09/05/2026
FIRST CALL FOR FALL FICTION! 🍂📚
📚THE BIRTHING TREE by Amanda Peters
From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers, a moving novel about a Mi’kmaq woman who returns home after her grandmother’s death and confronts family truths, lost love, and the traditions she may now carry forward.
“A wonder of elegant prose and deep insight.” — Mona Susan Power
📚THE BURNING SIDE by Sarah Damoff
After April and Leo escape a devastating house fire with their children, another crisis emerges: the cracks in their marriage. A tender story of family, forgiveness, home, and long love.
“The Burning Side is just perfection.” — Zibby Owens
📚BIG LITTLE TRUTHS by Liane Moriarty
Ten years after Big Little Lies, Madeline, Celeste, Jane and their families are back—with teenagers, old traumas, new troubles, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Reese Witherspoon’s September Book Club pick.
“Don’t wait for the TV series—Moriarty’s sparkling writing is worth the read.” — Kirkus Reviews
📚SUNLIGHT FINDS YOU by Laura Moriarty
In postwar Florida, a teenage girl falls into a forbidden love that changes her life. An absorbing story of family, desire, prejudice, sacrifice, and first love—and a Read with Jenna pick.
“The perfect summer read…it is propulsive and drenched in light.” — Jenna Bush Hager
📚UNDER THE FALLS by Richard Russo
A famous musician returns to the struggling Adirondack hometown he fled years earlier and must reckon with old friendships, buried secrets, and a childhood tragedy.
“A memorable literary thriller.” — Publishers Weekly
📚THE DISAPPEARERS by Marlon James
Set in Jamaica beginning in the late 1980s, Marlon James’s sweeping novel follows a group of gay men whose lives are transformed by a horrific homophobic attack. A fierce story of friendship, desire, survival, and erasure.
“This masterpiece is the novel of the decade, if not the century.” — The New York Times
“You don’t finish The Disappearers. It finishes you.” — Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Explore a curated selection of books at Perkins Cove Bookshop, your destination for literary treasures in a charming coastal setting.
