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Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)

Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)

Alex Aster

Welcome to the Centennial. Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons—a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling—a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything.

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i’m back with a weirdly specific book rec ask because life sucks and its numbing to deal with.

i wanted to ask if anyone knows any books that deal with loneliness even when surrounded by people, dealing with people who never show up for you even though you give your all to them? I’ve been going through a really rough time- feeling so alone with no one who’s truly on my side. so i bottle everything up so i can just…..be what they need me to be. perfect daughter, friend, older sister. and at the same time, i’m grieving the loss of my true self and i feel like im slowly becoming the shell of who I once was. it hurts and im drowning with no one around to save me. i have to save myself.

i know this became a bit of a rant but, i was wondering if anyone had books with a similar situation or that helped them get through a similar situation. hopefully i can read them! with how horrible life is atm, I’ve been in a huge reading slump which sucks but I hope to get better.

and if anyone else feels like this, at least you know you are not alone anymore ❤️‍🩹

EDIT (04/07): thank you, thank you for all your recs and kind words 😭😭 i’m trying not to cry at work today but you all are so kind and heartwarming, makes me believe that maybe people can be in your corner. all your recs have been added to my tbr and interested tabs!! thank you once again ❤️‍🩹

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine.

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Hearts on Hanbok Sleeves

Hearts on Hanbok Sleeves

Jasmine Jinhee

A K-DRAMA IN A NOVEL with PRAISE FROM READERS: “Beautifully written and transportive.” · “A creative blend of modern perspectives with historical richness.” · “Funny, refreshing, and poetic.” “A timeline branches, and a new timeline begins. It’s what love does.” Hanul loves historical Korean dramas. But her real life of motherhood and seven years of marriage with Jiwan falls quietly short of the flutters, the intrigue, the sense of possibility. So when she wakes in 1588 Joseon, as the Governor’s unmarried daughter, she’s swept into a world of rustling silk hanboks, spring blossoms, and expressive suitors. It’s the break she imagined she needed—until she meets a man she cannot ignore. Jiwan is the town’s newest eligible bachelor. He awoke in a Joseon strategy game and accepted his exhilarating mission as a steadfast commander against the mysterious red enemy. In a superordinary world that offers them a second chance at love, ambition—a fulfilling life—Hanul and Jiwan must confront the hidden truths of their history and decide... Whether to let their marriage fade with the changing seasons or to renew their love, again and again. Calling fans of Korean dramas, culture, and history as well as spouses and mothers! Debut author Jasmine Jinhee invites readers to a story that will entertain and give life.

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The Place on Dalhousie

The Place on Dalhousie

Melina Marchetta

'You look the type to break your father’s heart.' 'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’ When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years later, Rosie returns to the house and living there is Martha, whom Seb Gennaro married less than a year after the death of Rosie’s mother. Martha is struggling to fulfil Seb’s dream, while Rosie is coming to terms with new responsibilities. And so begins a stand-off between two women who refuse to move out of the home they both lay claim to. As the battle lines are drawn, Jimmy Hailler re-enters Rosie’s life. Having always watched other families from the perimeters, he’s now grappling, heartbreakingly, with forming one of his own . . . An unforgettable story about losing love and finding love; about the interconnectedness of lives and the true nature of belonging, from one of our most acclaimed writers.

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The Piper's Son

The Piper's Son

Melina Marchetta

Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca—but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom's in no shape to mend what's broken. But what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper's Son redefines what it means to go home again. The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family's hard-won healing on the other side of trauma.

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Saving Francesca

Saving Francesca

Melina Marchetta

MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life. Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over what's best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian's, an all-boys' school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca's surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdos or worse. Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realises that without her mother's high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesn't yet realise that she's more like Mia than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian's, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, and especially herself.

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book recs for loneliness

i’m back with a weirdly specific book rec ask because life sucks and its numbing to deal with.

i wanted to ask if anyone knows any books that deal with loneliness even when surrounded by people, dealing with people who never show up for you even though you give your all to them? I’ve been going through a really rough time- feeling so alone with no one who’s truly on my side. so i bottle everything up so i can just…..be what they need me to be. perfect daughter, friend, older sister. and at the same time, i’m grieving the loss of my true self and i feel like im slowly becoming the shell of who I once was. it hurts and im drowning with no one around to save me. i have to save myself.

i know this became a bit of a rant but, i was wondering if anyone had books with a similar situation or that helped them get through a similar situation. hopefully i can read them! with how horrible life is atm, I’ve been in a huge reading slump which sucks but I hope to get better.

and if anyone else feels like this, at least you know you are not alone anymore ❤️‍🩹

EDIT (04/07): thank you, thank you for all your recs and kind words 😭😭 i’m trying not to cry at work today but you all are so kind and heartwarming, makes me believe that maybe people can be in your corner. all your recs have been added to my tbr and interested tabs!! thank you once again ❤️‍🩹

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book recs for loneliness

i’m back with a weirdly specific book rec ask because life sucks and its numbing to deal with.

i wanted to ask if anyone knows any books that deal with loneliness even when surrounded by people, dealing with people who never show up for you even though you give your all to them? I’ve been going through a really rough time- feeling so alone with no one who’s truly on my side. so i bottle everything up so i can just…..be what they need me to be. perfect daughter, friend, older sister. and at the same time, i’m grieving the loss of my true self and i feel like im slowly becoming the shell of who I once was. it hurts and im drowning with no one around to save me. i have to save myself.

i know this became a bit of a rant but, i was wondering if anyone had books with a similar situation or that helped them get through a similar situation. hopefully i can read them! with how horrible life is atm, I’ve been in a huge reading slump which sucks but I hope to get better.

and if anyone else feels like this, at least you know you are not alone anymore ❤️‍🩹

EDIT (04/07): thank you, thank you for all your recs and kind words 😭😭 i’m trying not to cry at work today but you all are so kind and heartwarming, makes me believe that maybe people can be in your corner. all your recs have been added to my tbr and interested tabs!! thank you once again ❤️‍🩹

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The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)

The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)

Amber Smith

All Eden wants is to rewind the clock. To live that day again. She would do everything differently. Not laugh at his jokes or ignore the way he was looking at her that night. And she would definitely lock her bedroom door. But Eden can’t turn back time. So she buries the truth, along with the girl she used to be. She pretends she doesn’t need friends, doesn’t need love, doesn’t need justice. But as her world unravels, one thing becomes clear: the only person who can save Eden … is Eden.

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Girl in Pieces

Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.

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Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

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Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

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Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

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