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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
The Namesake
Crying in H Mart
Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3)
Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
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Common Goal (Game Changers, #4)
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The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
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The Beheading Game: A Novel
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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
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Caroline O'Donoghue

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    The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

    The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

    Jesmyn Ward

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  • Why's It Spicy?

    TIME TO STIR THE POT! Probably not a good thing when my anxiety is kicking my butt but I have things to say.

    I'm noticing a lot of books marketed as YA lately have gotten some really mature topics in them. Anybody else noticed this change in the YA genre?

    There will be on page spicy time with more adult themes throughout. And I'm probably just old but I've always been under the impression that YA books should be fade to black and any mature themes be muted. When I was a kid YA books were fluffy so to speak but lately when I pick up newer YA books this isn't the case.

    For example These Hollow Vows is said to be YA and the sequel had on page spice.

    Currently reading Stormbreaker by Nisha J Tuli and there's alcohol use, drug use, spicy content, multiple swearing throughout

    I run a book club and we were reading A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid which is said to be YA and a lot had to DNF because there was some really triggering material in graphic detail.

    Sunrise on the Reaping had very graphic scenes that had me gasping at the page.

    Just for the record; I am not saying teens shouldn't be reading this, they can read whatever. Teens are reading and watching some real messed up stuff lately, and gravitating toward more mature books. So I do get why YA is changing

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    Cash (Lucky River Ranch, #1)

    Cash (Lucky River Ranch, #1)

    Jessica Peterson

    Butting heads leads to knocking boots in this wildly sexy enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine, small town cowboy romance by Jessica Peterson. My dad and I have been estranged for years. But as his only living relative, it’s no surprise I inherit his massive cattle ranch when he dies. Something that is a surprise? The stipulation in his will, which requires me to live on the ranch and actively manage it for a year before I can access my inheritance money. I haven’t stepped foot in Hartsville, Texas, population one thousand, since my parents split when I was six. Now a city girl through and through, I never imagined having to move back to cowboy country. But I need the money to invest in my company, and a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. There’s just one giant roadblock to my plan: the ranch’s foreman, grumpy cowboy Cash Rivers. I don’t care how good he looks in his Wranglers and chaps. He’s rude, he’s growly, and he wants me gone. I’d fire him in a heartbeat, but I need this cowboy to teach me the ropes of running a ranch. We’re enemies from the get-go. But turns out, Cash is really good at this ranch thing. He’s got strong hands, an intelligent mind, and let’s just say everything really is bigger in Texas. Working alongside him leads to conversations beneath the stars. Throw in some cheek-to-cheek dancing at the local dive bar, and it all feels so right that I start to fall in love with life on the ranch. And maybe with him, too. But my stay in Hartsville is only temporary. And you know what they say about cowboys: they may break horses, but they also break hearts. If only Cash hadn’t already lassoed mine… CASH is the first standalone book in the brand new steamy, interconnected Lucky River Ranch Series.

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    Female Fantasy

    Female Fantasy

    Iman Hariri-Kia

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    Roll for Romance: A Novel

    Roll for Romance: A Novel

    Lenora Woods

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