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A charismatic detective.
After Her
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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A charismatic detective. A string of murders. A daughter determined to save him. After Her is a gripping literary thriller and moving coming-of-age story inspired by the real Trailside Killer case. Joyce Maynard weaves a tale of murder, memory, and the complex bond between a girl and her father. Suspenseful, poignant, unforgettable.
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Marin County, 1979: Young girls are turning up dead on the mountain behind Rachel’s house, and her father—the town’s charismatic, flawed detective—is on the case.
As the Sunset Strangler eludes capture and her father begins to spiral, eleven-year-old Rachel takes matters into her own hands. Her bold efforts to catch the killer will shatter her family and reshape her future.
Thirty years later, haunted by the past and convinced the wrong man was arrested, Rachel sets out to uncover the truth and restore her father's legacy.
Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case, After Her is a haunting blend of thriller and coming-of-age tale—a deeply human story of family, obsession, and the dangerous power of love and memory.
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It fits readers who want teen horror, supernatural dread, and an emotional core built on loyalty under pressure.
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Horror · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age
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Something is wrong long before anyone can name it, and that slow unraveling turns My Best Friend’s Exorcism into a story where friendship feels as frightening as possession. When Gretchen changes after a night that goes terribly wrong, Abby must face the terror of losing her best friend to something she cannot explain. It fits readers who want teen horror, supernatural dread, and an emotional core built on loyalty under pressure.
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Soon to be a major motion picture.
This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more!
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
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At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling has spent years trapped under the thumb of her overbearing family, escaping only through daydreams of a life that feels fully her own.
The Blue Castle
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult
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At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling has spent years trapped under the thumb of her overbearing family, escaping only through daydreams of a life that feels fully her own. When devastating news upends everything, she decides to stop living by everyone else’s rules and finally claim some joy for herself. The Blue Castle is a tender, quietly defiant story about freedom, self-discovery, and the kind of love that arrives only after a woman starts choosing herself.
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A young woman breaks free from her stifling home in search of love and freedom in this novel by the author of Anne of Green Gables.
Considered a spinster at the age of twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling believes she is destined to live out her days in rural Ontario with her domineering mother and aunt. She finds momentary escape in the books of her favorite author and fantasies of a "Blue Castle" where all her wishes come true. But when devastating news arrives from her doctor, Valancy decides to finally say and do exactly what she wants.
Though her family thinks she has gone mad, Valancy embarks on an adventure of discovery. Her newfound independence leads her to a world where anything is possible—even love. But is her new life just another illusion, or has she truly found the Blue Castle of her dreams?
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In Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford follows four generations of Cherokee women from 1970s Oklahoma to 1980s Texas.
Crooked Hallelujah
Literary Fiction
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In Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford follows four generations of Cherokee women from 1970s Oklahoma to 1980s Texas. With lush, evocative prose, this award-winning debut explores motherhood, resilience, and identity across time and place. A Washington Post and NPR Best Book of the Year—bold, beautiful, and unforgettable.
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Spanning four generations of Cherokee women, Crooked Hallelujah is a powerful debut about resilience, love, and the unyielding bond between mothers and daughters.
In 1974 Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Justine struggles to navigate her fractured family, devout mother, and the fierce matriarchs who raised her. But when violence shatters what little stability she’s known, Justine carves a new path—one that leads her and her daughter, Reney, across the Red River to Texas during the 1980s oil bust.
There, amid economic hardship, unreliable men, and unrelenting natural disasters, Reney fights to understand her heritage and her place in a world that keeps pushing her family to the margins.
Kelli Jo Ford’s Crooked Hallelujah is a sweeping, lyrical exploration of faith, identity, and the strength it takes to keep hold of home.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age stories about grief, family, unlikely friendship, and the AIDS era.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “a dazzling debut novel” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Tell the Wolves I'm Home follows fourteen-year-old June Elbus after the death of her beloved uncle Finn, when an unexpected friendship changes how she understands her grief and family, with a 4.02-star average from more than 151,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to literary coming-of-age stories about grief, family, unlikely friendship, and the AIDS era.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them
“A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Tremendously moving.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Touching and ultimately hopeful.”—People
1987. The only person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can be herself only in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down.
But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life. At the funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail containing a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and that this unexpected friend just might be the one she needs the most.
WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal
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Queer, trans, and soaked in early-Internet nostalgia, Idlewild is a darkly funny tale of obsession, betrayal, and teenage intensity.
Idlewild
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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Queer, trans, and soaked in early-Internet nostalgia, Idlewild is a darkly funny tale of obsession, betrayal, and teenage intensity. Two girls. One unforgettable friendship. Set in a Manhattan prep school during the year after 9/11, this Best Book of the Year (NPR, Vox, Paris Review) is sharp, raw, and haunting in all the best ways.
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At Idlewild, a tiny Quaker prep school in Manhattan, there are no grades, no last names—just art, angst, and twenty minutes of daily silence. It’s here, on the morning of 9/11, that two queer teen outcasts forge an intense, all-consuming friendship.
Fay is sharp, elusive, and obsessed with gay men. Nell is sensitive, awkward, and obsessed with Fay. United by their outsider status and their homoerotic interpretations of the world, they form the Invert Society and spiral into a private world of coded glances, backstage drama, and increasingly dangerous choices.
Years later, estranged and haunted, Fay and Nell look back on that year—the fanfics, the betrayals, the fall.
Darkly funny and devastatingly sharp, Idlewild is a queer, trans, early-Internet Manhattan prep school novel like no other.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Yearling is a searing tale of boyhood, survival, and the heartbreaking bond between a child and a wild fawn.
The Yearling
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Yearling is a searing tale of boyhood, survival, and the heartbreaking bond between a child and a wild fawn. With praise from Lauren Groff and Michael Morpurgo, this American classic belongs on every shelf beside To Kill a Mockingbird. Breathtaking and brutal, it’s a novel that will stay with you for life.
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In the wild, untamed heart of 19th-century Florida, young Jody Baxter grows up in a world shaped by hardship, resilience, and the fragile beauty of nature.
Life in the Big Scrub is harsh—his family survives season to season, crop to crop. But when Jody rescues an orphaned fawn, his world fills with wonder, friendship, and a joy he’s never known.
As the bond between boy and deer deepens, so does the tension between wild innocence and the brutal necessities of survival. When the yearling threatens the family’s livelihood, Jody must confront a heartbreaking choice that will mark the end of childhood forever.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Yearling is a timeless coming-of-age classic filled with love, loss, and unforgettable grace.
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In Gilead, survival means learning the rules of a world designed to erase you.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Political Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic · Speculative Fiction
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In Gilead, survival means learning the rules of a world designed to erase you. Offred lives under a theocratic regime that turns women’s bodies into state property, forcing memory, desire, and resistance into the smallest possible spaces. The Handmaid’s Tale is dystopian fiction shaped by political control, religious extremism, surveillance, and the terrifying logic of power taken to its endpoint.
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The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
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With praise from Amal El-Mohtar, Marlon James, and Alix E. Harrow, this richly atmospheric fantasy is perfect for fans of Ninth House and The Magicians.
Ink Blood Sister Scribe
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Romance · Romantasy · Magical Realism
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A New York Times Notable Book and one of the best fantasy novels of the year, Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a haunting debut about estranged sisters, deadly magical books, and centuries-old secrets. With praise from Amal El-Mohtar, Marlon James, and Alix E. Harrow, this richly atmospheric fantasy is perfect for fans of Ninth House and The Magicians.
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For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a library of magical books—tomes that allow the reader to control elements, walk through walls, or even bend fate itself. But all magic comes with a price.
Joanna and Esther, half-sisters raised to protect these ancient volumes, have lived apart for years: Joanna in the family’s Vermont estate, Esther in self-imposed exile at a base in Antarctica. When their father dies mysteriously mid-spell, the sisters are forced to reunite—and unravel the deadly secrets at the heart of their inheritance.
What they discover will pull them into a vast, hidden world of power, betrayal, and blood-bound magic.
A New York Times Notable Book, Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a lush, literary fantasy for fans of The Magicians, Ninth House, and Practical Magic.
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From The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho comes By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, a tender and poetic tale of lost love rediscovered.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction
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From The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho comes By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, a tender and poetic tale of lost love rediscovered. Set in the French Pyrenees, this soul-searching novel explores forgiveness, faith, and emotional rebirth. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, it's a profound reflection on the power of second chances.
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Eleven years ago, Pilar and her childhood love walked away from each other—he to seek spiritual enlightenment, she to bury her feelings and build a life of quiet independence. Now, fate brings them together once more.
He is a charismatic spiritual leader. She is a woman who no longer believes in miracles. But as they journey through the snow-covered landscapes of the French Pyrenees, old emotions resurface—along with pain, regret, and the possibility of redemption.
By the banks of the River Piedra, they must confront the choices that shaped their lives and the love that never truly died.
A lyrical meditation on love, forgiveness, and the divine, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is classic Paulo Coelho—spiritual, soulful, and deeply human.
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A good pick for readers who like medical dramas centered on professional pressure, guilt, family responsibility, and difficult choices.
Oxygen
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Dr. Marie Heaton’s career as a Seattle anesthesiologist begins to unravel after a routine surgery becomes a devastating operating room disaster. As a malpractice suit, workplace betrayals, and her father’s declining health close in, Marie is forced to confront the cost of the life she’s built, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 2,600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like medical dramas centered on professional pressure, guilt, family responsibility, and difficult choices.
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Jodi Picoult meets Atul Gawande in this gripping medical drama that plunges readers into the hidden pressures of the operating room and the emotional fallout of failure, guilt, and ambition from the bestselling author of Gemini and Healer.
Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived, and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital. Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie’s best friend, colleague, and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marie must face hard truths about the path she’s chosen, the bridges she’s burned, and the colleagues and superiors she’s mistaken for friends.
A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie’s family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie and is busy raising a family. Although Marie has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father’s care is falling on her.
As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming.
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In Kindred, Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel masterpiece, a Black woman is pulled from 1976 to a slave plantation in 1800s Maryland—forced to ensure the birth of her family…
Kindred
Historical Fiction · Sci-Fi · People of Color
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In Kindred, Octavia E. Butler’s time-travel masterpiece, a Black woman is pulled from 1976 to a slave plantation in 1800s Maryland—forced to ensure the birth of her family line by protecting the white man who assaults her ancestor. Hailed as visionary and precise, this groundbreaking classic confronts slavery’s legacy with unflinching power. 4.7 stars on Amazon.
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Experience the time travel science fiction classic from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo Awards.
A modern Black woman is pulled through time to face the horrors of slavery in this “Great American Novel” about racism, sexism, and white supremacy—then and now (The Atlantic).
“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.
Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times).
“Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.”
—N. K. Jemisin
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