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The best in fiction and memoir for Fall 25 from Sibylline Press đź“š
Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Thingsby Nikki Nash Raised in a chaotic, bohemian Hollywood household, teenage Nikki Nash becomes fixated on a bold mission: meet and win over Warren Beatty. With determination and a detailed plan, at eighteen, working in a restaurant near the Beverly Wilshire, her long-shot dream collides with reality. While Warren remains ever present in her life, this is really the story of one woman navigating Hollywood as a producer, comedian, and actor as she maneuvers through the eccentric fringes of L.A., brushing up against fame, danger, and dysfunction. “A dazzling kiss-and-tell that brings vintage Hollywood to life.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Dotted with star-studded moments, Nash’s honest reflections steal the spotlight.” ​
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Seeds of the Pomegranate: A Novel
by Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
After illness derails her dreams of becoming a painter in Sicily, Mimi Inglese immigrates to New York, only to be dragged into her father’s criminal underworld. When he’s imprisoned, she turns to counterfeiting to survive, using her artistic gift to forge a path through Gangland chaos. As violence closes in, Mimi must risk everything to escape a life built on desperation and reclaim the future she once imagined.
“A riveting and intelligent novel with a powerful message.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“In Samuels’s impressive debut, an artist reckons with illness and loss while pursuing her career in early 1900s Sicily and New York City." ​
​—Publishers Weekly
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You Could Be Happy Here: A Novel
by Erin Van Rheenen
When Lucy loses her mother and discovers her real father may be a man from her childhood summers in Costa Rica, she sets out to find him—and herself. But the town she returns to is no longer the paradise she remembers, and her search raises more questions than it answers. You Could Be Happy Here is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home.
“A brilliant debut, You Could Be Happy Here is engaging, touching, and sometimes wryly funny. A beautiful tale of personal discovery, blended with travelers’ insights and natural history tidbits that made me laugh out loud.”
—Pat Murphy, Nebula–winning author of The Falling Woman and Rachel in Love
“Van Rheenen's debut novel . . . never goes where you think it's going, but always takes you someplace wonderful.” ​
​—Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Booth
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The House of Cavanaugh: A Novel
by Polly Dugan
In 1964, Joan Cavanaugh has a secret affair that leads to the birth of a daughter whose true paternity she takes to her grave. Fifty years later, when 23andMe unearths the buried truth, the foundations of two tightly connected families are deeply shaken. The House of Cavanaugh is a gripping story of hidden pasts, unraveling loyalties, and what it really means to be family.
“The House of Cavanaugh is a moving, elegantly told novel about life and death, about familial love and familial secrets, and about how the past persists in the present, no matter how much we'd like to think otherwise. Polly Dugan is a wise and sensitive writer, and with this beautiful novel she'll break your heart.”
—Edan Lepucki, NYT bestselling author of Times’ Mouth and California
“Polly Dugan writes like a dream. Her sentences are piercing and true. This book takes clean aim at the messy truths of the human heart. I couldn’t put it down.” ​
​—Steve Almond, author of All the Secrets of the World and Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow
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Widow's Walk: A Novelby Jane Willan When Reverend Miranda McCurdy brings progressive change to a tradition-bound coastal church in Maine, her efforts spark fierce resistance—especially after she challenges the town’s beloved Thanksgiving pageant. As the congregation splinters and a woman seeking sanctuary raises the stakes, Miranda must choose between fleeing back to her old life or staying to fight for the community she’s slowly come to love. A stray dog and a mysterious stranger may tip the scales in this story of conviction, belonging, and second chances.
“A heartwarming tale of second chances and spiritual awakening.” ​
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Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
by Deborah Lee Luskin
At sixty, longtime writer, gardener, and teacher Luskin feels a wild new calling: to leave the safety of her garden and venture into the forest where, contrary to everything that has gone before, she learns to hunt deer. Reviving Artemis follows her late-in-life transformation as she confronts fear, embraces the forest, and reclaims a primal connection to nature. Blending humor, vulnerability, and myth, this is the story of a woman choosing to age on her own fierce terms.
“An honest, tender and engaging story about building relationship with land and community, about conservation, about reciprocity and responsibility, about death and change, about choosing to step bravely and humbly into the unknown.” ​
​—Ethan Tapper, author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
“Luskin’s insights are not just limited to the woods. With a sharp intellect, she opens new doors of awareness about community and connectedness.” ​
​—Kate Troll, author of All in Due Time: A Memoir of Siblings, Genealogy, Secrets and Love
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New release from Sibylline Press! A long-buried secret. A friendship on the brink. A family forever changed. In 1964, Joan Cavanaugh has a secret affair that leads to the birth of a daughter whose true paternity she takes to her grave. Fifty years later, when 23andMe unearths the buried truth, the foundations of two tightly connected families are deeply shaken. The House of Cavanaugh is a gripping story of hidden pasts, unraveling loyalties, and what it really means to be family. LEARN MORE...
New release from Sibylline Press! Fiction | Paperback $20 | ISBN: 9781960573476 | eBook $9.99 | eISBN: 9781960573537 | OUT NOW! Lucy—single, childless, in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems, in part to make sense of human behavior. That hard-won insight is shattered when her mother dies prematurely, her sister claims the California family home, and Lucy learns that her biological father is apparently a Costa Rican they knew when the family spent summers in the coastal village of...
New release from Sibylline Press! Historical Fiction | OUT NOW! | Paperback $22 | ISBN: 9781960573445 A gritty story of a woman learning to survive in 20th century Gangland New York... In early 20th-century Sicily, noblewoman Mimi Inglese, a talented painter, dreams of escaping the rigid expectations of her class by gaining admission to the Palermo Art Academy. But when she contracts tuberculosis, her ambitions are shattered. With the Sicilian nobility in decline, she and her family leave for...