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If You haven’t started reading the NightShade Forensic FBI Files yet, you’re missing out. – mystery, thriller, police procedural, supernatural suspense

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Who says Halloween has to wait until October? Summerween is the perfect time to dive into dark woods, sinister carnivals, strange worlds, and things that go bump in the night—all while the sun is still shining. From Rachel Harrison’s sharp, contemporary horror to Brom’s Slewfoot, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jeff VanderMeer’s eerie Southern Reach series, and T. Kingfisher’s unsettling The Hollow Places, these five reads bring a little spooky season to the heat of summer. So grab a cold drink, find a shady spot, and get ready for some summer scares.

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If you devoured Project Hail Mary and immediately started hunting for something that scratches the same itch, stop what you’re doing. Andrew Mayne’s two-book series – Station Breaker and Orbital – has been quietly waiting for you, and it’s exactly the fix you’ve been looking for.

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As the summer concert and music festival season starts winding down. That euphoria for attending a live show, that feels like reading a good book does not have to come to an end. The magic and hope that being in the audience of a live show is captured in these musician romances with a country music focus. Here are three country romances with cross-over heros. Nashville Days by Julie Capulet Travis Tucker has it all — four number-one albums, sold-out tours, millions of fans. But somewhere along the way, all that success started to feel a little hollow. Every song he's ever written has been about a girl he hasn't met yet, and he's starting to wonder if she's ever going to show up. So he heads out to a quiet country property to work on his next record and get his head straight. Next door, Ruby Hayes is finally free of boarding school and spending her summer the way she wants to: writing songs on an old piano in an abandoned farmhouse, before she heads off to chase her own dreams in Nashville. When Travis hears her singing, he's a goner. She's everything he's been searching for — except she has no idea who he is, and he's not exactly in a hurry to tell her. For Ruby, there's something about him that feels instantly familiar, like she's known him forever, and she can't quite bring herself to walk away. What follows is a summer of long nights, shared […] Read More...

A journey into the rare novels where scent drives the story, from the murderous obsession of Perfume to tales of memory, identity, love, and longing carried on the power of fragrance.

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For every reader who absolutely must pet every dog that walks by on the street, for everyone who knows the dog’s name but not the neighbors… this is for you.

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A celebration of imperfect, stubborn fantasy heroines—Yeine, Sunshine, Phèdre, and Dragon—whose messy choices and refusal to play it safe are exactly what make…A celebration of imperfect, stubborn fantasy heroines—Yeine, Sunshine, Phèdre, and Dragon—whose messy choices and refusal to play it safe are exactly what make them unforgettable.

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Discover the original and new illustrated covers for The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas.

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The weather outside is delightful, and there are fewer than 180 shopping days left until Christmas! Happy Christmas in July. Are you looking for some holiday magic to take your mind off the soaring temps in the the northern hemisphere? Need a beach reading with a twist? There are 184 birds mentioned in the full song The Twelve Days of Christmas. It’s a silly premise when you add it up, but it’s popular. And so are holiday romances that all play on the theme of the twelve days of Christmas. (by the way... day one is Christmas Day, it’s supposed to represent the time from Christmas Day until the Wise Men arrived with all the gifts, not the days leading up to Christmas.) Here are twelve Christmas romances that play around with the title the Twelve Days of Christmas. There are many many more, possibly even 184, but this list is limited to twelve. The Twelve Loves of Christmas  by multiple authors Swoon-worthy short story collection about finding love during the most magical time of the year. Including a playful forced proximity romance featuring a woman and her older brother’s grinchy (yet unexpectedly endearing) best friend, a tender love story of two neighbors who decide to skip Christmas together, a second-chance spark reignited between exes stranded at the airport, and many more festive love stories, there’s a little holiday magic waiting for every reader. Open one sealed story each day in the lead-up to Christmas to unwrap a season full […] Read More...

I love a book where I can chase an adventure across the globe. These three books put journalists, investigators, and fearless reporters in the middle of danger—and they make surviving the story half the fun.

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