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The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Kiela doesn't like people, but she loves books. When the Great Library of Alyssium is threatened by radicals, Kiela takes her sentient spider plant assistant Caz and as many books as she can manage and runs to the last place anyone would look for her - the island where she was born. What she has forgotten (or perhaps never realized) is the smaller the community, the nosier the people. She is immediately beset with neighbors wanting to help her, get to know her, and to gossip.
Nov 24, 2025
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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Two beings who fight on opposite sides of a never-ending war to control time become aware of each other through a series of close encounters and lifetimes of trying to gain the upper hand. When one of them leaves a note of appreciation for the other's work ethic and attention to detail, a love story like no other begins to unfold.
Nov 20, 2025
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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Three sisters reluctantly come together in New Salem to fight for the rights of women and discover how to return real magic to the world.
Nov 17, 2025
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Powerless by Lauren Roberts
Paedyn Gray tries to live her life in Ilya as under the radar as possible. It's how one survives a life in the slums. Until the day she witnesses a man about to be killed in an alleyway, and she saves his life. She becomes known as the notorious "Silver Savior" and her name is entered into the upcoming trials as a contestant. But what would be an honor for most people is likely to get Paedyn executed. Because she is an Ordinary, and her mere existence is an affront to the Eli
Nov 13, 2025
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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
Twenty-two years ago, Naomi and her best friends Olivia and Cassidy lived through an unimaginable horror when Naomi was attacked and stabbed seventeen times while the girls played in the woods. Miraculously, Naomi survived the attack and they were able to lock her serial killer attacker in prison. When they get the call that the attacker has died in prison, Olivia asks for the three of them to get together again. To their surprise, Oliviia thinks the time has come to tell the
Nov 10, 2025
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Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas
It is time for the final battle for Erilea but Aelin and her friends are all completely separated. Can they come together and join forces in time to beat their enemies, or will their last stand end it catastrophe and ruin - not only for them, but for the entire world?
Nov 6, 2025
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The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Opaline, Henry, and Martha all make their ways to Ireland looking for a place to fit in. Someplace that will be safe, where they can be themselves. What they find is a small bookstore that it seems can only be found by those who need it. Or maybe they don't find it - it finds them. Maybe it was never lost at all.
Nov 3, 2025
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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Clementine comes home from work one day and enters the apartment she recently inherited from her aunt to find a stranger. Turns out, Clementine's aunt agreed to sublet the apartment for the summer to her friend's son while he comes to New York City to live his dream of working in a fine restaurant. Of course, all of that happened before Clementine's aunt died. The two of them become temporary roommates for the summer, only seeing each other periodically, and Clementine soon r
Oct 30, 2025
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Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Nora Stephens isn't sure when it happened but somehow, she became the villain in her own story. She is not the plucky girl next door you root for in every rom com, nor is she a woman who can be "one of the guys". She is a bossy, high maintenance, city lover who puts all of her effort in getting the best deal for her clients. But then her sister Libby convinces her to take a month away from the city so that Libby can live out her small-town fantasy before having her third chil
Oct 27, 2025
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Sera used to be one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Key words: used to be. Now she barely has enough magic to keep herself warm and is grumpily running an inn with her aunt while trying to keep the talking fox and the skeletal rooster from blowing her cover and declaring to the countryside that she is a witch. Along comes Luke Larsen, who is looking for a safe place for his sister, and Sera begins to think she could get her magic back again.
Oct 23, 2025
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Rabbits by Terry Miles
K has always been interested in The Game, but when billionaire Alan Scarpio approaches them and says they needs to find a way to fix The Game before the next iteration starts, K isn't quite sure where to start. Then Alan goes missing and The Game starts - K not having fixed a thing - and nothing is the way that it should be. Now K really needs to fix things.
Oct 20, 2025
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Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
When Fitz was six years old, his grandfather dropped him off at his uncle's door and never looked back. Since his father just happened to be the king's eldest son and heir to the throne known for his honor, nobody was quite sure what to do with Fitz. He becomes an outcast who is blamed for his father's abdication, but he has an ability that the country needs.
Oct 16, 2025
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We Would Never by Tova Mirvis
Hailey and Jonah's divorce continues to get more contentious the longer it drags on, until Hailey is ready to give in on Jonah's demands. But when Jonah is murdered in his own home, ending their divorce before an agreement is reached, suspicion turns to Hailey. Find out who killed Jonah in this book, based on a true story.
Oct 13, 2025
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The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
In 1906, a terrible earthquake hits San Francisco. Both the earthquake and the following aftershocks caused immense damage, destroyed water lines, and fires swept through the city. At that moment, four women find themselves thrown together in a situation that could easily end in tragedy. A down on her luck soprano, a skilled embroideress desperate to escape an unwanted arranged marriage, a free-spirited author who has been missing for months, and a headstrong botanist must ba
Oct 9, 2025
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The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Students from a fiction mystery club take a trip to an island on which a terrible triple murder/suicide occurred the year before. Alone on the island, they begin to die one by one under questionable circumstances. Is there a connection to the last tragedy? Or is one of the students the murderer?
Oct 6, 2025
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Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas
Leave Aelin behind as Chaol and Nesryn travel to the Southern Continent in order to make new friends (and maybe some enemies too) and heal some wounds - inside and out.
Oct 2, 2025
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When in Rome by Sarah Adams
Amelia just needs to get away. She has been working non stop ever since becoming Rae Rose, international popstar. And she has a full agenda of appearances and interviews before she starts her next tour but she just cannot keep going like this! So she does what Audrey Hepburn once did in Roman Holiday. But Rome, Italy is too far, so Amelia heads to Rome, Kentucky.
Sep 29, 2025
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab
All Maria wanted was freedom. Freedom from her family and their expectations, freedom from her husband, freedom to do what she wanted. When she meets a widowed woman who promises her just that, Maria is quick to take the opportunity. But while Maria is given freedom in this exchange, the widow and so many others are brought death.
Sep 25, 2025
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Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
Annie's love life is a disaster. Her last date ended when she heard the guy arranging to have an "emergency" call come into his phone. What she needs is someone to teach her how to flirt - or at least to have a conversation without devolving into a stammering mess! And she knows just the guy to be her coach.
Sep 22, 2025
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A small, upstate New York community is shaken when a Bear Van Laar goes missing from his family's home and he is never found. Years later, the community comes back together again, this time to find Bear's sister Barbara, who has gone missing from the sleepaway camp on the family's property. Are the two disappearances related? Can they find Barbara before it's too late?
Sep 18, 2025
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