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1 of 28 titles
1,000 Words Left to Live
Avocado House
A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and tears, and twists and turns sure to leave anyone reeling!
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2 of 28 titles
Captain Henry: 2½ Insurrections, 2 Wars, 1¼ Centuries
Flare Books
Centuries and continents apart, two American soldiers deploy in the years after "mission accomplished"—only to discover a land far from peace. At once an evocative love story and a searing indictment of U.S. military policy at home and abroad, CAPTAIN HENRY steps inside the heart of the American soldier, stuck in unwinnable wars and abandoned campaigns.
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4 of 28 titles
Ellen Poe For Evermore: Book 2
Running Press Kids
The thrilling sequel to Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore in which every mystery Ellen solves uncovers another buried secret about her family and the infamous poet, Edgar Allan Poe.
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5 of 28 titles
Elvenbane: Halfblood Chronicles: Book One
Caezik SF & Fantasy
Revised and Illustrated — the four-book Halfblood Chronicles, complete at last after more than twenty years with a brand-new finale, Elvenbred, by Mercedes Lackey and Ben Ohlander. From Grand Masters Lackey and Andre Norton: elves rule a world where humans are property, their one fear a dragon-raised halfblood prophesied to break them. Epic fantasy in the tradition of McCaffrey's Pern.
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6 of 28 titles
Everything She Wanted
Sugar Shack Books/Pownal Street Press
Caught between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now, an ambitious young South Asian woman navigates desire, cultural pressure, and ambition as she learns that having it all might mean choosing herself first.
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7 of 28 titles
The Haunting of Lavender House
Park Row Books
A crumbling home surrounded by lavender fields. A decades-long curse. A nightmare from Croatian folklore with a thirst for blood. The Lost Apothecary meets The Hacienda in this multigenerational, haunting gothic saga set on the Adriatic Sea.
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8 of 28 titles
A Lady’s Guide to Love and Pirates
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Jane Austen meets Pirates of the Caribbean when the goddaughter of a legendary pirate joins forces with a guarded sea captain to undertake a perilous rescue mission—one that may cost them everything, including their hearts.
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9 of 28 titles
Laplace’s Witch
Avocado House
Two people die in hot spring towns in different parts of Japan from hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Investigating the case is geochemist Shusuke Aoe, who witnessed the same mysterious girl, Madoka, at both crime scenes... A sci-fi mystery that challenges established norms of the genre, written by acclaimed author Keigo Higashino!
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10 of 28 titles
Life Out of Order
Hanover Square Press
The long-awaited new novel from multi-million copy bestselling author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, charting the epic and often treacherous life of Alba DeTamble, who's inherited her father's time-traveling abilities.
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12 of 28 titles
The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke
Hanover Square Press
From New York Times bestselling author Jane Green comes her most poignant and timely novel yet—the story of a tech titan’s daughter, who, in the face of family crisis, must step into her own power to redefine a legacy.
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13 of 28 titles
Murder at the Movies: A Movie Palace Mystery
Running Press
A Hitchcock movie screening turns fatal when Audrey Sullivan—recent transplant to New England—discovers a dead body on opening night of the movie palace she's just inherited in this thrilling first entry in a cozy mystery series by Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone.
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14 of 28 titles
Nomad
She Writes Press
After a personal rupture sends her off course, a woman retreats to a remote ranch in the American Southwest, drawn by isolation and wide-open land. As the desert asserts its own rules and an unexpected presence unsettles her solitude, she’s forced to confront what the wild demands in return. Nomad is an atmospheric novel about risk, endurance, and the thin line between escape and reckoning.
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15 of 28 titles
Off Course
Keylight Books
For fans of Tessa Bailey comes a steamy debut sports romance following an Olympic downhill skier and the sexy risk-taking ski mountaineer she hires to train her for a new event. But when their chemistry threatens to disrupt her carefully planned life, will she stick with her schedule or let her life veer off course in the name of love?
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16 of 28 titles
The Paradox Club
Hyperion Avenue / Disney Publishing Worldwide
The Paradox Club is a lightning-paced mystery about a brilliant yet troubled young woman who discovers that her late father’s research is tied to a dangerous and powerful secret society. NYT bestselling author Charlie Lovett blends scientific intrigue and buried histories into a novel perfect for readers who love intellectual puzzles and revelations that upend everything we think we know.
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17 of 28 titles
Peck & Peck
Scribner
The megabestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry returns with a delightful story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City.
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18 of 28 titles
Restoration
Rise Books
Set between 1980s San Francisco and the English countryside, RESTORATION is a richly layered literary novel about an American architect who travels to rural England to restore a centuries-old barn—and finds herself rebuilding the fractured story of her own family.
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19 of 28 titles
Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption
Apiary
In the twentieth anniversary year of the original publication of The Shack, read by over 25 million people around the world, author Wm. Paul Young returns to the story of Mackenzie Phillips, exploring the miracle of human fortitude and the ability to forgive and find healing in the wake of the greatest suffering imaginable – the violent death of a child.
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20 of 28 titles
The Roman Holiday Rule
Haven
Lexi heads to Rome with a detailed itinerary and her late mother’s final painting for a festival—only to find the artwork coming to life in unexpected ways. Architect Mark swears off tourists, but a playful photo challenge with Lexi sparks chemistry he can’t ignore. As magic and mishaps unfold, they must decide if love can outlast a holiday.
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21 of 28 titles
Sickness Unto Love
Avocado House
More than 150 deaths across Japan have been connected to Blue Butterfly, a game that leads people to take their own lives. The organizer of this terrible “game” is Kei Yorikawa, a seemingly good-natured high school student. But how did a girl like her become such a monster?
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22 of 28 titles
Stitched: A Novel
Torrey House Press
Golden Girls meets Schitt’s Creek in this hilarious, heartwarming debut novel about found family. With disarming humor and extraordinary heart, Eli McCann takes readers deep into the cozy but cutthroat world of competitive quilting and the sometimes-messy friendships that shape our lives.
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23 of 28 titles
Strangebrew Apothecary
Hanover Square Press
LEGENDS & LATTES meets THE LOST APOTHECARY in this debut adventure fantasy following a potion maker who must hide her powers under the cover of a crew of conmen, only to lean on each other for comfort, safety, and even love.
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24 of 28 titles
The Swiss Account
Rare Bird Books
The Swiss Account follows the Hazeltines’ descent into an ethical gray zone as they wrestle with their anguished consciences and navigate a minefield of legal peril. Are they decent people trapped by circumstance or clever schemers rationalizing their path to riches?
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25 of 28 titles
A Time of Witches
Hanover Square Press
Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries—or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin.
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26 of 28 titles
The Unheld
Hyperion Avenue / Disney Publishing Worldwide
Startling monsters and occult oddities abound in The Unheld, a chilling horror Western about a girl who journeys across the haunted Montana Territory to rescue her father from an otherworldly creature. With this assured, atmospheric debut, author Luke Larkin marks his arrival in the genre and proves the American frontier still harbors untapped stories in its shadows.
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27 of 28 titles
The Unraveling: A Joe Sargenti Legal Thriller
Synthetic Prophetic
The cover-up runs deeper than the crime in this high-stakes Big Law thriller—perfect for readers of John Grisham and Scott Turow. When a burned-out corporate litigator becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the shocking death of a young colleague, his search for answers pulls him into a dangerous web of corporate corruption, political intrigue, and high-stakes legal deception.
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28 of 28 titles
Webs of Ink
Shadow Mountain Publishing
In 1920s London, “Lady Detective” Maud West enlists newly published Agatha Christie to covertly investigate a dangerous mystery, propelling the unlikely duo through mounting threats and blackmail in a quest to deliver justice.
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