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Cho Yeeun

Detective Yi Chang needs another miracle. Ten years ago his sister was healed of her deadly cancer by a mysterious cult leader, but now his young niece has inherited the same disease. The only lead Yi Chang has is the body of a murder victim found in an abandoned building in the Korean seaside. The man was stabbed repeatedly, but the knife found next to the body is covered with someone else's blood. Even stranger, the victim's face is covered with malignant melanoma, a disease he did not have. With time running short, Yi Chang must discover how this murder is related to the cult leader he so desperately seeks. Award-winning Korean science fiction and fantasy sensation Cho Yeeun, author of the hit The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre, is back with a haunting tale that explores the price we pay for miracles.

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Cho Yeeun

Detective Yi Chang needs another miracle. Ten years ago his sister was healed of her deadly cancer by a mysterious cult leader, but now his young niece has inherited the same disease. The only lead Yi Chang has is the body of a murder victim found in an abandoned building in the Korean seaside. The man was stabbed repeatedly, but the knife found next to the body is covered with someone else's blood. Even stranger, the victim's face is covered with malignant melanoma, a disease he did not have. With time running short, Yi Chang must discover how this murder is related to the cult leader he so desperately seeks. Award-winning Korean science fiction and fantasy sensation Cho Yeeun, author of the hit The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre, is back with a haunting tale that explores the price we pay for miracles.

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Matt Dinniman

"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Carl still has no pants. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it's anything but a game.

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Lady’s Knight

Amie Kaufman

An undeniably fierce, unforgettably funny, unapologetically queer feminist romp through the England of medieval legend. Bestselling and acclaimed authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner bring readers along on an epic quest for valor, freedom, and, above all, love. A Knight’s Tale meets the Lady Jane series, with a dash of The Great! Gwen is sick of hiding—hiding the fact that she’s taken over her father’s blacksmithing duties, hiding her attraction to girls, hiding her yearning for glory as a knight. Meanwhile, Lady Isobelle of Avington, queen bee of the castle, has never once considered hiding who she is—until now. She’s been chosen as the grand prize in the Tournament of Dragonslayers, to be given to whichever knight can claim her hand. And for the first time in her life, she can’t talk her way out of trouble. When Isobelle discovers Gwen’s knightly ambitions, they hatch a scheme together—Gwen will joust in the tournament, disguised as Sir Gawain. Winning means freedom for Isobelle, and glory for Gwen. Losing means… well, let’s not go there. One thing’s for sure: falling in love was never the plan. But the best laid plans…are often trampled all over by dragons.

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Holy Boy

Lee Heejoo

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Misery. Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy twenty-one-year-old K-pop idol known as “the boy.” Ahna, a woman in her forties, first sought the company of younger men to quell the loneliness she experienced accompanying her husband on his trips abroad. When an affluent friend introduces her to the boy and she sees him on television, Ahna joins his cultish fandom. She soon bonds with Mihee, a beautiful, socially isolated woman in her twenties, who also worships the boy, and they eventually meet two other Nami, a young shaman, and Heeae, who worked as a maid for Ahna’s family and is Yosep’s birth mother. Heeae gave her son up for adoption to ensure him a better life but yearns to be reunited. Fierce and unapologetic, each woman has her own reason for wanting Yosep—a yawning desperation that spawns a dangerous plan. After taking the young singer hostage at a mansion in the mountains of South Korea’s Gangwon Province, Ahna, Yosep, Mihee, Nami, and Heeae will go to extreme lengths to keep him there, no matter how coercive—or murderous—the means. But the fervency that united this formidable team begins to fracture them, igniting a holy war over that sets each woman against the other. Who will emerge the victor? And just how far will she go to win the boy for herself? A probing, psychological novel as thrilling as a rollercoaster ride, told in exquisite, breathtaking prose, Holy Boy is a subversive, intricately plotted novel that explores the perils of objectification, the dark undercurrents of female desire, and the precarity of love. Translated from the Korean by Joheun Lee

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Sea of Charms

Sarah Beth Durst

The third magical adventure in the "Spellshop" series. Marin has always belonged on the great blue sea. Betrayed by love, she lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew. On one of her routine trips to the capital, Alyssium, Marin finds a revolution underway—and her friend Dax in the line of fire. What starts as a rescue evolves into a deal: Marin will keep Dax on as a member of her crew if he pretends to be her boyfriend at the End-of-Harvest Festival back home. But against her better judgment, Marin finds herself intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, his charming smile—and realizes that perhaps she isn’t saving him. Maybe it’s the other way around. Sea of Charms is a cozy fantasy romance about finding your crew, your family, and moreover, finding yourself.

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Femme fatale - Die weibliche Macht im Schatten der Geschichte

Samra Kljajic

Zwischen Liebe, Macht und Diplomatie Samra Kljajic schafft in ihrem Sachbuch eine neue Perspektive auf die Femme fatale jenseits von Skandal und Verführung. Eine historische Perspektive auf weibliche Macht: Selbstbestimmung und Einfluss in einer von Männern dominierten Welt. »Ich möchte Frauen sichtbar machen, die mich faszinieren – jene, die die Geschichte prägten, aber hinter Skandalen, Intrigen und Vorurteilen standen. Trotzdem oder gerade deswegen wurde ihr Einfluss lange übersehen oder verzerrt dargestellt.« Samra Kljajic Ob Prinzessin oder Königin, ob adelig oder bürgerlich – für Frauen war der Lebensweg oft vorgezeichnet. Ihre Rolle? Meist passiv. Und wenn sie aufstiegen, dann nur im Verdacht, berechnend zu sein oder Männer um den Verstand zu bringen. Bis heute prägt dieses Bild die Erzählung über mächtige Frauen in der Geschichte. Doch wenn das alles war – warum spielten Heirat und Mitgift eine so entscheidende Rolle? Wie gelang es manchen Frauen, alle Regeln zu brechen – und welchen Preis zahlten sie dafür, sowohl zu Lebzeiten als auch im Urteil der Geschichte? Samra Kljajic erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Königinnen und Mätressen, von Kurtisanen und Konkubinen. Wie Frauen ganze Dynastien formten, die Gesellschaft prägten und Geschichte schrieben: von Kleopatra und Jeanne d’Arc über Anne Boleyn, Madame de Pompadour, Katharina de’ Medici, Hürrem Sultan und Maria Theresia bis zu Marie Antoinette, Lola Montez und Mata Hari.

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Sisters in Yellow

Mieko Kawakami

From the International Booker Prize Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that caters to hostesses and their marks, small-time crooks, men with low morals and deep pockets, and anyone down on their luck. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.But in the seedy streets of Setagaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana’s hope, her optimism, and her drive, will be tested to the limt . . .Twenty years later, Kimiko is on trial. Now Hana must wrestle with her own actions, and face their devastating consequences.A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.

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Knot My Mate (Solveig Pack, #3)

Alice Clyde

The fires of vengeance burn deep in my chest. I’m ready to claim my real identity and expose Callahan’s true face to the world but my way is strewn with obstacles. Callahan managed to escape our trap but he shouldn’t mistake our momentary retreat to be our defeat. We’re closing the net around him slowly, making sure he can never slip away again. My mates and I are ready to fight him and his shadow army that has been disrupting the peace in our society. We’ll never let the sacrifices of our ancestors and brave soldiers go in vain. Victory looms close but can I make it out alive without losing my mates to the evil Black Widow? The threads of fate have long bound me to my four mates and I am determined to protect them even if it costs me my life. This is the third and final book in the Solveig Pack series and takes place in an omegaverse universe with no shifters.

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Hunger

Choi Jin-young

Romeo & Juliet meets The Vegetarian in the record-breaking instant classic which sold a quarter of a million copies in KoreaHow should I proceed after I wrap up this story. What should I do. I could go to the police station and confess. I could find a priest and confess. I ate a person. Is that a sin?This story begins with death. When Dam finds the body of her soulmate, Gu, bruised and battered on the street by a gang of government debt collectors, she is paralysed with grief. As she cradles his corpse in her defeated arms, Dam begins to tell it a story.In a fragmented sequence of monologues and meditations, this unexpected novella slowly builds into a panoramic portrait of two like souls who have passed a lifetime in utter devotion to one another. It's a story that snakes between past and present where, as she narrates, Dam is committing one final act to the tale of their undying love. Dam is slowly eating Gu, whose body she has lovingly washed, embalmed and elected to preserve in her own - where he will rest - for all eternity. At once romantic and horrific, HUNGER is a modern fable of metaphysical love cutting to the very heart of existence, loss, and how ferociously we rage - tooth and nail - against our own mortality.

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I Am the Blade

Marie Graßhoff

»Das Haus« entscheidet über Leben und Tod, um die Welt vor der alles verzehrenden Dunkelheit zu retten - und Seren ist die Assassinin, die von ihm geschickt wird, um zu richten. Als sie den Rebellen Vale tötet, wird seine Seele zur mächtigsten Waffe in ihrem Besitz. Doch er lässt sich nicht einfach bändigen. Seren will seine Kraft, Vale will ihren Tod. Als ein Verrat das Haus erschüttert, müssen sie sich entscheiden: einander vernichten oder Seite an Seite überleben? Doch in dem Netz aus Lügen, Gewalt und Verrat wächst etwas zwischen ihnen, das ebenso gefährlich sein könnte, wie die Dunkelheit selbst.

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Prize for the King (Cruelly Arranged)

Layla Fae

“Marry me and I’ll let your father live.”Princess Caliane is convinced she'll die. Her castle’s gates are torn open, her father, the king, bound and gagged on his throne, and in his throne room stands the Tyrant. His skin is gray, his teeth sharp, his hands tipped with black claws. When he smiles like a predator scenting prey, her stomach roils with terror.The monster forces her to her father’s life for her hand in marriage.Nothing in the soft, demure life of a royal princess has prepared Caliane for being a wife to a beast. His manners are abrupt, his language crude, and his silver eyes shine with wit. During the brutal journey to his kingdom where humans are reviled, she is passed from warrior to warrior like chattel.The Tyrant has three knights—and they share everything.As she moves farther away from home, she must untangle the mess of her painful upbringing, decide whom to trust and what to fight for. The princess might not have the strength to wield a sword, but her mind is sharp, and her monstrous husband and knights, terrifying though they seem, might turn out to be exactly what she needs.This standalone fantasy reverse harem romance contains dark and adult themes. Reader discretion is advised.

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Prize for the King (Cruelly Arranged)

Layla Fae

“Marry me and I’ll let your father live.”Princess Caliane is convinced she'll die. Her castle’s gates are torn open, her father, the king, bound and gagged on his throne, and in his throne room stands the Tyrant. His skin is gray, his teeth sharp, his hands tipped with black claws. When he smiles like a predator scenting prey, her stomach roils with terror.The monster forces her to her father’s life for her hand in marriage.Nothing in the soft, demure life of a royal princess has prepared Caliane for being a wife to a beast. His manners are abrupt, his language crude, and his silver eyes shine with wit. During the brutal journey to his kingdom where humans are reviled, she is passed from warrior to warrior like chattel.The Tyrant has three knights—and they share everything.As she moves farther away from home, she must untangle the mess of her painful upbringing, decide whom to trust and what to fight for. The princess might not have the strength to wield a sword, but her mind is sharp, and her monstrous husband and knights, terrifying though they seem, might turn out to be exactly what she needs.This standalone fantasy reverse harem romance contains dark and adult themes. Reader discretion is advised.

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