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Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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Last Night in Brooklyn

Xóchitl González

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past, laying bare the mounting tensions at play in a rapidly gentrifying, early 2000’s Fort Greene, Brooklyn. SPRING, 2007At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother’s beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in.No one embodies this more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza’s life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself.But when Alicia’s wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza’s precarious lives. Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis, Last Night in Brooklyn explores the dark compromise of the American Dream for people of color living, unknowingly, in the twilight of a cultural moment. It is a story about everything money can buy–and the destruction of what it can’t.

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Thoughts from 68% (Chap. 21)

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Last Night in Brooklyn

Xóchitl González

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bondedreads

Do you get the urge to create a bookstagram?

Sometimes I really get the urge to make an anonymous bookstagram just to post cute romance book content and have fun with it. Maybe it’s my teenage years of running an 1D facebook fanpage, who knows ?

But I was wondering if this is just a universal experience? Like… does everyone secretly think about making a cute little account for the things they love or is it just me?

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raindrop

book recs for life changes/life transitions

hi everyone! i'm going thru lots of changes and preparing for a new chapter in my life, all very good things but its a lot to process. i would love some book recs that explore these themes, and also include qtbipoc characters. they can be nonfiction or fiction. thank you frens :)

the feeling i feel right now is like coming home but home is filled with bittersweet memories that i still can't believe i made it thru, and i'm so grateful to be home but grieving the versions of me that didn't make it here, the other timelines. does anyone relate to that?

-main request: kinda going for bittersweet vibes, grief, aging/growing up, coming of age, some magical realism perhaps -any genre (except high fantasy or romance-centered books) -mg, ya, adult all ok! -similar to: the curse of eelgrass bog, and every morning the way home gets longer and longer -graphic novels and comics welcome -preferably something soothing or comforting, and also prefer audiobooks rn but welcome any format!

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Bluehairedboy

Guys. What's your book cover ick

I usually talk about serious stuff. This is also serious. What's your book cover ick? What kind of cover makes you not wanna pick up the book even though it might be the greatest story of all time.

For me, it's when there are real life people on the book covers, or a half naked male torso, or when the letters are too swirly (not cursive. Like when the edges of the letters are swirly). I don't care if this is a masterpiece of a novel, why are you trying to get me to bleach my eyes or give me dyslexia (I don't have dyslexia)

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The Isle in the Silver Sea

Tasha Suri

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gingerailet

Thoughts from 51% (page 142)

i reeeally need some cooker around the world to read this book and try to make the recipes just like aoyama recorded them im so fr (like Tasting History With Max)

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