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Literary Fiction

To the outside world, Lucy Carpenter has a life many would envy: a loving, devoted husband named Jonah, a flourishing small business, and a comfortable home in London. But beneath her radiant smile lies an ache that time has never healed. After enduring the heartbreak of multiple miscarriages, Lucy also carries a secret she has guarded for twenty-five years: at sixteen, terrified and alone, she gave birth to a baby girl and signed her away for adoption. Lucy pours her unresolved love into unsent letters to the daughter she never knew, constantly wondering who her child became. When Jonah’s nineteen-year-old daughter Camille arrives in their lives pregnant, scared, and in desperate need of refuge, Lucy is thrust into an emotional whirlwind. Caring for Camille opens every buried wound and forces Lucy to confront the ghosts of her past, the strain on her marriage, and the truth of what it means to be a mother. Heart-wrenching, authentic, and ultimately uplifting, The Idea of You is a deeply moving domestic drama about love, loss, family, and the enduring power of second chances.

Classics

Jediný román velkého dramatika, básníka a esejisty Oscara Wildea vypráví o mladém a neobyčejně krásném Dorianu Grayovi, který vysloví přání, aby za něj stárnul jeho portrét, zatímco on sám zůstane navždy mladý. Přání se mu vyplní, ale za věčné mládí a bezohledný život plný hříchu a požitkářství zaplatí Dorian strašlivou daň – obraz postupně zachycuje veškerou ohavnost a zkaženost jeho duše. Fascinující a nadčasové dílo dekadence, estetismu a morální zodpovědnosti.

Romance

Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious Los Angeles art gallery, is reluctant to take her daughter Isabelle to see her favorite boy band, August Moon. But when her ex-husband backs out at the last minute, Solène steps in to chaperone the VIP meet-and-greet in Las Vegas—never anticipating that she will catch the eye of Hayes Campbell: twenty, clever, posh, and the band’s captivating lead singer. What begins as a series of clandestine, whirlwind hotel encounters quickly escalates into a passionate, globe-trotting relationship that shatters Solène’s carefully curated world. From the Côte d’Azur to Paris, London, and Miami, Hayes and Solène are pulled together by an undeniable emotional and physical chemistry. Yet as their romance becomes public knowledge, Solène finds herself and her teenage daughter thrust into the merciless crosshairs of internet virality, obsessive fans, and predatory tabloids. Poignant, seductive, and devastatingly real, The Idea of You is an unforgettable exploration of female desire, celebrity culture, and the heartbreak of loving in the public eye.

Literary Fiction

Sandor Lester, a Hungarian exile living under a pseudonym, works in a Swiss watch factory doing monotonous, soul-crushing precision work. Every day is the same: waking at dawn, catching the crowded bus, repetitive factory shifts, and hollow Saturday encounters with Yolande, a woman he does not love. To endure his alienation, Sandor retreats into writing poetry and imagining an idealized lost soulmate named Line. When a new immigrant arrives at the factory and turns out to be the real Line—his childhood soulmate and half-sister from Hungary—Sandor’s fragile boundary between memory, longing, and devastating reality begins to unravel. Lyrical, haunting, and deeply melancholic, Yesterday is a masterwork of exile, obsessive love, and existential displacement by the acclaimed author of The Notebook Trilogy, Ágota Kristóf.

Mystery & Thriller

In the 1950s, showbiz royalty Vince Collins and Lanny Morris reigned supreme over American entertainment—until the morning a dead young woman was discovered in the bathtub of their hotel suite in New Jersey. Both partners possessed airtight alibis, but the scandal abruptly destroyed their legendary comedy duo. Twenty years later, in the decadent mid-1970s, ambitious young journalist Karen O’Connor is offered a million-dollar book contract to ghostwrite Vince Collins’s tell-all memoir. As Karen delves into the glittering secrets, vices, and hidden truths of their glamorous past, she finds herself entangled in a treacherous labyrinth of sex, crime, alibis, and deceit. Brilliantly crafted by Tony and Edgar Award–winning writer Rupert Holmes and adapted into the acclaimed feature film starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon, Where the Truth Lies is a stylish, electrifying noir mystery of fame and betrayal.

Mystery & Thriller

An enigmatic getaway driver chases, and is chased by, cops and mobsters, both Russian and Italian. After a morning robbery in Philadelphia’s Center City, thieves Bling and Holden and wheelman Lennon, an Irish immigrant, are speeding to the airport when their Subaru collides with a van and flips over. Bruised and wounded, Lennon wakes naked, stuffed into a garbage bag—and naturally without the money. Two college musicians named Andy and Mikal find him, instigating the first of many brutal encounters. When it’s over, Lennon, wearing Andy’s too-tight clothes, heads for the young man’s dorm, where he hopes to rest before searching for the money, his accomplices, and a young woman named Katie. Unfortunately for Lennon, Mikal is the son of a powerful Russian mobster, and Andy has a pesky, vengeful girlfriend named Lisa. Lennon, who has a long rap sheet, is believed mute, but he speaks sparingly, communicating with Katie in secret Gaelic. Fast-paced, gritty, and relentlessly thrilling, The Wheelman is Duane Swierczynski’s explosive noir crime thriller.

Historical Fiction

Authorized by the estate of Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Golden Hours is Louisa Young's triumphant continuation of the beloved Cazalet Chronicles. Christmas 1962: A monumental freeze blankets England in deep snow, cutting off Fakenham Hall in Norfolk where the sprawling Cazalet clan has gathered for the holidays. As ice encrusts the windows, three generations of Cazalets navigate the shifting tides of the 1960s—from the fading echoes of aristocratic tradition to the dawn of a vibrant, rebellious modern era. Louise struggles with love and artistic independence; Clary embraces family and marriage; Polly searches for quiet fulfillment; and the older generation must reckon with a changing world they no longer fully command. Written with immense warmth, emotional acuity, and deep reverence for Howard’s original masterpiece, The Golden Hours is a magnificent, heartwarming family saga.

Drama

A heart-wrenching, luminous debut about an immigrant Pakistani family in the American Midwest, the complex bonds of sisterhood, and the enduring power of forgiveness. Salma Chaudhry lives a quiet, guarded life as an elementary school teacher, protecting herself from the memories of a family trauma that shattered her world eighteen years ago. Growing up in the small town of Rosebud, Salma and her older sister Asma were inseparable yet starkly different: Asma was bold, independent, and defiant, while Salma tried to keep the peace under their parents' strict traditional expectations. When Asma makes a life-altering choice that tears the household apart, Salma is trapped in an impossible position between family loyalty and sisterly devotion. Years later, as Salma considers reconciling with her ailing father, a chance encounter with a young student unexpectedly opens a window into Asma's past. Moving between 1989 and 2007, The Daughters of Rosebud is a profound, poignant exploration of love, cultural displacement, grief, and the courage it takes to heal.

Historical Fiction

A gripping, atmospheric historical novel based on the astonishing true story of Frank Meier, the legendary head bartender of the Hôtel Ritz in occupied Paris—who used his position behind the bar to aid the French Resistance while concealing a dangerous secret: he was Jewish. June 1940: German troops march down the Champs-Élysées and requisition the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme. High-ranking Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe commanders—including Hermann Göring—make the palace hotel their luxury headquarters. Protected by the hotel's neutral Swiss ownership, the glamorous Petit Bar becomes a hotbed of Nazi officers, collaborators like Coco Chanel, and covert resistance operatives. Behind the counter stands Frank Meier, cosmopolitan mixologist and confidant to Europe's elite. Smiling and pouring cocktails for the very men brutalizing Europe, Frank walks a lethal tightrope between complicity and survival. Using the secrets spilled over dry martinis, Frank coordinates with the underground network, passes intelligence, and risks his life to protect his young Jewish apprentice and his beloved Blanche Auzello. Rich in historical detail and psychological suspense, The Barman of the Ritz is a breathtaking testament to resistance, morality, and the courage to fight back from within the lion's den.

Mystery

Bea Britt lives alone in her grandmother’s house in west Oslo. Early one morning, she wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl. Emilie’s rucksack is found in Bea Britt’s garden. But as her spiralling doubts and suspicions take over, is she a suspect, a witness or a potential second victim? The mystery of Emilie’s disappearance and Bea Britt’s story are intricately bound to the lives of two other women: Bea Britt’s grandmother Cecilie, a troubled 1930s housewife whose marriage has broken down, and university student Beate, who is desperate for love but plagued by uncertainty. Only Human is a rich, urgent novel about family, enduring oneself and others, and what is needed when life wears thin. It lays bare the hopes, dreams, fears and failures of three infinitely human characters, and is delicately revealing of the choices that shape a human life and our quest for companionship and love.

Horror

The progressive decline of the Haunted House had Chen Ge deeply worried. Inherited from his parents who vanished without a trace, the attraction is on the verge of bankruptcy. Everything changes when Chen Ge discovers a mysterious black phone among his parents' belongings. By completing daily missions assigned by the phone, Chen Ge unlocks terrifying new scenarios—from a simple Murder Simulation to an eerie Ghost Marriage, culminating in a sprawling School of the Afterlife. As the Western Jiujiang Haunted House becomes the most famous and terrifying destination in the world, Chen Ge uncovers the chilling secrets behind the supernatural world and the truth behind his parents' disappearance.

Literary Fiction

A sharp, hilarious, and deeply moving campus novel about the high-stakes, global obsession with elite education and the lengths parents and students will go to secure their future. Devi is a brilliant village girl in Sri Lanka who dreams of attending Harvard, supported by her toilet-cleaner father and an enigmatic WhatsApp tutor. Meanwhile, in New York, Jack is a burnt-out professor working exhausting overload shifts at a concrete city college to finance his daughter Katrina's dream of attending Haven, an elite New England liberal arts college. When Jack’s slick tech-bro graduate student Allard Hamburger builds a lucrative multimillion-dollar grading-and-cheating empire exploiting terrified international students, their lives collide across continents. From Colombo to Rome to Maine, Lords of Serendipity is a poignant, razor-sharp satire of modern academia, ambition, and the extraordinary sacrifices of family devotion.

Thriller

When a "software error" erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her newborn don't exist. As Zala fights desperately to prove her existence and protect her child from state adoption, she uncovers the Kafkaesque reality of Slovenia's system — one that erased 25,671 citizens on February 26, 1992. A chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mother's battle against the state.

Science Fiction

Winner of the prestigious 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novella. Welcome to Veritas, a gleaming dystopian city where every citizen has been systematically brainwashed to speak only the unvarnished, brutal truth. Advertisements proclaim their products' deadly defects, marriage vows acknowledge imminent divorce, and comforting illusions are strictly forbidden by law. Jack Sperry is a loyal Veritasian bureaucrat whose job is 'de-accessioning' mendacious works of classic art and literature—until catastrophe strikes. His beloved son, Toby, contracts a rare, fatal illness with no known medical cure. The only psychological hope of stimulating the boy’s immune system is belief—an absolute lie that he will survive. To save his son’s life, Jack must undertake an agonizing, forbidden journey beyond the city walls to the anarchic settlement of the Dissem’ers, defying the state to master the ancient, forgotten art of lying. A dazzling, satirical masterpiece of philosophical science fiction, City of Truth is a poignant, razor-sharp exploration of honesty, parental devotion, and the saving grace of human imagination.

Mystery

Recently separated and living alone in an unfamiliar apartment, Marcos finds an anonymous blue envelope in his mailbox. Inside is an intensely raw, confessional letter written by a woman known only as 'A.'—addressed to her former lover, the apartment’s previous tenant. Day after day, another letter arrives. As A.'s desperate confessions lay bare the intoxicating passion, betrayal, and violence of a destructive relationship, Marcos finds himself drawn into an inescapable voyeuristic obsession. Neglecting his work, his ex-wife, and his distant daughter, he begins projecting his own regrets and fantasies onto this invisible woman, searching the city streets for her shadow. Winner of the prestigious Machado de Assis Prize and translated with hypnotic precision by Daniel Hahn, Blue Flowers is an unsettling, atmospheric psychological tour de force about loneliness, desire, and the intoxicating danger of losing yourself in someone else's grief.

Drama

‘Writing is the hardest thing I've done. It's a grind. You see me up here and you think I've made it. But it's not all it's cracked up to be.’ Bradford, 1990. In the smoky, neon-lit corner of The Beacon Pub, a woman sits with half a lager, coughing through the cigarette haze. This is Andrea Dunbar: genius playwright, single mother of three, and working-class icon who rocketed to national fame at just nineteen with The Arbor and Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Adapted from Adelle Stripe’s acclaimed, award-winning biographical novel by screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is an unflinching, darkly comic, and deeply moving portrait of an extraordinary literary talent. From the notorious Buttershaw council estate to the glittering foyers of London's West End, this electric drama captures the fierce wit, heart, and defiance of a writer who refused to be silenced.

Classics

Originally published in 1960, Stan Barstow's ground-breaking British classic laid the foundation for contemporary working-class literary realism. Set against the rugged, smoky backdrop of a northern Yorkshire industrial town, the novel follows Victor 'Vic' Brown, a sharp-witted young draughtsman grappling with the restless yearnings of youth. When he falls under the spell of Ingrid Rothwell, a glamorous typist at his firm, desire quickly blurs the line between infatuation and love. An impulsive physical encounter leads to an unexpected pregnancy, trapping Vic into an early marriage and an agonizing domestic existence beneath the roof of his domineering mother-in-law. Caught between stifling social conventions and the harsh awakening of adulthood, Vic must confront the painful realities of commitment, responsibility, and what it truly means to discover a kind of loving.

Drama

In the summer of 1986, in the shadow of the monumental open-pit mines of Thetford Mines, Quebec, nine-year-old Steve Dubois lives a life measured by bicycle rides, comic books, and daring adventures across blinding white heaps of asbestos slag alongside his older friend, Charlélie Poulin—known as Poulie. Beneath the dusty haze of an industry town that trades in danger, Steve and Poulie invent secret hideouts and escape the suffocating realities of their homes. But 1986 is marked by cataclysms near and far—from the televised explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger to a devastating local tragedy that shatters Steve’s fragile world forever. Five years later, in 1991, Steve returns to the cratered landscape as an adolescent haunted by guilt, searching through the toxic dust for the vanished innocence of a paradise he can never reclaim. Sébastien Dulude’s debut novel, brilliantly translated by Pablo Strauss, is an extraordinary, sensory tour de force—a poignant meditation on toxic heritage, boyhood brotherhood, and the immutable grief of growing up.

Fantasy

Nineteen-year-old Lucille wakes up trapped in a darkened closet with fragmented, traumatic memories of her mother being attacked—and eerie voices whispering inside her head. Desperate to escape, she accepts help from a cryptic stranger, only to find herself plunged into Elora, a ruthless, war-torn realm of angels and demons. Held prisoner in a brutal hierarchy of celestial beings, Lucy discovers an impossible truth: she possesses rare, volatile powers tied to an ancient celestial lineage. To survive the deadly court intrigues and dangerous trials of The Divide, she must form an uneasy alliance with a lethally seductive captor whose secrets run as deep as her own. Wings of Lies is a high-stakes dark romantasy filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, morally grey angels, forbidden powers, and an unrelenting quest for vengeance and truth across the Seven Circles.

Romance

Thirteen years after meeting outside a college creative writing class, former friendly rivals, best friends, and brief lovers Mars Darling and West Emerson reunite. Once inseparable, their bond shattered under the weight of ambition, competition, and heartbreak—leaving them bitter enemies. Now successful authors forced back together at an exclusive writers' festival, Mars and West must confront the unresolved tension and secrets that tore them apart. Told in alternating dual timelines across their nostalgic college years and a charged present, The Write Off is a sparkling, sharp-witted rivals-to-lovers contemporary romance about second chances, literary ambition, and the stories we write for the ones we love.

Romance

Six years ago, Rain Hamilton agreed to become the contract wife of a man whose heart was never hers. Cody stood beside her at the altar, dutifully promising to provide a house and raise children, but his eyes stayed fixed on another woman in the gallery. For six years, Rain played her part, building a home and loving him quietly in the cold silence of their marriage. But when an unexpected phone call shatters the fragile peace, she realizes she cannot keep living as the outsider in her own life. Leaving only a brief note behind, Rain walks away with their children. Suddenly faced with the silence of an empty house, Cody is struck by an unbearable truth: the woman he thought was just an obligation had become his whole world. Now, torn between past regrets and a future slipping through his fingers, Cody must fight to win back the wife he never realized he couldn't live without. A poignant and deeply emotional later-in-life marriage-in-crisis romance about second chances, painful mistakes, and the agonizing journey of a husband fighting to heal the heart he broke.

Romance

Sex isn't love. Love isn't sex. And friendship is neither. The son of a French Olympic skier and a Malaysian fashion designer, Ronin Alexander has lived the life of a nomad, traveling the world to find his next adventure. Life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Evelyn, a beautiful scientist who owns a bath shop in Aspen, Colorado. They defy all the rules of relationships, falling hard and quickly in love. Their world intertwines with Evelyn's two best friends, the Governor and his soon-to-be wife. The four become close—very close. When tragedy strikes, things from their pasts are unveiled—unimaginable truths and the grim realization that life will never be the same. Jewel E. Ann steps into another dimension with this mind-bending thriller, a provocative story that pushes boundaries and tests the true meaning of love.

Romance

A lonely dragon, a bookish girl, and friendship lines meant to be crossed. Beck never thought he'd see Eleanor again, but when a beautiful woman shows up in Starry Hill, there's no doubt in his mind that she's his childhood best friend—the one he's never forgotten. Starry Hill is exactly what Eleanor needs. She spends her weekends cozied up between the pages of her favorite bookshop and reconnecting with Beck—the friend she thought she'd lost forever. The more time they spend together, the clearer it becomes that their feelings go well beyond friendship, but the mysterious reason why Beck disappeared lingers between them.

Crime & Mystery

Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker's disappearance went cold, a Silicon Valley executive hires retired Menlo Park Police Detective Hank Madden to find her body and track down her missing husband, the prime suspect in her unsolved murder. Four months later, author Candace Epstein is pushed in front of a car near Central Park. Her editor Max Fremmer becomes entangled into the investigation of her attempted murder, though he is adamant that he is uninvolved. As he digs into Candace's background to clear his own name, Fremmer grows suspicious of his client's connection to a nefarious institute for lucid dreaming on the Upper West Side and its staff whose stories never seem to add up—all while an unexpected link emerges to Detective Madden's investigation in California. As similarities arise between the cases on each coast, Detective Madden and Fremmer forge an unlikely partnership to expose what misconduct lurks beneath the façade of the Lucidity Center and unravel the secret that links their investigations.

Crime & Mystery

Alex Ermacora è un giovane scrittore udinese alle prese con la sua prima pubblicazione di un romanzo thriller. Ironia della sorte si ritroverà lui stesso coinvolto in una dinamica grottesca molto simile al libro che ha appena terminato di scrivere. Quando il suo vicino di casa Erik bussa alla sua porta palesemente ubriaco, Alex cerca di evitarlo in tutti i modi, ma messo alle strette dall'insistenza di Erik, i due finiscono per avere una colluttazione. Quello che accadrà in seguito cambierà completamente la vita di Alex, trascinandolo in una spirale di mistero e tensione.

Romance

Wedding planner Eve Bennington has her Christmas all thought out, down to the last Mai Tai she plans to savor once she reaches Hawaii. But her plans quickly go awry when her very pregnant business partner insists that Eve do a favor for Santa's niece. The problem? Santa isn't real. Or so Eve believes until she and her ex-boyfriend Hunter find themselves on a sleigh pulled by eight shaggy reindeer. Their destination? The North Pole. Their mission? To pull together a very last minute Christmas Eve wedding. Eve's problem? Finding out that Santa Claus really does exist challenges everything Eve thinks she knows, including her belief that she and Hunter don't belong together.

Science Fiction

Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon. Political tensions boil over on Earth, spreading to the outer fringes of known space as the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World Empire. When an oil-drilling facility on nearby LV-187 is destroyed, its French colonists slaughtered, the British are blamed. Military forces arrive from the Independent Core Systems and combat erupts. Trapped in the middle are Cher Hunt and Chad Mclaren. Cher is trying to find out who was responsible for the death of her sister, Shy Hunt. At the same time Mclaren, accompanied by the synthetic known as Davis, follows in the footsteps of his late wife, Amanda Ripley, seeking to stop the weaponization of Xenomorphs.

Romance

Villains have more fun. Even the broken ones. I'm a ghost. A shadow stuck on this earth, cursed to rot. No escape. No mercy. Just a gilded cage I call home. Until she moves in. Little Fox. Hair red as flame against the pillow she clutches at night. Skin pale as the moonlight spilling through her window. Lips red as blood, parted in sleep. I want to touch her, crawl into her bed, and drink her tears. Bad men want her dead, and I'll kill anyone who tries to hurt her. I'll save her. Or ruin her. I only break the ones I love. But I crave her beyond reason.

Crime & Mystery

Rose Crawley believes she has finally achieved the fresh start and life she always wanted: a peaceful home by the lake, an adoring husband named Brian, and a safe distance from a past she is desperately trying to outrun. However, the house begins to exhibit strange, unsettling phenomena. Rose wakes up with unexplained, bloody scratches lining her arms. She catches fleeting reflections in mirrors when she is entirely alone, and hears invisible footsteps creaking across the floors as the heavy atmosphere of the house seems to close in on her. When Rose discovers that the home's previous occupant—a wife and mother named Angela—mysteriously vanished under suspicious circumstances, she becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. But as the supernatural occurrences intensify, Rose is forced to confront a terrifying question: what really happened to Angela, and is Rose destined to meet the exact same fate?

Romance

JJ Wyróżnicka-Johnson is a high school junior and cheerleader who moved from Poland to Massachusetts two years ago. Desperate to fit in as an 'all-American girl,' she has buried her accent and dropped her hyphenated name, but she desperately needs a partner to keep her spot as a flyer. Aang Lau is a Chinese-American math nerd who previously kicked JJ out of the math club. Disillusioned with trying to fit into American culture, he is leaning heavily into his roots and wants to win Mathletes nationals to secure a gateway to Stanford. After a panicked guidance counselor meeting, the two strike an unexpected bargain: JJ joins Mathletes, and Aang joins the cheerleading squad so they can help each other win two national titles. But as they navigate stunt practices, math equations, and the complexities of their immigrant identities, old animosity slowly turns into something much deeper.