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A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria E. Schwab
Published Aug 2026
Read ReviewsFrom V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria E. Schwab
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2020 BookBrowse Fiction Award
In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.
by Erin Morgenstern
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
by Colum McCann
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsThe most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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