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Over nine volatile days, a suspended beauty mogul waits to learn if her empire will survive.
Sheer
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Women's Fiction
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Over nine volatile days, a suspended beauty mogul waits to learn if her empire will survive. Confined to her New York apartment, Maxine Thomas revisits decades of ambition, power, secrecy, and compromise. Sharp, provocative, and deeply introspective, this novel probes the uneasy line between empowerment and exploitation, asking what success truly costs when the spotlight turns inward.
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Told over nine charged days, Sheer is the gripping tale of a controversial beauty mogul’s insatiable ambition and the slippery ground between empowerment and abuse of power.
It’s 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Housebound in her New York City apartment, where she awaits the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment.
From her start as a precocious suburban child in the eighties to her decades as a workaholic visionary, Max proselytizes a sheer, dewy look—cosmetics through a female gaze—all while battling sexist investors, the whiplash of cultural change, and the mounting pressure to keep her sexuality a secret. But when Max’s story catches up to her present, she must contend with the cost of true transparency. Who has she become in her relentless pursuit of success? And what will happen if she loses it all?
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Poppy never meant to fall in love pretending to be her dead sister.
Dandelion Is Dead
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Poppy never meant to fall in love pretending to be her dead sister. But when grief, impulse, and a dating app collide, she finds herself living a borrowed life with a man who feels heartbreakingly real. Tender, funny, and quietly devastating, this modern romance explores love after loss and the terrifying bravery it takes to start living again.
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“Dandelion is Dead is breathtakingly original. A brilliant premise, smart, funny and heartbreaking in equal measure. I adored it.”
—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead.
When Poppy discovers unanswered messages from a charming stranger in her late sister's dating app, she makes an impulsive choice: She'll meet him, just once, on what would have been Dandelion's fortieth birthday. It's exactly the kind of wild adventure her vivacious sister would have pushed her toward.
Jake is ready to find something real—and not least because his ex-wife's twentysomething boyfriend has moved into their old family home. When he meets the intriguing woman who calls herself Dandelion, their connection is undeniable, and he can think of little else.
As their relationship deepens, Poppy finds herself trapped in a double life she never meant to create. Every moment with Jake feels genuine, electric, and totally right—despite the fact they're tangled in deceit. As the lines between grief and love blur, Poppy faces a choice: keep her sister's memory alive through her lies, or risk everything for a chance at her own happiness?
With sparkling wit and aching tenderness, debut author Rosie Storey gives us a modern love story about the courage it takes to live again after loss and finding hope in the most unexpected places.
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Ten interconnected stories explore ambition, desire, and the longing to be seen in a culture obsessed with fame.
I Could Be Famous
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Ten interconnected stories explore ambition, desire, and the longing to be seen in a culture obsessed with fame. As women chase validation across media, relationships, and performance, admiration turns uneasy. This debut collection offers sharp, unsettling insight into modern identity and dissatisfaction. Praised by George Saunders as fresh and surprising.
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"A terrific debut: fresh, original, and surprising." --George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
From a magnetic new voice in fiction "made for this moment and for those coming of age within it" (Jonathan Dee), a debut story collection following ten ambitious women and one male superstar as they pursue their desires--however deluded--for more.
A listless woman befriends an influencer at a rooftop party, only to discover her lifestyle is not as glamorous as it seems. A college freshman gives the world's longest blow job to a boy whose name she's forgotten. A fan-favorite reality TV star joins a dating app after an explosive breakup, ready to move on, but finds she's in control only when cameras are rolling. While working in a hot tub showroom, a struggling actress goes method so she can nail an audition for the role of High School Junkie Girlfriend. Threaded throughout these explorations of neuroses and aspirations is one Arlo Banks, a hotshot actor who faces his own downfall when he's accused of cannibalism.
From the dazzling to the mundane, Rende's unnervingly astute stories hold a mirror to our obsession with how we're perceived and our ache to be adored. Above all else, I Could Be Famous is a love letter to big ambitions and bigger dissatisfactions, belief in ourselves, and the fascination we hold with the idea that we could--somehow, someday--be famous.
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms.
Skylark: A Novel
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms. In 1664, an aspiring artist fights imprisonment and injustice. In 1939, a young doctor risks everything to protect his Jewish neighbors. Skylark weaves these parallel lives into a haunting story of resistance, survival, and the hidden bonds that transcend time from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Five years after her husband vanished, Hannah Hall finally has peace.
The First Time I Saw Him
Women's Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Five years after her husband vanished, Hannah Hall finally has peace. When Owen suddenly reappears, that fragile life shatters. Forced to flee with her stepdaughter, Hannah must outrun buried secrets and decide whether forgiveness is worth the risk. The First Time I Saw Him is a tense, emotional sequel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.
How far would you go for a second chance?
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.
But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.
Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance.
A gripping, rich, and deeply moving novel about the power of forgiveness, The First Time I Saw Him picks up right where the epilogue for the “genuinely moving” (The New York Times) The Last Thing He Told Me left off, giving readers the eagerly awaited and absolutely exhilarating sequel to Dave’s global blockbuster.
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A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · Women's Fiction
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read, The Clan of the Cave Bear follows Ayla, a young girl left alone after a natural disaster, as she is taken in by the Clan, learns their ways, and becomes a threat to a brutal future leader, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 13,700 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to prehistoric historical fiction, survival, cultural conflict, healing, and found family bonds.
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This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.
A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.
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Across fifty years in London, two women navigate love, art, and the disorienting force of motherhood.
The Hand That First Held Mine
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Across fifty years in London, two women navigate love, art, and the disorienting force of motherhood. Lexie Sinclair forges a daring life in post-war Soho, while new mother Elina struggles to recognize herself in the present day. As memories surface and secrets entwine their stories, The Hand That First Held Mine reveals how lives are shaped by connection and loss. A tender, haunting novel by Maggie O’Farrell.
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From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
"An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held Mine will unsettle, move, and haunt you." —Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.
Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own.
Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for her boyfriend, Ted, fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place.
As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories—these two women—something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.
Praised by The Washington Post as a “breathtaking, heart-breaking creation,” The Hand That First Held Mine is a gorgeous and tenderly wrought story about the ways in which love and beauty bind us together. It is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.
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Widowed photographer Cathryn McAllister travels to Iceland for a simple assignment and finds her carefully controlled life unraveling amid glaciers and glass.
The Color of Ice
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Widowed photographer Cathryn McAllister travels to Iceland for a simple assignment and finds her carefully controlled life unraveling amid glaciers and glass. Drawn to an enigmatic artist, she confronts passion, risk, and the possibility of loving deeply again. Set against Iceland’s stark beauty, The Color of Ice is an evocative novel of reinvention and choice from award-winning author Barbara Linn Probst.
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"Exquisite" (Lisa Barr, New York Times best-selling author of Woman on Fire) and "utterly engrossing" (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable ending.
Set among the glaciers and thermal lagoons of Iceland, and framed by the magical art of glassblowing, The Color of Ice is the breathtaking story of a woman's awakening to passion, beauty, and the redemptive power of unconditional love.
The stunning new novel by the author of award-winning novels Queen of the Owls and The Sound Between the Notes . . .
Cathryn McAllister, a freelance photographer, travels to Iceland for a photo shoot with an enigmatic artist who wants to capture the country's iconic blue icebergs in glass. Her plan is to head out, when the job is done, on a carefully curated "best of Iceland" solo vacation. Widowed young, Cathryn has raised two children while achieving professional success. If the price of that efficiency has been the dimming of her fire—well, she hasn't let herself think about it. Until now.
Bit by bit, Cathryn abandons her itinerary to remain with Mack, the glassblower, who awakens a hunger for all the things she's told herself she doesn't need anymore. Passion. Vulnerability. Risk. Cathryn finds herself torn between the life—and self—she's come to know and the new world Mack offers. Commitments await her back in America. But if she walks away, she'll lose this chance to feel deeply again. Just when her path seems clear, she's faced with a shocking discovery—and a devastating choice that shows her what love really is.
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Hired to archive a famed photographer’s legacy, Kate Aitken becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding Miranda Brand’s death.
Take Me Apart
Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Women's Fiction
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Hired to archive a famed photographer’s legacy, Kate Aitken becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding Miranda Brand’s death. As diaries surface and rumors sharpen, Kate’s own secrets blur the line between curiosity and obsession. Drawn deeper into a family defined by ambition and control, she risks unraveling herself entirely. Take Me Apart is a dark, atmospheric psychological thriller praised by major critics and marking a striking debut from Sara Sligar.
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"A juicy thriller" (Entertainment Weekly) ·"Absorbing" (USA Today) · "Dark and thoughtful" (Washington Post) · "Gratifying" (Wall Street Journal) · "Sun-soaked noir" (LA Review of Books)
A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense that follows a young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death as it threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity.
When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother's work and personal effects.
As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of Miranda's private life, she pieces together a portrait of a vibrant artist buckling under the pressures of ambition, motherhood, and marriage. But Kate has secrets of her own, including a growing attraction to the enigmatic Theo, and when she stumbles across Miranda's diary, her curiosity spirals into a dangerous obsession.
A seductive, twisting tale of psychological suspense, Take Me Apart draws readers into the lives of two darkly magnetic young women pinned down by secrets and lies. Sara Sligar's electrifying debut is a chilling, thought-provoking take on art, illness, and power, from a spellbinding new voice in suspense.
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame.
The Wish Collector
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Romance · Magical Realism · Women's Fiction
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Longing and isolation shape every page of The Wish Collector, where two wounded strangers form a connection across walls built by grief and shame. When Clara becomes drawn to the man hidden inside the ruins of Windisle Plantation, friendship slowly turns into something deeper and more fragile. This is an emotional romance with gothic atmosphere, tenderness, and the quiet ache of healing.
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New Orleans, a city of mystery and magic, of secrets and dreams, and a history drenched in both love and the deepest of heartache.
When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man. A scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.
The ruined man behind the wall hides himself from the world. The last thing he expects is to find a friend in the selfless girl who speaks to him through the cracks in the rock. The girl who keeps returning week after week. The girl who makes him wish for things he has long since given up on. The girl who strikes both fear and hope within his wounded heart. But there can be no future for them, no life beyond Windisle, for no one knows better than him that monsters only live in the dark.
The Wish Collector is the story of shame and triumph, of loneliness and love, and the miracle of two hearts connecting despite the strongest of barriers between them.
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives.
The Paris Network
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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In 1940 Paris, bookstore owner Laurence risks everything for the Resistance, her mission complicated by a downed Allied pilot and a secret that could cost lives. Decades later, Jeanne inherits a ruined French bookshop from a woman she’s never met, uncovering a pendant, a hidden history, and a legacy of courage. A moving, true-inspired story of loyalty, sacrifice, and love.
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Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of France.’
Sliding the coded message in between the crisp pages of the hardback novel, bookstore owner Laurence slips out into the cold night to meet her resistance contact, pulling her woollen beret down further over her face. The silence of the night is suddenly shattered by an Allied plane rushing overhead, its tail aflame, heading down towards the forest. Her every nerve stands on end. She must try to rescue the pilot.
But straying from her mission isn’t part of the plan, and if she is discovered it won’t only be her life at risk…
America, years later: when Jeanne uncovers a dusty old box in her father’s garage, her world as she knows it is turned upside down. She has inherited a bookstore in a tiny French village just outside of Paris from a mysterious woman named Laurence.
Travelling to France to search for answers about the woman her father has kept a secret for years, Jeanne finds the store tucked away in a corner of the cobbled main square. Boarded up, it is in complete disrepair. Inside, she finds a tiny silver pendant hidden beneath the blackened, scorched floorboards.
As Jeanne pieces together Laurence’s incredible story, she discovers a woman whose bravery knew no bounds. But will the truth about who Laurence really is shatter Jeanne’s heart, or change her future?
Inspired by true events, an epic and emotional novel about one woman’s strength to survive in the most difficult circumstances and the power of love in the face of darkness. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Lost Girls of Paris will be completely gripped from the very first page.
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier.
The Thread Collectors
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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In 1863, Stella secretly embroiders escape maps for enslaved men in New Orleans, risking her life and her forbidden love for a Black Union soldier. In New York, Lily sews quilts for the war effort before embarking south to find her missing husband. Their paths collide in a city shaped by danger, hope, and resistance. Praised for its emotional power and historical depth.
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“An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent—a true revelation!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star
“A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully stitched, The Thread Collectors will stay with you long after the last page is turned.” —Sadeqa Johnson, international bestselling author of Yellow Wife
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
Meanwhile, in New York City, a Jewish woman stitches a quilt for her husband, who is stationed in Louisiana with the Union Army. Between abolitionist meetings, Lily rolls bandages and crafts quilts with her sewing circle for other soldiers, too, hoping for their safe return home. But when months go by without word from her husband, Lily resolves to make the perilous journey South to search for him.
As these two women risk everything for love and freedom during thebrutal Civil War, their paths converge in New Orleans, where an unexpected encounter leads them to discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us. Loosely inspired by the authors' family histories, this stunning novel will stay with readers for a long time.
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