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Explore the Best Contemporary Paperback Books

Dive into a curated selection of Contemporary paperback books from both indie and traditionally published authors. Whether you're seeking timeless classics or new voices in Contemporary, this page brings you printed stories that inspire, entertain, and endure. These books are hand-listed by passionate authors and are perfect for readers who still believe in the magic of turning real pages.

The Color of Oceans

Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod but his life isn’t the American dream because Ben is an alcoholic. He has a plan though, to get his wife back, to get his life back. He thinks of nothing else. Ben is about to learn that the road back is much more twisted than he ever could have imagined. But he may also learn that there’s almost always a way back…you just have to keep moving.
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Black Sheep

Blacksheep is a hard-hitting story about a young girl's struggle with an abusive mother and its fallout throughout adolescence into adulthood. During a tumultuous and often harrowing journey, the main character meets with an unlikely guardian and must compromise what is right in order to survive, enhancing the story's outlandish finale.
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Against the Machine: Manifesto

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation.
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Hymns of Blue Hollow

Trapped in the unforgiving hills of Tennessee in 1941, Esther Primm is chained to a life of hardship and moonshining under her grandmother's cruel watch. Lurking in the shadows, bootlegging Preacher Clive, obsessed and driven by dark desires, refuses to release his grip on her.
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Sunrise of Thought

This book of poems is written in the reflective narrative style. It ultimately succeeds in its aim: to inspire & stir emotion. Poems within this beautifully bound book can inspire the reader to learn about the past, present, and future.
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Limehouse Boys

Step into the gritty streets of London's East End in the 1830s as three boys resist the system that would confine them to a life of misery in the workhouse. Just when they think they've made it to freedom, an underground scheme run by the Beadle and his cronies nearly destroys them.
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Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive

Stranded on the planet humans call Lycania, and hunted by the Consortium garrison, Harry and a small group of survivors form an alliance with the planet's non-human population, the Canids and their even stranger 'Provider'. The result is an aliance which has catastrophic results for the Consortium.
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What No One Sees

This isn’t a love story, it’s a matter of survival.
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