BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL
V. E. Schwab
#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 USA Today bestseller • #1 National Indie bestseller • #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 • 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The…
THE WATERSMITH
Yance Wyatt
A cross between The Alchemist and Demon Copperhead, The Watersmith follows a bereaved moonshiner who gives up whiskey to distill human ‘spirits.’
When hard-drinking handyman Jack Calloway discovers an old moonshine still behind the Smoky Mountain cabin he plans to flip, his teenage son dares him…
THE ART OF PACING
Elizabeth Svoboda
A guide to balancing hustle and leisure so you can make meaningful progress on what matters most, without burning out. Many of us struggle to live a well-paced life and find ourselves perpetually oscillating between two extremes: intense effort and lethargy. At one extreme, we jump headfirst into big, critical…
THE GOOD PARTS
Evann Normandin
An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again—for fans of One Day and In Five Years. When Landon receives a letter from Rose—the woman he…
MEET ME IN THE GARDEN
Nina LaCour
New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while Odette’s older sisters are content to be wives and mothers, Odette has always wanted something else. It is only with her beloved cousin, Delphine, that Odette can tell her…
THEY SAY A GIRL DIED HERE
Sarah Pinborough
Two murdered girls. A town with dark secrets. A race to break a deadly cycle. Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought. It’s supposed to be a new start for her and her family, but…
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