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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child.
Run
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child. Over one turbulent day, the family faces long buried secrets, shifting loyalties, and the divide between privilege and poverty. Ann Patchett crafts a poignant, suspenseful story about responsibility and the unexpected ties that define us.
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In the middle of a Boston snowstorm, one split second shatters the fragile balance of the Doyle family. Tip and Teddy have spent their lives shaped by their father’s ambitions, pushed toward political futures they have never wanted. Since their mother’s death, Bernard Doyle has clung tightly to his sons, convinced he alone can guide their paths.
But an argument on an icy street draws a stranger and her young daughter into their orbit, setting off a chain of revelations that forces every member of the family to confront buried truths. Over the next twenty four hours, privilege intersects with hardship, and unexpected bonds take shape in the most unlikely places.
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett delivers a moving, deeply humane novel about responsibility, connection, and the enduring reach of family.
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood.
Liars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Jane enters marriage hoping for a life shaped by love and art, only to find herself consumed by her husband’s ego and the demands of motherhood. As her writing career rises, her relationship crumbles, forcing her to confront who she has become and who she wants to be. A best of year selection praised for its sharp insight and emotional power.
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Jane never imagined how easily a marriage could swallow the person she worked so hard to become. As a young writer, she falls for filmmaker John Bridges and believes they are building a life shaped by art, ambition, and shared possibility. Motherhood brings joy, but it also shifts gravity. John’s needs expand, his ego eclipses, and Jane learns how quickly a woman can become defined by someone else’s desires.
As her own career finally takes flight, the marriage strains under its widening cracks. Holding the family together becomes an exhausting act of performance, one that shatters when John walks away.
Widely acclaimed and named a best book of the year by multiple outlets, Liars delivers a fierce, incisive portrait of a woman reclaiming herself from the ruins.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary family dramas about parental expectations, cultural identity, and the difficulty of understanding those closest to us.
Everything I Never Told You
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller called “heart-wrenching” by the Los Angeles Times, this novel follows a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio after their daughter Lydia is found dead in a local lake. This will appeal to readers who want literary family dramas about parental expectations, cultural identity, and the difficulty of understanding those closest to us.
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York
The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
“A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine
“Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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In an airport lounge, Jeff Cook reveals how saving a stranger’s life led him into the world of a powerful art dealer and into a maze of shifting…
Mouth to Mouth
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In an airport lounge, Jeff Cook reveals how saving a stranger’s life led him into the world of a powerful art dealer and into a maze of shifting truths. As admiration turns to obsession, his story becomes a study in ambition and self-deception. Mouth to Mouth is a taut, addictive novel about influence, identity, and moral blind spots.
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One confession can unravel a lifetime of choices, especially when the truth belongs to someone else.
In the quiet luxury of an airport lounge, a chance encounter leads Jeff Cook to recount how his life veered off course after rescuing a drowning stranger. Compelled to understand the man he saved, Jeff infiltrates the orbit of renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault, entering a world where success is built on perception, ambition, and shifting truths. As Francis takes Jeff under his wing, admiration becomes obsession, and opportunity blurs into manipulation.
Across the fault lines of power and desire, Jeff’s story twists toward consequences he can no longer control.
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson is a sleek, unsettling novel of identity, deception, and the stories we tell to justify ourselves.
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A monthly book club becomes a lifeline for five women facing turning points in their lives.
The Book Club
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A monthly book club becomes a lifeline for five women facing turning points in their lives. Through grief, ambition, betrayal, self-doubt, and the longing for acceptance, Eve, Annie, Doris, Gabriella, and Midge learn that friendship can steady even the most uncertain seasons. The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe celebrates resilience, hope, and the bonds that keep us moving forward.
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Some gatherings change your life long before you realize it.
To the outside world, Eve, Annie, Doris, Gabriella, and Midge meet simply to discuss books. But behind closed doors, their monthly circle becomes a refuge where each woman finds the courage to face the truths reshaping her life. Eve mourns a future stolen by sudden loss. Annie weighs ambition against the family she longs for. Doris confronts the end of a marriage she once trusted. Gabriella discovers how difficult it is to ask for the support she always gives. Midge embraces the freedom to live by her own rules.
As their stories intertwine, these five women discover that change is bearable when shared.
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe is a tender portrait of resilience, connection, and the quiet power of friendship.
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny.
The Probable Future
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism
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When sixteen-year-old Stella’s visions of the future upend her family, three generations of Sparrow women must reconcile love, truth, and destiny. The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a haunting story of inherited gifts, hidden wounds, and the fragile bonds that can heal a family. A timeless tale of magic, memory, and forgiveness.
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Every woman in the Sparrow family is born with a gift, but some miracles feel more like burdens.
Elinor can sense lies, her daughter Jenny walks through other people’s dreams, and sixteen-year-old Stella can see the future—visions that soon unravel the fragile peace holding their family together. When one of Stella’s premonitions leads to tragedy, she is drawn into the life of the grandmother she never knew and the ancestral home where generations of women have lived and loved.
As secrets surface and forgiveness takes root, three generations must face the truth of who they are and what they share.
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman is a luminous novel of family, fate, and the fragile magic that binds us all.
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When Lizzy Moon returns home after her grandmother’s death, she finds the lavender fields of Moon Girl Farm haunted by secrets and grief.
The Last of the Moon Girls
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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When Lizzy Moon returns home after her grandmother’s death, she finds the lavender fields of Moon Girl Farm haunted by secrets and grief. Guided by a forgotten journal and an old love, she searches for truth and redemption. The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis is a moving story of memory, forgiveness, and coming home.
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Some legacies refuse to be buried.
When her grandmother’s death calls her home, Lizzy Moon returns to Moon Girl Farm—a place she once fled to escape the gossip surrounding her family’s mystical gift. The lavender fields lie in ruin, and the town still whispers about the unsolved murders that shadowed her grandmother’s final years. But hidden among Althea’s things is a journal filled with memories, secrets, and a path toward healing.
As Lizzy uncovers the truth and reconnects with a man who never stopped believing, she must choose whether to reclaim the magic she denied or let it fade forever.
The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis is a tender novel of family, forgiveness, and the power of coming home.
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A strong match for readers who like warm, character-driven fiction about older protagonists, found family, second chances, and human connection.
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife follows 82-year-old Frederick, who is broke and facing eviction when a case of mistaken identity lands him in a nursing home and gives him another chance at connection and family, with a 4.3-star average from more than 105,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like warm, character-driven fiction about older protagonists, found family, second chances, and human connection.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of A Man Called Ove and Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new novel.”—Library Journal
A zany case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family.
“Would you mind terribly, old boy, if I borrowed the rest of your life? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it.”
Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he’d return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is, at age eighty-two, there’s nobody left in Fred’s life to borrow from, and he's broke and on the brink of eviction. But Fred’s luck changes when he's mistaken for Bernard Greer, a missing resident at the local nursing home, and takes his place. Now Fred has warm meals in his belly and a roof over his head—as long as his look-alike Bernard never turns up.
Denise Simms is stuck breathing the same disappointing air again and again. A middle-aged mom and caregiver at Bernard's facility, her crumbling marriage and daughter's health concerns are suffocating her joy for life. Wounded by her two-faced husband, she vows never to let a man deceive her again.
As Fred walks in Bernard’s shoes, he leaves a trail of kindness behind him, fueling Denise's suspicions about his true identity. When unexpected truths are revealed, Fred and Denise rediscover their sense of purpose and learn how to return a broken life to mint condition.
Bittersweet and remarkably perceptive, The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife is a hilarious, feel-good, clever novel about grief, forgiveness, redemption, and finding family.
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Greg just wants to survive high school unnoticed, make bad movies with his friend Earl, and avoid anything serious.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Contemporary Fiction
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Greg just wants to survive high school unnoticed, make bad movies with his friend Earl, and avoid anything serious. Then his mom forces him to befriend Rachel, who has cancer, and everything changes. Jesse Andrews’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a wildly funny, heartfelt coming-of-age story about friendship, loss, and learning to care.
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The funniest book you’ll ever read about death.
Greg Gaines has mastered the art of survival in high school: keep your head down, stay invisible, and make terrible amateur films with your only friend, Earl. It’s not much of a plan, but it works—until Greg’s mom insists he reconnect with Rachel, a classmate recently diagnosed with cancer.
Forced into a friendship he never asked for, Greg’s carefully controlled world begins to unravel in awkward, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving ways.
Jesse Andrews’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a brutally funny, honest, and heartwarming story about friendship, failure, and the weird, painful process of growing up when life refuses to follow your script.
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace.
Little Bee
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color · Psychological Fiction
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace. Years later, a knock at the door reunites them and forces both to face the past. Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a powerful novel of hope, survival, and the courage to begin again.
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On a sunlit beach in Nigeria, two lives collide and are changed forever.
Sixteen-year-old Little Bee has fled a world of unimaginable violence. In England, Sarah O’Rourke lives a life of comfort until one moment of choice binds her fate to the girl she barely knows. When Little Bee arrives at Sarah’s doorstep years later, both women must confront the price of survival and the meaning of compassion.
What follows is a story of hope, humor, and humanity in the face of the unthinkable—a novel that reveals how small acts of courage can bridge worlds.
Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a deeply moving, unforgettable story about love, loss, and the invisible ties that connect us across continents.
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When Margaret marries a man haunted by depression, her choice echoes through generations.
Imagine Me Gone
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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When Margaret marries a man haunted by depression, her choice echoes through generations. As their son Michael struggles to make sense of the world, his family fights to hold him close. Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett is a deeply affecting novel about love, mental illness, and the ties that both sustain and unravel us.
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Love can save us. It can also undo us.
When Margaret’s fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces an impossible choice: walk away or stand beside him through whatever comes. She chooses love, and that decision shapes the lives of their three children for decades to come.
Their eldest son, Michael, brilliant and anxious, filters the world through music and wit while his siblings, Celia and Alec, navigate the emotional weight of his illness. Together, they form a family bound by fierce devotion and fragile hope.
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone is a profoundly moving portrait of inheritance, resilience, and the beautiful, heartbreaking cost of loving someone you cannot save.
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Maria leaves Brazil for Geneva, dreaming of fortune but finding only loneliness and survival.
Eleven Minutes
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Maria leaves Brazil for Geneva, dreaming of fortune but finding only loneliness and survival. When a young painter awakens her long-buried hope, she faces the hardest choice of all—to protect her heart or surrender to love. From The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes explores the sacred, painful bond between love and desire.
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Love can be the greatest pleasure or the deepest wound.
Maria leaves her small Brazilian village chasing the dream of a better life. A chance encounter takes her to Geneva, where the promise of fame fades into the shadow of loneliness and survival. Working as a prostitute, she learns to separate body from heart, desire from love.
But when a young painter sees the light within her, Maria is forced to confront the fears that have shaped her life. Between pain and passion, she must decide whether love is a dangerous illusion or a sacred truth worth risking everything for.
From the author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes is a daring, sensual journey into the soul’s hunger for connection and meaning.
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