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On the verge of motherhood, a woman is forced to confront the mother who vanished from her life decades earlier.
The Last Time I Saw You
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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On the verge of motherhood, a woman is forced to confront the mother who vanished from her life decades earlier. In The Last Time I Saw You, Georgie and her estranged brother follow the trail of their missing mother across Scotland, uncovering a family history shaped by abandonment, grief, and long-buried pain. A reflective emotional mystery with strong family tension at its core.
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She’s waiting to become a mother—but first she has to find her own.
Weeks away from the birth of her first child, Georgie should be enjoying the peace of her new life in the country, but boredom has settled in and nerves are running high. A viral news story about the rescue of a missing child warms her heart until she sees the photo: the woman who found the child is her own mother, Nancy, who disappeared twenty years ago.
How could Nancy have abandoned her own children? Georgie needs to know before becoming a mother herself, even if it means calling on her estranged brother Dan for support. As the siblings set off on a road trip towards the Scottish island where Nancy was last seen, they don’t yet know that her side of the story has just as much heartache as their own.
Caught between her new life and old secrets, Georgie must make peace with the past. Can she and Dan unite to uncover the truth? And can piecing together Nancy’s story fix their broken family—or are some wounds too deep to heal?
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Sadie and her daughter Lauren get lost in Yosemite, facing a battle for survival against the wilderness.
Dancing with the Sun
Literary Fiction
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Sadie and her daughter Lauren get lost in Yosemite, facing a battle for survival against the wilderness. Haunted by a tragic past, Sadie must confront her deepest fears and find the strength to protect them both, before the unforgiving wilderness takes its toll.
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When Sadie Harlan visits her daughter Lauren at her Yosemite internship, it’s a chance to escape her failing marriage and empty nest. But a short hike takes a deadly turn when the two get lost, forcing them into a fight for survival against harsh wilderness conditions.
As they battle exhaustion, injury, and natural predators, Sadie faces deeper emotional scars. Years ago, she lost her first child in a tragic accident, and the guilt has haunted her ever since. Pushing everyone away—including her husband—she now has to confront her past and learn to forgive herself.
With her daughter’s life on the line, Sadie must summon every ounce of courage to protect them both. Will they survive, or will the wilderness claim them?
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Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro uncovers the hidden history of her family’s powerful women, shunned by their town for a "curse." As she learns of their resilience, Alice discovers her…
The Curse of the Flores Women
Literary Fiction
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Eighteen-year-old Alice Ribeiro uncovers the hidden history of her family’s powerful women, shunned by their town for a "curse." As she learns of their resilience, Alice discovers her own strength to confront female oppression and forge a future shaped by her ancestors' legacy.
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Alice Ribeiro, a rebellious 18-year-old, fights against female oppression in Brazil and the strained relationship with her mother. But when she inherits a family veil, Alice is drawn into uncovering the hidden history of the women in her lineage.
Seven generations ago, the Flores women were shunned by their small town, accused of carrying a “curse” that left them unlucky in love. They forged their own path, mastering the art of lacemaking to survive. Yet, their peace was soon threatened by forces beyond their control.
As Alice uncovers her family’s past, she finds strength in the resilience of the women who came before her. But will she be able to carry their fight forward and change her own fate?
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Michael, lost after his wife leaves, and Marnie, stuck after a bitter divorce, are forced together on a ten-day hike.
You Are Here
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Michael, lost after his wife leaves, and Marnie, stuck after a bitter divorce, are forced together on a ten-day hike. What begins as the worst idea turns into an unexpected journey toward healing, self-discovery, and maybe even a second chance at happiness.
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Michael is lost, wandering the English countryside after his wife leaves, avoiding the emptiness of his life. Marnie is stuck, hiding in her London flat, recovering from a bitter divorce and a life that feels stagnant.
When an insistent friend and unexpected weather push them together for a ten-day hike, neither could imagine anything worse. But with each step, they realize they might be finding what they’ve been missing all along.
As they navigate this life-changing journey, both Michael and Marnie stand on the edge of a new beginning—if they can survive the trip.
Will this chance encounter help them find the way back to themselves and to each other?
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A strong match for readers drawn to gritty historical crime fiction, family loyalty, and morally complicated characters.
Small Mercies
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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A New York Times bestseller praised by Stephen King as “thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment,” this crime thriller follows Mary Pat Fennessy as she searches for her missing teenage daughter in 1974 Boston. Her investigation draws her into the city's criminal underworld amid escalating racial tensions, with a 4.3-star average from more than 79,700 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to gritty historical crime fiction, family loyalty, and morally complicated characters.
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen King
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
In the summer of 1974, a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart in this piece of gritty crime fiction.
One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.
The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a mother's desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.
Set against the hot, tumultuous months of the Boston busing crisis, when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.
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In posh Thornfield Estates, Jane builds a life—and a romance with widower Eddie Rochester—while hiding who she really is.
The Wife Upstairs
Thriller · Domestic Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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In posh Thornfield Estates, Jane builds a life—and a romance with widower Eddie Rochester—while hiding who she really is. But Eddie’s late wife, Bea, casts a long shadow, and Thornfield is full of secrets that refuse to stay buried. As the past resurfaces, Jane must decide: can she have her happy ending, or will Bea’s ghost win?
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Jane is new to Birmingham, Alabama, barely scraping by as a dog-walker in the posh, gated community of Thornfield Estates. Surrounded by wealth, Jane quietly steals from her well-off clients, hoping no one notices—or questions who she really is. Everything changes when she meets Eddie Rochester, a handsome, mysterious widower whose wife, Bea, tragically drowned in a boating accident.
As Jane falls for Eddie, she sees the chance for the life she’s always wanted. But the shadow of Bea, a successful and ambitious woman, looms over their romance. Jane can't help but wonder: how can she ever compete with Bea's perfect legacy?
As secrets unravel, Jane must confront both her past and Eddie's—because in Thornfield Estates, nothing stays buried for long.
Will Jane get her happy ending, or will Bea's ghost win?
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When Iris finds herself mistaken for her missing twin, Summer, she seizes the chance to live her sister’s perfect life.
The Girl in the Mirror
Literary Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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When Iris finds herself mistaken for her missing twin, Summer, she seizes the chance to live her sister’s perfect life. But with a fortune at stake and secrets lurking beneath the surface, how far will she go to keep the truth buried—and what really happened to Summer?
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Iris and Summer are identical twins, but beneath their striking resemblance lies a darkness that separates them. Insecure and cynical, Iris has always envied Summer’s charmed life—especially her perfect husband, Adam. When Iris is called to Thailand to help sail the family yacht, she sees an opportunity to change everything.
But when Iris finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean, everything shifts. Upon reaching land, Adam mistakes her for Summer—and Iris doesn't correct him. With her sister gone, Iris steps into Summer’s life, complete with wealth, glamour, and a hundred-million-dollar inheritance at stake.
As Iris teeters between her dream life and a growing paranoia, one question remains: what really happened to Summer on that yacht?
Only Iris knows, and she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.
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As WWII rages, the Littlefield siblings are scattered across Europe’s deadliest fronts.
After Dunkirk
Literary Fiction
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As WWII rages, the Littlefield siblings are scattered across Europe’s deadliest fronts. Jeremy fights to survive in enemy territory, while Lance leads a dangerous sabotage mission. Claire works at Bletchley Park, cracking codes to save lives, and Paul navigates MI-6’s shadowy world. Each faces impossible choices in a war that could tear them apart.
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From the beaches of Dunkirk to the secrets of MI-6, the Littlefield siblings find themselves at the heart of World War II’s most perilous moments. Jeremy hides for his life on enemy-occupied shores, while his brother Lance leads a daring sabotage mission across Europe. In England, their sister Claire decodes German messages at Bletchley Park, trying to save her brothers. Meanwhile, Paul, the eldest, navigates the shadowy world of MI-6, burdened with secrets he cannot share.
As the war tightens its grip, the Littlefields fight on separate fronts, each facing life-or-death decisions that could change the course of history.
Will they survive the war, or will the cost of victory be too great?
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary naval fiction, wartime adventure, moral conviction, and mature romance.
The Oceans and the Stars
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Near the end of a decorated career, Navy captain Stephen Rensselaer is assigned to command a doomed prototype warship after making an enemy of the president. As he falls in love with lawyer Katy Farrar and embarks on a mission involving seven battles, mutiny, and court martial, his duty and conscience are tested, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 2,800 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary naval fiction, wartime adventure, moral conviction, and mature romance.
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Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love.
A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral.
Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy.
As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial. In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel that extolls the virtues of living by the laws of conscience, decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short of a masterpiece.
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Something is wrong in the house at the end of the street, but the truth stays just out of reach.
The Last House on Needless Street
Domestic Fiction · Horror · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Suspense
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Something is wrong in the house at the end of the street, but the truth stays just out of reach. In The Last House on Needless Street, a grieving neighbor, a fractured man, and a trapped girl circle a secret buried deep in the woods. This psychological horror novel builds its dread through isolation, damaged memory, and a constant sense that nothing on the page is quite what it seems.
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"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King
Named one of the Best Horror Books of All Time (Esquire and Cosmopolitan) • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel • An Indie Next Pick • A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick • A Library Journal Editors' Pick
Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.
A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
“The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough
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Good for readers who want literary fiction with a strong first-person voice, social realism, and a modern David Copperfield frame.
Demon Copperhead
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Time Travel
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A New York Times bestseller called “a voice for the ages” by Beth Macy, Demon Copperhead follows a resilient boy in southern Appalachia as he faces foster care, poverty, addiction, love, loss, and the struggle to be seen, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 152,000 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want literary fiction with a strong first-person voice, social realism, and a modern David Copperfield frame.
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WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022 * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * A #1 Washington Post Bestseller
"Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient." —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
"May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." (Ron Charles, Washington Post)
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
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When Monique’s girlfriend Donna disappears, she uncovers rumors of a monster stalking the city’s underground.
The Worm and His Kings
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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When Monique’s girlfriend Donna disappears, she uncovers rumors of a monster stalking the city’s underground. Determined to save her, Monique descends into a hidden world filled with cultists and ancient horrors. As she ventures deeper, she realizes the terror she’s facing is far older and darker than she ever imagined.
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When Monique’s girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace, she’s left with nothing but questions—and a growing fear.
As more women from the city's underbelly disappear, Monique hears chilling whispers of a taloned creature lurking in the dark. Donna isn’t just missing; she’s been taken. Determined to rescue her, Monique descends into a terrifying, hidden world beneath the city.
What she finds is far worse than she imagined—a labyrinth ruled by cultists and shadowy creatures, with a darkness that stretches back to the dawn of time. The deeper Monique goes, the closer she comes to losing herself.
Will she save Donna, or will this ancient terror consume them both?
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