Categories: Fiction

Before We Were Us

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<p>She can’t remember. He can’t forget.</p><p>When Lauren Wentworth wakes up in the hospital after falling from a ladder, she has</p><p>more questions than answers. Way more. She knows where she is—the wilds of New</p><p>Hampshire. But she’s apparently lost the last four months of her life. Is she really</p><p>contemplating forfeiting her big-city dream job for a position at a rustic resort? And</p><p>how did her number one nemesis become her adoring boyfriend?</p><p>Jonah Landry is crushed to learn Lauren has forgotten their entire summer together.</p><p>Terrified of losing her for good, he determines to help her remember their deep</p><p>connection as she finishes her obligation to the resort. But soon it becomes apparent</p><p>Lauren doesn’t want to remember falling in love with him or rethinking the entire</p><p>course of her career. She wants to pretend the summer never happened and move on</p><p>with her life. Without him.</p><p>As Lauren falls back into the steady routines of resort work with Jonah, she’s relieved</p><p>her memories haven’t returned and remains resolute about her big-city future. But as</p><p>autumn leads into winter, she begins to see glimpses of the Jonah she’s forgotten. Will</p><p>she be able to resist the steady love of this patient man? Or is her heart destined for</p><p>its own freefall?</p><p>1. Charming contemporary romance</p><p>2. Book length: approximately 83,000 words</p><p>3. Stand-alone novel</p><p>4. Includes discussion questions for book clubs</p>

Animal Farm

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<p>The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones-he's drunk, reckless and</p><p>cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans,</p><p>the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is</p><p>overthrown. But as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance</p><p>to the tyrants they have overthrown ... George Orwell's renowned fable became an</p><p>instant success on publication after the Second World War. The novel has continued to</p><p>captivate readers of all ages and has secured Orwell's position as one of the great</p><p>writers of the twentieth century.</p>

Gabriel Allon (24) A Death in Cornwall

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The Story Collector

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<p>An evocative and charming novel full of secrets and mystery, from&nbsp; the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop</p><p>In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything…</p><p>One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life.</p><p>In New York in the present day, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets – secrets that tread the line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen.</p><p>With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Woods's latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to tell.</p>

The Au Pair Affair

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<p>Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also</p><p>twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly</p><p>single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get</p><p>paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but</p><p>introverted tween.</p><p>Her tween charge isn’t the only one who could use some help fitting in, though.</p><p>According to…well, everyone except Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating</p><p>scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him how. But as boundaries are</p><p>slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her</p><p>parents back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed,</p><p>and Tallulah does the “right” thing—breaks her own heart and walks away.</p><p>Though Burgess knows it’s for the best—he’s too jaded, with too much baggage—a</p><p>chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on</p><p>the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever</p><p>after with Tallulah.</p>

Toward Eternity

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<p>In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The</p><p>body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells which not only</p><p>cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal.</p><p>Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a</p><p>living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband.</p><p>When Yonghun—himself a recipient of nanotherapy—mysteriously vanishes into thin air</p><p>and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What</p><p>happened to Yonghun, and though he’s returned, is he really himself anymore?</p><p>When Dr. Beeko, the scientist who holds the patent to the nanotherapy technology,</p><p>learns of Panit, he transfers its consciousness from the machine into an android body,</p><p>giving it freedom and life. As Yonghun, Panit, and other nano humans thrive—and</p><p>begin to replicate—their development will lead them to a crossroads and a choice with</p><p>existential consequences.</p><p>Exploring the nature of intelligence and the unexpected consequences of progress, the</p><p>meaning of personhood and life, and what we really have to fear from technology and</p><p>the future, Toward Eternity is a gorgeous, thought-provoking novel that challenges the</p><p>notion of what makes us human—and how love survives even the end of that</p><p>humanity.</p>

My Parents' Marriage

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<p>Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family.</p><p>Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father—and tries to be a different kind of wife from her mother.</p><p>But when Kokui and her husband leave Ghana to make a new life for themselves in America, she finds history repeating itself. Her marriage failing, she is called home to Ghana when her father dies. Back in her childhood home, which feels both familiar and discomforting, she comes to realize that to exorcize the ghosts of her parents’ marriage she must confront them to enable her healing.</p><p>Tender and illuminating, warm and bittersweet My Parents’ Marriage is a compelling story of family, community, class, and self-identity from an author with deep empathy and a generous heart.</p>

The Road to the Salt Sea

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<p>As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.</p><p>Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel’s overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess.</p><p>But Able’s ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himself—a journey that leads him into the desert with a group of drug-addled migrants, headed by a charismatic religious leader calling himself Ben Ten. The travelers’ dream of reaching Europe—and a new life—is shattered when they fall prey to human traffickers, suffer starvation, and find themselves on the precipice of death, fighting for their lives and their freedom.</p><p>As Able God moves into the treacherous unknown, his consciousness becomes focused on survival and the foundations of his beliefs—his ideas about betterment and salvation—are forever altered. Suspenseful, incisive, and illuminating, The Road to the Salt Sea is a story of family, fate, religion, survival, the failures of the Nigerian class system, and what often happens to those who seek their fortunes elsewhere.</p>

Midnight Rooms

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<p>Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh voice in the genre that will leave you questioning who, or what, you can trust . . . including your own sanity.</p><p>England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman—an outsider with no fortune or connections—Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.</p><p>The new bride is quickly whisked away to Korringhill Manor, the Blakersby family estate, and far from everything she knows. Expecting splendor, Orabella is shocked to find decay, skittish servants, and curt elders. But her kind new husband’s loving touch, promises of a happy life together, and his assurances she’ll never want for anything soothe her concerns.</p><p>Yet there is a darkness deep within this house. Rooms are locked or hidden away, and the walls seem to thrum with secrets. Orabella can never venture outside unattended; she spends her days having tea with a catatonic sister-in-law and evenings at Elias’s side, dutifully hosting lavish dinners. The darkness soon begins to engulf her, too. Becoming dizzy and drowsy after dinner, she falls into a fitful sleep filled with macabre dreams, and is awakened by blood-curdling screams in the night. In the morning she rises from her bed covered in mysterious bruises. Confused and terrified, she begins to question where her dreams end and reality begins. The longer Orabella stays in this place, the more she loses parts of herself . . . how long until she no longer exists?</p><p>Midnight Rooms is a sweeping saga with supernatural undertones set in Victorian England. Vibrating with tension, richly atmospheric—haunted by ghosts, guilt, and familial bonds—it is an electrifying story that will linger in your dreams.</p>

The Villain Edit

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<p>Emily Henry meets Fleabag...and The Bachelor! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cynical romance novelist who goes on a&nbsp; reality show to revive her career, only to discover that while she may have just met the love of her life, the producers have turned her into the show’s villain.</p><p>“The perfect beach read…a real page-turner. Don’t be surprised if you finish it in one day!”--In Touch Magazine</p><p>“Fun and frothy... endlessly entertaining.”--Glamour</p><p>Good villains make good TV.</p><p>Romance novelist Jacqueline Matthis’s big career has gone bust and she’s ditched the bright lights of New York City for her more affordable South Carolina hometown. Desperate, Jac dreams up a comeback plan—she is going to be a contestant on the 1, the most obsessively watched reality dating show in the world.</p><p>After all Jac is a romance writer—she knows how to pull off a meet-cute and create a spicy plotline.</p><p>On set, Jac quickly establishes herself as a front-runner for bachelor Marcus’s heart, but she’s shocked to discover who’s actually pulling the strings. How was she to know that Henry Foster, her last one-night stand before the show, was actually a longtime producer on the 1? Henry is just as horrified…but they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other.</p><p>As Jac plays the game and the show unfurls, she slowly discovers that she’s getting the villain edit. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but as Jac’s secret plan begins crumbling around her, she’s not so sure. What happens if Marcus chooses her? Worse, what happens if her affair with Henry comes to light? What if, in trying to save her career, Jac has ruined her life?</p><p>Heartbreaking, smart, and sexy, this novel is for anyone who has ever secretly rooted for—or felt like—the villain.</p><p>“THE VILLAIN EDIT is perfect for people who, like me, love mess. I devoured it in one sitting and was left with a total book hangover—it’s the ideal combination of propulsive psychological thrill and delicious romantic tension.”--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six</p><div><br></div>