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š Product & Dev Update: Oct 25
Hello Pagebound community! š Meredith here, your friendly neighborhood software engineer and emoji aficionado, helping Jennifer & Lucy build out the Pagebound website. I've been behind the scenes working through our backlog of new features and site improvements, but now I'm excited to share this week's updates with you š¤© ā”ļø You may have already noticed the biggest change we launched this week - an overhaul of our main navigation! šŗļø We found that it was getting a little overwhelming to have so many items in our navbar, so we've kept Library, Discover, and Discuss there for easy access to your main actions and incorporated Lists, Clubs, and Quests into your profile instead. ā”ļø Speaking of, check out the lovely new design of our profile pages! šØ We heard your feedback about wanting to more easily see what other users are up to on Pagebound, so we redesigned the profile pages to better do so. Head over to Discover > People and click on someone's profile to check it out! Note that you'll also find your own Lists, Clubs, and Quests on your profile page as well, so head there to manage your items. ā”ļø We've also tweaked the design of the book pages to remove the confusion of the tabs and more easily see the juicy discussion. š Now, to access the forum and reviews for a book, click "View all posts" or "View all reviews" in the previews of those sections, or click the shortcut at the top page under the star reviews. In addition to those main changes, we also added the ability to sort the books in your library via a dropdown on mobile and in showcase view on desktop (where you can also use list view to do even more robust sorting). Lastly, we were able to do a big book de-duplication to keep our database of books clean š§¹ Thanks to everyone who pointed it out when they spotted these šµļø That's it for now! We love hearing from you as we're building Pagebound so as always, please continue to share your thoughts or feedback with us. (As a software engineer, I can say it is truly special to read feedback directly from you, and then work on it -- that same week in some cases! š§āš») And if you're enjoying Pagebound, show off your profile to a friend so that they can sign up and join the discussion, too! š Happy reading, Team Pagebound šš
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The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
C.L. Miller
In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts.
What antique would you kill for?
Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown, but when she receives a letter from Arthur asking her to investigateāsent just days before his deathāFreya has no choice but to return to a life she had sworn to leave behind.
Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Freya follows clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an advertised antiques enthusiastās weekend. But not all is as it seems. Itās clear to Freya that the antiques are all just poor reproductions and her fellow guests are secretive and menacing. What is going on at this estate and how was Arthur involved? More importantly, can Freya and Carole discover the truth before the killer strikes again?
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Triple Sec
T.J. Alexander
Listening Length: 11 hours and 37 minutes
A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom-com, set in the exclusive world of high-end cocktail bars.
As a bartender at Terror & Virtue, a swanky New York City cocktail lounge known for its romantic atmosphere and Insta-worthy drinks, Mel has witnessed plenty of disastrous dates. That, coupled with her own romantic life being in shambles, has Mel convinced love doesnāt exist.
Everything changes when Bebe walks into the bar. Sheās beautiful, funny, knows her whiskeysāand is happily married to her partner, Kade. Melās resigned to forget the whole thing, but Bebe makes her a unique since she and Kade have an open marriage, sheās interested in taking Mel on a date.
What starts as a fun romp turns into a burgeoning relationship, and soon Mel is trying all sorts of things sheād been avoiding, from grand romantic gestures to steamy exploits. Mel even gets the self-confidence to enter a cocktail competition that would make her dream of opening her own bar a reality. In the chaotic whirl of all these new experiences, Mel realizes there might be a spark between her and Kade, too. As Bebe, Kade, and Mel explore their connections, Mel begins to think that real love might be more expansive than she ever thought possible.
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The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
C.L. Miller
In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts.
What antique would you kill for?
Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English hometown, but when she receives a letter from Arthur asking her to investigateāsent just days before his deathāFreya has no choice but to return to a life she had sworn to leave behind.
Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Freya follows clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an advertised antiques enthusiastās weekend. But not all is as it seems. Itās clear to Freya that the antiques are all just poor reproductions and her fellow guests are secretive and menacing. What is going on at this estate and how was Arthur involved? More importantly, can Freya and Carole discover the truth before the killer strikes again?
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The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isnāt just any thirteen-year-old: sheās the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the regionās residents. And this isnāt the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbaraās older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Mooreās multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Mooreās most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
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One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
Rachel Gillig
Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunderāshe needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.
But nothing comes for free, especially magic.
When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the Kingās nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunderā¦and guilty of high treason.
Together they must gather twelve Providence Cardsāthe keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
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A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloeās father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness sheās worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?
In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.
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Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returnsā¦with a family reunion that leads to murder.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darkerās entire family is assembling for Nanaās 80th birthday party in Nanaās crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member followsā¦
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christieās And Then There Were None, Daisy Darkerās unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
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The Last Time I Lied
Riley Sager
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.
Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.
Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present. And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.
In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.
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None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alixās childrenās school. Josie has been listening to Alixās podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josieās life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she canāt quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alixās lifeāand into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her familyās lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
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When I Was You
Amber Garza
Sve je poÄelo jednog obiÄnog jesenjeg jutra, kada je Keli Medina primila poziv pedijatra svog sina, kako bi potvrdila termin za pregled bebe. To je greÅ”ka, jer njen je sin pre godinu dana otiÅ”ao na koledž, a Keli nikada nije bila tako usamljena. Ispostavlja se da se joÅ” jedna majka u gradu zove Keli Medina, i verovatno su pomeÅ”ali njihove brojeve telefona.
Ali Keli ne može da prestane da razmiÅ”lja o toj tajanstvenoj ženi istog imena. Živi u istom gradu. Ima sina kojeg i dalje može da drži u naruÄju. I Äitav život pred sobom. Svuda je traži: u prodavnicama, u teretani, na druÅ”tvenim mrežama. Kada kao sluÄajno naleti na nju ispred ordinacije pedijatra, radoznalost Äe je potpuno savladati.
Njihovo neobiÄno prijateljstvo doneÄe Keli oseÄaj da ponovo ima svrhu, dok brine o toj mladoj ženi i njenom predivnom malom deÄaku. Ali prijateljstvo ubrzo prerasta u opsesiju ā i kada jedna Keli nestane, ova druga možda zna zaÅ”to.
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Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
Jenny Hollander
What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true?
Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eveāevents known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"āthough Charlie knows she was much more than that.
Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent on never, ever letting her guard down again. But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everything she's worked for, Charlie realizes how much she's changed in nine years. Now, she's not going to let anythingānot even the people she once loved mostāget in her way.
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Model Home
Rivers Solomon
Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary thingsāthe strange and the unexplainableābegan to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their familyās past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a ānaturalā death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?
Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.
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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Richard Osman
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S5D5TH7
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
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Let Me Lie
Clare Mackintosh
The police say it was suicide.
Anna says it was murder.
They're both wrong.
One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of her husband just months before. Their daughter, Anna, has struggled to come to terms with their loss ever since.
Now with a young baby of her own, Anna misses her mother more than ever and starts to question her parentsā deaths. But by digging up their past, sheāll put her future in danger. Sometimes itās safer to let things lieā¦
The stunning, twisty new psychological thriller from number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go and I See You.
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