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An assassin’s apprentice is tasked with saving, not taking, a life when the royal heir becomes a target.
Age of Assassins
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy
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An assassin’s apprentice is tasked with saving, not taking, a life when the royal heir becomes a target. Trapped in a castle of lies as civil war nears, Girton uncovers a conspiracy that could destroy the kingdom. Age of Assassins earns 4.3 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings for its sharp, character-driven fantasy.
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A young apprentice to an assassin becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that could destroy a kingdom in a brilliant epic fantasy debut by David Gemmell Award-nominated author RJ Barker
To catch an assassin, use an assassin...
Girton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land. He's learning the art of taking lives, but his latest mission tasks him with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life.
Someone is trying to kill the heir to the throne, and it is up to Girton to uncover the traitor and prevent the prince's murder.
In a kingdom on the brink of civil war and a castle thick with lies, Girton finds friends he never expected, responsibilities he never wanted, and a conspiracy that could destroy an entire kingdom.
Praise for The Wounded Kingdom:
"Dead gods, dread magic, and a lead that feels like a breath of fresh air. Great fun."―Peter Newman, author of The Vagrant
"Often poignant and always intriguing, Age of Assassins reveals its mysteries with the style of a magic show and the artful grace of a gifted storyteller."―Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wild
"The most interesting treatment of the fantasy assassin trope in a while, and an involving narrative in its own right."―RT Book Reviews
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With a 4.4-star rating from more than 10,500 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong fit for readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about identity, marriage, parenthood, LGBTQ+ rights,…
Sing You Home
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Sing You Home follows Zoe Baxter, a music therapist rebuilding after personal tragedy, as an unexpected friendship becomes love and her hope for a family faces painful opposition. With a 4.4-star rating from more than 10,500 Amazon reviewers, this is a strong fit for readers who like emotional contemporary fiction about identity, marriage, parenthood, LGBTQ+ rights, and chosen family.
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From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family in this moving novel about love, marriage, identity, and parenthood.
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.
Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don’t want that to happen.
Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. It’s about fertility, LGBTQ+ rights, same-sex marriage, and people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.
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John Green’s Printz Award–winning debut, Looking for Alaska, explores first love, last words, and the haunting aftermath of loss.
Looking for Alaska
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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John Green’s Printz Award–winning debut, Looking for Alaska, explores first love, last words, and the haunting aftermath of loss. Hailed as a modern classic and featured on TIME’s list of 100 Best YA Novels, this emotionally raw coming-of-age story holds a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on Amazon and continues to break hearts and reading slumps.
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Miles Halter is done with being predictable. Obsessed with famous last words and longing for a life less beige, he leaves home to find his “Great Perhaps” at Culver Creek Boarding School.
There he meets Alaska Young. Brilliant, reckless, and unapologetically alive, she flips Miles' world upside down. With her comes friendship, love, heartbreak, and an avalanche of existential questions he never saw coming.
But Alaska is more than the mystery she projects. When tragedy strikes, Miles is left grasping for answers in a fog of grief and guilt. What was real? What did he miss? And how do you keep going when the person who changed your life is suddenly gone?
One girl. One moment. Everything changes. But what comes after is where the real story begins.
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A family arrives in the Belgian Congo on a missionary quest, only to be reshaped by a land and history they cannot control.
The Poisonwood Bible
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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A family arrives in the Belgian Congo on a missionary quest, only to be reshaped by a land and history they cannot control. The Poisonwood Bible (4.6 stars on Amazon) is a gripping, multigenerational novel that explores faith, guilt, and postcolonial reckoning through the eyes of five unforgettable women. A modern classic that still resonates today.
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In 1959, a Baptist missionary takes his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo, convinced they can save souls with garden seeds, scripture, and American conviction. But the land has its own power, and nothing they bring from home prepares them for what they find.
Told through the voices of the women he brought with him, this is the story of a family torn apart by faith, history, and guilt. As the Congo fights for independence, each woman must navigate personal transformation shaped by tragedy, love, and survival.
Set against one of the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century, this haunting novel explores the cost of belief and the limits of redemption. The choices they make will echo across generations.
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A powerful debut perfect for fans of Pachinko and We Were the Lucky Ones.
How We Disappeared
Literary Fiction
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In How We Disappeared (4.5 stars on Amazon), Jing-Jing Lee delivers a breathtaking dual-timeline novel of love, silence, and survival. As a boy uncovers the truth behind his grandmother’s trauma, a hidden chapter of Singapore’s wartime history comes to light. A powerful debut perfect for fans of Pachinko and We Were the Lucky Ones.
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Singapore, 1942. Japanese forces sweep through the country, leaving shattered villages in their wake. Seventeen-year-old Wang Di is taken from her home and forced into sexual slavery in a Japanese military brothel. What she endures is never spoken of again.
Sixty years later, twelve-year-old Kevin sits beside his ailing grandmother when he hears a whispered confession. That moment changes everything. Driven by curiosity and compassion, Kevin begins to uncover a past his family never dared to confront.
Told across two timelines, How We Disappeared shines a light on a hidden chapter of World War II history. Drawing from her own family’s past, Jing-Jing Lee explores the long shadow of trauma, the silence it demands, and the courage it takes to break it.
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Perfect for fans of emotional reads that stay with you long after the final page.
Hopeless
Literary Fiction · Romance · New Adult
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, Hopeless (4.7 stars on Amazon) delivers an emotional rollercoaster of first love, dark secrets, and devastating revelations. Colleen Hoover explores trauma, trust, and healing in this unforgettable story that has captivated millions. Perfect for fans of emotional reads that stay with you long after the final page.
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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, comes a haunting story of first love, buried memories, and painful truths.
Sky has never needed anyone. Her past is sealed, her emotions locked tight. But when she meets Dean Holder, the boy with a reputation and a gaze that sees straight through her, everything shifts. He’s intense, magnetic, and unsettling in ways she can’t explain.
As their connection deepens, Holder stirs memories Sky thought she had lost forever. With every revelation, the life she believed in starts to unravel.
But Holder has his own secrets. And some truths are far more damaging than lies.
To move forward, Sky will have to face the past she never asked to remember.
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Good for readers who want psychological suspense about isolation, survival, and hidden family secrets.
The Stillwater Girls
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Suspense
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Raised off the grid in fear of the outside world, Wren and her sisters are left alone when their mother and youngest sibling leave for help and never return. In The Stillwater Girls, dwindling supplies, a stranger’s arrival, and a forbidden journey beyond the forest force Wren and Sage toward the truth, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 74,400 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want psychological suspense about isolation, survival, and hidden family secrets.
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Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air.
Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return.
As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A brutal winter is bearing down. Then comes the stranger. He claims to be looking for the girls’ mother, and he’s not leaving without them.
To escape, Wren and her sister must break the rule they’ve grown up with: never go beyond the forest.
Past the thicket of dread, they come upon a house on the other side of the pines. This is where Wren and Sage must confront something more chilling than the unknowable. They’ll discover what’s been hidden from them, what they’re running from, and the secrets that have left them in the dark their entire lives.
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A must-read for fans of emotional fiction and family drama.
When We Believed in Mermaids
Literary Fiction · Romance
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A sister lost in a terrorist attack. A woman spotted on the news fifteen years later. When We Believed in Mermaids is a USA Today and Amazon Charts bestseller with 4.5 stars on Amazon. Barbara O’Neal delivers a moving, twist-filled story of love, grief, and long-hidden secrets. A must-read for fans of emotional fiction and family drama.
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Her sister died fifteen years ago. Or so she believed.
Kit Bianci has finally built a life of stability in Santa Cruz, but everything crumbles when she sees a familiar face on the news—a woman who looks exactly like her sister Josie, presumed dead in a terrorist attack. With her world shattered and old wounds reopened, Kit boards a flight to New Zealand, chasing a ghost.
What she finds is far more complicated than a reunion. Long-buried secrets, a past filled with love and trauma, and the pain of a betrayal neither sister ever fully escaped rise to the surface.
As Kit confronts the truth, she must decide if reconciliation is worth the emotional wreckage left in Josie’s wake.
Can two sisters reforge a bond severed by tragedy and lies?
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about faith, grief, and spiritual pilgrimage.
Laurus
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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An international bestseller called “A remarkable novel” by Atticus Lish, Laurus follows a young healer in fifteenth-century Russia who leaves his village seeking redemption after failing to save someone he loves. A strong match for readers drawn to literary historical fiction about faith, grief, and spiritual pilgrimage.
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WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD
'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New Yorker
*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016*
Fifteenth-century Russia
It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone. But this is no ordinary journey: wandering across plague-ridden Europe, offering his healing powers to all in need, he travels through ages and countries, encountering a rich tapestry of wayfarers along the way. Accosted by highwaymen, lynched in Yugoslavia and washed overboard at sea, he eventually reaches Jerusalem, only to find his greatest challenge is yet to come.
Winner of two of the biggest literary prizes in Russia, Laurus is a remarkably rich novel about the eternal themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice and faith, from one of the country’s most experimental and critically acclaimed novelists.
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Best for readers who like emotional second-chance romance, childhood friends, unresolved heartbreak, and complicated reunions.
Love and Other Lost Things
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Jane and Nik were inseparable childhood friends until their first kiss became tied to a painful turning point that drove them apart. When they are brought back together years later, they must confront the secrets and broken trust between them, with a 4.1-star average from more than 3,200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like emotional second-chance romance, childhood friends, unresolved heartbreak, and complicated reunions.
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Jane and Nik were inseparable—until one kiss shattered everything.
In high school, they dreamed of forever. But when a devastating family secret forced Jane to choose between truth and protection, she vanished—breaking Nik’s heart without a word.
Ten years later, Jane returns home. Nik is a doctor now, still carrying the ghost of the girl who left. And Jane? She’s haunted by bruises she hides and the lie she’s lived with ever since.
One glance reignites everything between them. But the truth still threatens to destroy them both.
As secrets unravel and the past resurfaces, Jane must decide if love is worth risking again—or if some hearts stay broken forever.
A breathtaking, emotionally raw story of first love, hard choices, and the pain of what might have been.
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A hidden photo.
We Don’t Talk About Carol
Literary Fiction
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A hidden photo. A missing girl. A family that never talks about what happened. We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry is a gripping, emotional debut that unravels a decades-old disappearance through the eyes of a journalist whose own past threatens to resurface.
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Some secrets rot in silence. Others scream to be heard.
When Sydney Singleton finds a photo of a girl who looks eerily like her, she unearths a family secret buried for decades: her aunt Carol—one of six Black girls who vanished from North Carolina in the 1960s—was never spoken of again. Now, with her grandmother gone and motherhood slipping from her grasp, Sydney becomes obsessed with discovering what really happened.
But digging into the past has a cost. She’s been here before—once losing herself to another missing girl’s case and barely clawing her way back. As history threatens to repeat itself, Sydney must confront a family legacy of silence, shame, and survival.
We Don’t Talk About Carol is a haunting debut about buried truths, generational trauma, and the courage it takes to finally speak.
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Ideal for readers drawn to music-centered coming-of-age novels about artistic discipline, class mobility, and personal transformation.
Body & Soul
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Called “hypnotically readable” by Vanity Fair, Body & Soul follows Claude Rawlings, a poor and lonely boy whose gift for piano carries him from a basement apartment through demanding training, elite social circles, marriage, and Carnegie Hall, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 2,800 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers drawn to music-centered coming-of-age novels about artistic discipline, class mobility, and personal transformation.
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This saga of a son of the working class who grows into a piano prodigy is "hypnotically readable . . . The best story I know of in a long, long time" (Vanity Fair).
As a boy, Claude Rawlings looks up through the grated window of his basement apartment to watch the world go by. Poor, lonely, supported by a taxi-driver mother whose eccentricities spin more and more out of control, he faces the terrible task of growing up on the margins of life, destined to be a spectator of that great world always hurrying out of reach. But there is an out-of-tune piano in the small apartment, and in unlocking the secrets of its keys, as if by magic, Claude discovers himself. He is a musical prodigy.
Body & Soul is the story of a young man whose life is transformed by a gift. The gift is not without price—the work is relentless, the teachers exacting—but the reward is a journey that takes him to the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful, private schools, a gilt-edged marriage, and Carnegie Hall. Claude moves through this life as if he were playing a difficult composition, swept up in its drama and tension, surprised by its grace notes. Music, here, becomes a character in its own right, equaled in strength only by the music of Frank Conroy's own unmistakable and true voice.
Bristling with character and invention, Body & Soul is Dickensian in its range and richness. This is a novel with all the emotional appeal and moral gravity of a classic bildungsroman, but with a tone as contemporary as a jazz riff—an unforgettable achievement by one of the great writers of our time.
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