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Glitz, glamour, and the slow unraveling of the American dream—The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald at his most intimate and incisive.
The Beautiful and Damned
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Glitz, glamour, and the slow unraveling of the American dream—The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald at his most intimate and incisive. Before The Great Gatsby, there was Anthony and Gloria Patch: dazzling, doomed, and unforgettable. A tragic Jazz Age love story steeped in ambition and excess. Click now to rediscover this sharp-edged literary gem.
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Meet Anthony Patch—wealthy, well-bred, and dangerously certain that his future is paved in gold. Alongside his glamorous and reckless wife, Gloria, he dives headlong into the Jazz Age's glittering chaos, chasing pleasure with abandon and assuming fortune will always follow.
But when the inheritance he’s built his life around evaporates, Anthony’s charm begins to crack. The war offers no redemption, and the marriage that once sparkled soon sinks under the weight of excess, disillusionment, and broken dreams.
In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a hauntingly personal portrait of love, ambition, and ruin at the heart of 1920s high society. A searing prelude to The Great Gatsby, this is the story of what happens when youth fades—and reality crashes the party.
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A kleptomaniac, a yarn-bomber, and a woman with a decades-old secret walk into a senior center...
How to Age Disgracefully
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A kleptomaniac, a yarn-bomber, and a woman with a decades-old secret walk into a senior center... and chaos ensues. How to Age Disgracefully by NYT bestseller Clare Pooley is a laugh-out-loud caper full of charm, found family, and rebellion at every age. With 4.7 stars on Amazon, it’s the feel-good comedy your TBR needs. Click now to join the riot.
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“An uproarious romp!” —People
“Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
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A fallen god’s escape turns a desperate journey into a reckoning with power, inheritance, and the cost of freedom.
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Fantasy · Coming of Age
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A fallen god’s escape turns a desperate journey into a reckoning with power, inheritance, and the cost of freedom. In The Spear Cuts Through Water, two young men guide an ancient deity across a brutal land ruled by a monstrous dynasty determined to reclaim her. This epic fantasy blends mythic violence, lyrical storytelling, and deeply personal stakes into something immersive and singular.
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Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.
“A beguiling fantasy not to be missed.”—Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of The Crown’s Game
WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD • WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE IGNYTE AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Vulture, Polygon, She Reads, Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.
But that god cannot be contained forever.
With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
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Coding.
The Impossible Fortress
Literary Fiction · Romance · Coming of Age
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Coding. Crushes. Commodore 64. The Impossible Fortress is a hilarious and heartfelt throwback to 1987, where three teenage boys plot to nab Playboy—and one accidentally finds love instead. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and praise from USA Today and Newsweek, this sweet, geeky coming-of-age story is pure ‘80s joy. Click now for nostalgia, nerdiness, and first love.
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It’s 1987, and fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin’s world revolves around his Commodore 64, late-night coding marathons, and plotting with his best friends to nab a copy of Playboy. But when he meets Mary Zelinsky—a whip-smart, VCR-repairing girl who’s just as geeky as he is—Billy’s schemes take an unexpected detour into first love, unexpected betrayals, and the wild maze of growing up.
Set in suburban New Jersey and soaked in ‘80s nostalgia, The Impossible Fortress is part coming-of-age comedy, part nerdy caper, and part heartfelt exploration of friendship, first crushes, and floppy disks.
Perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Ready Player One, this sweet, smart, and endlessly charming debut is a love letter to simpler times and the complicated joy of being a teenager.
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In the wake of their wedding, Lewis faces a fate stranger than fiction: his body is turning into that of a great white shark.
Shark Heart
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In the wake of their wedding, Lewis faces a fate stranger than fiction: his body is turning into that of a great white shark. As Wren clings to love amidst his transformation, haunting memories of her own fractured past resurface. With primal instincts rising and secrets unraveling, their bond is tested by forces both wild and deeply human.
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For Wren and Lewis, love is meant to conquer all—until Lewis’s shocking diagnosis changes everything. Weeks after their wedding, Lewis learns he’ll keep his intellect but will transform, body and soul, into a great white shark. As his artist’s dreams unravel and primal instincts take hold, Lewis struggles to hold onto what makes him human.
Wren, tethered by her love and her own fractured past, confronts the unimaginable. Memories of her houseboat childhood, a tumultuous college love, and a friendship steeped in the extraordinary resurface, threatening her already fragile sense of self. As Lewis’s predatory nature grows, so does the pull of Wren’s buried grief, leading her to a moment of reckoning.
Can love survive when everything else is stripped away—or will Wren face a choice she cannot bear?
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary fiction that blends fairy-tale magic with marriage, loneliness, and frontier life.
The Snow Child
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “enchanting from beginning to end” by Keith Donohue, this novel follows childless homesteaders Jack and Mabel in 1920s Alaska. After they build a girl from snow, a mysterious child named Faina appears in the wilderness, and they come to love her as their daughter. A strong match for readers drawn to literary fiction that blends fairy-tale magic with marriage, loneliness, and frontier life.
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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
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In 1962, four-year-old Ruthie vanishes from the Maine blueberry fields, leaving her Mi’kmaq family with a wound that lasts for decades.
The Berry Pickers
Literary Fiction
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In 1962, four-year-old Ruthie vanishes from the Maine blueberry fields, leaving her Mi’kmaq family with a wound that lasts for decades. Elsewhere, Norma grows up haunted by dreams that feel like memories and the certainty that her parents are hiding something. Their stories unfold into a moving novel about stolen identity, family separation, trauma, forgiveness, and love that refuses to disappear.
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In the summer of 1962, four-year-old Ruthie, the youngest in a Mi’kmaq family of seasonal berry pickers, vanishes without a trace in rural Maine. Her six-year-old brother Joe is the last to see her—and the loss will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Elsewhere in Maine, Norma grows up sheltered and restless, plagued by vivid dreams that feel more like memories. As secrets stir beneath the surface of her well-manicured life, Norma begins to suspect that everything she’s been told may be a carefully constructed lie.
Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal, The Berry Pickers is a lyrical, heart-wrenching debut about identity, loss, and the unbreakable bonds of family—even when it’s been torn apart.
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night.
The Night Circus
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romantasy · Magical Realism
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Le Cirque des Rêves is an enchanting circus of wonders, open only at night. But behind the magic, two rival magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a dangerous competition where only one can survive. As they fall in love, the fate of the circus—and everyone within it—hangs in the balance.
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The circus arrives without warning—Le Cirque des Rêves, a magical spectacle unlike anything seen before, open only at night.
But behind the enchanting black-and-white tents, a dangerous competition rages between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have trained their entire lives for this moment. Their task? To outmatch each other in a deadly duel where only one can survive.
As the contest intensifies, Celia and Marco fall hopelessly in love, risking not just their own lives, but everyone tied to the circus. With everything at stake, their choices could unravel the very magic keeping the circus alive.
Will their love destroy the dreamlike world they’ve created?
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A must-read for fans of 1984 and dystopian fiction, this modern classic remains just as relevant today.
Animal Farm
Literary Fiction
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A revolution. A dream of equality. A society that slowly unravels. Animal Farm (4.6 stars on Amazon) is George Orwell’s brilliant political allegory about power, corruption, and the illusion of freedom. A must-read for fans of 1984 and dystopian fiction, this modern classic remains just as relevant today. Read now before history repeats itself.
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The animals of Manor Farm have revolted and taken over. Upon the death of Old Major, pigs Snowball and Napoleon lead a revolt against Mr. Jones, driving him from the farm. The animals embrace the Seven Commandments of Animalism and life carries on, but in this classic dystopian novel, they learn that a farm ruled by animals looks more human than ever.
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In 1920s Paris, war-scarred Jake Barnes and the fiery Lady Brett Ashley lead a band of misfits chasing pleasure and escape.
The Sun Also Rises
Literary Fiction
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In 1920s Paris, war-scarred Jake Barnes and the fiery Lady Brett Ashley lead a band of misfits chasing pleasure and escape. From jazz-filled nights to the visceral bullfighting rings of Spain, their journey exposes love’s limits and a generation’s emptiness. Hemingway’s classic explores the fragile pursuit of meaning in a world where illusions shatter as quickly as hearts.
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Jake Barnes struggles to find meaning in a world shattered by war. In 1920s Paris, he’s surrounded by expatriates chasing fleeting pleasures, none more captivating than Lady Brett Ashley—a woman as bold as she is unattainable. Their bond is undeniable, yet heartbreakingly impossible.
Joined by a colorful group of wanderers, Jake and Brett journey to Spain, trading Parisian decadence for the raw spectacle of bullfighting. Amid the fervor and violence, their search for purpose unfolds against a backdrop of disillusionment and lost ideals.
With every sip of absinthe and every spark of passion, Jake and Brett face a haunting truth: love may not be enough to fill the void of a broken generation. Hemingway’s timeless classic exposes the beauty and despair of lives lived on the edge of hope.
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Cursed mines.
Nameless Sovereign
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age
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Cursed mines. Forbidden power. No memory. Red is a gritty, slow-burn xianxia epic where survival means outpacing death—and destiny. With 2M+ Royal Road views, a 4.7-star Amazon rating, and an Audible edition narrated by Griffin Puatu, this is weak-to-strong done right. Fans of Cradle and I Shall Seal the Heavens, click now to start your next obsession.
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Red awakens in a cursed prison with no memories and one grim certainty: survive or die screaming.
Trapped in the moonstone mines, where death comes slow and the weak are consumed, Red unlocks a dark, forbidden power—one the cultivation sects would execute him for if they knew. To escape, he must hide what he’s become and race to outpace the mine’s deadly curse, climbing the brutal path of cultivation from nothing to something godlike.
But Red doesn’t just crave survival. He wants answers. Who was he before the mines? What is this monstrous power burning inside him?
With over 2 million views on Royal Road and now available on Amazon and Audible, Red delivers a gritty, slow-burn xianxia journey where strength is earned, and legends are made.
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A secret too terrible to ignore.
The Storyteller
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Contemporary Fiction
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A secret too terrible to ignore. A request impossible to grant. In The Storyteller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult explores guilt, forgiveness, and the haunting legacies of history. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this emotionally charged novel will challenge your beliefs—and break your heart. Click now to discover a story you’ll never forget.
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Sage Singer is a baker by trade and a loner by choice. Haunted by her mother’s death and past mistakes, she finds solace in the quiet rhythms of bread and grief. Then Josef Weber walks into her bakery—a kind old man from her support group—and offers her unexpected friendship.
But Josef is hiding a dark, unthinkable secret. One that ties him to a chapter of history Sage never imagined she’d confront. When he asks her for a favor that challenges everything she believes about justice, family, and forgiveness, Sage is forced to face not only his past—but her own.
In The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult crafts a powerful, morally complex tale of guilt, identity, and redemption that asks: Can we ever truly forgive the unforgivable?
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