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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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Unwind (Unwind, #1)

Neal Shusterman

Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.

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Uzumaki

Junji Ito

Spirals... this town is contaminated with spirals... Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral — the hypnotic secret shape of the world. This bizarre masterpiece of horror manga is now available in a single volume. Fall into a whirlpool of terror!

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which edition to read Stormlight Archive

Hi everyone! I recently read Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson and really enjoyed it. While I'm planning on reading Mistborn next, I'm rather sure I will want to dive into Stormlight Archive at some point too. Now I know Pagebound isn't much about the editions of books people read. However, since the Stormlight Archive books are absolute bricks, I keep wondering which edition I should read. The floppy US paperbacks that hold the entire story and therefore 1000+ pages in a rather big format (quite impractical for taking anywhere and I love taking my current read wherever I go, especially when I stay the weekend at my parents')? Or what about the UK paperbacks that have the story divided into two parts / books (more practical for taking along but twice the amount of books to buy and find space for on my shelves)? Any recommendations from your own experience?

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(PS: this is my first ever post in a forum here, I hope I'm doing this right)

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Angels After Man

Rafael Nicolás

A Queer Retelling of God's ApocalypseThe angel Dina is both young and ancient, every human epoch breezing past his home in Heaven as he waits for the end times. When the archangel Uriel reveals the truth about God’s first creations, however — Dina ventures out to find a beautiful, seductive star who urges him to bring about the apocalypse for the sake of destroying evil once and for all. Lovesick, Dina agrees.Bordering a nation like Babylon, the human Tadeo has suffered and died to uniquely human horrors. But resurrection bestows newfound powers onto him that he’s convinced derive from God. While on a saintly path to free his town from war, Tadeo meets the angel Dina, who appears with a dark omen.The end of the world will come soon — but who really is it that wants the apocalypse?

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The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

C.L. Clark

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Luca needs a turncoat. Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet's edge between treason and orders. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren't for sale.

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Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

Jay Kristoff

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Three Holidays and a Wedding

Uzma Jalaluddin

Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos. As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays—Maryam to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family for the first time—neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they’ll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam’s life, Saif, wasn’t sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops. An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love—both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays.

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Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.5)

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Dec 21, 2025

5.0

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

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This was a great book giving us a glimpse into the lives of Melaugo, Marosa, and Aubrecht. Even Fýredel. I wish it was longer. But I enjoyed it all the same! Would definitely recommend to any fans of Priory.

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