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From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.

The Emperor of Gladness

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a vibrant and heartbreaking story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs.

New contemporary fiction

It Should Have Been You

The Correspondent

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emma Pignatiello

The Homemade God

The Sex Lives of Married Women

Contemporary fiction collections

Introducing your next travel companion

Winter Crime Month 2024

What would you do?

Blooming beautiful

Families in the foreground

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Eerie Archives Volume 22

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The Swimming Pool

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The Hot Climate of Promises and Grace

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French Girl with Mother

Norman Ollestad

Death of a Pumpkin Carver

Christopher Fowler

Shaken and Stirred

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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

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Girlfriends, Ghosts, And Other Stories

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Beautiful Blue World

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John O'Hara: Stories (LOA #282)

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Body on the Bayou

Trailblazers: 33 Women In Science Who Changed The World

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Frank Einstein and the EvoBlaster Belt

A Little More Love

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Whispers Beyond The Veil

Jessica Estevao

Letters From Paris

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Sofie Kelly,Sofie Ryan

The Gate to Futures Past

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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

Ninth City Burning

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Ursula K. Le Guin

No Farm, No Foul

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Surrender the Key (The Library Book 1)

Digging Up the Dirt

Cheddar Off Dead

Cancelled by Murder

Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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