Special Contest: Win a Copy of COME CLOSER: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy, by Dr. Galit Atlas
What is the secret of emotional intimacy? How can understanding our childhood experiences give us the insights we need to be close to others in a truly satisfying, longer lasting and more meaningful way?
In COME CLOSER: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love, and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy, Dr. Galit Atlas invites us inside the private lives of her patients --- and into her own --- to offer new, life-changing answers to these important questions.
We are giving 20 readers the opportunity to win a copy of COME CLOSER, which is now available and would be a great book to talk about with your book group or with your family.
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Our Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks for September
Each month, we share top book picks from Indie Next and LibraryReads. We also feature a number of other prominent selections, including the Barnes & Noble Book Club, the “Good Morning America” Book Club, Oprah’s Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the “Read with Jenna” Book Club, Reese's Book Club, and the Target Book Club.
September's #1 Indie Next pick is EXIT PARTY by Emily St. John Mandel. In this breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds and fractured timelines, a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman --- a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State --- searches for answers.
» Click here for September's Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks.
The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of PACHINKO returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.
A celebrated bartender at the Ritz Hotel during the Nazi occupation of Paris harbors a dangerous secret in this international bestseller based on a true story.
In this highly anticipated sequel to BIG LITTLE LIES, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion.
The bestselling author of THE BERRY PICKERS has penned an unforgettable novel about a woman who must confront her family’s buried truths and memories of passionate young love when her grandmother’s death leaves her as the only guide to her community’s future.
COME CLOSER is a profound and eye-opening book by Dr. Galit Atlas, a psychoanalyst and the internationally bestselling author of EMOTIONAL INHERITANCE, that reveals how our childhood wounds hold the key to understanding our adult relationships.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of BY ANY OTHER NAME comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.
What if your own family history turns out to be a terrifying lie? Every family has its story, and this one’s deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth in this twisty and captivating thriller by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Spanning a century, this suspenseful thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors James Patterson and David Ellis is set in motion by the murder of Adolf Hitler's young lover by his own hand.
Part ghost story, part love story and steeped in magical realism, PAPER GHOSTS will transport you to a place where old secrets echo through the years and love finds a way of bringing us home.
THE PIRATE QUEEN is a sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people.
RESTORATION is an evocative novel about an American architect who travels to rural England to restore a centuries-old barn --- and finds herself rebuilding the fractured story of her own family.
When celebrated and enigmatic artist Victor D’Arcangelo dies unexpectedly, his nearest and dearest receive an irresistible summons: attend his weekend memorial --- or forfeit their inheritance. But once they arrive, the paradise begins to feel more like a prison.
A breathless page-turner and a love letter to our planet, UNDER STORY grapples with the great questions of our time: human hubris, the precarity of the natural world, and the mysterious webs of consciousness that bind us.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia.
In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the iconic Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.
This brand-new series from the bestselling author of PRACTICAL MAGIC follows two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group of witches at Radcliffe known as the Lilith Society.

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