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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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Popular contemporary fiction

Margaret Hawkins

A Mad, Wicked Folly

Sharon Biggs Waller

All the Little Live Things

Wallace Stegner

Sydney Landon

Boy in the Twilight

Story Of My Purity

Francesco Pacifico

Dissident Gardens

Jonathan Lethem

All My Tomorrows

The Human Comedy

Honoré De Balzac

Foreign Gods, Inc.

I am Amelia Earhart

Brad Meltzer, Christopher Eliopoulos

Mrs. Lincoln's Rival

Jennifer Chiaverini

Shirley Jackson

The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

Sonoma Rose: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini

All Russians Love Birch Trees

Return to Tradd Street

Mr. Monk Gets on Board

Home of the Braised

Paws for Murder

More Than a Touch

Notes From A Turkish Whorehouse

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

The Ghoul Next Door

Victoria Laurie

Tapestry of Lies

Carol Ann Martin

Eggs in a Casket

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

A Shooting Star

Wallace Stegner

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

Babette's Feast and Other Stories

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

The Thing About December

The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

White Dog Fell From the Sky

Thomas Dekker, Alma Katsu

The Girl in the Yellow Vest

For Today I Am A Boy

Can I Bring Saber to New York, Ms. Mayor?

LOIS G. GRAMBLING, Judy Love