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In a wasteland lit by twin suns, a crippled boy and a mystic girl journey toward a rumored city of refuge.
A Girl From Nowhere
Teen + Young Adult · Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Coming of Age
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In a wasteland lit by twin suns, a crippled boy and a mystic girl journey toward a rumored city of refuge. White City is a gripping post-apocalyptic fantasy about survival, vengeance, and the hope for healing. Fans of gritty worldbuilding and slow-burning companionship will find a powerful story of resilience in the ashes.
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In a scorched world ruled by twin suns and savage raiders, survival is a brutal art.
Taimin knows this better than most. Crippled since childhood and orphaned by violence, he lives with only one goal: vengeance against those who destroyed his home. But when his path crosses with Selena—a girl marked by mysterious powers and hunted for reasons she doesn’t yet understand—their journey takes a new shape.
Drawn together by grief and a shared hope, they set out toward the fabled white city, a rumored sanctuary where healing and safety might still exist. But the road is treacherous, and their pasts are never far behind.
In a land of fire and ruin, Taimin and Selena must decide whether salvation lies in revenge—or something far more powerful.
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Set in a 1970s logging town on the California coast, Damnation Spring is a powerful, compassionate novel about a family caught between environmental truth and economic survival.
Damnation Spring
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Set in a 1970s logging town on the California coast, Damnation Spring is a powerful, compassionate novel about a family caught between environmental truth and economic survival. A national bestseller named one of the best books of 2021, Ash Davidson’s debut is a searing, unforgettable portrait of love, loss, and resilience in the face of change.
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In a 1970s logging town carved into California’s redwood coast, Colleen and Rich Gundersen are trying to hold onto hope.
Rich, a third-generation tree-topper, makes a bold gamble on a plot of old-growth forest—an inheritance for their young son, Chub. But Colleen, a midwife haunted by miscarriages, suspects the herbicides used by the logging company are poisoning their land—and their bodies.
As environmental suspicion collides with tradition, and a town built on timber begins to fracture, Colleen and Rich are drawn into a quiet war that could cost them everything they’re fighting to preserve.
Damnation Spring is a masterfully told, emotionally resonant portrait of marriage, motherhood, and a community on the brink. A national bestseller and critical favorite, it’s a novel as enduring as the redwoods themselves.
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Second chances never looked so golden.
One Golden Summer
Literary Fiction
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Second chances never looked so golden. In One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune (Editors’ Pick, 4.6 stars on Amazon!), a photographer returns to Barry’s Bay only to find the boy from her past—grown up, charming, and impossible to ignore. If you love lakeside romance, stolen glances, and all the feels, this one’s a summer must.
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Alice was seventeen the first time she visited Barry’s Bay—and the first time she captured Charlie Florek through her camera lens. One photo, one summer, and everything changed.
Now a professional photographer hiding behind the lens of her own life, Alice returns to the lake with her beloved Nan, chasing a sense of peace and a slower pace. But when a yellow speedboat disrupts the calm, it brings Charlie with it—older, flirtier, and just as devastating.
What begins as a sun-drenched escape turns into a second chance—for laughter, longing, and maybe love. But Alice knows the perfect shot is always fleeting, and Charlie might be, too.
One Golden Summer is Carley Fortune at her most tender, transporting you to a lakeside love story soaked in nostalgia, ache, and possibility.
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Red Mountain follows a vineyard community where beauty, reinvention, and buried damage live side by side.
Red Mountain
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Red Mountain follows a vineyard community where beauty, reinvention, and buried damage live side by side. Otis, Margot, Emilia, and Brooks each carry secrets that threaten the fragile harmony of their small Washington town, turning this into a layered literary drama about second chances, chosen community, and the cost of keeping the truth hidden.
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"Best book I've read in over 50 years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." - LibraMystic
*A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection and Amazon Charts Bestseller
How well do we really know each other?
Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics.
Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully nude.
Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex.
High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow.
And Brooks Baker is a man haunted by his past spent living on the streets as an orphan. Somehow, everyone lives together harmoniously, their lives intertwined like the vines in Red Mountain's beautiful and renowned vineyards.
But in a place where everyone knows each other, secrets are like poison...and right now Otis, Margot, Emilia, and Brooks all have something to hide. When their secrets come to light and dysfunction ignites, will their small mountain be stronger for it--or will lives be torn apart?
Heartfelt, briskly paced, and wonderfully descriptive, Red Mountain is the story of four complicated people living in a beautiful landscape unlike anywhere else. Told from multiple perspectives and rich with vivid descriptions of wine life, this novel will transport you from the first page to the last.
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A boy.
Never Fall Down
Horror · Literary Fiction
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A boy. A war. A lie that saves his life. Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick (4.6 stars on Amazon!) is based on the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who survived the Cambodian genocide through music, resilience, and sheer will. A National Book Award nominee and unforgettable read—grab this powerful novel today.
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When the Khmer Rouge storm his hometown, Arn Chorn-Pond is just a boy—playing tag, teasing his siblings, living a life that vanishes in a single day.
Ripped from his family and forced into a brutal labor camp, Arn learns fast: stay quiet, stay useful, stay alive. When soldiers ask if anyone can play music, he raises his hand—never mind he’s never touched an instrument. That split-second lie saves his life... for now.
Based on the true story of Cambodian genocide survivor and peace advocate Arn Chorn-Pond, Never Fall Down is a raw, haunting tale of unimaginable loss, terrifying resilience, and the power of music and courage in the face of atrocity.
Sometimes survival isn’t just about staying alive—it’s about refusing to disappear.
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The Ragged Edge of Night follows a man searching for purpose after the Nazis take the life he built and leave him carrying a grief he cannot outrun.
The Ragged Edge of Night
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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The Ragged Edge of Night follows a man searching for purpose after the Nazis take the life he built and leave him carrying a grief he cannot outrun. Anton enters a marriage of necessity with a widowed mother, but war draws him toward an underground resistance network and a dangerous act of defiance. This is historical fiction centered on faith, sacrifice, and love formed under pressure.
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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II.
Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage—in name only—to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too—atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war.
As Anton struggles to adapt to the roles of husband and father, he learns of the Red Orchestra, an underground network of resisters plotting to assassinate Hitler. Despite Elisabeth’s reservations, Anton joins this army of shadows. But when the SS discovers his schemes, Anton will embark on a final act of defiance that may cost him his life—even if it means saying goodbye to the family he has come to love more than he ever believed possible.
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Ted Chiang’s Exhalation (4.5 stars on Amazon!) spins nine masterful stories that bend time, choice, and reality itself.
Exhalation
Sci-Fi · Literary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Ted Chiang’s Exhalation (4.5 stars on Amazon!) spins nine masterful stories that bend time, choice, and reality itself. Winner of the Locus Award and a New York Times Best Book of the Year, this collection will leave your mind blown and your heart cracked wide open. Grab it now and rethink everything you thought was true.
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Ted Chiang doesn’t just write stories—he rewires your brain while he's at it.
In Exhalation, nine dazzling tales tackle the universe’s biggest questions: fate, free will, time, memory, and all the ways we’re hopelessly tangled in them. A fabric seller in ancient Baghdad steps through a portal and faces the weight of his past. An alien scientist unearths a discovery so seismic it could collapse reality itself. And a machine that lets you peek into alternate timelines forces a brutal reckoning with the choices you thought you made freely.
Winner of the Locus Award and named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, Exhalation isn’t just science fiction—it’s philosophy dressed up in wonder.
Prepare to question everything you think you know—and maybe even everything you feel.
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A strong match for readers drawn to character-driven contemporary fiction, deadpan humor, unconventional heroines, and stories about healing from isolation.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Literary Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “beautifully written and incredibly funny” by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine follows an isolated, socially awkward woman whose carefully ordered routine begins to change through friendship, kindness, and human connection, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 253,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to character-driven contemporary fiction, deadpan humor, unconventional heroines, and stories about healing from isolation.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
“Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!” —Reese Witherspoon
No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.
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Fast-moving and packed with covert angles, it is built for readers who want high tension, constant suspicion, and a twist designed to hit late and hit hard.
Twisted Lives
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Political Thriller
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Twisted Lives starts with every nightmare at once: a man wakes up to find himself framed for a horrifying crime, with evidence so convincing even he starts to question what is real. From there, this thriller pushes hard into paranoia, survival, and the desperate need to protect family when the truth keeps slipping further out of reach. Fast-moving and packed with covert angles, it is built for readers who want high tension, constant suspicion, and a twist designed to hit late and hit hard.
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Imagine The Fugitive meets Presumed Innocent.
It happens more than you might think.
One second someone’s life is totally typical, the next it’s terribly tragic. Everything they had, everything they planned, everything they were, all of it vanishes in a flash.
Shock and sorrow leave the victim staring into tomorrow’s void, wondering: How it happened? Who did it? And why?
What would you do if you woke to find that someone had framed you for a horrible crime and the police were at your door? What if the evidence were so compelling that even you had doubts? Would you collapse? Surrender? Question your sanity? Or would you do whatever it takes to save your family?
Inspired by a true story.
"Tim Tigner is the antidote of Dull." —Steve Wilson
"Clever to the point where you can't put the book down." —Maryellen Crane
"I defy anyone to anticipate his plot twists." —Henry Shop
"Still trying to catch my breath. He is a superb storyteller." —Amy Peck
"A thinking person's thriller." —Glen Robins
Tim Tigner's books are recommended for fans of Freida McFadden, John Maars, David Baldacci, Michael Crichton, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Nelson DeMille's John Corey, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, Mark Greaney's Gray Man, Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, Saul Herzog's Lance Spector, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, Jack Slater's Jason Trapp, Brad Taylor's Pike Logan, Brad Thor's Scot Harvath, and Dan Brown's Robert Langdon.
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Willa Knox’s modern family faces financial ruin, while 19th-century science teacher Thatcher Greenwood battles to share Darwin’s truths.
Unsheltered
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Willa Knox’s modern family faces financial ruin, while 19th-century science teacher Thatcher Greenwood battles to share Darwin’s truths. Separated by time but connected by collapsing homes and relentless struggles, their stories mirror a quest for survival against forces determined to silence and suppress. Can their courage reshape their lives—or will it crumble like the walls around them?
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Willa Knox and her husband did everything right—built careers, raised a family, followed the rules. Yet, they’re left with crushing debt, a crumbling inherited home, and the weight of supporting a multigenerational household. When tragedy strikes their Ivy-educated son, the burden grows heavier.
Meanwhile, in another century, science teacher Thatcher Greenwood risks everything to speak the truth about Darwin’s discoveries. Silenced by his employer and shunned by his family, Thatcher battles a town built on false utopia while his crumbling home becomes a stark symbol of fragile ideals.
Separated by time but connected by parallel struggles, Willa and Thatcher must fight for truth, survival, and their right to hope. Will their resilience be enough to withstand the collapse of the worlds they know?
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For fans of The Paris Library and The Gown.
The Bookbinder
Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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From the author of The Dictionary of Lost Words comes The Bookbinder—a poignant, beautifully written tale set in WWI Oxford. As twin sisters navigate war, knowledge, and the quiet power of books, one woman dares to reach beyond the bindery and change her destiny. For fans of The Paris Library and The Gown. Click now for a story of love, learning, and resilience.
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In 1914 Oxford, twin sisters Peggy and Maude bind books by day and live quietly on a narrow boat by night. Maude is content with the rhythm of their world, but Peggy dreams of more—of knowledge, of libraries, of crossing the street to Somerville College where women read what she only binds.
As war tears through Europe and refugees arrive in Oxford, Peggy’s life begins to shift. Her bond with a wounded Belgian soldier sparks both love and new responsibility, just as she glimpses the future she’s always longed for.
From New York Times bestselling author Pip Williams comes The Bookbinder—a moving portrait of women’s intellect, ambition, and resilience in a world reshaped by war. For fans of The Paris Library and The Dictionary of Lost Words.
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In the 1970s, Opal & Nev were an iconic interracial rock duo—until a bold protest and violent fallout tore them apart.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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In the 1970s, Opal & Nev were an iconic interracial rock duo—until a bold protest and violent fallout tore them apart. Decades later, a journalist’s investigation into their reunion uncovers dark secrets that could destroy everything. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is an electrifying, unforgettable novel. A Best Book of 2021 by Barack Obama.
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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick • Named a Best Book of 2021 by Barack Obama, The Washington Post, NPR, and more
In 1970s New York, Opal is an unapologetic Afro-punk pioneer, fierce in both her music and activism. When British singer-songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a Detroit bar, they form an iconic interracial rock duo that captivates audiences—until a shocking act of protest at a rival band’s concert leads to violence and their sensational breakup.
Decades later, as Opal and Nev consider a reunion tour, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton dives into their turbulent history. But Sunny uncovers a dark, unexpected secret that threatens to unravel everything the duo built—and the lives they’ve tried to rebuild.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is a provocative, electrifying novel that weaves music, politics, and personal truths into an unforgettable story of fame and fallout.
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