The Secrets We Kept
By: Lara Prescott
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
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1. Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.93
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she dis… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel."-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"... but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn't a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy …"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
"I told myself being a Perez meant more than being Cuban, that my responsibility to my family, to do what was expected, to be the woman my parents wanted me to be meant more than fighting for what I b…"-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)
2. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
4.25
Format: 194 pages, ebook
'Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman … read more
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3. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
4. First Lie Wins
By: Ashley Elston
4.05
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
5. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
6. The Night Tiger
By: Yangsze Choo
3.86
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
7. The Last House Guest
By: Megan Miranda
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The summer after a wealthy young summer guest dies under suspicious circumstances, her best friend … read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
8. The Giver of Stars
By: Jojo Moyes
4.29
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extra… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars
"Nothing more dangerous than a woman armed with a little knowledge"-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars
"I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them."-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars
"There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around."-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars
9. Before We Were Innocent
By: Ella Berman
3.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
10. The House of Eve
By: Sadeqa Johnson
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. Mother-Daughter Murder Night
By: Nina Simon
3.58
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
12. The Scent Keeper
By: Erica Bauermeister
3.93
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, present… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Salmon always return to the same stream."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"Once you change the scent, you change the memory."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"This city was too big, too fast, for such quiet details."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
"Scents were like rain, or birds. They left and came back."-Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper
13. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
By: Crystal Smith Paul
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of mode… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"We always have a choice; we only say we don't to soothe our conscience from what we're capable of."-Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
14. Whisper Network
By: Chandler Baker
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"We have been programed to work with secrets."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network
15. Northern Spy
By: Flynn Berry
3.70
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The acclaimed author of Under the … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
16. The Secrets We Kept
By: Lara Prescott
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto… read more
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- adult fiction
- russia
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"And as the years passed, her age always stayed the same, her beauty sealed in amber."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
"Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith."-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept
17. The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee
18. The Jetsetters
By: Amanda Eyre Ward
3.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, s… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood."-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters
"Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood …"-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters
19. The Chicken Sisters
By: K.J. Dell'Antonia
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters
20. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
21. The Cactus
By: Sarah Haywood
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus
22. The Most Fun We Ever Had
By: Claire Lombardo
3.93
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in lov… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"You're ethereal. My intangible everything."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren't your own."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
"Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him."-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had
23. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
By: Denise Mina
3.53
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)
24. Still Lives
By: Maria Hummel
3.26
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
25. Maybe Next Time
By: Cesca Major
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063239920. One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
26. The Unwedding
By: Ally Condie
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."-Ally Condie, The Unwedding
27. Everything Inside
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more
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- adult fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
28. Redwood Court
By: DeLana R.A. Dameron
3.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
29. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
By: Tembi Locke
3.95
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New Y… read more
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- audiobook
"Cooking is about surrender."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"We had to begin at an ending and make a new beginning."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"But I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
"Yet nothing about dying was easy. Not for him nor for me. It was labor, as much labor as coming into this world."-Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
30. The Christie Affair
By: Nina de Gramont
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desp… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"It seemed an important lesson for a young person. It wasn't only the angry people that should make one wary. The jolly ones could be even more dangerous."-Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair
31. The Cliffs
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
