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I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works

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House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

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The Enchanted Greenhouse

Sarah Beth Durst

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked honey cakes—at least until she’s ready to sail home. But Terlu can’t return home and doesn’t want to—the greenhouses are a dream come true, each more wondrous than the next. When she learns that the magic that sustains them is failing—causing the death of everything within them—Terlu knows she must help. Even if that means breaking the law again. This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by the gardener and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island—and have a fresh chance at happiness and love. Funny, kind, and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about giving second chances—to others and to yourself.

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Jun 21, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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The Magician of Tiger Castle

Louis Sachar

The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom, and the unexpected magic all around us.Long ago and far away (and somewhere south of France) lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia is in nearly as much peril as her struggling kingdom. Esquaveta desperately needs to forge an alliance, and to that end, Tullia's father has arranged a marriage between her and an odious prince. However, one month before the "wedding of the century," Tullia falls in love with a lowly apprentice scribe.The king turns to Anatole, his much-maligned magician. Seventeen years earlier, when Anatole first came to the castle, he was regarded as something of a prodigy. But after a long series of failures—the latest being an attempt to transform sand into gold—he has become the object of contempt and ridicule. The only one who still believes in him is the princess.When the king orders Anatole to brew a potion that will ensure Tullia agrees to the wedding, Anatole is faced with an impossible choice. With one chance to save the marriage, the kingdom, and, of most importance to him, his reputation, will he betray the princess—or risk ruin?

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Seven Days in June

Tia Williams

Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered... With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781538719107.

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The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)

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Books you started but never returned to

Are there any books you started but never really got the chance to finish? Mine is The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest. It's not that I couldn’t get back to it. I just realized that books structured with a page for each day aren't really for me. I still plan to finish it though.

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In search of E-books in other languages.

My mom loves reading just as much as I do but English is not her first language and she really misses reading a good book in her native language Laos. There are not any ethnic bookstores in our area and the only place we can usually find books in Thai or Laotian is when we make a trip out to NYC. I considered getting her an e-reader but I have no idea where I would be able to download or purchase books written in Thai for her. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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Jun 16, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Victoria Schwab

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

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Weirdest Bookmarks?

Okay, so I know we all use things that aren't meant to be bookmarks as bookmarks. I used recipts, cards, stickers or really anything I can get my hands on but I've been using a leaf lately . . . A 'Wonder Of The World' leaf or a 'Kalanchoe pinnata' leaf to be exact (image belowfor anyone who doesn't know). I forgot that this is a plant that can survive in nearly any environment and it is now sprouting new plants while inside my book 😭 I've been reading on my tab for a few weeks now and forgot that I picked the leaf as an impromtu bookmark while I was reading a while ago . . . What was the weirdest bookmark you used? (Definitely not asking for inspiration for my next bookmark 👀 ) wonder of the world plant

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stasia

Jun 12, 2025

2.5

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 2.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5

Read this book series as a prerequisite for OUABH and this book made me hate Jacks so much, and he's the main love interest in OUABH 😭 Giving this book a 2.5 as I didn't enjoy it as much as the other two books, I didn't really like how the plot was going and Legend and Jacks both annoyed me to no end. Initially I did find the book fun, but I felt like towards the end the plot was getting more and more rushed (especially Scarlett's storyline). I did like how this book was shown from both sisters POV, but as I was reading I was growing more disinterested. Felt too committed to the series to DNF though 😂

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What would you do if...

What if you were stranded on an island, they offer you two ways out, and you have to pick either that you can only read the worst book you ever read for your whole life or smell like shit for the rest of your life. What would be your choice?

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I dunno..I’m having a hard time getting into the book. I’m gonna keep going but it’s a struggling slow start for me so far.

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