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RUNNER-UP FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda--a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane--as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A "symphony of beauty and heartbreak"...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime... 'Ferociously smart and full of surprises...

Those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again FUNNY, UPLIFTING STORY ABOUT THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND FINDING LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT 'Heart-tuggingly lovely'*****

"Impossible to put down." --Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts--where death is always just around the bend--in this new supernatural horror by...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **New York Times Book Review Book Club Pick** **Stephen Colbert's The Late Show Book Club Pick** Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024...

It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret' DAVID NICHOLLS'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times'Exploring how first love shapes a...

In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2025 * INDIE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five...

A young girl's troubled family is haunted by an entity she calls "Other Mommy" in this chilling tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. "Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient [with] claustrophobic terror that almost...

'Clever and astute ... a cracking read' The Belfast Telegraph 'One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways' Hello Magazine * * * From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to...

AMAZON BEST PICK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION - 'Written in big, beautiful prose that expands throughout the novel and leaves the reader full and satisfied ... Leila Mottley's grasp of human nature is...

"Riveting." --People In this "compelling and heartbreaking debut that marks a new and important voice in the mystery genre" (William Kent Krueger), a murder with ties to America's opioid epidemic reveals the dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new work of historical fiction from PEN Award-winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, a powerful family saga spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...

'Part ghost story, part Jewish family epic, and part romance, RULES FOR GHOSTING is a meditation on life, death, and healing that is at turns bitingly funny and deeply moving' - Anita Kelly Rule #1: They can't speak. | Rule #2: They can't move. | Rule #3: They can't...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep....

Normal People meets The Dropout, with the spirit of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - a searing tale of love, ambition, and betrayal in Silicon Valley''s fast lane. AN AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2025 SO FAR PICK A GOODREADS...

Normal People meets The Dropout, with the spirit of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - a searing tale of love, ambition, and betrayal in Silicon Valley''s fast lane. AN AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2025 SO FAR PICK A GOODREADS...

'This is stranger, darker and more brilliant than anything she's written before... a book that will stay with you for ever - both intimate and extraordinarily ambitious.' - OBSERVER *Books to Look Out For 2024* Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a...