carodu13
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talking animals
by moski
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i love when animals get the chance to yap and/or narrate their own stories :)
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Sleep
Honor Jones
From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously â the one she was born into, and the one she has made. Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her familyâs verdant backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful maintenance. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes. After a series of confusing transgressions, the simple pleasures of girlhood, slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parentsâ bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her in a game of hide and seek. Sheâs newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new lover. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with the echoes and refractions between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child safe, and how much of our lives are our own, alone.Warm and generous, unflinchingly human, and ultimately joyful and empowering, SLEEP is about the cycles of motherhood and childhood, the cost of secrets and the burden of love, and whatâs on the other side of the world, rich in possibility.
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Bone of My Bone (Deluxe Edition)
Johanna van Veen
Bram Stoker Awardânominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de forceâperfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternalâŠ
The year is 1635.
Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying the gilded skull of a saint.
It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing the magic they seek comes at a cost.
At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choiceâone that could tear apart everything they know⊠or bind them to each other forever.
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Cross Court (Off Court, #2)
Vai Denton
Book 2 in the Off Court series. Release date, blurb, and cover to be revealed.
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Cross Court (Off Court, #2)
Vai Denton
Book 2 in the Off Court series. Release date, blurb, and cover to be revealed.
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Drop Shot (Off Court, #1)
Vai Denton
Delilah Anderson is no stranger to sacrifice where her siblings are concerned. Who needs to go to college when you have three hungry mouths to feed and pro tennis money in your sights? Except itâs not that simple. No matter how hard she works, the bills are piling up ad infinitum. When her doubles partner decides to start focusing on singles, she knows the margins are going to be razor thin.
So when Matteo Corsi, three-time Grand Slam winner and a friend of a friend, offers to play mixed doubles with her, it should be a no-brainer. She doesnât believe heâs as hateful as the media claims, and with her new endorsement deal, teaming up with him could give her the financial breathing room she needs. But after years of carrying her family on her back, accepting help isnât Delilahâs strong suit.
When circumstances force her hand, Delilah reluctantly agrees. As the days blur together with drills, practice matches, and lighthearted teasing, she realizes thereâs more to Matteo than she ever could have imaginedânot to mention what getting him to reluctantly smile or seeing him shirtless does to her.
Matteo is a distraction she canât afford, but one sheâll have to navigate to keep her (im)perfectly constructed life from falling apart.
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Round 2: Community-voted Quests, inspired by Lists (6/15/2026)
Last quarter, we trialed a new way to create Quests. Lists were nominated by Pagebound Royalty, the entire community voted, and 3 Quests inspired by 3 winning Lists were created.
Itâs time to do it again đ How this will work:
- Royalty members can nominate a List (their own or any community List) that would make a great starting point for a Quest. Royalty members will receive a notification today with a link to a form to fill out by EOD June 23rd to nominate. The form will include context about what makes for a great Quest. Folks who join Royalty through June 23rd will receive an email with a link to the form.
- The entire Pagebound community will then vote on which nominated Lists will inspire Quests. Everyone will receive a notification on June 24th with a link to vote.
- The creators of 3 winning Lists will be emailed and can accept/reject.
- If they accept, we will create a Quest inspired by their List, adapting the title & book list if necessary to fit Quest guidelines (for example, if a List has 20 books, we will reduce it to 15 for a Side Quest; if a List includes all 7 books of a series, we would put book 1).
We will be introducing another avenue to Quest creation in the fall: community-voted User of the Month (exact language TBD). The entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create 1 Quest.
The community-voted List winners and future Users of the Month will be listed as the Quest creator, and for Main Quests, this means theyâll be able to add new releases over time (capped at 100 books). The evergreen nature of Main Quests ensures their relevancy for many years to come, but of course, thatâs a big commitment to ask of a Quest creator, so Jennifer & I are always available to take over curation if the original creator becomes inactive.
Looking forward to seeing the wonderful Lists that get nominated!
Jennifer & Lucy
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Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time
Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more seriousâand deadlyâthan the players could have ever predicted.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Flesh
David Szalay
From Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control.Teenaged IstvĂĄn lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighborâa married woman close to his motherâs age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errandsâas his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that IstvĂĄn himself can barely understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in a violent accident that leaves a man dead. What follows is a rocky trajectory that sees IstvĂĄn emigrate from Hungary to London, where he moves from job to job before finding steady work as a driver for Londonâs billionaire class. At each juncture, his life is affected by the goodwill or self-interest of strangers. Through it all, IstvĂĄn is a calm, detached observer of his own life, and through his eyes we experience a tragic twist on an immigrant âsuccess story,â brightened by moments of sensitivity, softness, and Szalayâs keen observation. Fast-paced and immersive, Flesh reveals IstvĂĄnâs life through intimate moments, with lovers, employers, and family members, charted over the course of decades. As the story unfolds, the tension between what is seen and unseen, what can and cannot be said, hurtles forward until finallyâwith everything at stakeâsudden tragedy again throws life as IstvĂĄn knows it in jeopardy. Spare and penetrating, Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.
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Rejection: Fiction
Tony Tulathimutte
From the Whiting and O. Henryâwinning author of Private Citizens (âthe first great millennial novel,â New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
In âThe Feminist,â a young manâs passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isnât getting him laid. A young womanâs unrequited crush in âPicsâ spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in âAhegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,â a shy late bloomerâs flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each otherâs dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.
These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.
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L'affaire Ben Barka: La fin des secrets
Stephen Smith
Résumé
« Un récit glaçant, au plus prÚs des protagonistes. » Le Monde
« Une enquĂȘte monumentale, oĂč les deux journalistes Ă©clairent les derniers mystĂšres de ce crime d'Ă©tat. » Le Figaro
« Le meilleur thriller de l'année. » LCI
Le 29 octobre 1965, au coeur de Paris, Mehdi Ben Barka « disparaĂźt ». Tel un fantĂŽme, lâopposant au roi du Maroc â qui devait ĂȘtre reçu Ă lâĂlysĂ©e le lendemain â hante depuis la vie politique française et maghrĂ©bine. Soixante ans plus tard, alors quâon nâosait plus espĂ©rer percer les mystĂšres de ce crime dâĂtat, des documents inĂ©dits permettent de rĂ©vĂ©ler les tenants et aboutissants de lâaffaire Ben Barka : un thriller gĂ©opolitique, une histoire de services en pleine guerre froide, de barbouzes et de truands bleu-blanc-rouge, de maisons closes et de coffres-forts oĂč devait rester enfermĂ© lâinavouable.
Hassan II a-t-il donnĂ© lâordre de kidnapper Ben Barka ? Sa mort Ă©tait-elle accidentelle ou planifiĂ©e ? Si le crime Ă©tait prĂ©mĂ©ditĂ©, qui lâa exĂ©cutĂ© et comment ? Et quâest-il advenu du corps ? Ă la fin de cette enquĂȘte exceptionnelle, chacune de ces questions aura reçu une rĂ©ponse, preuves Ă lâappui. Le sort de Ben Barka sera Ă©lucidĂ©, lâaffaire portant son nom pourra enfin ĂȘtre classĂ©e. Lâimplication du Mossad et des services tchĂ©coslovaques, les officines gaullistes, la compromission au plus haut niveau de lâĂtat français⊠Stephen Smith et Ronen Bergman rĂ©vĂšlent les secrets restĂ©s prisonniers dâarchives confidentielles pendant des dĂ©cennies. Ă travers le roman vrai dâune « disparition », ils Ă©clairent le XXe siĂšcle et offrent une nouvelle profondeur de champ Ă lâactualitĂ©.
Un livre majeur, pour lâHistoire, qui se dĂ©vore comme un polar dont chaque dĂ©tail, aussi tragique que rocambolesque, est rĂ©el et minutieusement documentĂ©.
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GĂ©opolitique de l'OcĂ©anie: DĂ©centrer le regard sur les Ătats insulaires du Pacifique
Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard
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Sur l'appareil d'Ătat et la machine de guerre: Cours novembre 1979 - mars 1980
Gilles Deleuze
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Crimes contre l'humanité à l'Esma - Anatomie d'un centre de détention clandestin en Argentine, 1976-1983 (French Edition)
Claudia Feld
L'Esma fut le plus grand centre de dĂ©tention, torture et disparition forcĂ©e des opposants Ă la dictature en Argentine de 1976 Ă 1983. Pour comprendre et expliquer cliniquement l'" inimaginable ", des chercheurs argentins de renom font l'archĂ©ologie de ce lieu emblĂ©matique de la rĂ©pression, et de ce que sont des crimes contre l'humanitĂ©. L'Ăcole de mĂ©canique de la marine (Esma) Ă Buenos Aires fut le plus grand centre de dĂ©tention et de torture des opposants Ă la dictature argentine de 1976 Ă 1983. Parmi les 5 000 personnes dĂ©tenues, seules 300 environ en sont rescapĂ©es. L'atrocitĂ© des crimes s'est prolongĂ©e au-delĂ de ces murs, avec la traque jusqu'Ă l'Ă©tranger et les traumatismes intimes et collectifs qui perdurent : disparition des corps, vol des enfants, falsification des traces, spoliation des biens... Si l'Esma est un des plus terrifiants symboles de la dictature, l'apport majeur de cet ouvrage est de caractĂ©riser la dimension systĂ©mique de ce terrorisme d'Ătat : persĂ©cution de l'ennemi intĂ©rieur dans toutes les dimensions de son existence, perversitĂ© des interactions et revenus Ă©conomiques tirĂ©s de ce dispositif. Face Ă cette expĂ©rience d'anĂ©antissement, les processus de mĂ©moire, vĂ©ritĂ© et justice, ainsi que le travail des sciences sociales se rĂ©vĂšlent cruciaux. Ce livre est en cela un avertissement sur " ce que le pouvoir illimitĂ© peut faire aux individus, sur le danger que reprĂ©sente la montĂ©e de l'autoritarisme niant le droit Ă l'existence de certains, et sur les formes les plus subtiles que peut prendre la cruautĂ© ".
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