of choosing a future.
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In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry.
It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war.
A member of the resistance approaches Evelien: steal a list of names hidden in her employer’s home. In return, she’ll get a letter from her long-missing husband, Emiel. She’d lost hope of Emiel’s survival, but the promised letter puts her certainty of his death in question. Evelien begins her mission and soon forms a friendship with a soldier who is struggling with the devastating demands of battle. Their shared passion for art deepens the bond, and Evelien faces a heart-wrenching truth: she longs for Emiel’s safe return…but not necessarily to her.
As the final days of the war loom closer, Evelien has never been in more danger. And should she survive the war’s bitter end, what choices will she make for a life beyond liberation?
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A good pick for fans of dual-timeline historical fiction about sisters, family secrets, inherited objects, and connections across generations.
The Sea Stone Sisters
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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The Sea Stone Sisters follows Iris Blackmore and her three sisters after their father removes the Sisters of Skara standing stones in 1931 and the family is scattered. In the present day, Roz Chatton’s inherited ring draws her into Iris’s story and a family history she never expected. A good pick for fans of dual-timeline historical fiction about sisters, family secrets, inherited objects, and connections across generations.
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Courage often wears an ordinary face in times of occupation and fear.
The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel
Women's Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · World War 2
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Courage often wears an ordinary face in times of occupation and fear. In The Schoolteacher of Saint-Michel, Lucie Laval risks everything in 1942 France to guide children across a dangerous border, while decades later her legacy draws Hannah Stone into a hidden history of resistance. This dual timeline historical novel explores sacrifice, memory, and the bravery that shapes generations
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The war taught her to fight. The children taught her to hope...
Inspired by real acts of bravery and resistance, The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel is a heartrending and deeply moving story of one woman's courage and sacrifice during World War II, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Missing Piece of Nancy Moon.
This exquisitely beautiful novel is perfect for readers of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, The Postmistress, Lilac Girls and The Girl from Vichy.
'A beautifully worked tale of bravery, woven into the reality of a time we can't forget' Mandy Robotham, author of The Berlin Girl
'An emotional, beautifully constructed read. I loved the way the clues from the past and present slowly knitted together, answering the questions that had been missing their answers for so long' Sunday Times bestselling author Jill Mansell
'Gripping, at times heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting, I found this beautifully written novel impossible to put down' Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Fforde
'My darling girl, I need you to find someone for me . . .'
France, 1942. At the end of the day, the schoolteacher releases her pupils. She checks they have their identity passes, and warns them not to stop until the German guards have let them through the barrier that separates occupied France from Free France. As the little ones fly across the border and into their mothers' arms, she breathes a sigh of relief. No one is safe now. Not even the children.
Berkshire, present day. A letter left to her by her beloved late grandmother Gigi takes Hannah Stone on a journey deep into the heart of the Dordogne landscape. As she begins to unravel a forgotten history of wartime bravery and sacrifice, she discovers the heartrending secret that binds her grandmother to a village schoolteacher, the remarkable Lucie Laval . . .
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Returning home means confronting the magic she tried to leave behind.
The Language of Spells
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Returning home means confronting the magic she tried to leave behind. In The Language of Spells, Gwen Harper inherits her great-aunt’s cottage and the mystical legacy tied to a town that once cast her out. As suppressed powers resurface, she must decide whether magic is a burden or a belonging. This cozy witch fiction blends small-town tension, self-discovery, and quiet enchantment.
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The perfect cosy witchy story to curl up with this Autumn
Gwen Harper left Pendleford thirteen years ago and hasn’t looked back. Until an inheritance throws her into the mystical world she thought she’d escaped. Confronted with her great-aunt’s legacy, Gwen must finally face up to her past.
The magic she has long tried to suppress is back with a vengeance but, gift or burden, for Gwen it always spells trouble. She has to stay – she has nowhere else to go – but how can she find her place in the town that drove her out after branding her a witch…?
Praise for Sarah Painter:
‘Sarah Painter is a talented new writer, and her debut is a charming, romantic and intriguing story, with a little touch of magic. It had me enchanted.’ - Clodagh Murphy
'This really was a fantastic debut novel… The language was also simple but elegant and meant that the story flowed seamlessly. I honestly could not put it down.' – Laura's Little Book Blog
'The plot had great twists and turns and when I thought I had the story figured out, the story would go in a different direction and surprise me. I didn’t want to put it down and the further I got into the book, the harder it was to stop reading… A wonderful debut novel and I’m looking forward to reading the next one.' – Novel Kicks
'I really do love magical fiction and I think Sarah Painter is one of the best at giving you a realistic look at magic and all that comes with it.' – Chick Lit Reviews
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A glamorous legacy fractures when a hidden child threatens to rewrite history.
A Storm of Infinite Beauty
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A glamorous legacy fractures when a hidden child threatens to rewrite history. In A Storm of Infinite Beauty, museum curator Gwen Hollingsworth learns that Hollywood icon Scarlett Fontaine may have lived a secret life in Alaska. As Gwen travels north with a determined biographer, she uncovers buried family truths that challenge her inheritance, her marriage, and her understanding of who she is in this sweeping women’s fiction novel.
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From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world.
Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children. Or so the story goes…
Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum dedicated to Scarlett’s life. She’s also sole heir to Scarlett’s fortune as a descendant of the star. But all is not well in Gwen’s world. She’s dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalist, comes to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett—a life of exile in Alaska, a baby born in secret—Gwen’s whole world is turned upside down. Again.
Determined to uncover the truth, Gwen and Peter set out for Alaska together but soon find themselves on a path toward something far deeper and more meaningful than either of them ever expected.
A Storm of Infinite Beauty takes readers on a breathtaking journey from a lush vineyard in Nova Scotia to a rustic lodge in Alaska where old family secrets are revealed and the quest for true happiness begins.
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