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✨ 35 / oh, usa / romantasy, dark romance, paranormal, mystery, rom-coms & unreliable narrators / pro-tomato 🍅

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House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)

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24 Hours at the Capitol: An Oral History of the January 6th Insurrection

Nora Neus

The 24 Hours in Charlottesville author offers a minute-by-minute account of the January 6 riots through the never-before-heard stories of those who were thereNeus’s progressive lens goes beyond mainstream reporting to reveal important truths about racial justice and the US white nationalist movementDrawing on the collaboration and support of Tim Heaphy, chief investigator of the U.S. Congress’s January 6 Select Committee; on exclusive access to the United States Capitol Historical Society’s oral history project on the insurrection; and on her personal contacts on the Hill, Nora Neus reconstructs what it was actually like in and around the Capitol during those 24 hours. Her narrators include high-profile politicians and maintenance workers, Capitol Hill residents and White House photographers, police officers who defended the building and insurrectionists who have since disavowed their actions.Police officers recall the insurrectionists screaming at them and calling them traitors. Staffers remember “walking over pools of blood” as they ran for their lives. A young Asian-American staffer recalls locking herself in a room just feet from the rioters, mentally preparing to be raped. A mostly Black janitorial staff began cleaning the blood of insurrectionists off the marble floor on the Capitol before the building was even officially secured.January 6 was a well-planned attack coordinated largely right out in the open, the threat of which lawmakers and government officials underestimated in part because it was coming from white people. Neus will examine the underlying racial implications of not only the attack itself, but also in the planning and coordination of the response.

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To the Gallows

Elizabeth Skarpnes

When Lorali Wynmar oversees the last blessing of Athera’s most wanted criminal before he is hung from the gallows, she receives a surprising command from a dark save him. With the noose tightening around his neck, she invokes the forgotten rite of a gallows marriage to free him from his fate. For the next year, Eldric Lorecaster is now bound to the enigmatic high cleric that saved him. Forced to live together under the constraints of their bond, the pair forge a tentative and unlikely friendship. When their pasts collide, they must choose if they will follow their predestined-paths or diverge and grow towards something new. Elizabeth Skarpnes invites you to cozy up with a warm drink and your favourite snack in To the Gallows. Dive into this fast-paced, character-driven cozy romantasy set in a lush world and join our characters as they navigate what it means to be vulnerable, to trust, and to love.This book is perfect for fans of Tangled, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, and anyone looking for a cozy standalone novel that feels like home.

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Thoughts from 17% (page 51)

HE SAW HER SET HER MUG DOWN ON A WINDOWSILL, THOUGHT SHE MIGHT FORGET IT, BROUGHT IT HOME AND WASHED IT FOR HER??? AND THEN COOKED DINNER??

God I'm obsessed with characters who are hypervigilent from a lifetime of trauma and use it to make sure the people that are important to them are safe and feel loved!!! He barely knows her and has already integrated her into his life gjlfjldhkdgidgk this is the queerest straight(?) romance I've ever read and I'm so glad i picked it up on a whim 😭😭💞💞

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Readers of the World, Unite!

I thought it would be kind of fun to see where in the world people are, and then folks can make friends with people from the same countries/areas (if they way, not pressure obviously).

I'll go first. I'm Canadian, and more specifically I am in British Columbia (Vancouver Island if you want to get fancy).

Try to find your country and join that thread!

Everyone else?

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Sugar

Mia Ballard

Love, betrayal, murder, and witchcraft. When 35-year-old Satara Stratton discovers her husband Dean’s treacherous affair with her best friend, Lilah, she plunges into familiar deceit and death. Having disposed of men before without a hitch, she finds a new thrill in this betrayal. But with Lilah on a crusade to expose her guilt, Satara must outpace everyone to keep her secrets safe. Her fate intertwines with a Love Witch whose tempting spells seem a perfect solution to Satara’s woes. With newfound power at her fingertips, she gleefully manipulates the affections of those around her. Yet, Satara's lust for love proves her ultimate vulnerability. She soon learns that while it’s easy to bend others to her will, controlling her own heart is a perilous art indeed. Prepare for a darkly compelling journey where the boundaries of desire and devastation blur, and the quest for love becomes Satara's most lethal game. For fans of A Certain Hunger, step into the twisted, psychedelic world of SUGAR, a story about a femme fatale hooked on love and acid in this gripping tale of 1970's suburban chaos where nothing is as it seems.

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Local Heavens

K.M. Fajardo

A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions—shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby’s frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren’t all they seem—and as a corporate- sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever. He’s the reason they don’t. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself. As Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite—and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city’s most vulnerable—he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love, or truth? Heart, or soul? A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, Local Heavens examines the guardrails of morality… and the price of desire. Publication set for fall 2025.

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Portalmania: Stories

Debbie Urbanski

For fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado, a genre-busting collection of stories that transgresses taboos and reveals our lives in a startling new light. If you could be anything, what would you be? And what happens to the people you leave behind? In Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski wields sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and realism to build a dark mirror that she holds up to the ordinary world. Within the sharply imagined landscape of this collection, portals appear in linen closets, planetary gateways materialize in boarding schools, monsters wait in bathroom vents, and transformations of women’s bodies are an everyday occurrence. Political division causes physical rifts that break apart the Earth’s crust. A son on another planet sends dispatches home to the mother who failed him, and a wife turns to the supernatural to escape her abusive marriage. Portals are not only doorways found in children’s classics, but separations, escapes, dead ends, desertions, and choices that will change these characters’ lives forever. Against a fantastical backdrop, these stories dive bravely into the shadowy depths of betrayal, parenthood, revenge, murder, coercive sex, open marriages, marital rape, asexuality, neurodiversity, and second chances. What if we’re not the ideal parents for our children? What if we’re not the ideal person to live our own life? Portalmania questions why we love as we do and asks if we have enough courage to reimagine desire.

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Fantasy books

I need fantasy books recommendations I just need more

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series you have abandoned

hello lovely PB folks

i wanna know which series you have completely unintentionally (or intentionally) abandoned, bc i hope i'm not the only one to have unfinished series in her shelf 💀 rip

and i don't mean series you have DNF'ed bc they turned out to not be your taste, i mean like series you started reading and ended up actually liking. maybe also even already getting the sequel to continue but then for it to end up on your TBR bc other books where just more interesting 💀😭

for me it's the Caraval, The Prison Healer and Daughter of the Pirate King Series 🥲 for all these series i already own the 2nd book but they've ended up on my TBR 💀 and i fear they'll continue to be there for a while 😬 i still wanna read them tho!

spill the tea guys, which series are still waiting for you to finish them and why 😔

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