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The fate of the world hangs by a scorched thread in Battle Mage, an epic fantasy where dragons turn on their riders and a disgraced boy might be…
Battle Mage
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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The fate of the world hangs by a scorched thread in Battle Mage, an epic fantasy where dragons turn on their riders and a disgraced boy might be the last hope. With over 6,000 five-star reviews and a cult following, Peter Flannery delivers a dark, heroic saga that fans of classic fantasy will devour. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.
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A world devoured by madness. A boy haunted by legacy. A battle that could end everything.
Falco Danté was born weak in a world that worships strength. The son of a madman and the target of every sneer, he’s learned to live with shame—until he’s offered a chance to change it all.
The ancient pact between humans and dragons is breaking. The dragons summoned to aid mankind are increasingly feral, violent, and hostile. As cities fall and hope burns out, the realm needs a new kind of warrior.
Falco must defy the past, survive ruthless training, and unlock a terrifying power within. If he fails, the Possessed will swallow what’s left of the world, and his own soul might go with it.
What if your greatest fear is exactly what you’re meant to become?
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger is a sharp, layered novel of ambition, family secrets, and the bonds between…
Like Mother, Like Mother
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger is a sharp, layered novel of ambition, family secrets, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. Spanning three generations, this story explores the legacies we inherit and the lies we tell ourselves to break free from them. A witty, engrossing portrait of power and resilience.
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Lila Pereira built her life from the ashes of a broken childhood, rising to power as the executive editor of The Washington Globe. Ambitious and unapologetic, she leaves motherhood to her husband while she commands the newsroom and the nation’s attention.
Her daughter Grace grows up in that shadow, craving PTA meetings instead of press briefings, seeking freedom from a mother who shaped her—and resenting how much she resembles her.
But when Grace begins writing a book about Lila, she unearths long-buried family secrets that force her to confront the grandmother she never knew and the truths Lila refused to face.
Susan Rieger’s Like Mother, Like Mother is a witty, incisive portrait of ambition, inheritance, and the complicated legacies passed from one woman to the next.
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The Huntress by Kate Quinn is a gripping WWII historical thriller.
The Huntress
Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, The Huntress by Kate Quinn is a gripping WWII historical thriller. A fearless Soviet bomber pilot, a battle-scarred Nazi hunter, and a curious Boston teenager collide in the hunt for a Nazi war criminal hiding in plain sight. Rich with tension and heart, this story explores justice, truth, and the ghosts of war.
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In the shadow of war, one woman slipped away and became the prey.
Nina Markova risked everything to fly with the Night Witches, the Soviet Union’s legendary female bomber squadron. But behind enemy lines, she crossed paths with a Nazi murderess known only as the Huntress. Years later, Nina teams up with haunted war correspondent Ian Graham to hunt the predator who nearly killed her.
Across the ocean, in post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride suspects her father’s new fiancée isn’t who she claims to be. What she uncovers ties her family to a dark chapter of history that refuses to stay buried.
Kate Quinn’s The Huntress is a riveting story of bravery, betrayal, and the relentless pursuit of justice in the wreckage of war.
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Close to Me by Monica Murphy is a high school sports romance packed with enemies-to-lovers heat.
Close to Me
Romance · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Close to Me by Monica Murphy is a high school sports romance packed with enemies-to-lovers heat. Asher Davis is the boy who broke her heart, and the one she can’t stop wanting. Senior year should’ve been the end, but one touch turns their rivalry into a wildfire neither can escape.
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A sexy, enemies to lovers sports romance by New York Times bestselling author, Monica Murphy
I thought Asher Davis could be my everything. He’s always been the boy I couldn’t let go.
My first crush.
My first kiss.
My first heartbreak.
We orbit each other like magnets—always drawn together, even when we’re trying to stay apart. In the hallways, we pretend not to look at each other. In class, we argue like we mean it. But underneath the pointed sarcasm and the sharp glares, there’s always been something else.
Something real.
We’re the couple people whisper about, homecoming royalty with a love story that never quite got its happy ending. Because Asher doesn’t do happy endings. And I stopped believing I could be his a long time ago.
Now it’s our senior year, and we’re almost free of the smalltown bubble we live in, until one unexpected moment changes everything. One glance. One touch. One night that turns all our almosts into something undeniable.
This time, it’s not about the past, it’s about finally choosing each other.
Even if it scares us to death.
Close to Me is book one in the standalone Callahans series.
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes is a fierce, empathetic retelling of Medusa’s story.
Stone Blind
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes is a fierce, empathetic retelling of Medusa’s story. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, this sharp, witty novel reclaims the voice of a woman punished for her own assault and turned into a monster. A bold, timely reimagining of ancient myth for modern readers.
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Medusa was never meant to be a monster.
The only mortal among immortal sisters, Medusa’s life was marked by change, weakness, and urgency. But when Poseidon violates her in Athene’s temple, the gods' fury falls on her alone. Transformed into a creature of terror, Medusa becomes the villain in a story written by those who wronged her.
With her gaze cursed to turn all to stone, she lives in exile, until Perseus sets out to claim her head.
In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes reclaims one of mythology’s most vilified figures, breathing humanity into the woman behind the monster. Fierce, witty, and deeply compassionate, this retelling strips away centuries of mythmaking to reveal a story of injustice, survival, and the quiet defiance of being seen.
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, After Annie by Anna Quindlen is a luminous family drama about love, loss, and the voices that stay with us.
After Annie
Literary Fiction
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With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, After Annie by Anna Quindlen is a luminous family drama about love, loss, and the voices that stay with us. When Annie dies suddenly, her family and best friend must learn to navigate grief, grow through adversity, and find hope in unexpected places. Quiet, sharp, and deeply human.
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When Annie Brown dies suddenly, she leaves behind more than grief, she leaves a gap in the center of her family and friends’ lives that no one knows how to fill.
Her husband, Bill, drowns in the quiet where her laughter used to be. Her best friend, Annemarie, slips dangerously close to the habits Annie once helped her fight. And Ali, Annie’s teenage daughter, has no choice but to grow up fast, balancing grief, responsibility, and the endless question of how to move forward.
But in the months that follow, Annie’s presence lingers. Her wit, her love, and her steady voice guide them through heartbreak and healing.
Anna Quindlen’s After Annie is a luminous portrait of loss, resilience, and the fragile beauty of carrying someone’s memory forward.
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The Surgeon’s Daughter opens in a world where ambition can be dangerous for women and medicine carries lethal risks.
The Surgeon’s Daughter
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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The Surgeon’s Daughter opens in a world where ambition can be dangerous for women and medicine carries lethal risks. Nora Beady, the lone female medical student in nineteenth-century Bologna, pushes against institutional resistance while helping refine a revolutionary surgical procedure. As lives hang in the balance, her work tests the limits of science, ethics, and social permission. This is historical fiction driven by innovation, professional defiance, and life-and-death consequence.
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SheReads Best Historical Fiction Of Summer 2022!
"This is an intense, suspenseful, and insightful read about the challenges both women and doctors faced in the 19th century…Our heroine rises to the challenge with courage and determination." —Historical Novel Society
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in His Shadow comes a riveting historical fiction novel about the women in medicine who changed the world forever.
Women's work is a matter of life and death.
Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her.
Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It's a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don't trust the findings of women, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care.
Already facing resistance on all sides, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives, Nora's career, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine.
Perfect for book clubs and for fans of Marie Benedict, Tracey Enerson Wood, and Sarah Penner comes a captivating celebration of women healthcare workers throughout history.
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A lost best friend.
Always You and Me
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Romance
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A lost best friend. A final promise. And a second chance trapped in a snowstorm. Always You and Me by Dani Atkins is a moving, heart-healing romance about love, grief, and forgiveness. With 4.5 Amazon stars and comparisons to Paige Toon and Taylor Jenkins Reid, this emotional journey will have you believing in fate, and forever love.
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On the eve of her wedding, Lily lost her best friend Josh. Years later, at her husband’s deathbed, she’s about to lose her heart all over again.
Lily and Adam built a beautiful life until tragedy struck. In his final moments, Adam asks her to do one last thing: find Josh, the man who disappeared without a word years ago... and forgive them both.
Now, trapped together in a snowed-in Scottish cabin, Lily and Josh must confront old heartbreaks, hidden truths, and feelings that never faded. But Adam’s final wish hides a secret of its own, one that could change everything.
From bestselling author Dani Atkins comes a soul-stirring story of love lost, love found, and the power of forgiveness to mend what feels broken beyond repair.
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked reimagines Oz through the eyes of Elphaba, the misunderstood girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the…
Wicked
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked reimagines Oz through the eyes of Elphaba, the misunderstood girl who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. The novel that inspired the blockbuster musical delivers dark whimsy, sharp social commentary, and a story where heroes and villains are rarely what they seem.
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Long before a house fell from the sky, a girl with green skin was fighting to survive.
Elphaba isn’t the Wicked Witch of the West. Not yet. She’s a fierce, awkward girl born into a harsh Oz where corruption runs deeper than magic and creatures with voices are silenced. At Shiz University, Elphaba finds a rare circle of friends, and enemies, that shape her into the woman history will condemn.
As the Wizard’s secret police tighten their grip, Elphaba takes a stand for the Animals, risking her safety and her one chance at love. But rebellion in Oz carries a cost.
In this brilliant reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s classic, Gregory Maguire weaves politics, prejudice, and power into a tale that questions what makes someone truly wicked.
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For fans of Jojo Moyes and heart-hugging fiction.
We Are All Made of Stars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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From Rowan Coleman comes We Are All Made of Stars, a deeply moving novel about love, loss, and letters that outlive us. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon and praise from Jodi Picoult and Good Housekeeping, this tender story celebrates second chances and the healing power of words. For fans of Jojo Moyes and heart-hugging fiction.
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Stella spends her nights at a hospice, helping the dying say goodbye in letters meant to be mailed only after they've passed. It’s quiet work, tender and sacred, until one letter threatens to break the rules and upend everything.
Grace has a confession. A son she abandoned. A truth she wants him to hear while she’s still breathing. If Stella sends it now, she risks her job, the rules, and maybe fate itself.
At home, her marriage is fraying. Her husband came back from war haunted and silent, and Stella is running out of ways to reach him.
But as grief, hope, and forgiveness collide, Stella begins to understand the power of the written word and the strength it takes to live without regret.
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend.
After Alice
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, returns with After Alice, a haunting reimagining of Wonderland told through the eyes of Alice’s forgotten friend. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this philosophical twist on the classic tale explores loss, logic, and the surreal in lush, literary prose. Wonderland just got even stranger.
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Alice fell first, but she wasn’t the only one.
When Ada arrives to visit her eccentric friend, she’s just in time to miss the chaos. One wrong step later, and she’s tumbling down the same rabbit-hole into a Wonderland that’s less charming whimsy, more metaphysical fever dream.
In this surreal, sideways sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Gregory Maguire reimagines the story not through Alice’s eyes, but Ada’s. Prim, awkward, and slightly asthmatic, Ada isn’t built for Wonderland’s logic-defying nonsense, but she’s determined to bring Alice back.
Back in Victorian Oxford, whispers swirl, decorum frays, and grown-ups scramble to explain the inexplicable.
What if Wonderland isn’t just nonsense and riddles? What if it’s a mirror? And what if both girls are changed for good, whether they escape or not?
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Religion, science, and a frozen apocalypse collide in Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s blackly comic classic.
Cat’s Cradle
Literary Fiction
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Religion, science, and a frozen apocalypse collide in Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s blackly comic classic. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this sharp satire of human folly features a midget narrator, a fake religion, and the deadliest invention you've never heard of. Dark, funny, and unforgettable, it’s Vonnegut at his most chaotic and most brilliant.
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What do a little person, a calypso-singing prophet, and a doomsday weapon have in common? Only the end of the world.
In Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut delivers a darkly hilarious, razor-sharp satire about science, religion, and the absurdity of human ambition. When an unassuming writer sets out to chronicle the life of a fictional atomic bomb creator, he stumbles into a tangled web of apocalyptic invention and spiritual nonsense on the island of San Lorenzo. There, he discovers Ice-Nine, a substance capable of freezing the world.
Equal parts absurd and profound, Cat’s Cradle is Vonnegut at his finest, brilliant, biting, and completely unpredictable. If you’ve ever laughed while watching everything fall apart, this book is for you.
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