KattyB

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Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781577314806. To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question-and-answer format to guide us. A word-of-mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare books with the power to create an experience in readers, one that can radically change their lives for the better.

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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

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trilogy recs?

i have three books left until i complete my reading goal for this year! 🥳🥳

i’ve been in a slump for the last couple years and i’m really happy that i’ve dug myself out of it (for now 😭) and i really want to wrap up my goal with an amazing series.

do you guys have any recs?

so far i was thinking of maybe rereading the cruel prince series, or maybe the last three books of the pjo series (i’ve read the first two a few months ago)

i’m completely open to any suggestions, i don’t mind them being series i’ve already read before or somethings completely new. i usually love fantasy, romance and sci-fi! (i tend to read more YA)

thank youu!!!

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The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)

Jason Goodwin

"Jason Goodwin has unleashed his talent on a series of mysteries set in nineteenth-century Istanbul and starring the unlikeliest and most engaging of detectives: Yashim the eunuch." The Janissary Tree is the first in the series, and the year is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the sultan of the Ottoman Empire feels he has no choice but to follow suit. But just as he's poised to announce sweeping political change, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind the killings? Deep in the Abode of Felicity, the most forbidden district of Topkapi Palace, the sultan - ruler of the Black Sea and the White, ruler of Rumelia and Mingrelia, lord of Anatolia and Ionia, Romania and Macedonia, Protector of the Holy Cities, steely rider through the realms of bliss - announces, "Send for Yashim." Leading us through the palace's luxurious seraglios and Istanbul's teeming streets, Yashim places together the clues. He is not alone. He depends on the wisdom of a dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and the Creole-born queen mother. He manages to find sweet salvation in the arms of another man's wife (this is not your everyday eunuch!). And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For four hundred years, they were the empire's elite soldiers. But they grew too powerful, and ten years earlier the sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback? And if they are, how can they be stopped without throwing Istanbul into political chaos?

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2026 Book Fair Australia - Who has attended in the past?

Hello PB Friends,

Any Aussies here been to the Book Fair Australia and can share their experience?

Is it all about bookish accessories and merchandise? Or is it mostly self-published authors trying sell you their books? Or something else altogether?

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Jason Goodwin

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

Becky Chambers

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain. Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.

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Ghost Cities

Siang Lu

Ghost Cities – inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China – follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn' t speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed – then re-created, page by page and book by book, all in the name of love and art? Allegorical and imaginative, Ghost Cities will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami and Italo Calvino.

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Iron & Embers (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #1)

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It might be unpopular but I couldn't do it. The characters felt so inconsistent. She's meant to be super self sufficient and smart but also weak and in need of a big strong man? Also Torj, aggression seems to be his only emotion towards Wren and it's too red flaggy I fear. The plot didn't feel quite there except for maybe just ✨spice✨

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oh my fucking god

I have literally nothing else to say. this was mindblowing

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Need no spice high stakes fantasy romantasy sci fi basically anything except horror and realistic

So I have been in a reading slump but I know what type I want to read . I need book recs that will make me scream at the plot twists, stay up till 4 am reading, and makes me sad with angst. Any recs?

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