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Powerful by Lauren Roberts
Find out what Adena was doing while Paedyn was busy trying to survive the Trials.
Jan 8
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Beach Read by Emily Henry
January has writer's block. Worse, her agent keeps asking when her (very late) promised book will be done. Even worse, circumstances force her to move into the house her late father shared with his mistress. Worse than all that, her new neighbor is none other than bestselling author Augustus Everett, who she had a bit of a rivalry with in college (not that he noticed). Lucky for her, he's got writer's block too.
Jan 5
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Of Blood and Fire by Ryan Cahill
Calen and his friends visit Milltown to spend some of their newfound money and make some new friends at the inn where they're spending the night. Little did they know that their new friends are on the run from the empire, hiding something they would give their lives to protect.
Jan 1
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Brimstone by Callie Hart
Now that Saeris Fane has found herself queen, she has to find a way to lead and to eventually fulfill her ultimate goal. That is going to be difficult to do since the people she now rules really hate her and her enemy has tricks she's never seen before.
Dec 29, 2025
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Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Mrs. Blossom accidentally wins the lottery and decides to take the trip of a lifetime with her best friend. While waiting to meet Muriel, she meets a kind, friendly, and handsome man that she believes is just as interested in her and gets swept off her feet. Too bad the next day he's found dead.
Dec 25, 2025
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Lovelight Farms by B K Borison
Stella needs to find a way to save her Christmas tree farm and she comes across an ingenious solution. A social media influencer is holding a competition with a grand prize that would keep the farm running and allow them to pay off their debt. But when Stella is invited to take part in the competition, she remembers that she wrote on the application that she owns the farm with her boyfriend - and now she needs to find a boyfriend fast.
Dec 22, 2025
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Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
Honoria is on her third social season, and she is desperate to be married. Or, desperate to be out of her mother's house anyway. Yet, all of the suitors that she has never run the full gambit and a proposal never comes. When she sees her brother's best friend, Marcus, and accidentally causes him to sprain his ankle, she feels terrible. When that sprained ankle leads to a near death infection, Honoria feels like she needs to help Marcus recover. What's the harm anyway? They're
Dec 18, 2025
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Malice by John Gwynne
Ages ago, gods fought with their favored soldiers until the All-Father scorched the world and turned his back on everything. Yet the war still raged, unseen by the mortals that the All-Father had left behind. Now a prophecy has become known that predicts the coming of two avatars: The Bright Star in the name of the All-Father and The Black Sun, who fights with the darkness. The God-War has come to the mortal realm again but who is The Bright Star... and who is the Black Sun?
Dec 15, 2025
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Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Logan Ramsay takes part in a raid on a secret genetics laboratory but finds nothing except a homemade explosive designed to shred his hazmat suit. He wakes up after the explosion and he feels no different, all of his tests come back normal. And that remains the case for a few weeks. But all of a sudden, his reflexes are better. His bones ache in a way he hasn't felt since he was going through growth spurts as a child. It seems that someone has given his body and his mind a bi
Dec 11, 2025
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The Dark Locket: Secrets of the Sanatorium by Chris Witt
Harold's girlfriend (and hopefully soon, fiance), Emily, disappears while doing research for her dissertation. He finds evidence that she was last at Lyaeus Sanatorium and he sets out to find her. But as he searches, he starts to uncover memories that he'd unknowingly buried and pieces of himself that he didn't know existed. Because this is not the first time Harold has been in Lyaeus, he spent his whole childhood inside its walls.
Dec 8, 2025
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Jason Dessen takes a quick trip to see a friend celebrating a huge career milestone, promising his wife that he will be home soon and bearing ice cream for dessert. Then, the unthinkable happens. He's abducted, taken to the outskirts of the city, and knocked unconscious. He wakes up strapped to a gurney with someone who claims to know him asking him questions he does not understand. He begins to realize that this world is not his.
Dec 4, 2025
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Blood Over Bright Haven by M L Wang
Sciona has been working her entire life to get where she is today - the very first woman to be an Archmage. She's making history and opening up new doors for all the little girls that want to be magicians too, and now the real work can start. The city is expanding, and she needs to present her ideas on how best to source the magic needed for the expansion. So, with her new Archmage robes, her new personal lab, and her brand, brand new assistant, Sciona gets to work. And makes
Dec 1, 2025
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The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
When the cops show up at Adam Morgan's door, arresting him while telling him that he was the last person to see his mistress alive before she was brutally murdered, Adam can think of only one person capable of taking on his case and proving his innocence: Sarah. His wife.
Nov 27, 2025
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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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