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Good for readers who want candid memoirs about divorce, faith, identity, and starting over.
Awake
Biographies & Memoirs
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A New York Times bestseller called “I can’t imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered” by Mel Robbins, Awake follows Jen Hatmaker through the end of her 26-year marriage, religious deconstruction, grief, parenting, and midlife self-discovery, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,700 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want candid memoirs about divorce, faith, identity, and starting over.
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, OPRAH DAILY, GOODREADS, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND MORE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I can’t imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered.” —Mel Robbins, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. I was riveted as if to a thriller and touched/moved/inspired in ways I can’t quite articulate yet. Just please read. You’ll thank me.” —Elin Hilderbrand
From Jen Hatmaker—beloved New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love podcast—a brutally honest, funny, and revealing memoir about the traumatic end of her twenty-six-year-long marriage, and the beginning of a different kind of love story.
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering into his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as she knew it. In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular leader to a divorced wreck on antidepressants and antianxiety meds, parenting five kids alone with no clue about the functioning of her own bank accounts. Having led millions of women for over a decade—urging them to embrace authenticity, find radical agency, and create healthy relationship—she felt like a catastrophic failure.
In Awake, Jen shares for the first time what happened when she found herself completely lost at sea—and how she made it to shore. In candid, surprisingly funny vignettes spanning forty years of girlhood, marriage, and parenting, Jen lays bare the disorienting upheaval of midlife—the implosion of a marriage, the unraveling of religious and cultural systems, and the grief that accompanies change you didn’t ask for. And, drawing on all resources—from without and within—Jen dares to question the systems beneath the whole house of cards, and to reckon with the myths, half-truths, and lies that brought her to this point.
More than one woman’s story, Awake is a critical analysis of the story given to all of us: the story of gender limitations, religious subservience, body shame, self-erasure. With refreshing candor, Jen explores a midlife renaissance—grieving what’s lost, cherishing possibility, and entering the second half of life wide awake.
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Good for readers who want clean new adult paranormal romance, shifter academies, found family, and sweet supernatural tension.
Academy of Shifters
Paranormal Romance · Teen + Young Adult
Our take
Academy of Shifters: Books 1-4 follows an orphan whose ordinary life ends when she discovers she is a werewolf and is pulled into a secret supernatural academy filled with pack politics, forbidden attraction, and a rare ability that could get her killed, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 280 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want clean new adult paranormal romance, shifter academies, found family, and sweet supernatural tension.
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Includes: Books 1-4 in the Academy of Shifters Series
I expected to start normal college, but instead… I wound up sprouting fur.
The one thing about growing up an orphan was that life sucked, but at least it was my kind of sucky. It was simple, ordinary… predictable.
Until the night I woke up naked in a dark forest, surrounded by a trio of powerful shifters who plucked me from my miserable existence to tell me I'm some sort of supernatural monster.
Now I'm taking a crash course in Werewolf 101 at a secret shifter academy. Complete with sorting ceremonies, pack politics, and my first shift going horribly, embarrassingly wrong. Not to mention I can't get my mind off an infuriating, yet gorgeous (and off-limits) lion shifter who loves yoga and calling me "poodle".
If I can't get my shift together in this world of underground societies and scandal, I'm going to be up a creek without a doggy-paddle. Especially when a rare ability emerges within me. The last shifter who had this so-called gift wound up dead, and if anyone finds out I possess it, so will I.
Now wolfy and I must step up our game and quit tripping over our own tail.
A clean new adult paranormal romance boxset with wolf shifters, forbidden attraction, and found family. Perfect for fans of supernatural academy adventures with sweet romance, fierce heroines, and pack dynamics.
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Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
Wish You Were Here
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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A #1 New York Times bestseller called “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Wish You Were Here follows Diana O’Toole as early Covid-19 signs in NYC upend her carefully planned life and strand her in the Galápagos, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 56,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want contemporary fiction about identity, disruption, relationships, and self-reckoning.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six)
Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available August 20!
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s an associate specialist at Sotheby’s now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.
But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes.
Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they’d booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders.
In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
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Good for readers who want extinction-level sci-fi, alien mysteries, conspiracy threads, and high-stakes discovery.
Final Contact
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Space Colonization
Our take
Two complete sci-fi series come together in Final Contact, where Earth faces extinction through converging natural disasters, mass disappearances, a changed Mars mission, and ancient artifacts pointing to alien contact. As separate trails reveal hidden forces and long-buried secrets, humanity may have to confront what has already been here, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 190 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want extinction-level sci-fi, alien mysteries, conspiracy threads, and high-stakes discovery.
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Two complete series from the best-selling duo Jasper T. Scott and Nathan Hystad are together for the first time in a single volume! With over 15,000 ratings and 2,000 pages of gripping science fiction, you can’t miss this epic collection.
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Final Days (The Complete Series, Books 1-3)
The countdown to the end of the world has begun.
A mysterious convergence of natural disasters threatens to destroy life as we know it, and people across the United States are going missing. With no one left to investigate, Special Agent Kendra Baker takes the case, trying to solve the disappearances before she’s out of time.
Among those abducted is Valeria Miller, the daughter of ex-Marine Corporal Andrew Miller, and he’ll stop at nothing to find her.
With the help of an unstable conspiracy theorist, they find themselves on the trail of a reclusive billionaire with all the answers.
From Beyond (The Complete Series, Books 1-3)
It was only a matter of time before the truth was revealed....
Commander David Bryce is scheduled to lead a routine re-supply run to the fledgling colony on Mars. Without warning, he’s taken away by government agents and told the mission parameters have changed.
They’ve discovered something. And it’s drifting closer to Earth.
Atlas Donovan tracks an ancient artifact to Lake Como, Italy. After the recent news, Atlas is more drawn to the trail than ever. He continues his search, determined to uncover the significance of the strange markings, and more importantly, where the artifacts really came from.
As both Atlas and David draw near to their objectives, they realize a secret organization is working against them; a clandestine force with so much influence, they seem impossible to oppose.
Are we alone?
No, and they’ve been here before...
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Good for readers who want prepper survival fiction with family stakes and post-collapse danger.
The First 72 Hours
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
Our take
When an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. In The First 72 Hours, he must rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead, with a 4.3-star average from more than 90 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want prepper survival fiction with family stakes and post-collapse danger.
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No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.
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The Riviera Contract is good for readers who like international terrorism thrillers, CIA intrigue, and bio-threat stakes.
The Riviera Contract
Thriller
Our take
Called “Deftly plotted and compellingly readable,” Hayden Stone, a retired FBI agent, is working for the CIA and is sent to the South of France. While there, he must deal with terrorists, an old love, and a deadly virus, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 90 Amazon reviewers. The Riviera Contract is good for readers who like international terrorism thrillers, CIA intrigue, and bio-threat stakes.
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"Deftly plotted and compellingly readable, Kerns takes his readers into the shadowy world of international terrorism " (Sheldon Siegel, New York Times–bestselling author of Perfect Alibi).
After a mission in Afghanistan leads to the death of a colleague, CIA agent Hayden Stone accepts what he thinks is a cushy assignment in the South of France. But on the Côte d'Azur, two terrorists, acting separately, attempt to murder him. Meanwhile, Stone meets an old love, a contessa, who he had seduced and abandoned years before.
As Stone's love life heats up, he learns that a brutal Middle Eastern terrorist is in Provence to deliver a strain of the Ebola virus to major US cities. At the same time, the CIA and French intelligence have targeted a seriously ill al Qaeda functionary who is seeking medical attention in Nice. Caught up in a web of international intrigue, Stone finds himself on the front lines of the War on Terror.
"A modern thriller that echoes today's headlines. Populated with fascinating characters and tightly plotted with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end . . . [A] first-rate debut novel." —D.P. Lyle, Macavity Award–winning author of the Jake Longly Series
"Arthur Kerns draws from a career in counterintelligence and counterterrorism to write nonstop action and create an irrepressible hero in Hayden Stone." —Kirk Russell, bestselling author of Gone Dark
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For readers who like emotional contemporary romance with rock-star pressure, recovery, vulnerability, and intense chemistry.
Riven
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance
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Named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, Two damaged musicians find solace and passion in each other's company, risking their hearts for a chance at love and redemption, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 800 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like emotional contemporary romance with rock-star pressure, recovery, vulnerability, and intense chemistry.
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Two tortured musicians inspire each other to risk their hearts in this edgy and emotional novel.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Riven is the romance you must read next. You’re welcome.”—Suzanne Brockmann, New York Times bestselling author of Some Kind of Hero
Theo Decker might be the lead singer of Riven, but he hates being a rock star. The paparazzi, the endless tours, being recognized everywhere he goes—it all makes him squirm. The only thing he doesn’t hate is the music. Feeling an audience’s energy as they lose themselves in Riven’s music is a rush unlike anything else . . . until he meets Caleb Blake Whitman. Caleb is rough and damaged, yet his fingers on his guitar are pure poetry. And his hands on Theo? They’re all he can think about. But Caleb’s no groupie—and one night with him won’t be enough.
Just when Caleb is accepting his new life as a loner, Theo Decker slinks into it and turns his world upside-down. Theo’s sexy and brilliant and addictively vulnerable, and all Caleb wants is another hit. And another. That’s how he knows Theo’s trouble. Caleb can’t even handle performing these days. How the hell is he going to survive an affair with a tabloid superstar? But after Caleb sees the man behind the rock star, he begins to wonder if Theo might be his chance at a future he thought he’d lost forever.
Praise for Riven
“[Roan] Parrish may well break readers’ hearts with this deeply felt, perfectly paced contemporary. . . . The author’s sensitive portrait of an addict in recovery adds depth and layers to the story. . . . Generous and tender in all the right ways.”—Publishers Weekly
“Riven has it all: off-the-charts chemistry, heart-wrenching emotion, and a captivating storyline that grabs you from page one.”—Sloane Kennedy, author of The Protectors series
“Roan Parrish turns her signature lyrical prose to the world of rock and roll, and the result is both beautiful and off-the-charts hot.”—Jenny Holiday, USA Today bestselling author of One and Only
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For readers who like candid memoirs about anxiety, family, childhood, and New York City.
Little Panic
Biographies & Memoirs
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“Frank, funny” by O, The Oprah Magazine, Amanda Stern's memoir chronicles her life with debilitating panic disorder in 1970s-80s New York, navigating between her bohemian Village life and affluent uptown world while grappling with constant fear, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like candid memoirs about anxiety, family, childhood, and New York City.
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"Stern's frank, funny memoir about living with anxiety . . . will have chronic worrywarts laugh-crying with recognition." —O, The Oprah Magazine
The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern—how could she trust time to keep flowing, the sun to rise, gravity to hold her feet to the ground, or even her own body to work the way it was supposed to? Deep down, she knows that there's something horribly wrong with her, some defect that her siblings and friends don't have to cope with.
Growing up in the 1970s and 80s in New York, Amanda experiences the magic and madness of life through the filter of unrelenting panic. Plagued with fear that her friends and family will be taken from her if she's not watching—that her mother will die, or forget she has children and just move away—Amanda treats every parting as her last. Shuttled between a barefoot bohemian life with her mother in Greenwich Village, and a sanitized, stricter world of affluence uptown with her father, Amanda has little she can depend on. And when Etan Patz disappears down the block from their MacDougal Street home, she can't help but believe that all her worst fears are about to come true.
Tenderly delivered, Amanda Stern's memoir is a document of the transformation of New York City and a deep, personal, and comedic account of the trials and errors of seeing life through a very unusual lens.
"Brave, fiercely funny . . . a brilliant read that offers hope for anyone burdened by anxiety." —People Magazine
"An affecting, emotionally vivid memoir." —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times–bestselling author of The Female Persuasion
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For readers who like literary historical mysteries with famous figures, metafictional questions, and conspiracy-driven suspense.
The Fifth Heart
Historical Fiction · Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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Suicidal Henry James and doubting Sherlock Holmes team up to investigate a suspicious death and vast conspiracy in Gilded Age America, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like literary historical mysteries with famous figures, metafictional questions, and conspiracy-driven suspense.
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In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.
Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus -- his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character.
This leads to serious complications for James -- for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?
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For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
Sea of Poppies
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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“A remarkably rich saga” by The Observer [London], A vivid saga of a ship's journey, the Ibis, through the Indian Ocean during the Opium Wars, with a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, and more, creating an unlikely dynasty, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 4,500 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like historical fiction with colonial upheaval, seafaring adventure, and sprawling ensemble casts.
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The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.
With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).
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For readers who like EMP survival thrillers, prepper fiction, family protection stakes, and post-apocalyptic danger.
Surviving the Silence
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When the power grid collapses, Surviving the Silence follows Stephanie, a mother who must reclaim the survivalist skills she tried to leave behind as cities turn violent and armed packs hunt the unprepared, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 200 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like EMP survival thrillers, prepper fiction, family protection stakes, and post-apocalyptic danger.
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Power’s gone. Rules are gone. Mercy is gone.
Stephanie thought she’d outrun her survivalist roots forever. A mom who built a life of normalcy for her twins, she buried every knot-tying, fire-starting, threat-spotting lesson her father forced on her. Then the grid collapsed. As cities turn into killing fields and armed packs hunt the unprepared, those buried lessons claw their way back. To keep her girls breathing, she must become the predator she once feared most.
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For readers who like crime thrillers with maverick detectives, twisty investigations, and high-stakes secrets.
Las Vegas Girl
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A young girl’s brutal murder in a Las Vegas hotel sends Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt into a case built on missing evidence, tangled lies, political secrets, and a truth dangerous enough to put their own lives at risk, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 13,800 Amazon reviewers. For readers who like crime thrillers with maverick detectives, twisty investigations, and high-stakes secrets.
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With each passing second, her strength faded as her world turned darker, unable to move, to fight anymore. Her lifeless body fell into a heap at his feet, and he stood there for a brief moment, panting, not taking his eyes off her.
“Excellent Story! First time I've read this author and Las Vegas Girl was excellent. Good story and well written with good supporting characters. Thought I had figured out who the culprit was, but I was totally wrong. Will definitely read more by this author.” – Mike, five-star Amazon review.
The crime: audacious
In a fashionable Las Vegas hotel, with hundreds of witnesses and countless video surveillance cameras watching, a young girl is brutally murdered in an audacious crime that shocks the entire city.
It looks like a relatively simple investigation for Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt, but it soon proves to be anything of the sort, as the one vital piece of the jigsaw is missing; the killer.
The forensics: stupefying
Even with a crime-scene fingerprint that reveals more questions than answers, the persistent duo are undeterred and begin to make inroads into the life of the deceased. But what they discover is a complex web of lies and intrigue about her life that all seem to lead to an ambitious politician and a terrible secret.
The truth: shocking
And now that secret threatens Baxter and Holt’s lives too, as a message from beyond the grave reveals the shocking truth.
Will a connection with the victim’s distant past hold the key to catching her killer? And can they uncover them before they become victims themselves?
Two mavericks form an intriguing team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, just not with their darkest secrets.
Praise for Las Vegas Girl
“Las Vegas Girl is a well written, captivating, psychological thriller with enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most demanding reader.”
“Las Vegas homicide detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are well paired, each willing to do whatever is necessary to find justice.”
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