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A Forbidden Alchemy
Stacey McEwan
Romantasy
A childhood escape into magical power becomes a war neither heart nor history will leave untouched.

A Forbidden Alchemy
Stacey McEwan
Romantasy
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A childhood escape into magical power becomes a war neither heart nor history will leave untouched. In A Forbidden Alchemy, Nina and Patrick carry the same dangerous secret into opposing sides of a class revolution, where elemental magic, buried grief, and old loyalty collide. This slow-burn romantasy blends political unrest with fated connection and a choice that could reshape an entire world.
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This stunning slow-burn romantasy follows a fated pair who uncover a world-changing secret and are thrust into a violent class war, navigating love, loss, and devastating betrayals.
Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to discover their magical potential. Those who pass Belavere’s test will become Artisans, wielders of powerful elemental magic destined to fulfill the city’s grand ambitions. For Nina, the Artisan School symbolizes a dream and an escape from her harsh reality, while Patrick yearns to return to his Craftsman family, whose extraordinary physical strength serves the idium mines keeping the city alive.
And then they uncover a devastating truth: Artisans aren’t born, they’re chosen. They part ways on very different paths, leaving them to carry the burden of this secret alone.
In the years that follow, a Craftsman revolution ignites, thrusting Nina and Patrick into opposing factions of a brewing war. Now an elite Artisan with the very rare talent for charming earth, Nina has turned her back on the fight, haunted by the loss of her found family. But fate intervenes when she is captured by Patrick’s rebel group. Despite the years and conflict that separates them, Patrick hasn’t forgotten Nina. He desperately seeks her help for a mission that could shift the tides against Belavere City. Reluctantly, she agrees, battling the sparks flying between them. But when Nina’s first love reappears, asking her to betray Patrick for the sake of the Artisans, Nina faces an impossible choice that could alter the fate of their world.
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Banyan Moon
Thao Thai
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for…

Banyan Moon
Thao Thai
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Women's Fiction
Our take
Banyan Moon begins with a death that brings three generations of grief, resentment, and inheritance back under one roof. As Ann returns to Florida, she faces her estranged mother, Huơng, the crumbling Banyan House, and the secrets left behind by Minh, making this a strong fit for readers drawn to layered family dramas about mothers, daughters, migration, and the past’s long reach.
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A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
"A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle
"Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington Post
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.
Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann’s childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who’s always held them together.
Running parallel to this is Minh’s story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House’s attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond.
Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction about grief, obsession, identity, and the consequences of a single life-altering event.

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
Our take
Called a novel that “connects with the heart as well as the mind” by Stephen King in The New York Times Book Review, The Goldfinch follows 13-year-old Theo Decker after an accident kills his mother and a small painting draws him into the worlds of wealth, antiques, and the art underworld, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 131,800 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction about grief, obsession, identity, and the consequences of a single life-altering event.
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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
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The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
Readers who enjoy large-scale space opera, time-bending mysteries, and philosophical science fiction should find plenty to like here.

The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
Our take
A Locus Award winner called “One of the finest achievements of modern science fiction” by The New York Times Book Review, The Fall of Hyperion continues the story as the Time Tombs open and war spreads around Hyperion. The pilgrims’ fates, the Shrike, and humanity’s future converge, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 52,000 Amazon reviewers. Readers who enjoy large-scale space opera, time-bending mysteries, and philosophical science fiction should find plenty to like here.
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LOCUS AWARD WINNER • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos.
“One of the finest achievements of modern science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
The shadow of war has fallen on the Web. In the corridors of power on Tau Ceti Center, chaos reigns. Out of reach from the clashing empires, the artificial intelligences of the TechnoCore manipulate everyone and everything. And on Hyperion itself, where battle rages in the skies and on the streets, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing—nothing anywhere in the universe—will ever be the same.
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Shadow Falls
Wendy Dranfield
Mystery · Thriller
Shadow Falls begins with a missing twelve-year-old girl and a detective who knows too much about the cost of losing a child.

Shadow Falls
Wendy Dranfield
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural
Our take
Shadow Falls begins with a missing twelve-year-old girl and a detective who knows too much about the cost of losing a child. Madison Harper enters a shaken lakeside community where delayed alarms, a disturbing drawing, and family secrets complicate the search for Jenny Lucas. This crime thriller pairs a vulnerable child investigation with personal stakes, buried danger, and a case that keeps tightening.
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‘Absolutely amazing!… It’s a rollercoaster of a read. I absolutely loved it… actually made me scream NOOOOO out loud!... I didn’t want to put it down… addictive.’ Between The Pages Book Blog, 5 stars
The little girl drags her eyes open, realizing she’s starting to fade. Using all her remaining strength, she tries calling out for help. But she’s too late and her voice just isn’t loud enough…
Detective Madison Harper’s heart shatters when she searches the bedroom of twelve-year-old Jenny Lucas, the sweet little girl last seen splashing in the lake at Shadow Falls, northern California, with her friends before she vanished. A notebook decorated with stickers pokes out beneath a pink cowboy hat on the bed, which is neatly made up, ready for her return. Madison can’t help wondering why it took their close-knit community so long to raise the alarm.
The girl’s parents are distraught, and the local police have no leads—they desperately need Madison’s help. She knows better than most what it’s like to lose a child, and she won’t let it happen again, even if that means pressing Jenny’s grieving family for answers.
Then, canvassing the local area for hidden leads, Madison discovers a disturbing portrait Jenny drew at the local library. Was this angelic girl more troubled than anybody knew? Was she in danger from those she trusted most? If Madison’s instincts are right, then the life of another innocent child could also be at risk—she must find Jenny fast…
An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller that will keep you up all night! Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Melinda Leigh.
Everyone is talking about Shadow Falls:
‘Wow, wow, wow!... A read-all-night page-turner of the highest order… I was hooked from page one… I was kept guessing until the very end.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
‘Wow!… Awesome!… I was on the edge of my seat… getting whiplash from reading so fast!!’ Barbs Beautiful Bookshelf, 5 stars
‘I LOVED THIS BOOK!… I was hooked… It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through… so many twists and turns that keep you guessing.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
‘Wow, just wow.’ Spooky's Maze Of Books, 5 stars
‘Wow… an absolutely thrilling read… unpredictable and brilliant. I LOVED IT!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
‘OH MY DAYS!!!!… Gah, I am still thinking about this book!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
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Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Biographies & Memoirs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir follows her from a strict childhood through civil war, forced marriage, asylum, political life, and public threat, making this a powerful fit for readers…

Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Biographies & Memoirs
Our take
Infidel traces a life shaped by obedience, violence, exile, and the dangerous cost of refusing to stay silent. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir follows her from a strict childhood through civil war, forced marriage, asylum, political life, and public threat, making this a powerful fit for readers drawn to memoirs about survival, conviction, women’s rights, and personal transformation.
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In this political memoir, one of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament.
Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced.
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering women’s rights advocate. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.
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The Borrowed World Box Set
Franklin Horton
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
The Borrowed World Box Set, Volume One follows a prepared man forced to test every survival plan when coordinated attacks collapse America’s infrastructure.

The Borrowed World Box Set
Franklin Horton
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
Our take
The Borrowed World Box Set, Volume One follows a prepared man forced to test every survival plan when coordinated attacks collapse America’s infrastructure. Jim Powell is stranded hundreds of miles from his family as power, fuel, communication, and public order fail around him. This post-apocalyptic survival series focuses on family, preparedness, moral pressure, and the violence required when the rules of society disappear.
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This special box set edition of The Borrowed World Series contains the full text of books 1-3 of the bestselling series: The Borrowed World, Ashes Of The Unspeakable, and Legion Of Despair. Across audio, paper, and ebook this series has garnered tens of thousands of 4 and 5 star reviews.
If society fell apart, could your family survive? Jim Powell thought he was ready. He was a regular guy who travelled a lot for work and hated every second he was away from his young family. But when ISIS operatives unleashed a coordinated attack on America’s infrastructure, his entire world shattered. The electrical grid collapsed, communication networks were damaged, critical bridges and dams were destroyed, and major fuel refineries have gone up in massive fiery clouds.
Now, with an Executive Order halting fuel sales to the public, Jim Powell finds himself in a terrifying predicament. He's trapped hundreds of miles away from his family, and with thousands of stranded travelers and scarce law enforcement across the country, the miles between Jim and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of a civilized society no longer apply.
Jim is a prepper with years of planning under his belt, but as he puts his preparations to the test, he soon finds that training for a societal collapse is very different from actually experiencing one. If Jim wants to make it back to his family in one piece, he'll need to find the strength and brutality to meet this new, dangerous world head-on--even if it means rising to unimaginable levels of violence.
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A History of Wild Places
Shea Ernshaw
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
A History of Wild Places turns a missing-person case into a descent through isolation, folklore, and the fragile stories people tell to survive.

A History of Wild Places
Shea Ernshaw
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
Our take
A History of Wild Places turns a missing-person case into a descent through isolation, folklore, and the fragile stories people tell to survive. When Travis Wren tracks a vanished author to a hidden commune called Pastoral, he disappears too, leaving three residents to question the rules that keep them sealed inside. This atmospheric thriller blends mystery, psychological unease, and dark fairy-tale tension.
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In this “riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way” (Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author), three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders.
Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend.
Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.
Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis’s abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there’s a risk of bringing a disease—rot—into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn’t as safe as they believed—and that darkness takes many forms.
“As spine-chilling as it is beautifully crafted” (Ruth Emmie Lang, author of Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance), A History of Wild Places is a story about fairy tales, our fear of the dark, and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind.
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
Horror · Indigenous Fiction
My Heart Is a Chainsaw follows a horror-obsessed outcast who reads her town like a slasher movie long before the bodies start to appear.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
Horror · Indigenous Fiction
Our take
My Heart Is a Chainsaw follows a horror-obsessed outcast who reads her town like a slasher movie long before the bodies start to appear. Jade Daniels uses masked killers and final girls to make sense of trauma, isolation, and a place built on buried violence. This literary horror novel blends bloody genre homage with grief, rage, Indigenous displacement, and the desperate need to belong.
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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in the rollicking, bloody first novel of The Indian Lake trilogy by the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
“Some girls just don’t know how to die…”
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.
Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
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Runaway Bride and Prejudice
Emma St. Clair
Romance · Sports Romance
Runaway Bride and Prejudice starts with a cheating groom, a ruined wedding, and the hockey bad boy who makes the worst possible moment even messier.

Runaway Bride and Prejudice
Emma St. Clair
Romance · Sports Romance
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Runaway Bride and Prejudice starts with a cheating groom, a ruined wedding, and the hockey bad boy who makes the worst possible moment even messier. Van knows better than to get involved with the coach’s daughter, but one runaway trip and one secret bargain blur every line he planned to keep. This closed-door sports romcom leans into forced proximity, forbidden feelings, and sweet romantic fallout.
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There's one rule smart hockey players know not to break: never, and I mean, NEVER date the coach's daughter. But no one ever accused Van of being smart.
When the mouthy bad boy of the Appies catches the groom cheating on the coach's daughter, he can't just walk away. Not on her wedding day.
Maybe his own relationships are casual, but he would never cheat and never treat wedding vows so carelessly. Not after he and his sisters watched their divorced parents cycle through marriage after marriage.
But forcing the groom to come clean sets off a chain reaction Van couldn't have expected.
Ending with a black eye, an unexpected trip to Florida with one runaway bride, and a secret bargain struck with Coach.
A bargain that may just jeopardize the very real and very inconvenient feelings he's developing for the very last person he ever should.
Runaway Bride and Prejudice is a closed door hockey romance featuring the team bad boy and a very good girl who also happens to be the coach's daughter. It's a sports romance with all the sizzle and swoon, but no spice.
This is part of the Appies hockey romance series, featuring Just Don't Fall, Absolutely Not in Love, a Groom of One's Own, and Romancing the Grump. These books are standalones but may be best read in order.
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Queen of the Night
Kaylee Jarvis
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy
Queen of the Night turns forbidden trust into a dangerous kind of magic as a hidden woman and a desperate king chase the same impossible salvation.

Queen of the Night
Kaylee Jarvis
Epic Fantasy · Romantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Queen of the Night turns forbidden trust into a dangerous kind of magic as a hidden woman and a desperate king chase the same impossible salvation. Vera wants freedom from the secrets that could get her killed, while Ikar needs the Black Tulip power she is hiding. Their uneasy alliance gives this slow-burn epic fantasy romance its pull: duty, betrayal, shadow monsters, and feelings neither of them can afford.
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A king risking all for his kingdom. A woman in hiding with the magic he needs. When duty requires betrayal… which side do you choose?
Vera
It’s not easy being a Black Tulip… masquerading as an Originator so I’m not murdered by the kings. All I want is to escape the secrets I’m buried in—but that requires money. So when my handsome bounty offers me a tempting contract that pays so well it could set me free… I can’t resist accepting.
I simply need to help find a magic flower for the king, survive the savage shadow monsters, and return home without falling further for the man I don’t fully trust. I prepared myself for the dangers found on the journey, but nothing prepares me for the moment I find out who my bounty really is…
Ikar
I search for two things to save my kingdom: a woman marked as a Black Tulip, and the black tulip flower that will bridge our magic. Sounds simple… except I can’t find either one, time is running out, and my heart is at risk of being captured by a woman I can never have.
I contracted Vera to join my team as an Originator to search for the flower, but the secrets and forbidden feelings between us threaten to destroy our already perilous mission. It’s not long before we’re forced to confront the truth behind the many secrets we carry when a formidable enemy arises that we never saw coming.
Queen of the Night is the second book in a no-spice, slow-burn, enemies-to-loves epic fantasy romance series for fans of Shari Tapscott and Kenley Davidson.
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Unorthodox
Deborah Feldman
Biographies & Memoirs
Unorthodox traces a young woman’s struggle to imagine freedom inside a world designed to control her choices, body, and future.

Unorthodox
Deborah Feldman
Biographies & Memoirs
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Unorthodox traces a young woman’s struggle to imagine freedom inside a world designed to control her choices, body, and future. Deborah Feldman recounts her upbringing in the Satmar Hasidic community, her early marriage, and the private reading life that helped her see another path. This is memoir shaped by identity, constraint, and the cost of self-determination.
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Now a Netflix original series!
Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.
Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down.
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