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This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction about overlooked women, wartime invention, and the life behind a famous public image.
The Only Woman in the Room
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · World War 2
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A New York Times and USA Today bestseller, this historical novel follows Hedy Lamarr as she escapes her marriage to an Austrian arms dealer and becomes a Hollywood star. Drawing on her scientific abilities and knowledge of the enemy, she develops an invention that could help fight the Nazis, if anyone will listen. This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction about overlooked women, wartime invention, and the life behind a famous public image.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication...if anyone would listen to her.
A powerful book based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece that celebrates the many women in science that history has overlooked.
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fantasy · Indigenous Fiction
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are. In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Anequs must survive a colonial dragon school that treats her knowledge, culture, and future as problems to be corrected. This fantasy blends coming-of-age tension, dragon lore, and resistance into a story that feels both intimate and defiant.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ASTOUNDING, NEBULA, AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons that I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager obsessed with Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea and Anne McCaffrey’s Pern.”—NPR
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, PopSugar, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, She Reads, Autostraddle
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.
Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea of how a dragon should be raised, and who should be doing the raising—and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
For a girl with no formal schooling, a non-Anglish upbringing, and a very different understanding of the history of her land, challenges abound—both socially and academically. But Anequs is smart, determined, and resolved to learn what she needs to help her dragon, even if it means teaching herself. The one thing she refuses to do, however, is become the meek Anglish miss that everyone expects.
Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age, but they’re also coming to power, and that brings an important realization: the world needs changing—and they might just be the ones to do it.
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With 4.2 stars on Amazon and comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, Red Clocks is a hauntingly timely dystopian novel by Leni Zumas.
Red Clocks
Dystopian · Literary Fiction
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With 4.2 stars on Amazon and comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, Red Clocks is a hauntingly timely dystopian novel by Leni Zumas. Five women fight for autonomy in a world where abortion is illegal and IVF is banned. Sharp, poetic, and deeply personal, this is feminist fiction that cuts to the bone—and dares to imagine a different future.
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In a reimagined America where abortion is illegal, IVF is banned, and embryos have legal rights, five women wrestle with what it means to have—or be—a body.
Ro, a single teacher, longs for a child and a legacy. Mattie, her teenage student, is pregnant and out of options. Susan is unraveling inside her suburban marriage. Gin, a reclusive healer, is hunted like a witch. And at the center: a forgotten female explorer whose story Ro is desperate to tell.
As their lives collide in a small Oregon town, Red Clocks asks a brutal, urgent question: What is a woman for?
Ferocious, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest, Leni Zumas’s dystopian novel is a modern-day Handmaid’s Tale—a searing portrait of resistance, identity, and hope when the law no longer recognizes your life.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about immigration, belonging, and moral pressure.
The Test
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Social/Political Commentary
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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee, The Test follows Idir as he sits the British Citizenship Test in a near-future Britain where twenty-five questions determine his family’s fate. When the exam takes a tragic turn, he is forced into a life-or-death choice, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 1,600 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about immigration, belonging, and moral pressure.
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Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test
Britain, the not-too-distant future.
Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.
He wants his family to belong.
Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.
When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.
How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture. When alien statues appear worldwide, one woman becomes their accidental spokesperson—and the center of an online storm. Smart, weird, and wildly relevant, this is sci-fi for the age of influencers.
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The Carls just appeared—and April May just became famous.
When 23-year-old April stumbles across a towering, armored statue in Manhattan, she uploads a quick video. By morning, it’s viral. By nightfall, she’s a global sensation. But she’s not the only one—Carls have appeared in cities around the world, and April’s at the center of the mystery.
Fame comes fast, and it comes with a cost. As April navigates her skyrocketing celebrity, cryptic clues, and internet-fueled chaos, she must decide what kind of icon she wants to be—and what the Carls really want.
Smart, funny, and unsettlingly prescient, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a dazzling debut that blends sci-fi mystery with a razor-sharp look at fame, identity, and the internet’s power to build—or destroy.
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A strong match for readers who like large-scale space opera, alien threats, damaged heroes, political pursuit, and found-family crews.
Shards of Earth
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Called “the breakout star of contemporary British SF” by the Guardian, Adrian Tchaikovsky follows Idris, an enhanced war hero living aboard a salvage vessel fifty years after the Architects destroyed Earth and vanished. When his crew discovers evidence of their return, they become targets for gangsters, cults, and governments, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 14,900 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like large-scale space opera, alien threats, damaged heroes, political pursuit, and found-family crews.
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The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.
"Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery ...
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete.Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why?
Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.
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What would you leave behind if the world was ending?
A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse
Thriller · Literary Fiction
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What would you leave behind if the world was ending? In A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse, three sisters uncover secrets buried since their mother’s disappearance during a catastrophic flood. Now, twenty years later, the truth may be more dangerous than the disaster itself. Hollie Overton’s twist-filled novel explores family, survival, and what it really means to protect the ones you love.
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If you knew the world was ending, what would you leave behind for your children?
In the sweltering summer of 2024, Olivia Sullivan saw the signs. While the world dismissed her as paranoid, she buried secrets and stockpiled supplies, determined to protect her daughters from a future no one believed in. Then she disappeared during a catastrophic flood—or so her family was told.
Twenty years later, Rosie, Bettie, and Cassie stumble upon a box of their mother’s belongings that unravels everything they thought they knew. Was Olivia a victim, or did she vanish by choice?
A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse is a gripping, emotionally charged novel about survival, betrayal, and the unbreakable bonds between sisters. In a world full of questions, the only certainty is that family is worth fighting for.
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Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer is a 4.2-star stunner that blends social satire with heartfelt soul-searching.
Big Summer
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer is a 4.2-star stunner that blends social satire with heartfelt soul-searching. Part wedding-weekend romp, part emotional reckoning, it’s a sparkling beach read about old wounds, new beginnings, and the messy beauty of friendship. USA Today calls it “deliciously fun”—and trust us, it delivers. Pack this one for your next trip (or mental getaway).
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Daphne Berg thought she’d finally left the drama behind. Six years after her friendship with glamorous, toxic Drue Cavanaugh exploded, she’s built a life on her own terms—body-positive, influencer-successful, and drama-free.
Then Drue walks back in like nothing happened… and asks Daphne to be her maid of honor.
The wedding? A lavish Cape Cod weekend full of designer gowns, Instagrammable views, and maybe a few handsome distractions. But something’s off. And when the glittery façade starts to crack, Daphne finds herself at the heart of a scandal even her filter can’t fix.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, Big Summer is a heartfelt, funny, and twist-filled tale of friendship, reinvention, and standing your ground—even when it’s in heels.
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A chilling twist on a beloved classic, After Oz reimagines Dorothy’s return from Oz as a descent into 19th-century madness.
After Oz
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Historical Mystery
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A chilling twist on a beloved classic, After Oz reimagines Dorothy’s return from Oz as a descent into 19th-century madness. Gordon McAlpine delivers a literary thriller with echoes of The Yellow Wallpaper and Alias Grace. With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this dark retelling is equal parts haunting, heart-wrenching, and impossible to put down.
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Kansas, 1896. When a tornado hits, eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale vanishes—only to return four days later with a wild story of a magical land and a murdered witch.
Her community calls it blasphemy. Her family calls in the authorities. And when a local woman turns up dead, Dorothy is blamed and sent to the Topeka Insane Asylum.
Enter Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford, a young psychologist determined to understand Dorothy’s story. But what begins as a professional inquiry becomes a dangerous unraveling of secrets—both within the asylum and the town itself.
Is Dorothy delusional, or did something otherworldly follow her back from Oz?
Blending historical fiction with a haunting twist on a beloved tale, After Oz asks a chilling question: what if Dorothy never left Kansas at all?
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A woman wakes with no memory—only to learn her ex and his lover are dead.
The Dark Room
Mystery · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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A woman wakes with no memory—only to learn her ex and his lover are dead. The Dark Room by Minette Walters is a chilling psychological mystery full of buried secrets, dark suspicion, and mind-bending twists. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is the kind of thriller that stays with you long after the last page.
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Jinx Kingsley wakes up in a private hospital with no memory of the car crash that nearly killed her. Or why her wedding was canceled. Or that her ex-fiancé and his new girlfriend were just found murdered—brutally, and eerily similar to the way her first husband died.
The media is circling. The police have questions. And Jinx has only scattered memories and a rising sense of dread.
As she retraces her past through photographs, flashbacks, and unsettling revelations, Jinx begins to question everything—including herself.
The Dark Room is a masterful psychological thriller from Minette Walters, packed with buried secrets, shifting identities, and a protagonist who may be unraveling… or remembering the truth.
Sometimes, what you’ve forgotten is exactly what someone wants to stay buried.
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Academic ambition gets dragged straight to Hell in Katabasis, where two rival graduate students descend into the underworld to save the soul of the professor who may still…
Katabasis
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism
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Academic ambition gets dragged straight to Hell in Katabasis, where two rival graduate students descend into the underworld to save the soul of the professor who may still determine their futures. Alice and Peter are fueled by resentment, obsession, and the kind of scholarly burnout that apparently now comes with pentagrams and demonic risk. Dark academia with teeth, this one blends rivalry, grief, magic, and a very literal descent into chaos.
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Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:
The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.
That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.
With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.
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Perfect for fans of Memento, Inception, and books that bite back.
The Raw Shark Texts
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Contemporary Fiction
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A man with no memory. A shark made of ideas. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall is a genre-bending literary thriller that blends psychological suspense with philosophical horror. With 4.3 stars on Amazon, it’s strange, smart, and completely unforgettable. Perfect for fans of Memento, Inception, and books that bite back.
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Eric Sanderson wakes up with no memory and no idea who he is. Just a house, a few cryptic notes, and the haunting name Clio.
As fragments of his life resurface, Eric discovers he’s being hunted—not by a man, but by something far stranger. The Ludovician is a conceptual shark, a predator that swims through language, feeding on identity. And Eric is bleeding meaning.
With only his cat Ian, a series of mind-bending letters, and a missing doctor who may or may not be real, Eric embarks on a journey through a world where thought is dangerous and memory can kill.
The Raw Shark Texts is a surreal literary thriller where metaphysics meets monster hunting. It’s Memento meets House of Leaves, and nothing is what it seems.
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