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The Butcher's Masquerade
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 “The Butcher’s Masquerade.”
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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A Fortuitous Fall into Misery (Fate's Design Book 2)
R.K. Devon
BOUND BY GRIEF
Fresh off the heels of heartbreak, atonement seems out of reach for Evandine. The Affliction runs rampant as the dead infect the living, and hope has dwindled with no cure in sight.
TORMENTED BY THE PAST
Coradina has always been as frigid as the ice she wields. There's only one male she's ever melted for - the cocky mage who'd filled her school years with wild competition and irreplaceable solace - and she hasn't seen him since graduation. Now there's rumors of his involvement in the contagion sweeping aross the land, and when the opportunity to capture him arises, she jumps at the chance to be the one to bring him in.
DUPLICITOUS FATE IS EVER CRUEL
Hunted by both the dead and undead, Coradina and Evandine must survive the dangers hiding around every corner, but shadows pull at their strings.
Trust is hard to find, but the truth is never more obvious than when it's dagger is lodged in your back.
For fans of:
Rivals to Enemies to Lovers
Golden Retriever x Black Cat
Forced Seduction
Zombies
Magical Mishaps
Strategic Bed Scarcity
"It's Always Been You"
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.
It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
It contains Didion's famous essay, "Goodbye to All That".
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
Lucy Knisley
A vibrant, food-themed memoir from beloved indie cartoonist Lucy Knisley.
Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe—many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions.
A welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a book for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product.
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Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss.
One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship…
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About Betty's Boob
Véro Cazot
An inspiring and surprisingly comedic tale of loss and acceptance told largely through silent sequential narrative, About Betty’s Boob is a seminal work from master storytellers Véro Cazot and Julie Rocheleau. Betty lost her left breast, her job, and her guy. She does not know it yet, but this is the best day of her life.
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The Butcher's Masquerade
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 “The Butcher’s Masquerade.”
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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A Fortuitous Fall into Misery (Fate's Design Book 2)
R.K. Devon
BOUND BY GRIEF
Fresh off the heels of heartbreak, atonement seems out of reach for Evandine. The Affliction runs rampant as the dead infect the living, and hope has dwindled with no cure in sight.
TORMENTED BY THE PAST
Coradina has always been as frigid as the ice she wields. There's only one male she's ever melted for - the cocky mage who'd filled her school years with wild competition and irreplaceable solace - and she hasn't seen him since graduation. Now there's rumors of his involvement in the contagion sweeping aross the land, and when the opportunity to capture him arises, she jumps at the chance to be the one to bring him in.
DUPLICITOUS FATE IS EVER CRUEL
Hunted by both the dead and undead, Coradina and Evandine must survive the dangers hiding around every corner, but shadows pull at their strings.
Trust is hard to find, but the truth is never more obvious than when it's dagger is lodged in your back.
For fans of:
Rivals to Enemies to Lovers
Golden Retriever x Black Cat
Forced Seduction
Zombies
Magical Mishaps
Strategic Bed Scarcity
"It's Always Been You"
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Reading this book is like reading a classic fantasy D&D campaign with enemies-to-lovers spice 🌶️ I really liked the healer/warrior main character duo, with their goofy mage and menagerie of street-smart friends. If anything I would have liked more time deepening the individual character arcs. The world building is stellar, I found the magic system to be straightforward and interesting with just the perfect amount of godly lore. It’s a quick and satisfying read that scratches the romantasy itch perfectly. Can’t wait for book two!
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A Destiny Wrought in Woe (Fate's Design Book 1)
R.K. Devon
A soul weaver and a demon warrior are compelled to join forces in this slow burn fantasy romance. To be magical is to be taken. Trained. Reborn in the image of a guildmember.For years, Caris’ life hasn’t been her own. Trapped in an underwater city, she’s dreamed of nothing but making it through graduation and escaping to the mainland. Her freedom arrives, only to be stolen on the wings of prophecy.Fickle Fate has Her own designs.An unholy terror ravages the nation. The dead rise to attack the living, but seers have foreseen an end on the horizon—a sacrifice, an exchange of souls.Death beckons with a cruel hand.Another life on his conscience is the last thing Alsynian wants. He’s tired of being a puppet controlled by the hands of another, but keeping his distance from Caris proves to be impossible.One way or another, the prophecy must be fulfilled.The Scourge must be stopped.
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A Destiny Wrought in Woe (Fate's Design Book 1)
R.K. Devon
A soul weaver and a demon warrior are compelled to join forces in this slow burn fantasy romance. To be magical is to be taken. Trained. Reborn in the image of a guildmember.For years, Caris’ life hasn’t been her own. Trapped in an underwater city, she’s dreamed of nothing but making it through graduation and escaping to the mainland. Her freedom arrives, only to be stolen on the wings of prophecy.Fickle Fate has Her own designs.An unholy terror ravages the nation. The dead rise to attack the living, but seers have foreseen an end on the horizon—a sacrifice, an exchange of souls.Death beckons with a cruel hand.Another life on his conscience is the last thing Alsynian wants. He’s tired of being a puppet controlled by the hands of another, but keeping his distance from Caris proves to be impossible.One way or another, the prophecy must be fulfilled.The Scourge must be stopped.
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I love this book because as you read this you realize that you’re not just rooting for a relationship or true love, you’re rooting for Cherry (and Stevie! 🐩 ). And I think that is especially impactful because Cherry doesn’t shy away from being a fat woman, or a person getting a divorce, or an artist who doesnt “make art” anymore. Those are just parts of her, and those parts don’t change how she wears her cute clothes and kisses good men and cooks her family holiday meals. Both halves of her story being told with the same tender rawness is what makes her story feel so real, romantic, and heartwarming.
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Tooth and Claw
Jo Walton
A tale of love, money, and family conflict--among dragons. A family deals with the death of their father. A son goes to court for his inheritance. Another son agonises over his father's deathbed confession. One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband. And everyone in the tale is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses... in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which the great and the good avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.
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Something in the Woods Loves You
Jarod K. Anderson
An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health. Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The Cryptonaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. Ranging from optimistic contemplations of mortality to appreciations of a single mushroom, Anderson has written a lyrical love letter to the natural world and given us the tools to see it all anew.
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Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.
To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
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