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A gripping thriller for fans of Lost, The Hunger Games, and Lord of the Flies.
The Missing
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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Five strangers wake up on a mysterious island with no memory of how they got there. As secrets unravel, trust shatters, and survival becomes a deadly game. Someone’s lying, and the truth could cost them everything. A gripping thriller for fans of Lost, The Hunger Games, and Lord of the Flies.
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"A terrifying combination of Lost, Lord of the Flies, and The Hunger Games... A perfect summer thriller!"
They disappeared...
That was just the beginning.
When five strangers are abandoned on an island without any idea where they are or whom to trust, their nightmarish new reality begins to unfold.
Someone is lying.
Someone is hiding a terrible secret.
They'd all do anything to get home... Wouldn't they?
As the group struggles to uncover the truth about their mysterious whereabouts, only one thing is certain: every choice they make on the island will affect the others.
And when they uncover a strange note with a chilling revelation, the group begins to question everything they thought they knew. If they want to make it off the island alive, they'll have to discover who brought them there and why...before it's too late.
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At twenty-five, Kimiâ Sadr sits in a Parisian fertility clinic, flooded by memories of her Iranian heritage and the revolutionary family she left behind.
Disoriental
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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At twenty-five, Kimiâ Sadr sits in a Parisian fertility clinic, flooded by memories of her Iranian heritage and the revolutionary family she left behind. Disoriental is a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Albertine and Lambda Literary Awards—a multigenerational epic blending history, identity, and self-discovery. “Riveting.” —Booklist
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Winner of the 2019 Albertine Prize and Lambda Literary Award • Finalist for the National Book Award
Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten, escaping political turmoil with her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now, at twenty-five, sitting in a Parisian fertility clinic, Kimiâ is flooded by unstoppable waves of memory and family history. Her story unfolds alongside those of her flamboyant ancestors—her great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his fifty-two wives, and her revolutionary parents, Darius and Sara, who resisted every oppressive regime.
Punk-rock aficionado, storyteller, and modern woman, Kimiâ navigates the complexities of exile, identity, and sexuality. Disoriental is a multigenerational epic, blending Iran’s tumultuous history with an intimate portrait of self-discovery and belonging.
“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Library Journal
“Riveting… Djavadi is an immensely gifted storyteller.” —Booklist
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When a chance encounter leads Raimund Gregorius to Lisbon, he embarks on a journey to uncover the life of Amadeu de Prado—a man who defied a fascist regime.
Night Train to Lisbon
Historical Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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When a chance encounter leads Raimund Gregorius to Lisbon, he embarks on a journey to uncover the life of Amadeu de Prado—a man who defied a fascist regime. Night Train to Lisbon is a bestselling novel of love, resistance, and the power of language. Now a major motion picture starring Jeremy Irons.
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The bestselling novel of love, sacrifice, and resistance under fascist rule—now a major motion picture starring Jeremy Irons.
Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of dead languages, lives a life governed by routine—until a chance encounter with an enigmatic Portuguese woman and a mysterious book of philosophy sets him on an unexpected path. Compelled by the haunting words of the book’s author, Amadeu de Prado—a physician who defied Salazar’s dictatorship—Raimund boards a train to Lisbon in search of the man behind the pages.
As Raimund pieces together Prado’s life through the memories of those who knew him, he uncovers a tale of courage, betrayal, and resistance. The deeper he digs, the more he questions his own existence.
Night Train to Lisbon is a profound, meditative exploration of identity, language, and the human spirit, beloved by readers worldwide.
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In a remote mountain valley, Andreas Egger lives a simple life as the modern world rushes past.
A Whole Life
Literary Fiction
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In a remote mountain valley, Andreas Egger lives a simple life as the modern world rushes past. A Whole Life is an international bestseller that beautifully explores solitude, connection, and the fleeting moments that shape us. Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
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International Bestseller • Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize • Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
In A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler crafts a quiet, profoundly moving novel about one man’s simple existence amidst the sweeping changes of the 20th century.
Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his remote mountain valley, a place that provides his sustenance and shapes his life. As the modern world encroaches on the ancient landscape, Andreas’s life unfolds in a series of tender, transformative moments—some filled with love and connection, others marked by solitude and loss.
Told with lyrical beauty and serene power, A Whole Life is a meditation on the relationship between humanity and nature, the value of solitude, and the fleeting moments that define us.
“A quietly powerful novel of a man’s connection to the land and the quiet dignity of an ordinary life.” —Kirkus Reviews
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Told in the defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song follows a slave girl’s life on a Jamaican sugar plantation during the violent end of slavery.
The Long Song
Historical Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Told in the defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song follows a slave girl’s life on a Jamaican sugar plantation during the violent end of slavery. Both shocking and humorous, this Man Booker Prize finalist is a powerful story of resilience and survival. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize • New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Told in the sharp, defiant voice of Miss July, The Long Song is an unforgettable tale of survival, resilience, and the end of slavery in 1830s Jamaica. Born to a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation, July’s life takes an unexpected turn when Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, an English widow, moves her into the great house and renames her “Marguerite.”
As July navigates life in the great house, she witnesses the brutal Baptist War and the chaotic, violent collapse of slavery. Her story, edited years later by her son Thomas, is by turns funny, shocking, and profoundly moving.
Andrea Levy’s The Long Song is a powerful, brilliantly written novel that offers a fresh, intimate perspective on a pivotal moment in history.
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Beloved turns haunting into memory made flesh, following a woman whose escape from slavery cannot free her from what survival demanded.
Beloved
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Beloved turns haunting into memory made flesh, following a woman whose escape from slavery cannot free her from what survival demanded. Sethe lives in Ohio with the trauma of Sweet Home still pressing against her present, until the ghost tied to her dead child transforms grief into something impossible to ignore. This is literary fiction shaped by horror, history, motherhood, and the brutal cost of being unowned.
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times
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Perfect for fans of Toni Morrison.
The Prophets
Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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Isaiah and Samuel’s forbidden love is their only refuge on a Deep South plantation—until betrayal threatens their existence. The Prophets, a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Bestseller, is a lyrical, powerful debut about love, resilience, and the brutal legacy of slavery. Perfect for fans of Toni Morrison.
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Finalist for the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller • One of The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year
On a Deep South plantation, Isaiah and Samuel have only each other. In the barn, amidst the cruelty and violence of their enslavement, they find refuge—transforming the hollowed space into one of love, intimacy, and hope. But when a fellow enslaved man seeks favor by preaching the master’s gospel, the plantation’s fragile harmony fractures. Isaiah and Samuel’s forbidden love, once a quiet sanctuary, becomes a dangerous threat.
With lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets is a stunning debut that gives voice to both the enslaved and the oppressors, exploring the devastating weight of inheritance, the resilience of community, and the transformative power of love.
Named one of The New York Times Notable Books of the Year, this is a story of beauty, pain, and truth you won’t forget.
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A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
Homegoing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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An international bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, this novel begins with two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana: one marries an Englishman while the other is captured and sold into slavery. Their descendants’ stories unfold across eight generations, two continents, and three centuries. A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love.
The Changeling
Horror · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love. The Changeling, now an Apple TV+ series, is an award-winning, haunting thriller “you won’t be able to put down” (Oprah Magazine).
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Now an Apple TV+ Series starring Lakeith Stanfield · Winner of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel · One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
When Apollo Kagwa’s father vanished, he left behind only a box of books and haunting dreams. Now a father himself, Apollo’s life unravels when his wife, Emma, begins acting strangely. What seems like postpartum depression quickly spirals into horror as Emma commits an unthinkable act—and disappears with their child.
Apollo’s desperate search for his family leads him through the shadowy corners of New York, a forgotten island, and forests where immigrant legends still breathe. Along the way, he confronts ancient myths, buried secrets, and the terrifying truth about his family.
The Changeling is a mesmerizing dark fairy tale of love, loss, and madness, hailed by The New York Times and Oprah Magazine as a must-read modern classic.
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Ghosts travel with the living in Sing, Unburied, Sing, where family love and inherited violence share the same road through rural Mississippi.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Ghosts travel with the living in Sing, Unburied, Sing, where family love and inherited violence share the same road through rural Mississippi. As Jojo journeys with his mother to collect his father from Parchman, Jesmyn Ward builds a literary novel steeped in grief, memory, and the unfinished wounds of the South, with a haunting presence that deepens every reckoning.
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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (Oprah Daily) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.
Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. “Ward’s writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it” (Buzzfeed).
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.
His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances.
When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love.
Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson tells the powerful story of the Great Migration through the lives of three unforgettable individuals.
The Warmth of Other Suns
Historical Literary Fiction
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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson tells the powerful story of the Great Migration through the lives of three unforgettable individuals. The Warmth of Other Suns, a New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, is a beautifully written, essential modern classic of American history. One of the NYT’s Five Best Books of the 21st Century.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson delivers a sweeping, beautifully written account of the Great Migration—one of the most transformative, yet untold, stories in American history. Between World War I and 1970, six million Black Americans fled the oppressive South in search of a better life in the North and West.
Through the lives of three unforgettable individuals—Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster—Wilkerson humanizes this mass exodus, capturing their treacherous journeys, struggles, and triumphs.
Winner of multiple prestigious awards and hailed as one of The New York Times’s Five Best Books of the 21st Century, The Warmth of Other Suns is a modern classic that redefines the American experience.
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When their father dies, the Solomon siblings return home to save the Kingdom—their ancestral land—from a developer’s grasp.
Long After We Are Gone
Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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When their father dies, the Solomon siblings return home to save the Kingdom—their ancestral land—from a developer’s grasp. But as they fight for their family’s legacy, long-buried secrets surface, threatening to tear them apart. Long After We Are Gone is “explosive and emotionally charged” (Etaf Rum)—a powerful story of love, loss, and legacy.
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"Don’t let the white man take the house." Those are King Solomon’s final words to his son before he dies. Now, his four children must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom—their ancestral home and 200 acres of land—from a developer eager to turn it into a luxury resort.
But saving the Kingdom means facing more than just legal battles. Junior, the eldest, hides his love for another man. Mance’s temper has cost him his freedom more than once. CeCe, a high-powered lawyer, is drowning in embezzlement secrets. And Tokey, the youngest, is desperate to understand why she’s always felt like an outsider in her own family.
Told in alternating viewpoints, Long After We Are Gone is a searing, emotional story of family, legacy, and the truths that set us free.
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