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The Prospects
K.T. Hoffman
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.
Hope is familiar territory for Gene Ionescu. He has always loved baseball, a sport made for underdogs and optimists like him. He also loves his team, the minor league Beaverton Beavers, and, for the most part, he loves the career heâs built. As the first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene has nearly everything heâs ever let himself dream ofâthat is, until Luis Estrada, Geneâs former teammate and current rival, gets traded to the Beavers, destroying the careful equilibrium of Geneâs life.
Gene and Luis canât manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it, but in the close confines of dugout benches and roadie buses, they begrudgingly rediscover a comfortable rhythm. As the two grow closer, the tension between them turns electric, and their chemistry spills past the confines of the stadium. For every tight double play they execute, thereâs also a glance at summer-tan shoulders or a secret shared, each one a breathless moment of possibility that ignites in Gene the visceral, terrifying kind of desire heâs never allowed himself. Soon, Gene has to reconcile the quiet, minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible.
A joyful, heartfelt debut rom-com revealing whatâs possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences.
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The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)
Robin Hobb
The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic. The Vestrit family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow Vestrit finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia's love as the ship slowly acquires her own bloodlust. Leagues away, Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia and with her friend, Brashen, she plans a dangerous rescue. Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the Rain Wild Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching Paragon, the mad liveship ...
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Goodbye, Eri
Tatsuki Fujimoto
With his mother dying, Yuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.
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Strange Houses
Uketsu
A spiritual companion to Strange Pictures and a bestselling horror phenomenon in Japan âmysterious spaces, trap doors, windowless children's rooms . . . something is wrong with this house. Can you solve the "mystery" of its floor plan?
A writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance who is considering purchasing a second-hand house in Tokyo. With its bright and spacious interior, the home seems perfect. But looking closer, the buildingâs floor plan reveals a mysterious "dead spaceâ hidden between the walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plan with an architect friend only to discover more âstrange spacesâ dotted across the house.
What are these mysterious âstrange spacesâ and why do they existâare they really there, or is there something off with the floor plan? Who is the homeâs former resident who suddenly disappeared?
The freelance writer and his architect friend canât resist the challenge of solving the riddle of these puzzling floor plans . . . and the terrifying plot behind it all.
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Bunny
Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.
The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805âwhere she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalieâs followersâall 8 million of themâdonât know wonât hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? Theyâre sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isnât simply living the good life, sheâs living the idealâand just so happens to be building an empire from it.
Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isnât hers. Her home, her husband, her childrenâtheyâre all familiar, but somethingâs off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now sheâs expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young womanâs attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online worldâfrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known sheâd have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she canât imagine how sheâll ever make a living. Sheâs still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professorâand while the affair is brief, it isnât brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyoneâs advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naivetĂŠ and a yearning for something bigger.
Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusionâfast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: sheâll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinxâs advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, sheâs turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margoâs problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margoâs Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine whoâs struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. Itâs a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805âwhere she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalieâs followersâall 8 million of themâdonât know wonât hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? Theyâre sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isnât simply living the good life, sheâs living the idealâand just so happens to be building an empire from it.
Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isnât hers. Her home, her husband, her childrenâtheyâre all familiar, but somethingâs off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now sheâs expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.
A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you wonât know whyâŚIâm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. Itâs always there. Always. Jake once said, âSometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you canât fake a thought.â And hereâs what Iâm thinking: I donât want to be here. In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, Iâm Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first pageâŚand never lets you go.
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Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysmâthat the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
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The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
Matt Dinniman
Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. Run, Run, Run.
A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed âThe Butcherâs Masquerade.â
The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds.
As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.
But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed litrpg series.
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance missionâand if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesnât know that. He canât even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that heâs been asleep for a very, very long time. And heâs just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, itâs up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mysteryâand conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, heâs got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
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