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As seen on Good Morning America: GMA 15 New Books to Read | 2024 American Fiction Award winner for African American fiction and historical fiction - "Miller brings to enthralling life a hidden gem in American history." —Publishers Weekly - There is only one known queen who truly ruled a kingdom on American soil. Meet the queen of Happy Land.

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same. Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man's baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be and is forced to figure out what she is going to do with the rest of her life.

"LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 - A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick - Apple Books' Best Books of the Month - Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor's Pick, Romance - An NPR "Books We Love" - Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month - LibraryReads Hall of Fame June 2023 - Publishers Weekly Best Romances of 2023 - Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century grumpy/sunshine rom-dram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son for Newsies shippers that absolutely delivers (Dahlia Adler, Buzzfeed Books

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family - Following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone's lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging and lucrative world of technology.

Set in the summer of 1968 - A provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history - A timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker's Meridian and Ntozake Shange's Betsey Browne.

New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick - Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - A Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction "A sweeping, tender-hearted epic." —Harper's Bazaar In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people's lives. History is a flood. The Mighty Red In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding.

As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But no one can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family's life is about to change forever. Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution, of hope, faith, and unexpected heroism.

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It's 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth's skin crawl and she'd rather be anywhere but here.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.