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Cozy Reads
Psychology and Thrillers
For readers who like their pages laced with tension. These are the books that mess with your head, flip your assumptions, and have you reading the last chapter twice just to make sure you understood what happened. Jaw-dropping, mind-bending, and comp...
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A time-slip story about a modern tradwife influencer waking up in 1855
Blends social commentary and historical elements
Yesteryear (GMA Book Club Pick) by Caro Claire Burke, Paperback
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Two women. One husband. A lifetime of secrets.
Unpredictable Plot: Just when you think you’ve figured it out, the floor drops away.
​Complex Characters: Deeply flawed protagonists that keep you guessing about their true motives.
​Atmospheric Tension...
My Husband's Wife: A Novel - Alice Feeney - Barnes & Noble
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An ITW Award-shortlisted psychological thriller following a heart transplant patient who develops an obsession with the husband of her dead donor — a celebrity author with a captivating online presence and a very suspicious past.
Part murder mystery...
Cross My Heart: A Novel|Paperback - Megan Collins - Barnes & Noble
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A therapist's life unravels after a sudden breakup — so she does what she tells her patients to do and finds a therapist of her own. What follows is one of the most honest, funny, and quietly profound books ever written about what it means to be huma...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist ... - Barnes & Noble
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The definitive book on trauma — how it reshapes the brain, lives in the body, and why talking about it is rarely enough. Van der Kolk draws on decades of clinical work to explain what trauma actually does to a person, and — crucially — what actually ...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of ...
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A psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor describes life inside Nazi concentration camps and the psychological framework — logotherapy — he built from the experience: that meaning, not pleasure or power, is the deepest human drive. Short, harrowing, and ...
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Paperback
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Researcher and storyteller Brené Brown draws on a decade of work to present a deeply human case for letting go of who you think you should be and embracing who you actually are. She examines the ten guideposts of wholehearted living — from cultivatin...
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed ...
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Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Kahneman unpacks the two systems that drive the way we think — the fast, intuitive, emotional System 1 and the slow, deliberate, logical System 2 — and reveals how they shape every decision we make, often without our ...
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Paperback
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After years on antidepressants, journalist Johann Hari set out across the world to find the real causes of depression and anxiety — and what he discovered challenges almost everything mainstream medicine tells us. He identifies nine disconnections th...
Lost Connections by Johann Hari, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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A quietly revolutionary work of psychology that explains how many high-functioning, apparently successful adults carry deep, unexamined wounds from childhood — wounds formed not from obvious neglect or abuse, but from being valued for performance and...
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappears. Her husband Nick is the prime suspect. Told in alternating voices — his and hers — Flynn dismantles the idea of a perfect marriage with surgical precision and twisted glee. One of the most pro...
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Alicia Berenson — a famous painter — shoots her husband five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Her therapist Theo Faber becomes obsessed with uncovering why. Michaelides constructs one of the tightest, most satisfying thriller plo...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Jack and Grace Angel appear to be the perfect couple — enviable house, enviable lives, always seen together. Nobody knows why Grace is never alone. Paris builds dread with extraordinary efficiency, using the gap between what is shown and what is real...
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Agoraphobic Anna Fox spends her days watching her neighbours through her window — until she witnesses something she was never meant to see. A masterclass in Hitchcock-style suspense, constructed with real affection for the genre and packed with misdi...
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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A part-human, part-robot security construct who calls itself Murderbot has hacked its own governor module and now just wants to be left alone to watch TV serials. Unfortunately, the humans it's assigned to protect are getting themselves into life-thr...
All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries Series #1) - Barnes & Noble
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Laura Dave
Hannah receives a note from her husband the day he vanishes: protect her. She doesn't know what he's hiding. She doesn't know who's coming. She only has their stepdaughter and a single clue. Dave writes domestic suspense with the pacing of...
The Last Thing He Told Me (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)
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Shari Lapena
A baby is stolen from a bassinet while her parents are at a dinner party next door. The police think it's the parents. The parents think it's each other. Lapena works the unreliable narrator with surgical efficiency — every chapter reass...
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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Ruth Ware
Travel journalist Lo Blackwood witnesses a woman being thrown overboard on a luxury cruise. The crew insists every cabin is occupied. No one is missing. No one believes her. Ware builds claustrophobic dread in enclosed spaces better than al...
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Mary Kubica
A midwife disappears. Her neighbour goes missing days later. Eleven years pass — and then a little girl walks out of the woods. Kubica structures this in a way that lets you think you've figured it out at least three separate times before...
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
Romance, Dark Romance
Romance isn't always soft. Sometimes it's obsessive, morally complicated, and impossible to put down. This section has both — the kind of love story that makes your heart flutter and the kind that makes you question everything you thought you wanted ...
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​It’s an enemies-to-lovers romance set in the world of professional gaming. Think sharp-edged banter, high-stakes competition, and a massive amount of tension that builds up both in-game and in real life. It’s spicy, fast-paced, and Navessa Allen is ...
Game On (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Into Darkness Series #3)
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This release follows the intense, gritty, and high-stakes journey of characters caught between loyalty and desire.
If you loved Indigo Ridge or Perry’s more suspenseful works, this series takes that tension to a whole new level.
Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
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A steamy dark romantasy from the author of The Falconer trilogy. A princess must die every 14 days as a blood sacrifice to keep the god and human realms apart — until rebellion stirs and an immortal assassin is sent for her. Gothic, lush, and full of...
The Wolf and the Crown of Blood (Deluxe Limited Edition)
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A Beauty and the Beast meets organized crime dark mafia romance. Scorching slow-burn tension, life-altering secrets, and a premise that keeps you gripped from the first page. One of the most anticipated dark romance releases of the year.
Kincaid del...
The Auction (Large Print Edition): A Spicy, Dark Romance Novel ...
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A writer living alone in her grandmother's Gothic mansion discovers she is being watched — and then stalked — by a man who is utterly convinced she belongs to him. Carlton doesn't soften the edges or make excuses for what this book is. It is dark, ob...
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse Duet #1) - Barnes & Noble
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The original dark new adult romance that started it all. Abby Abernathy is trying to leave her past behind. Travis Maddox is a tattooed underground fighter who has never lost — in the ring or in wanting what he wants. Toxic, addictive, and relentless...
Beautiful Disaster: A Novel - Jamie McGuire - Barnes & Noble
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Erika spent three years believing Michael Crist was behind the worst night of her life. Now he's back — and so are his friends — and whatever game they're playing with her is darker and more complicated than revenge. Douglas builds obsession and mena...
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1) - Penelope Douglas - Barnes & Noble
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After losing her parents, Tiernan de Haas is sent to live with her estranged uncle and his two sons in a remote mountain cabin — cut off from the world, buried in snow, and surrounded by three men who have no idea what to do with her, or she with the...
Credence by Penelope Douglas, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Cold, ruthless Alex Volkov is asked to look after his best friend's little sister. The lines between protection and obsession blur fast. Emotionally intelligent beneath all the heat.
The brooding damaged hero done right. You'll despise him on page on...
Twisted Love (Twisted Series #1) by Ana Huang, Paperback
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Emilia was the hired help's daughter. Vicious Spencer tormented her for years — and then did something unforgivable. When they meet again, nothing has been forgotten. A genuinely complex anti-hero.
Shen dares you to root for him anyway. Most readers ...
Vicious by L.J. Shen, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Her first kiss is stolen at her debut ball by Chicago's most dangerous man, who then forces her father to hand her over in marriage. Psychologically rich and ruthless.
Arranged marriage dark romance at its most elegant. One of Shen's very best.
The Kiss Thief by L J Shen, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Figure skater Anastasia and hockey captain Nathan are forced to share ice time. She has rigid rules. He has none. Grace writes with warmth and wit underneath the heat — this is dark-adjacent romance with genuine heart, real chemistry, and a slow burn...
Icebreaker (Maple Hills Series #1) by Hannah Grace, Paperback
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Ivory is a senior in high school. Mr. Marceaux is her music teacher. Godwin does not soften this premise or make it safe — but she writes it with such psychological intensity, such genuine attention to the power dynamics at play, that it has become o...
Dark Notes by Pam Godwin, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
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Aiden King has hated Cole Nash for as long as either of them can remember. When circumstance locks them together, hate and something far more dangerous begin to blur. Kent's M/M dark romance is psychologically complex, morally grey, and written with ...
Empire of Hate by Rina Kent, Shane East, Christy Woods
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Sicily, 1888. When her twin brother is found murdered in a ritualistic killing, Emilia makes a deal with Wrath — one of the seven demon princes of Hell — to find his killer. Maniscalco blends gothic historical atmosphere, sharp mystery plotting, and ...
Kingdom of the Wicked (B&N Exclusive Edition ... - Barnes & Noble
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A dare at a Halloween party leads Jess into the orbit of the most dangerous man on campus — a man who doesn't do relationships and doesn't pretend otherwise. Laroux writes dark romance with a rawness and fearlessness that sets her apart. The Dare bec...
The Dare by Harley Laroux | eBook | Barnes & Noble®
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Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy has been chosen by the gods — sheltered, untouchable, and utterly restless. Hawke is her guard, forbidden in every sense. Armentrout builds one of the most electrifying slow burns in the entire romantasy genre, then deton...
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash Series #1) - Barnes & Noble
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Lucy Score
Naomi drives to a small Virginia town to stop her twin sister's wedding — and ends up stranded there, jobless, suddenly caring for her niece, and in the orbit of Knox Morgan, the grumpiest, most infuriating man she has ever met. Score writ...
Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout Series #1) - Barnes & Noble
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Ali Hazelwood
A PhD student fake-dates her intimidating professor to convince her best friend she's moved on — except he's not playing the role of fake boyfriend at all casually, and neither is she. Hazelwood writes STEM romance with sharp, self-awar...
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
Sci-fi
Sci-fi reminds you how vast everything is — and somehow makes you feel more human in the process. These picks range from heartbreaking literary sci-fi to pure adrenaline page-turners. Whether you've never touched the genre or live in it, something he...
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its clever sci-fi problem-solving and emotional depth.
A crossover favourite in both mainstream and indie channels
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Epic science fiction set in a world where money trumps loyalty and the elite can buy or end lives. One woman in the twilight of her career must decide what is ultimately worth living — or dying — for. Fonda Lee at her most ambitious.
For fans of Gre...
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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A daring sci-fi debut from the author beloved for Boyfriend Material. Hall retells Herman Melville's Moby Dick in a form you've never seen before — trading the ocean for the cosmos and obsession for something far more unsettling.
The book that prove...
Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble®
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For centuries, Earth's greatest artworks have been on loan to an alien museum — and now the curators refuse to give them back. Humanity can't force the issue, so a crew of rogues, including an art historian, an insectoid pilot, and a sensynth hacker,...
And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer, Hardcover
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Three friends grow up together at a quietly unsettling English boarding school. The science fiction premise reveals itself slowly and devastatingly — and once you understand what these children are, Ishiguro has already made you love them too much to...
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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A ragtag crew aboard a tunnelling ship takes on a dangerous deep-space contract. That's the premise — but the real story is the texture of their lives together: the meals, the arguments, the relationships across species, the small rituals that make a...
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Series #1)
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A Black woman in 1970s California is pulled back in time to the antebellum South. Butler uses time travel to make the horror of American slavery immediate and undeniable.
Uses genre fiction to tell a truth no history textbook could make you feel this...
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Told through journal entries as a man's intelligence triples after experimental surgery — and the prose itself transforms as he does. A masterpiece about being seen, loved, and losing what makes you feel most alive.
You will cry. Genuinely, more than...
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Twenty years after a flu pandemic, a travelling Shakespeare company performs for survivors. Not about collapse — about what people choose to preserve when almost everything is gone.
"Survival is insufficient." The sentence that anchors this book will...
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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A neuroscientist's memory technology accidentally rewrites the past, creating cascading alternate timelines that begin to collapse reality. A love story wrapped in a mind-bending thriller.
Read it in as few sittings as possible. The less you know goi...
Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Paul Atreides is heir to a noble family entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis — the universe's most dangerous and most precious planet, the only source of the spice that makes interstellar travel possible. Herbert built an entire civilisation — e...
Dune by Frank Herbert, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Brilliant child Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is recruited into Battle School — a zero-gravity military academy training humanity's next great commander for an inevitable alien war. Card writes childhood and genius and cruelty and strategy with equal precisi...
Ender's Game|Paperback - Orson Scott Card
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is the wildcard cure — nothing breaks a reading slump faster than a book that makes you laugh out loud every few pages.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #1)
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Brilliant child Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is recruited into Battle School — a zero-gravity military academy training humanity's next great commander for an inevitable alien war. Card writes childhood and genius and cruelty and strategy with equal precisi...
Ender's Game|Paperback - Orson Scott Card - Barnes & Noble
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Jason Dessen is abducted one night, rendered unconscious, and wakes up in a life that is not his — a world where he made different choices, where everything he loves is gone. Crouch writes quantum mechanics as pure adrenaline, wrapping a mind-bending...
Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Susanna Clarke
A man lives alone in a House of infinite halls, filled with tidal statues and the bones of thirteen strangers. He journals everything. He believes the House is the world. He is wrong — and the process of discovering the truth is one of...
Piranesi (Women's Prize for Fiction Winner) - Barnes & Noble
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Ted Chiang
Nine short stories that each contain more genuine philosophical weight than most full novels. A world where memory can be rewound. A portal to an alternate timeline where your other self grew up differently. An automaton who discovers the ...
Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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John Scalzi
John Perry enlists in the military on his 75th birthday — because that's when you're old enough to fight the wars humanity is waging across the galaxy. Scalzi writes with wit, warmth, and enough propulsive momentum to make this one of the...
Old Man's War (Old Man's War Series #1) by John Scalzi, Paperback
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Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk south through the ash of a destroyed America, toward a coast neither of them has seen, carrying a fire neither of them can name. McCarthy strips language down to its bones and somehow makes it more beau...
The Road (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Cormac McCarthy, ...
Cozy Reads
These are the books you read wrapped in a blanket with something warm to drink. No stress, no pressure — just deeply satisfying stories full of characters you'll miss the moment it's over. Perfect for a reading slump, a slow weekend, or any time you ...
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A beautifully crafted novel about the ripple effect of a single book passing through nine different readers' lives — a grieving widow, a college student, a rural bookseller, a ghostwriter, and more. Bauermeister writes about the private, transformati...
No Two Persons: A Novel - Erica Bauermeister - Barnes & Noble
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Ten years after the events that rocked Pirriwee Public School, the children are now teenagers — and their parents are still full of secrets that refuse to stay buried. Moriarty's first-ever sequel arrives with all the wit, warmth, and perfectly timed...
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Four retirees at a peaceful English village meet every Thursday to puzzle over cold murder cases — until a real, very fresh murder lands on their doorstep. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron are sharp, funny, and impeccably real. This is the platonic...
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club Series #1)
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A failed bank robbery leads to a hostage situation at an apartment viewing — where the hostages are so exhaustingly human that the robber can't get a word in. Backman weaves together eight wildly different people, a father-and-son detective team, and...
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest — indefinitely — inside the grand Metropol Hotel in Moscow. Unable to leave, he builds an entire life within its walls over the next thirty years: friendships, purpose, love, and a quiet, u...
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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Between life and death exists a library containing every book about every life you could have lived, if only you'd made different choices. Nora Seed, at her lowest point, gets to explore them. Haig writes about depression and regret with rare gentlen...
The Midnight Library (GMA Book Club Pick) by Matt Haig, Paperback
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A man and his cat travel Japan visiting old friends as he quietly searches for Nana a new home. Japanese in its restraint and tenderness — devastating in ways you don't see coming.
Bring tissues. Then immediately recommend it to everyone you love.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, Hardcover
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A man runs a literary apothecary on a barge on the Seine, prescribing books to heal the soul. A journey through France, grief, and the right book at the right moment.
For every person who has ever been saved by a book — which is everyone reading this...
The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel by Nina George, Paperback
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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer who no longer believes in happiness become summer neighbours and swap genres. Sharper and emotionally smarter than the title suggests.
The beach read too good to be called a beach ...
Beach Read by Emily Henry, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Alex and Poppy are best friends who take a trip together every summer. Then one trip ruins everything and they don't speak for two years. Told in alternating timelines — the summers that built their friendship and the present where Poppy attempts one...
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, Paperback
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A.J. Fikry is a bitter, grieving bookseller on a small island who wants nothing to do with anyone — until a toddler is abandoned in his shop and everything begins to change. Zevin writes about books, grief, community, and second chances with immense ...
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, Paperback
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Molly Gray is a hotel maid who finds great comfort in the orderliness of her work and great difficulty navigating social cues. When she discovers a wealthy guest dead in his room, she becomes the prime suspect. Part cozy mystery, part deeply compassi...
The Maid (GMA Book Club Pick) by Nita Prose, Paperback
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Nora writes predictable romance movies for a Hallmark-style channel as a way to survive her divorce. When her latest script is picked up and filmed at her actual house, the devastatingly handsome lead actor asks to stay on — just to decompress, just ...
Nora Goes Off Script - Annabel Monaghan - Barnes & Noble
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Recently widowed Major Ernest Pettigrew — a retired British officer with impeccable manners and deeply held opinions — strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, a Pakistani shopkeeper in his small English village. What grows between them is te...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson, Paperback
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Shelby Van Pelt
A widow working the night shift at an aquarium strikes up an unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus who has been observing the humans around him with considerable intelligence and mild contempt. A mystery, a love story, and ...
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, Paperback
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Graeme Simsion
Don Tillman is a genetics professor with an iron schedule and absolutely no idea how to talk to people. His quest to find the perfect wife via a 16-page questionnaire goes immediately and hilariously sideways when he meets Rosie, who f...
The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion, Paperback
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Josie Silver
Laurie spots a man through a bus window and feels the full weight of something she can't name — then watches him disappear into the city. When she finally meets him, he's her best friend's boyfriend. What follows is a love story told ove...
One Day in December by Josie Silver, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
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Clare Pooley
A lonely elderly artist leaves a small green notebook in a café with a confession inside, asking the next reader to add their own truth. Six people. Six secrets. One café in London. Pooley writes community and connection with a lightness...
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
One night. One legendary party at the Malibu home of four famous siblings. One house that ends the night on fire. Told across a single evening and decades of family history simultaneously, Reid writes about fame, inheritance, and ...
Malibu Rising (Read with Jenna Pick) - Barnes & Noble