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A dormant lighthouse awakens, igniting rumors in Seabrook.
The Lighthouse
Contemporary Romance · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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A dormant lighthouse awakens, igniting rumors in Seabrook. For Amy, a fleeting visit turns into a transformative journey after meeting Ryan, a man with secrets tied to the eerie glow. Their connection deepens as the lighthouse beckons, its secrets threatening to unravel everything. Can love survive when the truth changes everything?
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The dormant Seabrook lighthouse, famously haunted and dark for decades, has inexplicably come to life. Its eerie glow stirs gossip and unease, but Amy Tucker isn’t here to investigate—she’s only passing through. Then she meets Ryan, the rugged, loyal son of a ranch owner, and their unexpected connection transforms a fleeting visit into a life-altering weekend.
As their bond deepens, Amy uncovers layers of Ryan’s past that leave her reeling. The answers she seeks lie within the ominous lighthouse itself—a place shrouded in secrets and peril. Stepping inside may reveal why their lives have collided… but it could also unleash truths too devastating to face.
Will Amy risk it all to uncover the light’s mystery, or will the shadows consume her and Ryan forever?
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Santiago, a shepherd driven by dreams of hidden treasure, embarks on an extraordinary journey across deserts and into the unknown.
The Alchemist
Literary Fiction
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Santiago, a shepherd driven by dreams of hidden treasure, embarks on an extraordinary journey across deserts and into the unknown. Guided by omens and wise strangers, he discovers that the pursuit of his destiny holds riches far greater than gold. In a world brimming with mysticism and self-discovery, will Santiago uncover the treasure he seeks—or the truth within himself?
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Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd, dreams of finding a treasure buried far beyond his homeland. Guided by cryptic omens and a restless heart, he leaves his familiar world behind, embarking on a journey filled with mysticism, danger, and profound discovery.
As he crosses deserts and meets mysterious guides, Santiago uncovers lessons about love, purpose, and the true nature of wealth. His quest transforms into more than a search for gold—it becomes a journey to understand himself and the universe’s deepest secrets.
In this timeless tale of courage and self-discovery, Santiago’s story reminds us of the power in pursuing our dreams. But will he find the treasure he seeks, or something far greater along the way?
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In 1551 Guatemala, Catalina de Cerrato risks everything to preserve her mother's forbidden Maya legacy.
Daughter of Fire
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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In 1551 Guatemala, Catalina de Cerrato risks everything to preserve her mother's forbidden Maya legacy. Her secret quest to save sacred stories collides with her father’s iron rule and a dangerous love. Will she reclaim her people’s truth—or sacrifice her heart and future to do so?
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Catalina de Cerrato lives in a dangerous balance, caught between two worlds in 1551 Guatemala. Her father, a Spanish overlord, enforces colonial rule with an iron hand, while her late mother’s Maya heritage whispers through sacred vows Catalina cannot ignore.
When she discovers the lost stories of the K’iche’ people, now forbidden by Spanish decree, she risks everything to commit them to memory. Each step of her mission takes her deeper into peril, as secrets and shadows close in around her.
As her father’s tyranny escalates and her love for a rebellious Spanish lord threatens her mission, Catalina must navigate treacherous alliances and an unraveling legacy. Will she preserve her people’s history, or will her quest destroy everything she loves? One choice will determine the fate of her family—and her soul.
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In a forgotten Dublin house, Mary Kate Ryan builds a refuge for lost women, finding love and purpose along the way.
The Irish Boarding House
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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In a forgotten Dublin house, Mary Kate Ryan builds a refuge for lost women, finding love and purpose along the way. But a hidden secret about her past threatens to unravel everything she’s worked for. Will Mary Kate’s dream survive the truth?
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Dublin, 1952: A neglected house, a hidden past, and a woman searching for her place in the world. Mary Kate Ryan’s chance inheritance unlocks secrets that could shatter her fragile hope.
Abandoned as a baby, Mary Kate grew up longing for answers and belonging. Now an unexpected windfall from the mother who left her ignites new questions—and old pain.
Drawn to a crumbling house in Merrion Square, Mary Kate sees more than decay. She imagines a haven for women like herself—alone but yearning for connection. With each brick she restores, she builds a refuge for the lost and broken, including a pregnant girl on the run and two orphaned sisters.
But when a mysterious guest reveals a devastating secret about Mary Kate’s mother, the fragile foundation of her new life is threatened. Can she uncover the truth without losing everything?
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Ideal for readers looking for multigenerational historical mysteries built around family secrets, an old crime, and dual timelines.
Homecoming
Literary Fiction · Historical Mystery
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A New York Times bestseller, journalist Jess returns to Sydney when her grandmother falls ill and discovers a true crime book about an unresolved 1959 tragedy with a disturbing connection to her own family, with a 4.1-star average from more than 121,900 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for multigenerational historical mysteries built around family secrets, an old crime, and dual timelines.
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The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia.
Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital.
At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event – a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.
An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today.
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Two women’s lives, a century apart, intertwine on Floreana Island.
Floreana
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Two women’s lives, a century apart, intertwine on Floreana Island. In the Galápagos’ fragile beauty, secrets surface and deceptions unfold. On the Galápagos Islands is a tale of desperate love, betrayal, and survival, where paradise reveals its most dangerous truths.
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On the remote Floreana Island, two women’s lives—separated by a century—collide through secrets, deception, and desperate love.
In the present day, Mallory returns to the Galápagos to help revive the endangered penguin population alongside Gavin, her former mentor and lover. But her real reason for coming back is a truth she can’t share. When she stumbles upon journals buried in a lava cave, Mallory unearths the confessions of Dore Strauch, a woman who fled to the island in 1929 seeking freedom with her lover.
For Dore, paradise was fleeting as new arrivals shattered her sanctuary. For Mallory, the past threatens to rewrite her future. On Floreana, beauty and danger intertwine—and survival comes at a cost.
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Longing lingers across generations, binding the living to the spirits of the past.
The Grass Dancer
Literary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction · Magical Realism
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Longing lingers across generations, binding the living to the spirits of the past. In The Grass Dancer, Mona Susan Power traces intertwined lives on a North Dakota reservation, where love, betrayal, and family history shape both wound and redemption. Moving between eras and perspectives, the novel blends everyday realism with spiritual presence. A lyrical, character-driven story about inheritance, resilience, and the fragile work of healing.
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Inspired by the lore of her Sioux heritage, this “captivating”(New York Times Book Review) critically-acclaimed novel from Mona Susan Power weaves the stories of the old and the young, of broken families, romantic rivals, men and women in love and at war...
Set on a North Dakota reservation, The Grass Dancer reveals the harsh price of unfulfilled longings and the healing power of mystery and hope. Rich with drama and infused with the magic of the everyday, it takes readers on a journey through both past and present—in a tale as resonant and haunting as an ancestor's memory, and as promising as a child's dream.
WINNER OF THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL
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In 1930s Paris, art becomes both salvation and weapon as Julian Klein, a passionate painter, navigates a volatile world of creativity and betrayal.
Fugitive Colors
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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In 1930s Paris, art becomes both salvation and weapon as Julian Klein, a passionate painter, navigates a volatile world of creativity and betrayal. Amid a web of forbidden love, dangerous rivalries, and political destruction, Julian must fight to protect his craft and his soul. When passion turns deadly, how far will he go for art?
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Passion ignites. Betrayal destroys. Art becomes the ultimate weapon.
As Hitler's war threatens to erase the avant-garde, Julian Klein, an idealistic American painter, finds himself an unlikely spy in a battle for creative freedom. Drawn to 1930s Paris, Julian befriends two fellow artists: magnetic but mediocre Felix von Bredow and the brilliant yet doomed Rene Levi.
When love and ambition collide, secrets unravel, and Julian’s devotion to art leads him into a dangerous web of betrayal, rivalry, and revenge. Adrienne, Rene’s muse and Julian’s forbidden love, and Charlotte, a muse capable of unmaking men, push the trio to their breaking points.
In a world where art can inspire or destroy, how far will Julian go to protect his passion—and survive its perilous cost?
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When Nicky receives an unexpected gift from her estranged mother, memories of a childhood reckoning on a remote, wind-swept island resurface.
Beneath the Wild Fig Tree
Literary Fiction
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When Nicky receives an unexpected gift from her estranged mother, memories of a childhood reckoning on a remote, wind-swept island resurface. Torn between the tang of the ocean and the weight of the past, she must confront secrets that ripple through time. Can she reconcile the fragments of her life, or will the past consume her?
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Nicky’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel when a surprise gift from her estranged mother dredges up haunting memories of a childhood reckoning.
Years earlier, her family’s move to a remote, bird-filled island marked a turning point—one she’s never fully escaped. A single falling gum leaf signaled the start of her unravelling, a moment that echoes into adulthood.
Now, a phone call in 2000 and the mysterious gift challenge Nicky to confront the past she’s worked so hard to bury. As her story unfolds across Sydney, Adelaide, and Tasmania, she must navigate the tangled connections between memory, place, and self.
Will she find the strength to piece herself back together, or will the past pull her deeper into its grasp?
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Vivian Quackenbush’s perfect life shatters when her husband of 25 years announces he’s done—and never liked her chicken salad.
Nobody’s Perfect
Literary Fiction
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Vivian Quackenbush’s perfect life shatters when her husband of 25 years announces he’s done—and never liked her chicken salad. In a moment of heartbreak-fueled defiance, she posts a video that makes her an overnight sensation. As her life spirals into chaos, Vivian must navigate fame, family, and the thrilling possibility of starting over.
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Vivian Quackenbush thought she had it all: a stable marriage, a son in college, and dreams of an empty-nester future with her husband, Mitch. But her world crumbles when Mitch announces he wants a divorce—and, by the way, he’s never even liked her chicken salad.
Devastated but defiant, Vivian channels her heartbreak into a fiery, off-the-cuff online video. Overnight, she’s a viral sensation, sparking everything from media frenzy to her son’s embarrassment and her ex-husband’s fury. Amid the chaos, Vivian faces a choice: retreat into her old life or embrace the whirlwind of Vivian 2.0.
With newfound fame, unexpected attention from her charming single dad neighbor, and the world watching, Vivian must decide who she truly wants to be.
What happens when reinvention becomes your greatest adventure?
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When two boys vanish near the treacherous Manawatu Gorge, weary soldier Frank Hardy is drawn into a perilous search that stirs the ghosts of his past.
Not the Faintest Trace
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Mystery
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When two boys vanish near the treacherous Manawatu Gorge, weary soldier Frank Hardy is drawn into a perilous search that stirs the ghosts of his past. Haunted by an unspeakable army atrocity and his brother’s disappearance, Frank uncovers deadly secrets in the New Zealand bush, where every step risks betrayal, violence, and redemption.
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Two missing boys. A deadly threat lurking in the New Zealand bush. And a soldier haunted by his past must choose between safety and justice.
Sergeant Frank Hardy, a disillusioned veteran of the Māori Wars, lives a quiet life as a coachman. But when two settlers disappear near a perilous gorge, his routine shatters. Though reluctant to act, memories of his brother’s disappearance and a dark army secret push him into the search.
Frank’s quest reveals more than missing boys—it unearths tensions in the immigrant community, rumors of a tattooed warrior, and shadows from his own violent past. As danger rises, the stakes intensify with the arrival of a spirited young woman determined to help.
Can Frank find the boys and protect them, or will the ghosts of his past destroy his future?
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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life.
The Vegetarian
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Yeong-hye’s quiet act of defiance—renouncing meat—shatters the fragile order of her life. As family members try to reassert control, their actions grow increasingly grotesque, pushing her to the brink of estrangement from everyone, including herself. Haunting and visceral, her journey explores the limits of autonomy, identity, and the cost of rebellion.
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Before the nightmares, Yeong-hye’s life was ordinary, defined by routine and control. But when vivid, violent dreams invade her mind, she decides to renounce meat—a seemingly small rebellion that disrupts her marriage and fractures her family.
Her husband and relatives see her defiance as a threat, escalating their efforts to dominate her choices. As Yeong-hye clings to her independence, their intrusions grow increasingly grotesque, turning her life into a battleground of will and identity.
Her mental and physical boundaries blur under the weight of their desperation, pushing Yeong-hye into an alienating and dangerous estrangement—not just from her family, but from herself.
As her rebellion spirals into obsession, the question remains: is she breaking free, or unraveling entirely?
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