Alchemy of a Blackbird
By: Claire McMillan
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Age of Light and Z, a mystical, historical novel based on the true story of the twe…
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1. The Warm Hands of Ghosts
By: Katherine Arden
4.02
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despit… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"Winter said there's ghosts all around you. Faland snorted. When you swim in the ocean there's water all around you, but no one mentions it."-Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
2. The Main Character
By: Jaclyn Goldis
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
3. A Grandmother Begins the Story
By: Michelle Porter
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story
4. The Invisible Hour
By: Alice Hoffman
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
5. Starling House
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.83
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Survival is a hard habit to break."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House
6. Lilith
By: Nikki Marmery
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North, Lilith is the story of the first woman, who w… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it."-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
"In time we came to the point that most closely concerned [the women]: that all life is precious, but Creation is a power to be used sparingly, not relentlessly, without care or concern for their heal…"-Nikki Marmery, Lilith
7. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
8. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
By: Melinda Taub
3.81
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
10. The Morningside
By: Téa Obreht
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
11. Someone Always Nearby
By: Susan Wittig Albert
3.52
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, pla… read more
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- art
- historical
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- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
By: Noelle Salazar
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Life would always throw challenges, but it was up to me to consider each and every one and make a choice about how I would take it on. And I was up to the task."-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
"No other person should ever get credit for being the best part of who you are. They may have helped shape you, lent you ides, shown you other possibilities, but you are you. Simple as that. Know your…"-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
"Art, I understood now, was so much more than the sum of its brush strokes, curved clay appendages, or intricate stitching. There were stories woven, kneaded, and scratches into each piece. Blood, swe…"-Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily
13. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
By: Laura Meckler
4.11
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In th… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
14. The Book of Thorns
By: Hester Fox
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t wa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. Alchemy of a Blackbird
By: Claire McMillan
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Age of Light and Z, a mystical, historical novel based on the true story of the twe… read more
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- adult fiction
- art
- historical
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
16. The Book of Rain
By: Thomas Wharton
3.28
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas,… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Sunrise Nights
By: Jeff Zentner
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in v… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Love seems to die around me."-Jeff Zentner, Sunrise Nights
18. Let the Dead Bury the Dead
By: Allison Epstein
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, followin… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
19. Nicked
By: M.T. Anderson
3.85
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
20. Leonora in the Morning Light
By: Michaela Carter
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a “gorgeously written, meticulou… read more
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- art
- historical
- world war ii
- france
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"It was either opportunity or integrity. Women, it seemed, were more often pressed to choose between them."-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light
"Art is something one does, she decides, not something one needs to talk about. It exists without explanation. Everyone will have their own interpretation anyway."-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light
"With certain people you know the moment you meet them that you will be friends. Something opens between you, like a clearing in the woods where before there were trees."-Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light
21. Magician and Fool (Arcana Oracle #1)
By: Susan Wands
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Pamela Colman Smith, newly arrived from New York to her birthplace of London, is received as an odd… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
