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Good for readers who like Southern mysteries about family legacy, buried trauma, memory, and small-town tension.
The Sins of Summer Daughters
Literary Fiction
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Called a story where “Patrick's writing sparks with stunning observations and a flammable wit” by Joshua Moehling, The Sins of Summer Daughters follows Meg Gregory as she fights for her granddaughter Lucy after Lucy is accused of murder in their small Georgia town. Good for readers who like Southern mysteries about family legacy, buried trauma, memory, and small-town tension.
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"Four generations of women struggle with life in a small Southern town where the heat and lack of options are oppressive and snakes hide in the tall grass. Patrick's writing sparks with stunning observations and a flammable wit." — Joshua Moehling, USA Today bestselling author of And There He Kept Her and A Long Time Gone
For fans of Dirt Creek and William Kent Kreuger comes a profound southern mystery from acclaimed author Lo Patrick. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past—because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers.
Meg Gregory never wanted to return to Tuskin, the small Georgia town she grew up in, as barren as the fields that surround it. But after her divorce left her wounded, she knew she had to quit running. Now, years later, as Meg watches her daughter and granddaughter navigate familiar dirt roads, Meg is bent on hiding from the memories that haunt her. Because she skipped town for a reason, and that reason runs deep.
But when Meg's unassuming granddaughter Lucy is suddenly charged with the murder of her boyfriend, everything changes. Meg knows Lucy couldn't have done it. Killing a boy will break a girl like that. She should know. She's seen it happen before.
As Meg fights for Lucy's innocence, memories from the past threaten to break free, and she's left to contemplate a different murder, a different dead boy, a different summer under the hot Georgia sun. And soon enough Meg isn't quite sure what is memory and who, in all of this, is innocent.
A moving rumination on memory, legacy, trauma, and small-town tension, The Sins of Summer Daughters is a masterclass in mystery paired seamlessly with an intimate character study you won't soon forget.
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Best for readers who like domestic suspense with toxic marriages, suburban secrets, unreliable women, obsession, and neighborhood darkness.
The Welcome Party
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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The Welcome Party follows Amanda Kensington, a woman trapped in a dangerous marriage, as a body in the lake draws together a wife, an investigating detective, and an obsessive newcomer in an exclusive lakeside community. Best for readers who like domestic suspense with toxic marriages, suburban secrets, unreliable women, obsession, and neighborhood darkness.
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A deliciously dark and twisty psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Last Mrs Parrish.
Amanda Kensington is trapped in a marriage to a charming, dangerous man. He’s told her he’ll kill her before he’ll divorce her – and she believes him. She’s been hiding the bruises for too long, and now she’s plotting her escape, one careful move at a time. But someone else is watching and playing a much more calculated game.
She’s just moved to their exclusive, lakeside community, and she’s driven, brilliant, and obsessively focused on Amanda’s life. On Amanda’s house. On Amanda’s husband.
She’s been watching them all for years.
As secrets surface along with a body in the lake, three women – the wife, the investigating detective, and the obsessive newcomer – are about to discover just how well they know their neighbors.
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Best for readers who like contemporary fiction about second chances, found community, family, and starting over.
The Butterfly Café
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction
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The Butterfly Café follows Jessie Yamada, an American woman in modern-day Tokyo who inherits a dilapidated café full of cats after her emotionally abusive husband dies and she discovers their marriage was built on secrets. With old friends and quirky neighbors, Jessie begins rebuilding life for herself and her daughter, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like contemporary fiction about second chances, found community, family, and starting over.
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Set in modern-day Tokyo, The Butterfly Café tells the story of American Jessie Yamada. When her emotionally-abusive husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, she is overcome with guilt because while making plans to leave him, she had often thought how much easier it would be for her if he were dead. Those feelings quickly shift to shock and anger after discovering her entire marriage had been built upon secrets and lies. Jessie unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated café full of cats, where with the help of old friends and quirky neighbors, she constructs a new life for herself and her daughter. But just when things finally seem to be going right, a twist of fate forces her to make a decision that will have a far-reaching impact on herself and all the people she loves.
The Butterfly Café explores issues such as friendship, family, and love. It shows how second chances at happiness can be found in unexpected ways.
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Good for readers who want WWII historical fiction about sisters, nurses, rescue missions, and family drama.
Sisters of the Storm
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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Sisters of the Storm follows identical twin US Army nurses Andrea and Nicole as they trek through Nazi-occupied Albania with Germans closing in, while Andrea’s marriage and Nicole’s first love are tested by a long-held secret, with a 4.5-star average from more than 100 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want WWII historical fiction about sisters, nurses, rescue missions, and family drama.
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From a USA Today bestselling author, this is a heart-stopping story of lost love, family drama, resilience and courage in World War II – perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn
Albania, 1943. When US Army nurses and identical twins Andrea and Nicole find themselves stranded in a remote area of the war-torn country, their only route to safety is a perilous trek through the mountains with the Germans on their tail.
On the long and risky journey, the treacherous conditions push both of them – and Andrea’s marriage – to the limits.
When a chance encounter brings Darren, Nicole’s first love, back into their lives, a long-held secret threatens to tear the sisters apart. As the enemy moves ever closer and the danger continues to mount, will the chance to rebuild their relationship be lost forever?
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Good for readers who want historical fiction about female friendship, feminism, suburbia, and women questioning the lives they were sold.
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A USA TODAY bestseller, The Book Club for Troublesome Women follows four 1960s suburban women whose impromptu book club becomes a source of secrets, self-discovery, and change, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 23,800 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want historical fiction about female friendship, feminism, suburbia, and women questioning the lives they were sold.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this bold and plucky novel from New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick.
"Ideal for fans of historical fiction and those who enjoyed Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry." --Library Journal, starred review
"Readers will cheer." --Kirkus
"Perfect for those who love book club, nostalgia for the 1960s, and stories of female friendship." --Booklist
"A feel-good beach read with . . . elements that spark a revolution." --Southern Review of Books
By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman's Place--a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn't that feel like enough?
Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia's newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women--Bitsy and Viv--to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine--and that their secret longing for more is something they share. Nicknaming themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan, these four friends have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that helps them hold fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments--and what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.
The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a humorous, thought provoking, and nostalgic romp through one pivotal and tumultuous American year--as well as an ode to self-discovery, persistence, and the power of sisterhood.
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Good for readers who want motherhood, female solidarity, domestic secrets, school scandals, and emotional suspense.
Things We Never Say
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Things We Never Say is a domestic thriller about three mothers whose PTA project leads to friendship, shared secrets, and a buried school scandal that could destroy their carefully managed lives, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want motherhood, female solidarity, domestic secrets, school scandals, and emotional suspense.
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Three mothers. Three secrets. One devastating scandal.
Anna has always been the quiet one, the soft-spoken mother who kept her head down and her secrets close. But when she's thrown together with Maggie and Rhea on a PTA project, they begin to bond over wine and gossip, and slowly share the truths behind their picture-perfect lives.
As a relationship therapist, Maggie is struggling with the painful, embarrassing reality of her floundering marriage. Rhea, despite her wealthy appearance, admits her troubled past could resurface and shatter her perfect world. But it’s Anna who harbors the darkest secret, hiding the reality of her home life to protect the reputation of her husband – the school headmaster.
When the three women stumble upon a scandal the school has gone to great lengths to bury, Anna is caught in an impossible dilemma. With the centennial gala approaching, she must decide how far she's willing to go to expose the truth. Because doing so could wreck all of their perfect lives in one instant…
In this gripping tale of scandal, deception, and female solidarity, three women discover the steep price of perfection and the unshakable strength of friendship. A riveting, emotional story that will captivate fans of Big Little Lies, Lucinda Berry and Jodi Picoult.
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Best for readers who like American gothic fiction, ghost stories, eerie journeys, and supernatural uncertainty.
Mr. Splitfoot
Literary Fiction · Horror · Women's Fiction
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Called “hypnotic and glowing” by Gregory Maguire in The New York Times Book Review, Mr. Splitfoot follows Ruth and Nat, two orphans who may be able to speak to the dead, and Cora, Ruth’s niece, decades later, as a silent Ruth leads her across New York on foot, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like American gothic fiction, ghost stories, eerie journeys, and supernatural uncertainty.
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The strange odysseys of two young women animate this "hypnotic and glowing" American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review).
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Paris Review Staff Pick
Ruth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able to talk to the dead. Enter Mr. Bell, a con man with mystical interests who knows an opportunity when he sees one. Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth's face.
Decades later, Ruth visits her niece, Cora. But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now doesn't speak at all. Even so, she leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot. Where is she taking them? And who—or what—is hidden in the woods at the end of the road?
"[A] gripping novel…The narratives, which twist together into a shocking dénouement, are marked by ghost stories."—The New Yorker
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With a 4.4-star rating from more than 34,000 Amazon reviewers, it’s a strong fit for readers who like historical fantasy, haunted houses, cozy magic, and slow-burn romance.
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Cozy Fantasy · Magical Realism
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From Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg, Keeper of Enchanted Rooms follows Merritt, a writer trapped inside the enchanted estate he inherits, and Hulda, the keeper sent to tame it. With a 4.4-star rating from more than 34,000 Amazon reviewers, it’s a strong fit for readers who like historical fantasy, haunted houses, cozy magic, and slow-burn romance.
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A house of haunted history and ill temper. Make yourself at home in this beguiling novel of love, magic, and danger by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.
Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever.
Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms has been trained in taming such structures in order to preserve their historical and magical significance. She understands the dangers of bespelled homes given to tantrums. She advises that it’s in Merritt’s best interest to make Whimbrel House their ally. To do that, she’ll need to move in, too.
Prepared as she is with augury, a set of magic tools, and a new staff trained in the uncanny, Hulda’s work still proves unexpectedly difficult. She and Merritt grow closer as the investigation progresses, but the house’s secrets run deeper than they anticipated. And the sentient walls aren’t their only concern—something outside is coming for the enchantments of Whimbrel House, and it could be more dangerous than what rattles within.
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A strong match for readers drawn to philosophical classics, psychological fiction, and hallucinatory literary journeys.
The Steppenwolf
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Called a classic that “sparkle[s] in new technicolor splendor” by Martin Puchner, The Steppenwolf follows Harry Haller, an isolated man caught between spiritual questioning, bourgeois society, and a surreal underground world of pleasure and self-discovery, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to philosophical classics, psychological fiction, and hallucinatory literary journeys.
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"Kurt Beals makes this 1927 classic of psychedelic dreams sparkle in new technicolor splendor. Talk to your doctor about possible side effects." —Martin Puchner, author of The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago.
The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller—better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man divided—lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set on a collision course with his innermost desires.
There has never been a translation that fully captures the essence of Hermann Hesse's own spiritual questioning until now. Kurt Beals restores the original meaning of this hallucinatory German tale in a recognizably modern voice. Beals's expert introduction traces the impact of The Steppenwolf for readers seeking meaning during the upheaval of world conflicts, the onslaught of new technologies, and life's uncertainties.
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A strong match for readers drawn to sweeping historical fiction about family, land, wartime loss, and the darker chapters of American history.
Properties of Thirst
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · World War 2
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A National Bestseller and A New Yorker Best Book of the Year called a “big, bold book” by USA TODAY, Properties of Thirst follows Rocky Rhodes and his family as World War II, grief, water rights, and the building of a Japanese American internment camp near Manzanar threaten the California ranch he has spent years protecting, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to sweeping historical fiction about family, land, wartime loss, and the darker chapters of American history.
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A National Bestseller | A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a “big, bold book” (USA TODAY) destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II historical novel about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream.
Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death.
As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy.
Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp near Manzanar next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family.
Properties of Thirst is a “magnificent” (Colum McCann) novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing California landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.
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A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, complicated family legacies, and gritty historical settings.
The Moonshiner’s Daughter
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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In 1960 North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser wants nothing to do with her family’s moonshine legacy, especially after blaming it for her mother’s death. As her attempt to destroy the stills escalates an old rivalry, Jessie uncovers family secrets, buried grudges, and truths about loyalty, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 14,000 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to Southern coming-of-age fiction, complicated family legacies, and gritty historical settings.
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If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel!
Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family’s past . . .
Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser’s daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she’s concerned, moonshine caused her mother’s death a dozen years ago.
Her father refuses to speak about her mama, or about the day she died. But Jessie has a gnawing hunger for the truth—one that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her school’s gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the “monster” inside Jessie.
Resenting her father’s insistence that moonshining runs in her veins, Jessie makes a plan to destroy the stills, using their neighbors as scapegoats. Instead, her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges. As she endeavors to right wrongs old and new, Jessie’s loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strengths—and a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
One by One
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “an excellent mystery/suspense novel” by Stephen King, One by One follows a London tech start-up team trapped in a snow-covered French Alps chalet after a corporate retreat turns tense, an avalanche cuts them off, and the group begins to dwindle. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 19,100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to locked-room thrillers, workplace secrets, survival pressure, and isolated settings.
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“An excellent mystery/suspense novel that will remind you of Dame Agatha at her best.” —Stephen King
This instant New York Times bestseller and “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) from Ruth Ware follows a group of employees trapped on a snow-covered mountain.
Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.
As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.
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