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Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction with witchcraft, intergenerational stories, and multiple timelines.
Weyward
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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Weyward connects the lives of three women across five centuries as Altha, Violet, and Kate confront restrictions placed on them while uncovering a family connection to the natural world and magic. Ideal for readers looking for historical fiction with witchcraft, intergenerational stories, and multiple timelines.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER
WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction)
An Indie Next March 2023 Pick • A LibraryReads March 2023 Pick • An Amazon "Best Books of the Year So Far" 2023 Pick
"A brave and original debut, Weyward is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft." ––Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The London Séance Society
I am a Weyward, and wild inside.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.
1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha, she knows it will take all her powers to maintain her freedom.
1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.
Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience.
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As the Nazis occupy Paris, Naneé, a daring and wealthy woman, joins the French Resistance.
The Postmistress of Paris
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
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As the Nazis occupy Paris, Naneé, a daring and wealthy woman, joins the French Resistance. Known as “The Postmistress,” she risks her life to help refugees escape. When she meets photographer Edouard Moss, a man fleeing with his daughter, their lives intertwine in a gripping story of love, courage, and survival in wartime.
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When German tanks invade Paris, Naneé, a wealthy and adventurous woman, refuses to stand by. With her flying skills and quick wit, she joins the French Resistance, earning the name “The Postmistress” as she bravely delivers crucial information to those in hiding.
Photographer Edouard Moss, fleeing Nazi Germany with his young daughter, finds himself trapped in a French labor camp. When their paths cross, Naneé risks everything to help Edouard and others escape to safety, as danger looms on all sides.
Inspired by real-life heiress Mary Jayne Gold, this sweeping tale of love and courage reveals a woman’s unwavering determination to save lives during one of history’s darkest times. Can Naneé outwit the enemy and keep hope alive in a world engulfed in war?
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Maya returns to Princeton for her sister Naomi’s graduation, only to find Naomi dead under suspicious circumstances.
Society of Lies
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Maya returns to Princeton for her sister Naomi’s graduation, only to find Naomi dead under suspicious circumstances. As Maya investigates, she uncovers dark secrets about the exclusive club they both joined, and realizes Naomi’s death may be tied to something from her own past—something Maya has tried to forget for years.
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Maya thought her past was buried—until her sister’s death forces her to confront it.
Returning to Princeton for her college reunion, Maya is excited to celebrate her little sister Naomi’s graduation. But her joy is shattered when Naomi is found dead. The police call it an accident, but Maya knows better.
Determined to uncover the truth, Maya discovers that Naomi had joined Sterling Club, the elite social club Maya once belonged to. As Maya digs deeper, unsettling connections emerge between Naomi’s death and a dark secret from Maya’s own time at Princeton.
The more she uncovers, the more Maya fears that Naomi’s fate is tied to a dangerous decision Maya made years ago—and now, the truth may come for her too.
Will Maya solve the mystery, or will her past destroy her?
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Charlie and Silas wake up one morning with no memory of their past—no first kiss, no love, no heartbreak.
Never Never
Literary Fiction
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Charlie and Silas wake up one morning with no memory of their past—no first kiss, no love, no heartbreak. As they work to unravel the mystery of their forgotten relationship, they begin to question everything they thought they knew about each other. But sometimes, remembering can be more terrifying than forgetting.
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Charlie and Silas were childhood sweethearts. Now, they can’t remember a thing about each other.
Once inseparable, Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash wake up one morning with no memories of their shared past. Their first kiss, their love, every moment they cherished—gone. Desperate for answers, they must work together to uncover the truth about their lost memories.
As they dig deeper, unsettling truths about their past relationship emerge, making them question why they were ever together at all. What was once a picture-perfect love story now feels like a haunting mystery they aren’t sure they want to solve.
Forgetting is terrifying—but remembering might destroy them.
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In a corporate-run future, a legendary hacker uncovers a digital virus that threatens both minds and language itself.
Snow Crash
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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In a corporate-run future, a legendary hacker uncovers a digital virus that threatens both minds and language itself. Racing through real and virtual worlds with a fearless courier, Snow Crash blends cyberpunk action with prophetic ideas, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and nearly 300,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Now featuring never-before-seen material, the “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary.
But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state).
Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.
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Humanity survives, but not on its own terms, when Lilith wakes aboard an alien ship after nuclear war.
Dawn
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Genetic Engineering · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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Humanity survives, but not on its own terms, when Lilith wakes aboard an alien ship after nuclear war. In Dawn, Octavia E. Butler builds a post-apocalyptic story around coercion, survival, and the cost of starting over. It fits readers drawn to cerebral science fiction that uses first contact, genetic change, and social tension to probe power, identity, and what remains of the human future.
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What if a city came to life?
The City We Became
Magical Realism · Literary Fiction · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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What if a city came to life? In The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin reimagines New York as a living, breathing force split across six avatars. With 4.3 stars on Amazon and Hugo-winning brilliance, this genre-bending urban fantasy blends mythology, magic, and resistance into an unforgettable love letter to a city under siege by forces beyond our world.
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Every great city has a soul. New York has six.
When Manhattan wakes up in the body of a confused young man, he realizes the city is alive—and it’s under attack. Across the boroughs, five others awaken to find strange powers coursing through them, each one embodying a piece of New York’s spirit. They are the avatars of the city, and together, they must fight to save it from a cosmic force threatening to erase it from existence.
From Harlem graffiti that speaks to your bones to subway echoes that carry more than sound, New York has never felt so alive.
The City We Became is a dazzling, genre-defying urban fantasy by three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin. This is the city’s story, told by the city itself.
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A wildfire reveals a secret world beneath the forest floor.
The Canopy Keepers
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color
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A wildfire reveals a secret world beneath the forest floor. Fire chief Syrah Carthan uncovers an ancient society divided between preservation and revenge, forcing her to choose between humanity and nature itself. The Canopy Keepers blends ecological fantasy with personal loss, earning 4.0 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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What happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? A female fire chief discovers an ancient world rooted with secrets that can save—or destroy—in the newest fantasy by Veronica G. Henry, author of Bacchanal.
Beneath the forest floor, they watch…
Syrah Carthan doesn’t know why she accepted a job as the first female fire chief at Sequoia National Park, where, decades earlier, a forest fire killed her parents. That day, her brother, Romelo, disappeared, as if pulled into the scorched earth itself. Syrah has always had an uncanny affinity for the natural wonders of the park she protects, but after she sanctions a prescribed burn that goes terribly wrong, she quits her position in disgrace.
However, when another devastating wildfire breaks out, Syrah, reluctantly pulled back into action, discovers an unknown world that has existed underground since the beginning of time. This secret society, built around the forest’s complex root system, is now divided into two factions. One is ruled by the Keeper, the giant sequoias’ benevolent caretaker. The other by a mysterious undoer, who’s determined to wage war on humanity. Through him, nature can retaliate and wipe out the earth’s careless ravagers for good.
Torn between human loyalty and preserving the delicate balance of nature, Syrah must make a choice—one that will change both her destiny and that of the world above and below forever.
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Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about alien contact, survival, identity, and the future of humanity.
Adulthood Rites
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Adulthood Rites follows Akin, the first true human-alien hybrid born after nuclear war nearly destroys humankind and the Oankali save the survivors at a cost. As humanity resists a forced future of genetic merging, Akin must reconcile his divided heritage and decide what both species may become, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,900 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about alien contact, survival, identity, and the future of humanity.
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From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future ... or is doomed to self-destruction.
In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost.The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion.
Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.
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Starting over on a new planet sounds great until the planet is paying attention.
Semiosis: A Novel
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Colonization · Speculative Fiction
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Starting over on a new planet sounds great until the planet is paying attention. Semiosis follows a colony of humans trying to survive, adapt, and communicate with a sentient alien species that may be far more powerful than they realize. Thoughtful, strange, and deeply human, this first contact story delivers big ideas, sharp worldbuilding, and the kind of sci-fi that cares just as much about people as it does the unknown.
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Human survival on another planet hinges on a bizarre alliance in this character-driven debut science fiction novel of first contact.
"Combines the world-building of Avatar with the alien wonder of Arrival, and the sheer humanity of Atwood. An essential work for our time." —Stephen Baxter, award-winning author of The Time Ships
Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life-form watches . . . and waits . . .
Can humans learn how to communicate with the planet's sentient species and forge an alliance to prove that humans are more than mere tools?
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Now a full Herald, Talia rides out to enforce justice across a fractured kingdom in this gripping sequel to Arrows of the Queen.
Arrow’s Flight
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Now a full Herald, Talia rides out to enforce justice across a fractured kingdom in this gripping sequel to Arrows of the Queen. Her psychic powers are both a gift and a threat. One misstep could destroy Valdemar. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Arrow’s Flight continues Mercedes Lackey’s iconic fantasy trilogy with danger, growth, and emotional depth.
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Talia has achieved what once felt impossible. She’s now a full Herald of Valdemar.
But with rank comes responsibility, and Talia’s first solo mission is more than a ceremonial ride. She’s tasked with patrolling the kingdom, upholding justice, and confronting unrest that simmers just beneath the surface of peace.
As she journeys through distant towns and unfamiliar territories, Talia must learn to trust her training and herself. Her psychic Gifts, once a source of promise, now pose a deadly risk if used carelessly. With each judgment she renders, the consequences ripple far beyond her intent.
The kingdom teeters on the edge of turmoil, and Talia stands between order and chaos. If she falters, she may doom the very realm she’s sworn to protect.
Is she ready to wield her power or be consumed by it?
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it's a must-read for fans of destiny, danger, and magical horses.
Arrows of the Queen
Fantasy · Coming of Age · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Chosen by a magical Companion, young Talia finds herself thrust into palace intrigue, psychic training, and a plot to protect the Queen’s heir. This beloved classic by Mercedes Lackey launched the Arrows trilogy and helped define '90s epic fantasy. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it's a must-read for fans of destiny, danger, and magical horses.
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Talia never asked for destiny, but it found her anyway.
When the mystical Companion Rolan chooses her, Talia goes from unwanted village girl to trainee Herald of Valdemar. Her days of dreaming about adventures are replaced with rigorous training, court politics, and a psychic bond with a sentient, horse-like creature who clearly knows more than he’s letting on.
But even as Talia begins to master her gifts, shadows creep through the kingdom. Treason stirs in quiet corners. Assassins lurk behind polished smiles. And the Queen’s heir—just a child—is in grave danger.
Now, Talia must navigate a web of magical conspiracies and deadly secrets with only her instincts and a few half-formed psychic abilities. One wrong move could cost the kingdom everything.
Can one runaway girl become the realm’s only hope?
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