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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

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My Groans Pour Out Like Water: poems

Frances Bloom

At the age of 25, Frances Bloom came home to find her spouse, childhood sweetheart, best friend, and the love of her life, dead in their shared home. Within the backdrop of the American South, Bloom's debut book of poetry deals with the first six months of loss. Bloom writes about grief, love, depression, mania, and making sense of the ills of all this living.

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Later Bloom

Laurie D.R.

Later Bloom is Laurie D.R.'s contemporary fiction debut. Weaving between past and present, it explores what it means to bloom a little late, what it takes to find "the one", or "a one", and how our identities are shaped by our experiences. Aubrey is turning twenty-eight this year. She has never been in a relationship. She’s never been anyone’s girlfriend, never said I love you, never had a first fight or first of mostly anything. She swears it’s not a big deal. No one really believes her. No one seems to agree. She’s not sure how she got there, really—maybe it was because of Oliver, or Rami, or Sam, or Simon. Maybe it’s her. Maybe spending a year in Nova Scotia helping her aunt manage a creaky old inn might just fix everything. There’s only two ways this story can end. Either everything changes, or nothing at all. It’s simple. It makes her head spin.

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Tales from the Café

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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Tales from the Café

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... 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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Aug 06, 2026

The Vet's Daughter

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 5.0

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The Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns

The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife’s death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King, The Vet’s Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.

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Not a Strong Enough Word

Allie Samberts

Scarlett Frye was once a literary genius. With two bestselling novels, a million-dollar book deal, and a love story of her own, she had it all—until the pressure broke her. Five years ago, she canceled her book tour, shredded her contract, and disappeared. She left everything behind, including Ryan Whitlock, the editor who believed in her… and the man she loved. Now, after years of healing, she’s ready to write again. For Ryan, Scarlett’s disappearance wasn’t just a professional loss, it was personal. It shattered his heart and sent him into a slump. That is, until an anonymous manuscript lands on his desk. The writing is brilliant, raw, and achingly familiar—it can only be Scarlett’s. As fate brings them back together, Scarlett reluctantly agrees to let Ryan edit her comeback novel, even though it means working with the man she never stopped loving. Old passions reignite, but when pressure builds and buried secrets resurface, Ryan fears history will repeat itself. Scarlett walked away once. But as they navigate love, loss, and the weight of the past, she and Ryan must be strong enough to rewrite their story before it’s too late.

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Cinder

Marissa Meyer

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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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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