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Reese's Book Club pick. New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. A Best Book of 2024 – Kirkus – TIME – NPR – Goodreads – Electric Lit – and more. "Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a cry for justice. Writing with urgency and rage, Gonzalez speaks up for those who have been othered and deemed unworthy, robbed of their legacy." – The Washington Post.

For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films – this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new. Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants. London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes.

In this gorgeous stand-alone cozy fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart. Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne.

Orpheline, Rose est devenue mère à 16 ans et a quitté sa Corse natale pour rejoindre Toulon, une décision de son mari persuadé qu'ils y trouveront une vie meilleure. Un matin de 1957, elle rencontre Farida qui vit depuis peu au bidonville de Toulon. Une amitié va naître entre elles qui va changer le cours de leur existence et leur permettre de prendre la mesure du monde qui les entoure. Si les traces de la deuxième guerre mondiale sont tenaces, c'est désormais en Algérie que les combats font rage.

The bestselling modern classic by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – about a deaf couple, their hearing child, and the bond they create through sign language, featuring a new introduction by Sara Nović, author of the New York Times bestseller True Biz – and a new afterword by the author. "Astute and wholly authentic . . . This novel isn't only one of deaf hardship, but also one of bravery and great joy. . . . Over the course of it, I was often as gripped . . . as I am while reading a thriller." – Sara Nović, from the introduction. A Penguin Classic.

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child's fate in this moving, page-turning novel from "a gifted storyteller" (People). For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands—and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery.

Readers of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé will be captivated as the USA Today bestselling author expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this vivid, surprising, emotionally powerful novel about longing for independence and love — and the moments that irrevocably change even the best laid plans. Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they boarded the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912 — and how that maiden voyage would transform their lives in profound and unexpected ways.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize – Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction – Longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize – A Best Book of 2024: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, The Economist, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, BookPage, The Sunday Times (London). "Remarkable...Compelling...Fine and taut...Indelible." – The New York Times. "Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy." – Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring.

National bestseller – The USA Today bestselling inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us contest. Elba Iris Pérez's lyrical and "wonderfully compelling" (Judith Simon Prager, author of What the Dolphin Said) cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town. Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they've known.

"An unforgettable work of art." -The National Post. Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way.