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Untitled (Heartstrings, #3)

B.K. Borison

A workaholic radio station manager does her best to resist the charms of her corporate enemy in this swoony, You’ve Got Mail–inspired romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison.Maggie Lin has been seamlessly running her retired father’s radio station for years, keeping 101.6 LITE FM thriving, often at the expense of her own personal life. Her only friends are her coworkers—and her anonymous online pen pal. But when the future of the station is threatened by a Fortune 500 corporation, Maggie has to get creative to outsmart their shark of an acquisitions executive.Cooper West arrives in Baltimore determined to put an end to Maggie’s stonewalling and finally collect his next big promotion. Armed with advice from his anonymous online friend and plenty of charm, Cooper somehow seems to know every move Maggie makes—just before she makes it. But in between the verbal sparring and office plotting, something else begins to grow. Something neither of them wants. There’s a fine line between love and hate, and Cooper and Maggie are tap-dancing along the edge. Will their fledgling feelings be enough to bridge the gap between them? Or is this merger bad for business?

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Morbidly Curious Book Club 🖤📚

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All books selected to read by the Morbidly Curious Book Club. This list will be updated when new reads are announced!

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained

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

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Jun 09, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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4.25 stars Lex Croucher never fails to completely pull me into their worlds right from the start. As a occasional dark academic fan - it's really hit or miss for me - I wasn't quite sure what to expect between these pages, but what I found was everything I could have hoped for.

I'm loving the trend lately of exploring the "what-ifs" that are contrary to the popular tropes. What if the villain wasn't entirely wrong? What if the male love interest was blonde? What if the main character didn't get into the ancient magic school they'd been dreaming of all their life? Briar Jones can't do the Work (magic) and didn't get an acceptance letter to The Temple School... but their childhood best friend did. Now, seven years later, Briar takes a temp job at Temple, cleaning out an old attic, because they never quite gave up their desires to see behind the school's walls. Never quite forgot about Seb. Never quite forgave them for leaving. Yet nothing could prepare Briar for what exactly he finds in these hallowed halls.

Filled with charmingly and flawed characters, big time burn-it-all-down vibes, and truly so much messy, angst-y, toxic love, this novel is an adventure you just have to experience yourself. The atmosphere and world-building is all you could ask for, and I would read an entire series with these characters - watching them make their place in the new world they're hoping to build.

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager and NetGalley for the eARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Jun 09, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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Lex Croucher

Dark academia meets crossover fantasy in this spellbinding story of childhood best friends turned bitter enemies when one gets into magic school and the other doesn’t…

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Going to the Six

A.C. Hessenauer

"Compulsively readable... Do yourself a open up this book and let the story in." -- Viggy Parr Hampton, bestselling author of The Rotting RoomOn Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest. When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka—a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior—he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger. Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two the ill-fated expedition, and the haunted present. Just as the record fractures, so too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel. Locals whisper of an old superstition—six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen’s memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness? A story of truth versus memory, the collapse of time, and the thin seam between reality and delusion, Going to the Six drags the reader down into the depths—where silence presses in, light cannot reach, and dread waits patiently in the dark.

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When Life Gives You Corpses

Lene D. Buttner

In this delightfully cozy and creepy YA romp, a cave monster masquerading as a search-and-recovery guide intends to find and eat a lost wizard—but catches feelings for him instead, perfect for fans of TJ Klune and Andrew Joseph White.Theory has a monstrous secret. He isn’t an ordinary search-and-recovery guide at Fiendworld, the world’s premier magical-sinkhole-turned-amusement-park; he’s a cursed, human-eating mantis. But not to worry—he has an excellent solution for his particular diet. Whenever he’s asked to retrieve the corpse of a lost adventurer, he simply snacks on a finger or two. No harm done. That is, until he’s given his latest recover the body of park management’s missing son. Great. Yet another foolish wizard who got lost adventuring, and this time the direct descendant of the very person who cursed Theory in the first place. Worse, when Theory reluctantly sets off on the search, he’s shocked to find the wizard somehow still alive. Nim—the wizard in question—has no desire to be rescued. He’s on a mission to the bottom of the sinkhole, and refuses to return to the surface before he gets there. He may be a subpar wizard, as his parents constantly remind him, but he’s got a positive attitude, an enchanted backpack, and now a mysterious rescue worker to recruit to his cause! Even though said worker is quite rude and seems to be getting Nim into more danger rather than out of it. To survive, Theory and Nim must brave man-eating fish, walls of tentacles, and devastating both their own, and ones the park desperately tries to keep hidden. Along the way, they may just discover that they’re stronger together than apart.

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The Library: A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident. In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts.

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The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia

Richard Cooke

A playful and provocative exploration of mighty Wikipedia: how it was built, why it thrived, and what we lose as its ideals disintegrate. One of the keystone inventions of the twenty-first century, Wikipedia is the largest repository of human knowledge ever made, with editions in 343 languages read by millions every day—all created by unpaid, mainly amateur, and mostly anonymous volunteers. In this entertaining book, journalist Richard Cooke delves into Wikipedia’s fabled creation, its extraordinary success, and its profound effects on politics, business, literature, and society. He explores the site’s shifting role in establishing fact in a time of deep uncertainty about truth and authority; the often hilariously fierce debates between “Inclusionists” and “Deletionists” about what is worth knowing and preserving, and who gets to decide; and the great peril Wikipedia faces today from bots, political division, and artificial intelligence. The Last Best Place on the Internet is a fascinating journey into the hidden world of one of the most vital—and most endangered—cultural achievements of our time.

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Devil's Advocate

Amanda DeWitt

Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen has bought Devil's Advocate by Amanda DeWitt, a YA supernatural comedy pitched as Succession meets Hazbin Hotel. When Ada Faust's dad--the actual devil--sets his sights on triggering the apocalypse, Ada's siblings are all forced to compete for the coveted spot as his right hand by influence the presidential election. Ada plans to curry favor by sabotaging her dad's political rival. Problem is, Ada actually likes doing good, and with a dad like hers, you can be a good daughter or a good person, but you can't be both. Publication is set for fall 2026. Cate Hart at Harvey Klinger Literary Agency did the deal for world rights.

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The Monster Hunter's Librarian

Lauren Connolly

Navigating the stacks of a sentient library, as well as their simmering attraction to each other, a librarian witch and a monster hunter team up to save a mystical world from destruction.As the newest hire at the Endless Library, Bells Mortevue finally has access to magic again and a chance to prove that the daughter of criminal necromancers can be trusted with power—even if it’s solely used to seek and sort books upon infinite shelves.Except a certain monster hunter refuses to let Bells do her job.Rhett Waltham doesn’t want help. Not when revealing the truth of his research would be a death sentence for his ailing human father. Preparing to risk his own life in a dangerous competition to save his dad, Rhett does not have time for a curious, tantalizing librarian witch who asks too many questions.It’s clear the Library disagrees, as the sentient space itself forces the two together. Bells warms to the grumpy hunter as she slowly earns his trust, though she starts to suspect a sickness is stirring within the walls of the mystical dimension. And when a deadly magic threatens to consume the entire Library—and the monster hunter’s librarian—Rhett won’t let either of them go without a fight.

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Gold: Finished 15 Main Quest books.

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Love Between the Lectures: A Novel

Christie Curry

Sex positivity has never been hotter than in this steamy rom-com full of wit and humor that will appeal to fans of Christina Lauren and Jessica Joyce. Sparks fly when a human sexuality professor is paired up with her former childhood crush to organize a sexual health event, until the university’s biggest donors—spearheaded by her conservative parents—oppose.After growing up shackled in purity culture, June Wells broke out with a bang. She’s now a human sexuality professor on the brink of tenure and nothing is going to get in her way. That is until Alex Cardoso crashes back into her life. She’s managed to avoid her childhood neighbor and former crush for fifteen years, ever since the mortifying moment in high school when he turned her down. Worse? He’s a hot shot PhD candidate appointed to cover his first human sexuality class, and June is assigned as his mentor, linking her tenure to his success—or failure.While June and Alex struggle to find their footing both in and out of the classroom, they’re tasked with organizing a sexual health event: Sextival. But June has a secret. She’s kept the details of her profession hidden from her ultraconservative parents, who happen to be the university’s largest donors.When word about Sextival reaches June’s mother and her wealthy friends, they threaten to pull their donations unless the event is canceled. But June isn’t about to let the prudes win, and neither is Alex. Together, amid late-night office hours and an impromptu road trip, they finally find their rhythm at work… and in bed. But Alex has a secret of his own—one that will force June to decide what’s most important to her: her dream job or her dream guy.

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Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life

Merritt Turetsky

From a stunning new voice in popular science, a beguiling invitation to discover the hidden power of one of Earth’s most mysterious landscapes. Boglands have long been dismissed as wastelands—too sodden to farm, too perilous to cross, too unruly to be considered beautiful. Yet come closer and a strange truth emerges: These unconventional landscapes are fascinating paradoxes that stretch our minds, hold the history of humanity, and will shape the future of our planet. As acclaimed ecologist Merritt R. Turetsky reveals, here between the borders of land and water, bogs conjure new life forms—acid-flinging mosses, amphibian-eating plants—from an overabundance of death. The past and present commingle with uncanny intimacy as ancient lives linger in remarkable states of preservation. Even as bogs sequester nearly one third of Earth’s soil carbon, accelerating exploitation risks swiftly transforming them from climate allies to climate foes. Gorgeously written, Bogland is an ode and a call to action: To value these places precisely for their refusal to conform, and to learn from them new ways to adapt, endure, and belong on our changing planet—before it’s too late.

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most infamous events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah's journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.

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Jun 04, 2026

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A delightfully chaotic exploration of friendship and learning to support those you love even if they're making dubious choices.

And alright, sometimes you do have to intervene.

I adored Puck's wit and snark, and paired with their position in the reality TV world - which has created a lens through which they tend to view relationships - they were a wonderfully messy character to follow on this wedding weekend adventure. Yet, as much as I loved watching the wedding party stumble through the festivities, no thanks to Puck, I think my favorite part of the novel was actually the relationship between Puck and the bride, Mia. What started as the bond of randomly placed college roommates has grown and strengthened over the years, and despite Puck's efforts to sabotage Mia's wedding, it's clear their scheming stems from love.

Overall this was a quick and entertaining book filled with a whole lot of flawed characters just trying to get through life. Recommend for a fun summer read!

Thank you to Zando and NetGalley for the eARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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