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The bestselling, beloved author returns with her first novel in over a decade, an intimate and profoundly moving look at a long marriage and the ways in which a startling request can change a couple's understanding of who they are, together and apart.
by Erin Somers
Published Oct 2025
A hilariously acerbic sliding doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to each other) that sparks a will-they-won't-they romance—perfect for fans of Big Swiss and Acts of Service.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Published Jun 2024
In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends - often in love, but never lovers - come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Published Aug 2022
Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event—a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Published May 2021
Winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.
by Tessa Hadley
Published Feb 2020
The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death.
by Sally Rooney
Published Feb 2020
A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Published Mar 2019
The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storyteller.
by Graham Swift
Published Jan 2017
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life.
by Julia Pierpont
Published Jun 2016
A dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jan 2009
An unusual coming-of-age story that examines the fluidity of identity and the ways in which people consciously redefine themselves in the face of love.
by Louise Dean
Published Jan 2007
Two couples meet in a luxurious Caribbean resort - one pair older, the other younger. As their paths cross during the week, each couple struggles with what has been keeping them apart.
by Sonia Nazario
Published Jan 2007
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
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