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Explore the Best Fiction Paperback Books

Dive into a curated selection of Fiction paperback books from both indie and traditionally published authors. Whether you're seeking timeless classics or new voices in Fiction, 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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Conversations With My Mother

Inspired by the author’s family’s experience, the story of an elegant, elderly Francophone who is struggling with dementia as her small Maine town succumbs to real-estate development. The book is as much about gain as loss and more about hope and appreciation than about regret and despair.
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Deliverance of the Damned

Deliverance of the Damned tells the story of Eiji Takara and Saburo Jahana, who risk everything to rescue Nomo—once Aimi’s closest friend in the Heart Mountain internment camp—after she is torn from the U.S. and forced back to a war-ravaged Japan.
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Fangs of Frustration

The Qing Dynasty crumbles and the Confucian order fades. Bai Lang, denied a scholar's path, finds solace in tales of righteous outlaws who fight for the people. He joins Sun Yat-sen's Republican revolution, but destiny leads him to become the White Wolf, a formidable bandit in lawless North China. Chasing a dream of a lost golden age, he clashes with the birth of modern China.
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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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A Baltic Affair

The tangled alliances and shifting allegiances of Northern Europe in the latter stages of the Napoleonic wars form the background to a story that embraces the challenges facing a young captain of a small sloop-of-war surrounded by potential enemy forces. He must navigate his ship and the tangled diplomacy -- and find love in the daughter of a German nobleman.
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Magnus Patricius: The remarkable life of St Patrick, the man

Magnus Scucatus Patricius, better known as Saint Patrick, was a real person, one far more human than the legends suggest. This fictional biography is based on his Confessio and his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus.
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Ned Farrier. Master Mariner: Call of the Cape

From a grim childhood in the East End of London, Ned Farrier he meets Sally Hudsmith, on her way to join her husband as he tries to rebuild their lives in the new colony in the Eastern Cape. While their social positions are widely different, and circumstances appear to dictate they can never go beyond friendship, fate has other plans ...
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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: Midshipman's Journey

From his childhood in Ireland, Harry Heron and Ferghal O'Connor make their way to London to follow Harry's desire to join the Royal Navy. Transferred from HMS Bellarophon to HMS Spartan in 1801 they set out on a voyage that, unbeknownst to them, will delay their return home for far, far longer than they can imagine.
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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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GOLD! The Kincaid Saga, Book One.

A gritty Family Saga set in the Western Australian goldfields—filled with twists and intriguing sub-plots of greed, betrayal, family conflict, and murder—GOLD! is a tale as big as the country in which it is set, populated by believable characters and a villain you'll love to hate.
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