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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han. In this sweeping tale of magic, memory, and resistance, three generations of Korean women carry the weight of history and the power of myth. One vanishes and returns as a tiger. Another speaks truths no one can hide from, a third glimpses secrets in dreams. Bound by blood and fractured by Japanese imperialism, their stories span decades and borders.
At the center is Young-Ja, a spirited girl whose emotions flavor every dish she makes. Her joyful cooking once brought warmth to her family, until 1931, when Japanese soldiers shattered their defiance and her world. Grief turns her meals bitter, but her gift catches the eye of a rebel fighter. Swept into a covert sisterhood of teahouse spies in Manchuria, Young-Ja learns to wield her talents for the resistance. Yet the Empire’s reach is long, and her fight is far from over.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden.
A knock echoes through the icy woods of Minnesota, on the door of a cabin built on indigenous land.
Tap tap tap.
After a grueling ER shift, Dr. Alder drives the lonely boreal roads toward his one-room refuge. His eyes snap open just in time—his old Civic screeches to a halt before a towering bull elk, its head twisted unnaturally, mouth agape. Above, Comet Goodwin streaks across the sky, the closest comet to Earth in recorded history, casting a greenish glow with its jagged tail of fire.
Tap tap tap.
A blinding white flash. Shattered glass. The elk vanishes.
If Alder can get the car running and make it back to his cabin, maybe he’ll understand what’s happening. But first, he must survive the frozen night—and the malevolent force that hunts within it.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Son of Nobody by Yann Martel. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey weren’t the only voices echoing from the Trojan War. In this bold reimagining, Martel introduces The Psoad, a free verse epic chronicling the journey of Psoas of Midea, a humble goatherd’s son who leaves behind his family to fight at Troy. His story ends in tragedy, and the poem that once told his tale vanishes into history.
Centuries later, Harlow Donne, a Canadian scholar at Oxford, uncovers fragments of the lost epic. As he pieces them together and annotates the verses, he’s drawn into reflections on his own life, his wife, his daughter, and the weight of ambition and duty across time. Son of Nobody shifts the lens from kings and warriors to the forgotten and ordinary, reminding us that history is never truly past. It’s a haunting, lyrical meditation on legacy and loss, perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilson’s The Iliad.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The House of Hidden Letters by Izzy Broom. Skye isn’t one to act on impulse, until a crumbling Greek cottage offered by lottery tempts her with the promise of a new beginning. But when she finally arrives and steps through its weathered blue door, reality hits hard. The place is a wreck. Can she really make a life here?
Then, tucked inside the fireplace, Skye discovers a bundle of old letters. Their fragile pages whisper of a love lost to time, of heartbreak and heroism, and of secrets buried deep in the island’s past. As she’s drawn into the story they tell, Skye must also confront the shadows of her own history, because no matter how far she runs, fate always finds a way.
A lush, emotionally rich dual-timeline novel perfect for fans of Karen Swan, Victoria Hislop, and Lucinda Riley.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix. In November 2021, tragedy struck the English Channel when an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsized, claiming 27 lives. Despite repeated calls for help, French authorities mistakenly insisted the vessel was in British waters, deflecting responsibility. By the time rescue teams arrived nearly three hours later, only two people had survived, marking the deadliest incident of its kind in the Channel’s history. Small Boat offers a haunting fictional retelling from the perspective of the French navy officer who answered those calls. As she faces accusations of negligence, she grapples with guilt, deflection, and the crushing weight of systemic failure. Refusing to bear the blame alone, she confronts the broader forces behind the disaster: bureaucracy, indifference, and the politics of migration.
Vincent Delecroix’s powerful novel is a searing exploration of moral responsibility and the fragile line between duty and denial. It’s a story that asks: when faced with suffering, who do we become?
Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Passage to Tokyo by Poppy Kuroki. Yui Sanada is barely holding her life together, raising her twelve-year-old brother Hiro while dealing with their erratic, alcoholic mother. One afternoon in Ueno Park, Hiro vanishes into a hidden tunnel beneath a samurai statue. Yui follows, only to emerge in a Tokyo she doesn’t recognize.
It’s 1923.
Hiro is nowhere to be found, but Yui is taken in by a kind young woman named Chiyo and her family. As Yui adjusts to this unfamiliar past and her bond with Chiyo deepens, a terrifying truth emerges: the Great Kanto Earthquake is just weeks away. Tens of thousands will die, and the city will be reduced to rubble. Now, Yui must race against time to find her brother and protect the people she’s come to love before history strikes.
