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Catherine Hope remembers everything, except the year that changed her life.
Maria in the Moon
Literary Fiction
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Catherine Hope remembers everything, except the year that changed her life. Volunteering after a devastating flood, a buried memory resurfaces, unraveling the carefully constructed walls she’s built around herself. As the truth emerges, Catherine must confront the past she’s long forgotten—or risk losing everything she’s fought to protect.
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Catherine Hope remembers everything—except her ninth year.
At thirty-one, Catherine’s life is fractured by insomnia, a painful breakup, and an elusive memory from her childhood. Known for her sharp mind, she can’t recall why she once went by Catherine-Maria, or why love feels so distant. When a flood destroys her home, Catherine volunteers at a crisis center, only to have a long-buried memory resurface.
As this haunting truth emerges, it shatters her carefully built defenses, forcing her to confront a past she’s tried to forget.
Can Catherine face the truth of what happened, or will it destroy the life she’s tried to rebuild?
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In Victorian London, con artist Genevieve Timmons is offered a chance to escape the noose by staging a séance for a grieving lord.
A Dreadful Splendor
Literary Fiction
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In Victorian London, con artist Genevieve Timmons is offered a chance to escape the noose by staging a séance for a grieving lord. But when she arrives at Somerset Park, she learns he’s not seeking comfort—he’s hunting a killer. As eerie events begin to unfold, Genevieve wonders if the ghost she’s pretending to summon might be real.
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Be careful what you conjure...
In Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons makes a living as a fake spiritualist, preying on wealthy mourners—until one con goes wrong, landing her in jail and facing a death sentence. Her only hope? A strange offer from a servant of Mr. Pemberton, a grieving lord. If she can conduct a convincing séance to soothe his loss, she’ll earn her freedom.
But when she arrives at Somerset Park, Genevieve finds Pemberton isn’t mourning—he’s determined. Convinced his fiancée was murdered, he needs Genevieve’s talent for illusion to help expose the killer. Their plan: stage a haunting that will force the truth out. Yet, as eerie events unfold, it becomes clear that Genevieve’s tricks aren’t needed.
Is there a real ghost haunting Somerset, or something even darker?
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Eulabee and Maria Fabiola rule their San Francisco neighborhood—until a disagreement over what they saw one morning shatters their friendship.
We Run the Tides
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Eulabee and Maria Fabiola rule their San Francisco neighborhood—until a disagreement over what they saw one morning shatters their friendship. When Maria Fabiola mysteriously disappears, fears of a kidnapping rock the community. Set in pre-tech boom San Francisco, We Run the Tides is a captivating story of secrets, adolescence, and the fragile bonds of friendship.
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Eulabee and her best friend, Maria Fabiola, rule the streets of Sea Cliff, their San Francisco neighborhood. They know every hidden corner, each eccentric character, and together, they’re unstoppable. But one morning, they witness something disturbing—or maybe they don’t. When Eulabee and Maria Fabiola disagree on what they saw, their friendship fractures.
Shortly after, Maria Fabiola disappears without a trace, sparking fears of a kidnapping and sending shockwaves through the community. As rumors swirl, secrets begin to surface, threatening to reveal the fragile truths beneath the neighborhood’s calm facade.
Set in a pre-tech boom San Francisco, We Run the Tides captures the intensity of adolescence, where one moment can change everything. But did Eulabee see what she thought she did, or is there more to the story?
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A family’s history spreads across generations like roots, carrying damage, guilt, and the stubborn instinct to survive.
Greenwood
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A family’s history spreads across generations like roots, carrying damage, guilt, and the stubborn instinct to survive. In Greenwood, Michael Christie traces one lineage through environmental collapse, inherited wealth, buried crime, and fractured love, building a literary saga where forests and family history feel inseparable. It fits readers looking for sweeping multigenerational fiction with emotional weight, structural ambition, and a strong ecological undercurrent.
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A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.”—The New York Times Book Review
It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests. It’s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It’s 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father’s once vast and violent timber empire. It’s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades.
And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie’s effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
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Editor Susan Ryeland receives a seemingly typical murder mystery from bestselling author Alan Conway.
Magpie Murders
Literary Fiction · Historical Mystery
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Editor Susan Ryeland receives a seemingly typical murder mystery from bestselling author Alan Conway. But as she reads, hidden clues suggest something far more sinister is at play—both in the book and in real life. Uncovering the truth could solve more than just fiction, but it might put her in danger.
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When editor Susan Ryeland receives Alan Conway’s latest manuscript, she expects another classic mystery featuring his famous detective, Atticus Pünd. But as she dives into the murder at Pye Hall, something feels off. The familiar dead bodies and suspects are there, yet the deeper she reads, the more she suspects there’s another story lurking behind the fiction—one of real-life danger.
Susan's job depends on navigating Conway’s erratic behavior, but this time, his book may hold more than a mystery on the page. As secrets unravel, she begins to see disturbing connections between the novel and reality, leading her down a path far more dangerous than any cozy English village crime.
Can Susan solve the puzzle hidden in the manuscript before it’s too late? Or is she the next victim in a real-life plot?
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Set in the untamed Florida Everglades, Peter Matthiessen’s reimagined epic follows the notorious outlaw E. J. Watson.
Shadow Country
Literary Fiction
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Set in the untamed Florida Everglades, Peter Matthiessen’s reimagined epic follows the notorious outlaw E. J. Watson. As Watson’s violent legacy grows, the line between justice and vengeance blurs, leading to a gripping showdown. Matthiessen masterfully weaves a story of ambition, guilt, and survival in a hostile frontier.
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On the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, sugar planter and outlaw E. J. Watson casts a shadow over the Everglades. Peter Matthiessen’s epic trilogy—Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—has been masterfully reimagined into a single, powerful narrative.
E. J. Watson’s violent reign terrorizes the region, but as his story unfolds, so does the complexity of a man driven by ambition, vengeance, and survival. As the community's fear grows, the line between justice and retribution blurs, leading to a dramatic and inevitable confrontation.
In this new version, Matthiessen deepens his characters' motivations, creating a richly woven tale of power, guilt, and the wild human spirit. Will Watson’s legacy be one of terror—or something far more elusive?
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Sally, a runaway teen, and Liss, a solitary woman in her forties, form an unlikely friendship on a remote farm.
Tasting Sunlight
Literary Fiction
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Sally, a runaway teen, and Liss, a solitary woman in her forties, form an unlikely friendship on a remote farm. As they work the land together, their shared connection begins to heal the deep emotional wounds they each carry, revealing the quiet power of acceptance, nature, and unexpected companionship.
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Teenager Sally has just escaped from a clinic treating her for anorexia, determined to shut out the world. Liss, in her forties, lives alone on a remote farm, with little need for anyone. When Sally arrives, Liss offers her a place to stay with no questions asked.
What starts as a one-night refuge turns into months of quiet companionship as these two wounded souls form an unlikely bond. Together, they face their inner darkness while working the land, gradually healing through their connection to each other and the natural world.
Can their friendship mend the wounds of their pasts, or will the shadows they carry prove too deep to overcome?
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In Civilizations, Laurent Binet reimagines history with a bold twist: what if the Incas conquered Europe?
Civilizations
Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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In Civilizations, Laurent Binet reimagines history with a bold twist: what if the Incas conquered Europe? After capturing Columbus’s ships, Inca Emperor Atahualpa arrives in a divided, war-torn Europe. Armed with Machiavelli’s The Prince, he seizes the opportunity to shape the future of the continent—and the world.
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What if history took a different path? In Civilizations, Laurent Binet reimagines the modern world with a surprising twist: an Incan emperor conquering Europe.
The novel begins with Freydis, a Viking warrior, exploring new lands before disappearing into history. Fast forward to 1492—Christopher Columbus sails for the Americas, but he and his men are captured by Incas. Years later, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe with Columbus’s ships, finding a continent ripe for revolution.
Armed with Machiavelli’s The Prince, Atahualpa navigates a divided Europe, setting the stage for a clash of empires that will reshape the world.
Will Europe fall under the rule of the Incas?
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Fate names one child for greatness and another for nothing, but survival refuses to follow the script.
She Who Became the Sun
Historical Fiction · Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Alternate History · Asian Fiction
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Fate names one child for greatness and another for nothing, but survival refuses to follow the script. In She Who Became the Sun, a peasant girl takes her dead brother’s identity and begins a ruthless climb toward the destiny meant for him. This historical fantasy blends war, ambition, and reinvention into a sweeping story of power, identity, and hunger for more.
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"Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
"A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
“I refuse to be nothing…”
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…
In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.
When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.
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When survival turns reproduction into law, choice becomes a liability.
The Fertile Ones
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Women's Fiction
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When survival turns reproduction into law, choice becomes a liability. In a near-future United States reshaped by pandemics, The Fertile Ones follows Ara Murphy, a woman forced into a state-run fertility program that claims to protect humanity while stripping bodily autonomy. This dystopian novel centers on control, compliance, and resistance, unfolding through invasive systems, defiance, and the psychological cost of survival.
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Ara Murphy never wanted to be a mother, but the law is clear. She’s fertile, which means her body belongs to the human race.
It’s the year is 2067, and the world has been ravaged by pandemics. The population has dwindled, and fertile women are a rare and valuable commodity. In hopes of preserving our species, the United States has passed the Fertility Act, forcing all women to be screened. Participation in the program is supposed to be straightforward. Three years, one baby, then freedom.
But as Ara navigates the complex and invasive procedures within the program, she’s plagued by questions. Is the government really looking out for the good of the people, or do they have hidden motives? And how much more can they take from her in the name of survival?
Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, Station Eleven, The Power, and Vox, this dystopian tale of courage and bravery will keep you turning pages!
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Alma Schindler dreams of composing music in Vienna’s vibrant artistic world.
Ecstasy
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Alma Schindler dreams of composing music in Vienna’s vibrant artistic world. But when she falls in love with renowned composer Gustav Mahler, he demands she abandon her passion for their marriage. Caught between love and ambition, Alma’s struggle becomes a powerful story of self-discovery and artistic identity.
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In a world of art and genius, Alma Schindler must choose between love and ambition.
Young Alma Schindler dreams of becoming a composer in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where creative possibilities for women are just beginning to bloom. But when she falls for famed composer Gustav Mahler, he demands she abandon her music for marriage.
Torn between her passion and the man she loves, Alma must navigate a world that expects women to sacrifice their dreams. As she grapples with her identity, Alma's journey becomes a powerful tale of ambition, love, and self-discovery.
Will Alma surrender her art, or will she find a way to claim both her voice and her heart?
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Wes Carver returns to Black River carrying the weight of his past—his wife’s ashes and news that the man who once held him hostage may soon go free.
Black River
Literary Fiction · Thriller
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Wes Carver returns to Black River carrying the weight of his past—his wife’s ashes and news that the man who once held him hostage may soon go free. The trauma shattered his life and stole his music. Now, he must decide if forgiveness is possible or if the wounds run too deep.
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Wes Carver returns to Black River, Montana, with two burdens: his wife’s ashes and a parole board letter. The man who held him hostage during a violent prison riot is up for release.
Once a correctional officer who found solace in playing the fiddle, Wes’s world was shattered by the riot. The trauma stole not only his faith but also his ability to make music. Now, with his past resurfacing and the convict seeking freedom, Wes faces a brutal choice—whether to forgive the man who broke him or let bitterness consume him.
As the parole hearing looms, Wes must confront the scars that bind him to that fateful day.
Will Wes find peace, or will his unresolved pain keep him trapped in the past?
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