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Friendship, betrayal, and survival collide in Last Summer on State Street, a PEN Open Book Award finalist set in the Robert Taylor Homes of 1999 Chicago.
Last Summer on State Street
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Friendship, betrayal, and survival collide in Last Summer on State Street, a PEN Open Book Award finalist set in the Robert Taylor Homes of 1999 Chicago. As her world crumbles, Fe Fe clings to the fragile bonds of girlhood, only to find that not all will survive. Toya Wolfe’s stunning debut is unforgettable, heartfelt, and powerfully told.
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In the summer of 1999, Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens lives in the crumbling Robert Taylor Homes of Chicago, just one building away from demolition. With her tight-knit crew—devout Precious, tough Stacia, and the mysterious newcomer Tonya—Fe Fe navigates girlhood, Double Dutch, and danger in a world where safety is fleeting.
But as their friendships unravel and families fracture, Fe Fe is forced to confront betrayal, grief, and the painful truths that come with growing up. Decades later, haunted by that fateful summer, she returns to the rubble of her past, seeking peace in the memories and people she’s never fully let go.
Toya Wolfe’s Last Summer on State Street is a luminous coming-of-age debut—honest, heartbreaking, and fiercely hopeful. A PEN Open Book finalist and an instant modern classic.
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A plane crash.
When Ghosts Come Home
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Contemporary Fiction · Historical Romance
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A plane crash. A murder. A town on the brink. In Wiley Cash’s When Ghosts Come Home, Sheriff Winston Barnes faces a case that could destroy his career, his family, and his town. As racial tensions boil over and corruption lurks in every corner, one truth remains—someone will do anything to keep their secrets buried. A gripping Southern mystery you won’t forget.
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Sheriff Winston Barnes wakes to the roar of a low-flying plane, but what he finds at the local airstrip is far worse than he imagined. A crashed aircraft. No pilot. No cargo. And a dead man lying in the grass, shot and left behind.
With a reelection battle looming and the town on edge, Winston must navigate a murder investigation that threatens to unravel everything he’s built. Rumors spread. Racial tensions ignite. His own deputies begin to turn against him. And in the midst of it all, his daughter Colleen returns home, drowning in a grief she refuses to name.
As secrets rise and loyalties fracture, Winston faces an impossible truth—solving this case might cost him his future, his family, and even his life.
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A young boy’s faith begins to crack when a curandera comes to live with his family in rural New Mexico.
Bless Me, Ultima
Horror · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Occult Horror
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A young boy’s faith begins to crack when a curandera comes to live with his family in rural New Mexico. Through herbs, healing, and old stories, Antonio confronts loss, cruelty, and the pull of competing traditions. Ultima guides him toward a deeper understanding of good, evil, and identity. Bless Me, Ultima holds 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post).
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past--a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world... and will nurture the birth of his soul.
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Past, present, future—Cloud Atlas connects them all in a mind-bending narrative that leaps across time and genre.
Cloud Atlas
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
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Past, present, future—Cloud Atlas connects them all in a mind-bending narrative that leaps across time and genre. This #1 bestseller by David Mitchell (4.3 stars on Amazon) is now reissued with a new afterword and intro by Gabrielle Zevin. Shortlisted for the International Booker, it's a dazzling epic you’ll be thinking about for years. Click to explore the timeline.
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What if your actions today echoed across centuries? Cloud Atlas is a genre-defying masterpiece that explores exactly that—with wit, grit, and one very suspicious brain parasite.
We begin in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary just trying to get home. But when a doctor’s “help” turns sinister, Ewing’s tale spirals into six wildly different narratives: from a Belgian composer’s scandalous letters to a journalist investigating nuclear corruption, a vanity publisher escaping gangsters, a clone in a dystopian future Korea, and a goatherd navigating a postapocalyptic Hawaii.
Each story links to the next in unexpected ways, proving that no act is ever isolated.
If you love time loops, soul reincarnations, and stories that challenge your brain (in a good way), Cloud Atlas will blow your metaphysical socks off.
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When their sister vanishes, three siblings must journey into ominous realms and forbidden magic to bring her home.
The Bonds of Blood
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy
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When their sister vanishes, three siblings must journey into ominous realms and forbidden magic to bring her home. The Bonds of Blood by Travis Simmons is an epic dark fantasy filled with visions, secrets, and rising darkness. Available now on Kindle Unlimited and rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Click to follow the shadows into adventure.
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When Amber Neferis vanishes, her siblings are thrust into a journey that will test their courage, loyalty, and faith.
For Jovian, his sister’s disappearance stirs visions of dark omens and haunting landscapes that pull him closer to forces beyond mortal reach. Bound to find her, he, Angelica, and Joya set off, each with a unique strength—and vulnerability.
But as the search unfolds, it becomes clear they’re facing more than mere abduction. Ominous realms, mysterious strangers, and ancient powers push them to the brink, revealing secrets that could shatter the fragile peace of their world. The closer they come to Amber, the closer they edge toward an ancient darkness that threatens everything.
Can they bring Amber home, or will the powers that be consume them all?
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Dolores Price has spent years hiding from life, but now she’s ready to take it on—messy, painful, and unpredictable as it is.
She’s Come Undone
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction
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Dolores Price has spent years hiding from life, but now she’s ready to take it on—messy, painful, and unpredictable as it is. Wounded but wise, tough yet vulnerable, she embarks on an unforgettable journey of love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. A New York Times bestseller, She’s Come Undone is a raw and powerful coming-of-age story you won’t forget.
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Dolores Price is thirteen, wounded, and already saying goodbye to childhood. She retreats into the flickering glow of her bedroom TV, numbing her pain with Mallomars and Pepsi as the years slip by. When she emerges into young adulthood at 257 pounds, life hasn’t grown any kinder—but this time, she’s determined to take control.
From heartbreak to hope, self-destruction to self-discovery, Dolores stumbles, falls, and fights her way toward something resembling happiness. Fiercely cynical yet deeply vulnerable, she is a heroine as raw and unforgettable as life itself.
Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece—an unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving journey through love, trauma, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours.
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is a sweeping, emotional saga spanning generations—from a 1920s circus to a DNA test in 2015. Family, love, and long-buried secrets collide in this immersive novel praised by Lisa Wingate and rated 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Perfect for fans of Before We Were Yours. Click to discover Cecily’s hidden past.
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In 1924, Cecily Larson is just four years old when her mother leaves her at a Chicago orphanage—promising to return. She never does.
By seven, Cecily is sold to a traveling circus, where she finds belonging with a daring bareback rider and a band of misfits who feel like family. But under the glitz and sawdust lies heartbreak, and when young love turns to tragedy, Cecily’s future changes forever.
Ninety years later, a surprise DNA test threatens to unravel everything her descendants think they know.
From circus tents to family secrets, The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson is a sweeping, heartfelt tale of survival, lost love, and the complicated truths we carry. Fans of Orphan Train and Water for Elephants, this is your next unforgettable read.
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Freedom becomes a liability when power decides who belongs.
The Last Carolina Girl
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Freedom becomes a liability when power decides who belongs. In The Last Carolina Girl, fourteen-year-old Leah Payne is torn from her coastal home after tragedy and placed in a household built on silence and control. As prejudice and institutional cruelty close in, she must defend her body, her future, and her right to choose who she becomes. The novel delivers a stark historical portrait of autonomy, resilience, and survival.
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"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own
Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...
For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her lumberjack father and running through the wilds where the forest meets the shore, Leah's country life is as natural as the Loblolly pines that rise to greet the Southern sky.
When an accident takes her father's life, Leah is wrenched from her small community and cast into a family of strangers with a terrible secret. Separated from her only home, Leah is kept apart from the family and forced to act as a helpmate for the well-to-do household. When a moment of violence and prejudice thrusts Leah into the center of the state's shameful darkness, she must fight for her own future against a world that doesn't always value the wild spirit of a Carolina girl.
Set in 1935 against the very real backdrop of a recently formed state eugenics board, The Last Carolina Girl is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of fierce strength, forgotten history, autonomy, and the places and people we ultimately call home.
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Ivy Lin wants everything—the wealth, the status, the perfect man.
White Ivy
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Ivy Lin wants everything—the wealth, the status, the perfect man. And she’ll do whatever it takes to get it. Raised to be resourceful, Ivy has spent her life slipping into places she doesn’t belong. But when her past resurfaces, threatening the life she’s built, how far will she go to keep it? White Ivy is a chilling, addictive psychological thriller.
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Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised by her immigrant grandmother, Ivy learned early that appearances matter and survival requires deception. Stealing gave her access to the life she longed for—most of all, Gideon Speyer, the golden boy from a wealthy political family.
But when Ivy’s secret is exposed, she’s sent away, her dream of belonging shattered. Years later, fate—or calculation—brings her back into the Speyer family’s orbit. This time, she won’t let go. Slipping seamlessly into their privileged world, Ivy is closer than ever to the life she’s always wanted—until a ghost from her past threatens to unravel it all.
Dark, gripping, and deliciously twisted, White Ivy is a sharp psychological thriller about ambition, obsession, and how far we go to claim what isn’t ours.
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Kidnapped by pirates.
The Witch of Shadowmarsh
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy
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Kidnapped by pirates. Dragged into rebellion. Haunted by a traitorous sister. The Witch of Shadowmarsh kicks off a complete epic fantasy series full of elves, witches, and dangerous magic. This YA-friendly tale blends intrigue, adventure, and unlikely alliances—and Amazon readers love it at 4.6 out of 5 stars. Click now to meet Elmerah, the antisocial heroine you didn’t know you needed.
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Elmerah is a swamp-dwelling Arthali witch with no interest in empires, rebellions, or other people in general. But when pirates abduct her and a group of young women bound for slavery, she has no choice but to remind everyone why her kind were exiled in the first place.
She escapes—but not fast enough. The Capital is closer than she’d like, and political plots have a way of pulling in unwilling participants.
The Valeroot elves are nearly extinct. The Empire wants them dead. And Elmerah’s the last person qualified to save anyone.
Now, to stop a blood-soaked war and a dark magical threat rising in secret, she’ll have to face the past she fled—and the sister who betrayed her.
Sometimes saving the world starts in a swamp.
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A mother’s death leaves behind more questions than comfort, and one haunting painting becomes the key to everything left unsaid.
The Girl in the Midnight Maze
Literary Fiction · Mystery
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A mother’s death leaves behind more questions than comfort, and one haunting painting becomes the key to everything left unsaid. In The Girl in the Midnight Maze, Emma Bowen sorts through grief, family history, and the secrets hidden in her mother’s past. This is an emotional mystery about fractured relationships, buried truths, and the ache of not knowing where you come from.
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All her mother left her was a clue to a family secret. But is it a mystery best left unsolved?
For decades Emma Bowen has hoped she and her mother, Margaret, might find a way back into each other’s lives. Even as a child, her strongest connection to her mother was a painting Margaret created before Emma was born, of a little girl lost in a maze. So when Margaret dies, gifting the painting to a total stranger, Emma is consumed by grief—for her mother, the little girl, and the relationship they never had.
Clearing out her mother’s seaside flat, Emma is faced with a mountain of possessions and paperwork from a life she knows so little about. When she discovers something that throws doubt over everything she’s ever been told about Margaret’s past, Emma must decide whether to pull at the thread of secrets and lies. Will the truth help her through her grief—or reveal a loss that runs deeper than she ever imagined?
Revised edition: Previously published as The Girl in the Maze, this edition of The Girl in the Midnight Maze includes editorial revisions.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of News of the World comes a gripping post–Civil War tale of grief, revenge, and redemption.
Chenneville
Contemporary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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From the New York Times bestselling author of News of the World comes a gripping post–Civil War tale of grief, revenge, and redemption. Chenneville—rated 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon—follows one man’s relentless journey to track a killer across a fractured America. Bold, fearless, and unflinching. Click now to witness a reckoning carved in blood.
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John Chenneville survived a brutal head wound in the war. But what waited at home was far worse: his sister and her family, savagely murdered.
Their killer, A. J. Dodd, wears many faces—soldier, lawman, monster—and John is determined to bring him down.
Armed with little more than grief and grit, John embarks on a relentless pursuit through the ruins of Reconstruction-era America. Along the way, he faces winter storms, desperate strangers, and the long shadow of the man he used to be. The U.S. Marshal wants to stop him. A determined telegraphist wants to save him. But vengeance won’t let go.
And as the final confrontation nears, John must ask what justice is worth—when it’s all you have left.
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