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Updated October 29, 2025
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What We Can Know
McEwan, Ian.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Booker prize-winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. "It gave me so...
The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an...
Heart the Lover
King, Lily.
Paper Book
We Love You, Bunny
Awad, Mona.
Paper Book
Frankenstein meets Heathers in this dazzling, hilarious, and deliciously dark follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny, from Margaret Atwood's 'literary heir', Mona Awad   Fall down the rabbit hole into the...
Among the burning flowers
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree. Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and...
The wilderness : a novel
Flournoy, Angela
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Flournoy has delivered a future classic--the kind of novel that generations to come will read to understand the nuances and peculiarities of this time."...
Alchemy of secrets
Garber, Stephanie
Paper Book
'Full of adventure and magic' JODI PICOULT 'As dazzling as a jewel box' ERIN A. CRAIG 'A truly addictive read' DAILY EXPRESS ***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*** YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE OF A STORY . . .<...
Will there ever be another you
Lockwood, Patricia
Paper Book
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of...
Bog Queen
North, Anna.
Paper Book
Soul Searching: A Sweetwater Peak Novel
Sage, Lyla.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a stirring Western romance about a new-to-town upholsterer, a photographer whose life has come to a halt, and the supernatural forces that bring them together.
Exiles
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
Cinder house
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske - a queer Gothic romance novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher. You think you know Cinderella's story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.You're halfway...
Spread Me
Gailey, Sarah.
Paper Book
An instant USA Today bestseller! Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture! Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team...
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Kara, Siddharth.
Paper Book
From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands,...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
NoiseCat, Julian Brave.
Paper Book
An unforgettable father-son story and portrait of Indigenous North America, announcing a major new talent.
The four spent the day together : a novel
Kraus, Chris
Paper Book
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, rundown town, the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. No one knows why they did it. At the time...
Book of guilt, The
Chidgey, Catherine /
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In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore Scheme. Each day the boys must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which...
We Could Be Rats
Austin, Emily.
Paper Book
A "one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts...
Good and Evil and Other Stories
Schweblin, Samanta.
Paper Book
'No one writes like Samanta Schweblin' - Lorrie MooreThe strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare: tightly,...

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