Literary Gems That Break Your Heart (and Fix It Too)
24 Oct 2025
Literary Gems That Break Your Heart (and Fix It Too)
Characters breathe, dialogue sparks, and the world feels vivid in these contemporary and historical tales. Stories of humanity, flaws, and triumph leap off the page. Reading them is an experience, not just a pastime.
The Sunflower Widows
by Matthew Fults
Release Date: September 23, 2025
Amazon No. 1 Hot New Release! In a quiet Ukrainian village nestled between golden fields and gathering shadows, the echoes of war reach those left behind. Three families—each with a story of love, hardship, loyalty, and strength—find themselves on a path born of necessity. Critics: “Spellbinding… profoundly moving… exquisite writing… terrific.”
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Parallel Lives: The Paths Not Taken
by Kris Maze
Release Date: October 21, 2025
When Harriet Last, a burnt-out insurance adjuster, enters The Experience, she expects a vacation trial. Instead, the hyper-realistic machine glitches, trapping her in nostalgic memories and eerie futures. A figure from her past haunts every scene—until he warns Harriet to choose… or lose herself inside. If you liked The Midnight Library, try this!
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The Unabridged Life of Missy Kinkaid
by Kirsten Pursell
Release Date: October 14, 2025
Witty, raw, and emotionally layered, this is a fiercely uplifting novel about friendship, loss, reinvention, and the strength it takes to become wholly yourself. First introduced in Pursell’s Finding Scarlet, Missy now steps into her own unforgettable story—one of heartbreak and humor, loss and resilience, and the enduring bonds that tether us home.
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The Life of Violet
by Virginia Woolf
Release Date: October 7, 2025
In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories.
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Mind the Gap: A Story of Britain’s Divide
by James Ashworth
Release Date: October 22, 2025
Bill Hughes came home from World War II to a Britain that promised cradle to grave security—free healthcare, council housing, a job for life on the Liverpool docks. His grandson Danny believed the same promise. His great-granddaughter Chloe arrived to find the NHS crumbling, council flats sold to landlords, and the safety net deliberately shredded by people who never knew her name.
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At Poupon’s Table
by Kermit Lynch
Release Date: September 30, 2025
Known as the man who introduced rosé to the US, legendary wine importer Kermit Lynch is as lauded for his writing as he is for his impeccable taste in wines of every variety and vintage. His thoughtful, witty notes on the subject led to the modern nonfiction classic Adventures on the Wine Route, which has been hailed as “one of the finest American books on wine” (The New York Times) and was recently celebrated with a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition.
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