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#1 BestsellerThe Hollow Crown
Ten years ago, the kingdom of Aldoria fell. Its royal family was slaughtered in the Night of Crimson...
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Readers' ChoiceThe Last Bookshop
Henry Bascombe has spent forty-seven years tending to his bookshop on Pemberley Lane, a cobblestone ...
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BestsellerThe Crystal Compass
In a world where cartography is the highest form of sorcery, young apprentice Kael Meridian toils in...
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BestsellerThe Dragon's Bargain
Three hundred years ago, humanity made a deal with the dragons. In exchange for protection from the ...
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Award WinnerThe Weight of Water
Eleanor James has not been back to her childhood lake house in thirty years. When her mother dies an...
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Top RatedMurder at Blackwood Manor
The rain had not stopped for three days when Detective Inspector Rose Hardwick arrived at Blackwood ...
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New ReleaseThe Ember Throne
The kingdom of Pyrethia has burned before. A thousand years ago, the Ember Throne was forged from th...
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Editor's PickStellar Drift
The generation ship Persephone has been drifting between stars for two hundred years. Its inhabitant...
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Top RatedThe Vienna Affair
Vienna, present day. An American art restorer named Claire Dubois is hired to clean a centuries-old ...
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Top RatedThe Romanov Letter
St. Petersburg, 1917. The Romanov dynasty is falling, and somewhere in the Winter Palace, a letter i...
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Top RatedThe Defector
Moscow, present day. Colonel Dimitri Volkov of the FSB has spent thirty years serving the Russian st...
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BestsellerLetters from the Edge
Dr. Amira Farouk has spent her career as a war correspondent, reporting from the world's most danger...
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New ReleaseEchoes of Tomorrow
Dr. Sarah Varma never expected her quantum entanglement experiment to work. A brilliant but disillus...
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ThrillingBeneath the Surface
Dr. Amara Osei has spent her career studying the deep ocean, but nothing could prepare her for what ...
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Hidden GemThe Stone Seer
In the mountain kingdom of Kar Drathis, the blind are said to see more than the sighted. Dara has be...
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PopularThe Quantum Thief
In a future where memories can be extracted, stored, and traded like currency, the most valuable thi...
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Must ReadThe Last Colony
Eden-7 was supposed to be humanity's second chance. When Earth became uninhabitable, twelve colony s...
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BestsellerThe Lighthouse Keeper
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, the lighthouse keeper has been the same man for forty yea...
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BestsellerSummer in Provence
After a painful divorce, Lucy Bennett books a one-way ticket to the south of France. She has rented ...
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BestsellerThe Tudor Secret
London, 1536. Anne Boleyn is about to lose her head, and the court of Henry VIII is a dangerous plac...
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BestsellerThe Midnight Protocol
Ex-CIA operative Jack Rourke has been off the grid for three years, living under an assumed name in ...
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Book Club PickThe Quiet House
Martin and Ruth have lived in the same house for forty-seven years. They raised three children there...
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Hidden GemWhat Remains
After her husband dies, Clara Santos returns to the village in Portugal where she was born. She has ...
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Editor's PickSilk and Steel
Japan, 1867. The Tokugawa shogunate is crumbling, and the winds of change sweep across a nation caug...
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Rising StarWinds of Aether
In the floating city of Celestine, the air itself is currency. Wind singers — those gifted with the ...
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New ReleaseThe Mars Protocol
Mars has been colonized for fifty years, and the relationship between Earth and its red child has ne...
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New ReleaseThe Silent Partner
When billionaire tech CEO Marcus Webb is found dead in his penthouse, the police rule it a suicide. ...
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PopularLetters to Iris
When Iris Chen inherits her grandmother's house, she finds a box of letters hidden in the attic. The...
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New ReleaseEchoes of Alexandria
Alexandria, 48 BC. The Great Library is under threat. As Julius Caesar's ships burn in the harbor, t...
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Editor's PickThe Pharaoh's Daughter
Ancient Egypt, 1350 BC. The Pharaoh Akhenaten has banished the old gods and declared that only the A...
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New ReleaseZero Hour
Dr. Elena Vasquez is a CDC epidemiologist who has seen outbreaks before. But when a cluster of myste...
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AtmosphericThe Color of Rain
In the small town of Mercy, Ohio, it has been raining for forty days. Not a flood, not a storm, just...
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PopularStardust Serenade
Leo Vasquez was once the most celebrated jazz pianist of his generation, selling out concert halls f...
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Dark FantasyCrown of Thorns
The Thornwood grows where kings have fallen. Each thorn in the great forest is said to contain the s...
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CyberpunkNeon Requiem
Neo-Shanghai, 2099. The city never sleeps, never stops, never forgets — because every citizen is jac...
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AtmosphericMurder in the Fog
San Francisco, 1952. The fog rolls in over the bay district every evening, swallowing the streets in...
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Sweet ReadThe Bookshop Girl
Pippa has worked at Pages & Co. bookshop since she was sixteen. She knows every shelf, every regular...
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Fun ReadThe Wedding Pact
Ten years ago, Emma and her college friends made a pact: if any of them were still single at thirty,...
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AtmosphericBridge of Sighs
Venice, 1605. The Bridge of Sighs connects the Doge's Palace to the prison, and every prisoner who c...
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ApocalypseBlackout City
A cyberattack takes down the entire power grid of the Eastern Seaboard. of the Eastern Seaboard. In ...
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ProceduralThe Cold Case File
Twenty years ago, a teenage girl named Lily Brennan disappeared on her way home from school. The cas...
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MusicalA Song for Juliet
Juliet is a cellist who has lost her music. A year after a stage accident damaged her wrist, she can...
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ActionThe Final Countdown
When a terrorist organization threatens to detonate a dirty bomb in a major American city, the Presi...
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