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Since I’ve been reading this using only half my brain cells, I need help. Could someone please remind me how much access the viewers and the Borant corp have to the crawlers’ interaction? Like when they mind text each other vs. when they are in their personal space vs. when they are in safe rooms, etc? Thank you 💃❤️

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree – a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story. It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her – and lose her – and find her – and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written – but whose will it be?

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NetGalley READ NOW 🫶

Ok so I've never been on NetGalley before but I signed up just to read my best friend's SFF debut, which is available as a READ NOW title:

✨ BY THE LIGHT OF THE STARS by EMILY GRAY ✨

It's an epic space opera romantasy with a dash of spice and some politics to crunch on, like Winter's Orbit meets Han x Leia by way of Pride and Prejudice.

👑 FMC is a serious-minded and anxious princess on the brink of an arranged marriage when political instability causes her to make a life or death decision to trust the one scruffy rake who offers her some refuge.

🏴‍☠️ MMC is a bisexual transport pilot (Flynn Rider x Han Solo energy) with a lot more on his plate than he lets on at first, and he drinks his respect women juice EVERY DAY 🙏

Since it's available as a READ NOW title, I'd like to ask SFF & romantasy fans on NetGalley to give my friend's debut book a chance. I'm so proud of her, she's one of the best writers I've ever known, the cover is BEAUTIFUL and the pages in between are even better.

(PS: (vin diesel voice) it's about the FAMILY)

I would love so much if we could flex some Pagebound power and get my homegirl some honest reviews💪 I'm just one pasta, but together we can be an entire Italian restaurant 🙂‍↕️

Forgive me if this post is irritating or inappropriate, I'll take it down if needed. I just want my best friend to see how many people are reading and thinking about her book. That's the dream 🥹🥰

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Books that remind you of video games

I was wondering if any of you guys have books that remind you of/give the same vibes as video games you have played?

I feel like a lot of the RPGs, cozy games, and visual novels I play have a lot in common with the books I read, so I was wondering if anyone else felt the same.

I am so excited that T. Kingfisher is writing the Astarion prequel novel. I am a huge fan of Kingfisher, and I am a huge player of D&D and BG3, so I am the exact target audience. I have also made comments in the past that a lot of her books, especially the Paladin series and Nettle and Bone, give off D&D campaign vibes, and I would love to play a campaign set in one of her worlds. I love a good questing party. So I think she is the perfect author.

I recently read Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K England, which was marketed as Stardew Valley vibes, and I heavily agree.

I also read The Sword of Kaigen a while back, and it reminded me so, so, so much of Fire Emblem: Three Houses (if anyone is a fan of FE3H pls say so, it's my favorite game of all time!). Obviously, there are the military and school aspects, but the clans and their inherited powers reminded me so much of the Crest system and the pressures that came with it. And Mamoru and Hiroshi remind me a lot of Glenn and Felix :(

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This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

Matt Dinniman

The time has come! Book seven in the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series is here! They call it Faction Wars. The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground. As the AI continues its rapid decline, Carl and company take advantage of the chaos. For the first time ever, the crawlers are fighting back. They are now one of the nine teams. And this season, there’s a tenth army on the playing field. The NPCs, who are normally used as nothing but cannon fodder, have become fully self-aware and formed a team of their own. For Donut and Katia, the stakes are even higher. Only one of them will be allowed to leave this level. If they all want to survive, they’re going to need a little help from a veteran or two. This is it. This is what they’ve been fighting toward. This is war. This inevitable ruin.

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

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Nonfiction focused on social identity, diversity, equity, inclusivity, class, and belonging. Together, we find history, identity, love, compassion, and community.

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

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Educated

Tara Westover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.

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Under the Tuscan Sun

Frances Mayes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

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The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

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An introduction to Non-Fiction, these books are part of the cultural zeitgeist or the 'canon' that many would recognize. Look for more niche titles in later Starter Pack volumes.

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An Education in Malice

S.T. Gibson

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from Sunday Times bestselling author S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla. But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and dark magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.

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Encyclopedia Nostalgia

Yesterday, a weird thing happened to me. Out of nowhere, my brain started thinking about encyclopedias. I don't know why. My brain is a pinball machine, always doing its own thing. The thing is, the thought I had was a fun one. I miss encyclopedias. When I was a kid, I used to just randomly flip them open in the library and read random facts. I did this all the time. It has made me a stone-cold killer in trivia games. When I graduated from college, I briefly took a job with World Book Encyclopedia because they would give you a free set after you sold two sets. I sold my two sets. Got my encyclopedias and quit. I kept that set in my classroom for years. I would still randomly pick one up and read some facts.

It made me realize in this world of instant knowledge, I miss encyclopedias. I miss cracking the books open and seeing what weird things I could find. The school I work at doesn't even have one in the library. They have become antiquated. I looked them up online. You can still buy World Books. I am not going to lie, I thought about it.

It made me chuckle. It feels weird to be nostalgic for encyclopedias. I would love to hear if you have any unusual nostalgia for things in the reading world? Do you miss encyclopedias (I have a feeling I might be standing alone in this group)? Do you miss an old bookstore or library? Let me have a snippet.

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