13 Jun 2025
Between Love and Loneliness: Literary Fiction That Heals
These literary fiction novels explore the tension between connection and solitude. Whether it’s romance that slips through the cracks or friendships that last decades, each story captures something raw and real about being human.
Big Blue: A Parable of Modern-Day Migration
by Douglas Peiffer
Release Date: May 5, 2025
A page-turning struggle for survival that strikes at the heart of one of our time’s most significant social issues. Big Blue takes the reader on a cross-cultural journey that reveals a father’s boundless love for his only child and exposes a cycle of bias, bigotry, betrayal and greed that influences people across borders.
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So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
Release Date: June 10, 2025
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
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You Started It
by Daniel Hurst
Release Date: June 4, 2025
Alison thought she lived a quiet, normal life with her husband, Damian. But that all changes when an unexpected visitor reveals a shocking truth about her partner. Things will never be the same after that as a deadly game of deceit begins, full of shocks and surprises, lies and betrayal, and ultimately proving that when it comes to revenge, it’s best to take your time.
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The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club
by Martha Hall Kelly
Release Date: May 27, 2025
2016: Thirty-four-year-old Mari Starwood is still grieving after her mother’s death as she travels to the storied island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. She’s come all the way from California with nothing but a name on a piece of paper: Elizabeth Devereaux, the famous but reclusive Vineyard painter. When Mari makes it to Mrs. Devereaux’s stunning waterfront farm under the guise of taking a painting class with her, Mrs. Devereaux begins to tell her the story of the Smith sisters, who once lived there.
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Where the Rivers Merge:
by Mary Alice Monroe
Release Date: May 13, 2025
From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes her highly anticipated Where the Rivers Merge, the first of two epic and triumphant novels celebrating one intrepid woman’s life across multiple generations in the American South.
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Endling
by Maria Reva
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and the impact of war.
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