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This fits readers who want political suspense with psychological pressure and a structurally ambitious edge.
The Clockwork Spy
Thriller
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Suspicion closes in from every side in The Clockwork Spy, a literary espionage thriller built on secrets, betrayal, and a life unraveling in reverse. CIA officer Helena Deane must prove she is not the traitor the FBI believes she is, even as the investigation draws in her husband and exposes a conspiracy tied to multiple deaths. This fits readers who want political suspense with psychological pressure and a structurally ambitious edge.
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This fits readers who want gothic tension, dangerous chemistry, and high-stakes magic.
Seance
Romance · Gothic Romance
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Death is already part of the performance in Seance, a paranormal romance where hidden power and rising desire turn every lie into a risk. Vivian makes her living faking séances while concealing her real necromancy, but a violent supernatural threat forces her into close quarters with an immortal bodyguard who makes her want more than survival. This fits readers who want gothic tension, dangerous chemistry, and high-stakes magic.
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She talks to the dead for money. He kills the living for free.
Vivian Smith has built a comfortable life on fake séances and theatrical lies, keeping her real necromancy carefully hidden.
One spirit refuses to be ignored, shattering her barriers with visions of an ancient evil called the Architect—and now every supernatural force in London wants a piece of her power.
Dominic Ashworth, her Midnight Society assigned bodyguard, is immortal, lethal, and entirely too good at making her forget why falling for a man forged from shadows is a terrible idea.
He's supposed to keep her alive. Instead, he's making her want to live—really live—for the first time in years.
The threats escalate. The chemistry burns hotter. Vivian's carefully constructed walls are crumbling, both around her heart and her power. Someone needs to stop the Architect before he completes his resurrection. Someone needs to survive long enough to do it.
Can love bloom in the space between life and death? Or will embracing her true power cost Vivian everything—including the immortal shadow wielder who's claimed her heart? Pick up this haunting paranormal romance where the deadliest danger isn't what waits in the shadows, but who.
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This fits readers who want queer YA horror with survival stakes and an eerie, sea-soaked atmosphere.
The Cove
Urban Fantasy · Horror · Teen + Young Adult
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A remote farm, a vanished guardian, and one unforgettable night by the sea turn The Cove into a folk horror story steeped in isolation and dread. After being sent to a reform program in coastal Maine, Lindsay finds brief freedom on a nearby island until missing memories, strange tokens, and mounting disappearances reveal something far more sinister waiting in the water. This fits readers who want queer YA horror with survival stakes and an eerie, sea-soaked atmosphere.
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Midsommar meets Fear Street in this modern, sea-soaked folk horror debut about fighting to survive, and fighting to be yourself.
Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Weinberg has just gotten kicked out of another prep school, and has consequently found herself shipped to her Uncle Levi's farm in the cold, isolated town of Marbury, Maine.
When Lindsay arrives at a big, old farmhouse miles from civilization, she is greeted by her uncle’s new wife, a goy with a little too much Jesus decor for Lindsay’s taste—with Uncle Levi mysteriously away on a business trip. Not only that, but Lindsay isn’t the only teen staying there. In fact, there is a small group of teens going through some kind of reform program. Up at dawn. Manual labor all day. No phones, computers or tablets.
Things start to feel hopeless until Lindsay meets the twins, Phin and Cass. They live on an island off the Peninsula’s coast—and they have internet. Lindsay convinces the others at Haven House to sneak out for a party on the island, and the night is incredible. At least…what they can remember of it. All of them wake up in their beds with sea-shell mementos, no memory of how they got home, and wicked hangovers. All of them except one. And as the disappearances and mysteries pile up, Lindsay and the others realize that they have become involved in a terrifying fight to survive, before the Cove claims them all.
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On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas.
Wild Dark Shore
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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On a failing island at the edge of the world, a stranger’s arrival unsettles a family already living under the weight of isolation, grief, and rising seas. In Wild Dark Shore, a mysterious woman washes ashore as secrets begin to surface among the last caretakers of a remote seed bank. This novel blends atmospheric tension, emotional intimacy, and ecological dread into a story about trust, survival, and the cost of protecting what remains.
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REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB'S BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, TIME, USA Today, The Economist,Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest,BuzzFeed, BookRiot, HuffPost, Jezebel, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus, and more!)
"A breathtaking novel of ROMANCE, MYSTERY, AND TWISTS that will shock you...I love this book so much." —Reese Witherspoon
"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel
“Absolutely ASTONISHING. McConaghy's writing knocks me over every time.” —Fredrik Backman
“SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane.” —Washington Post
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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A life shaped by insecurity, reinvention, and stubborn endurance turns unexpectedly moving in the hands of someone who has spent decades behind unforgettable faces.
Easy Street
Biographies & Memoirs
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A life shaped by insecurity, reinvention, and stubborn endurance turns unexpectedly moving in the hands of someone who has spent decades behind unforgettable faces. In Easy Street (the Hard Way), Ron Perlman traces his path from a difficult New York upbringing to a long, hard-won career in Hollywood, reflecting on craft, self-image, and survival along the way. This memoir offers behind-the-scenes insight, emotional honesty, and the perspective of a working actor who kept going.
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The engaging, passionate, always-honest, and often-hilarious memoir of actor Ron Perlman--his triumphant story of perseverance and determination navigating the slippery slopes of Hollywood, with a foreword by Guillermo del Toro
Ron Perlman was a kid who had a myriad of self-image issues, yet he triumphed in an industry that trades on image and self-confidence. He landed a leading role in Quest for Fire. He won a Golden Globe for Beauty and the Beast. And he played the title role in two Hellboy movies, becoming along the way an icon among sci-fi and comic book fans worldwide.
Although his name may be unknown to some, most people know Ron Perlman's face, despite the fact that for nearly half his career he's been disguised under feature-altering foam-rubber prosthetics. On his offbeat path to success, Ron has amassed nearly 200 stage, TV, voiceover, and major motion picture credits, including roles in Drive, Pacific Rim, and a six-year gig as the badass biker boss Clay Morrow in Sons of Anarchy.
In Easy Street (the Hard Way), Ron shares his life story, starting with his up-by-your-bootstraps background in New York's Washington Heights. His father, a Swing Era drummer, gave up his dream in order to feed his sons while his mother worked as a municipal clerk. Ron's hard-earned road to Easy Street included bouts of abject poverty, heartbreaking familial episodes, and a long, often uncomfortable struggle for self-acceptance.
He sheds light on his life as a working actor and also offers behind-the-scenes insight into the working styles of internationally famous directors, including Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy and Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth). He provides his own peek into Hollywood, up close and personal, where he has encountered the likes of Marlon Brando, Sean Connery, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and others. Plus, he turns his eye on the trajectory of American culture--the good and the bad--as observed by a man who started out in a mom-and-pop world where the arts were disseminated by individuals rather than corporations.
Easy Street (the Hard Way) will inspire anyone who has ever dared to dream and offers a roadmap to the next generation of dreamers.
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions.
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions. In We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Adam Paskow joins a secret archive and finds himself pulled toward love, duty, and an unbearable moral choice. This historical novel is marked by intimate witness, quiet courage, and the human cost of survival under Nazi occupation.
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From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).
On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls?
Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ?
Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.
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Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about identity, humanity, and the fate of interstellar societies.
Slow Gods
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Space Opera
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Called “Deeply imaginative and achingly human” by Megan E. O’Keefe, this space opera follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a pilot who dies in deep space and returns as something not quite human, against the backdrop of a supernova that destroys planets and civilizations. Best for readers who like philosophical science fiction about identity, humanity, and the fate of interstellar societies.
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Best of the Year at Gizmodo, Library Journal, and more!
"An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time
Slow Gods is the galaxy-spanning tale of one man's impossible life charted against the fate of humanity amongst the stars—a powerfully imaginative space opera from multi-award-winning author Claire North, perfect for fans of A Memory Called Empire and The Vanished Birds.
My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.
In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind.
Here is one truth: out there in deep space, in the pilot's chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me.
This is the story of the supernova event that burned planets and felled civilizations. This is also the story of the many lives I've lived since I died for the first time.
Are you listening?
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This fits readers who want post-apocalyptic fiction with military thriller energy, relentless action, and a ruthless family bond.
The Mad Mick Box Set Volume 1
Dystopian · Military Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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In The Mad Mick Box Set Volume 1, survival is brutal, personal, and fueled by a father’s capacity for vengeance. As the apocalypse shatters the country, Conor Maguire and his daughter seem prepared for anything until she is taken and his violent past becomes the story’s deadliest weapon. This fits readers who want post-apocalyptic fiction with military thriller energy, relentless action, and a ruthless family bond.
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Consistently hitting the top of the charts in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Military Thriller, The Mad Mick Series has garnered thousands of reviews from readers who can't get enough of this character. He's the guy you want on your side in a fight. He's the friend who can make you laugh until you cry. He's the last man on earth you want to cross.
This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the series:
- The Mad Mick
- Masters of Mayhem
- Brutal Business
“Rock-solid characters, buzz-saw action and backstories deserving of books of their own. Amazing...”
For a hardened assassin and his snarky daughter, navigating the apocalypse is little more than business as usual. They have food, weapons, top-notch gear, and connections in the darkest holes of the special operations community. Just don't cross them because hell hath no fury like the Maguires.
Conor Maguire nearly lost his daughter when she was three years old, injured by the drunk driver who killed his wife. When the justice system failed him, Conor retaliated against the driver in dramatic and gruesome fashion.
An ironclad alibi prevented the police from pinning the murder on Conor. His actions didn't go unnoticed though. A covert agency within the US government recruited the talented young bomber and machinist. For over twenty-five years, Conor designed and built custom weapons of death and destruction at his secluded compound in the mountains of Virginia.
When a series of devastating terror attacks brought down the United States, Conor and Barb assumed they were safe in their compound. They had everything they needed. They were armed and highly trained. Then Barb was kidnapped.
The kidnappers didn’t know why Conor was known as The Mad Mick. They didn’t know the fear and respect his name invoked in the shadowy underworld of covert operations. They didn’t know that when it came to protecting his family, he was without conscience, without compassion, and without equal.
But they would soon find out.
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A city built on old violence starts to buckle when something ancient stirs beneath its streets.
The Gutter Prayer
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Grim Dark · Historical Fantasy
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A city built on old violence starts to buckle when something ancient stirs beneath its streets. In The Gutter Prayer, three young thieves get swept into a brutal struggle shaped by saints, sorcerers, and long-buried powers as their loyalty and survival are pushed to the edge. This epic fantasy stands out for its grimy city setting, dark inventiveness, and the sense that every secret comes with blood on it.
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"The Gutter Prayer is captivating and complex. Guerdon is a city that seethes with history, horror, and hidden secrets" (Nicholas Eames).
A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.
Enter a city of saints and thieves . . .
The city of Guerdon stands eternal. A refuge from the war that rages beyond its borders. But in the ancient tunnels deep beneath its streets, a malevolent power has begun to stir.
The fate of the city rests in the hands of three thieves. They alone stand against the coming darkness. As conspiracies unfold and secrets are revealed, their friendship will be tested to the limit. If they fail, all will be lost, and the streets of Guerdon will run with blood.
"A groundbreaking and extraordinary novel . . . Hanrahan has an astonishing imagination" (Peter McLean).
The Gutter Prayer is an epic tale of sorcerers and thieves, treachery and revenge, from a remarkable new voice in fantasy.
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This fits readers who want suspense with heart, character growth, and real emotional weight.
Dark Ride
Thriller · Mystery
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A drifting young man stumbles into a situation that demands more courage than he knows he has in Dark Ride, a literary thriller driven by danger and moral urgency. When Hardly Reed realizes two children are being abused, he cannot look away, even as his search for proof pulls him toward violent criminals and impossible choices. This fits readers who want suspense with heart, character growth, and real emotional weight.
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FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE!
From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride
Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need
Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions.
Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they’re okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids.
He reports the incident to Child Protective Service.
That should be the end of it. After all, Hardly's not even good at looking out for himself so the last thing he wants to do is look out for anyone else. But he's haunted by the two kids, his heart breaking for them. And the more research he does the less he trusts that Child Protective Services —understaffed and overworked—will do anything about it.
That leaves…Hardly. He is probably the last person you’d ever want to count on. But those two kids have nobody else but him. Hardly has to do what's right and help them.
For the first time in his life, Hardly decides to fight for something. This might be the one point in his entire life, he realizes, that is the entire point of his life. He will help those kids.
At first, trying to gather evidence that will force the proper authorities to intervene, Hardly is a total disaster. Gradually, with assistance from unexpected allies, he develops investigative skills and discovers he’s smarter and more capable than he ever imagined.
But Hardly also discovers that the situation is more dangerous than he ever expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children isn’t just a lawyer—he also runs a violent drug-dealing operation. The mother claims she wants to escape with the kids—but Hardly isn't sure he can trust her.
Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.
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This fits readers who want literary horror that feels transgressive, character-driven, and steeped in menace.
Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Horror · Occult Horror
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Bodies, belief, and desire blur into something feverish in Are You Loathsome Tonight?, a horror collection drawn to the grotesque and the intimate. Set largely against the haunted atmosphere of New Orleans, these stories move through murder, sex, death, and religion with sharp intensity. This fits readers who want literary horror that feels transgressive, character-driven, and steeped in menace.
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Tales of "fearlessly offbeat" horror from the author of Lost Souls and Exquisite Corpse (Locus).
Poppy Z. Brite, an acclaimed horror fan favorite, is known for going to the edge and back—and this collection of stories, many set against the backdrop of the author's native New Orleans, explores the outermost regions of murder, sex, death, and religion.
Featuring titles such as "In Vermis Veritas," "Entertaining Mr. Orton," and "Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz," as well as collaborations with Christa Faust and David Ferguson, this volume also offers notes on each story by the author, an introduction by #1 NewYork Times–bestselling author Peter Straub, and an afterword by Caitlín R. Kiernan. Are You Loathsome Tonight? is an edgy, gruesome tour of "the darkness at the heart of things [with] a number of superb stories, powerful in style and characters" (Locus).
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This fits readers who want romantic fantasy with celestial forces, emotional stakes, and a haunting sense of inevitability.
The Book of Heartbreak
Romantasy
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A curse turns love into a countdown in The Book of Heartbreak, a fantasy romance shaped by grief, fate, and dangerous desire. After her mother’s death leaves her one heartbreak away from dying, Sare travels to Istanbul to uncover the truth behind her curse. This fits readers who want romantic fantasy with celestial forces, emotional stakes, and a haunting sense of inevitability.
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FROM BOOKTOK AND BOOKSTAGRAM SENSATION OVA CEREN: A Middle Eastern legend gets a magically romantic modern makeover perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
A young woman must find a way to end the curse on her heart before it claims her forever in this delightfully witty fantasy romance.
Sare Silverbirch has already had her heart broken three times. A fifth heartbreak will stop her heart forever. Such is the nature of the curse she was born under, which forces her to live a life without letting anyone get too close.
When her mother dies unexpectedly and her heart breaks for the fourth time, Sare begins to urgently question the curse. Where did it come from? Why her? And rather than accept it, could there be a way to break it?
Her questions lead her to Istanbul, where she meets Leon, a seer who helps her track down the mysteries of her mother’s past. But Sare’s heart is a fragile thing, and their blossoming romance poses a great risk to her survival. Especially when she discovers that her fate is in the hands of celestials beyond this earthly realm.
Now the heavens are stirring, for they have a stake in Sare’s destiny—and they don’t like their plans being overturned.
The Book of Heartbreak is a dazzling, haunting romantasy sure to break—and mend again—the hearts of readers everywhere.
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