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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

James A. Michener

William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back

Ian Doescher

Karen Leabo

Sandra Chastain

Alice Adams (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Booth Tarkington

Larry Loves Chicago!

Larry Loves San Francisco!

The Dead Wife's Handbook

Hannah Beckerman

Why Are You So Sad?: A Novel

The Last Boat Home

Rules for Becoming a Legend

Timothy S. Lane

Who Was Louis Braille?

Margaret Frith, Who HQ, Robert Squier

The Perfect Match

A Mother's Love

Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (Film Tie-In)

Time to Say Goodbye

James Patterson

The Edible Exile

Full-Blood Half-Breed

Cleve Lamison

The Voice inside My Head

Where the Rekohu Bone Sings

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

The Dogs Of Littlefield

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The Ghost at the Table

Kenneth Calhoun

The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon

Pearls and Poison

E.L. Doctorow

Virginia Kantra

Steeped in Evil

Shunned and Dangerous

Jeremy P. Bushnell

Some Like It Wild

Sammy Wong, All-American

The Rebel Pirate

Dummy of a Ghost

Sue Ann Jaffarian

How to Paint a Cat

Rebecca M. Hale

E.L. Doctorow