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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Artificial Condition

Martha Wells

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

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Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

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Jul 12, 2026

All Systems Red

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 4.0

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Not the strongest book 1 I’ve ever read, but it was fast-paced, exciting, and I’m definitely invested in Murderbot’s next move.

I’m not sure if the graphic audio added more than it took away, as sometimes the background noise added a lot to the scenes and sometimes they actually distracted me from the narration. I kept getting a bit lost during the story, although that also could have been because things just moved so quickly. Regardless, I’m planning to move forward with the standard audiobooks since they’re much more available at my library.

I will say I’m super excited to watch the show after I’ve finished the books! As I was listening, I kept thinking how good of a TV series it would make.

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Artificial Condition

Martha Wells

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks. Alternate cover of ISBN 9781250186928. Another cover edition can be found here

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Hannah Kaner

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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85% of the world's writing systems are on the verge of vanishing - not granted official status, not taught in schools, discouraged and dismissed.When a culture is forced to abandon its traditional script, everything it has written for hundreds of years - sacred texts, poems, personal correspondence, legal documents, the collective experience, wisdom and identity of a people - is lost.This Atlas is about those writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them. From the ancient holy alphabets of the Middle East, now used only by tiny sects, to newly created African alphabets designed to keep cultural traditions alive in the twenty-first from a Sudanese script based on the ownership marks traditionally branded into camels, to a secret system used in one corner of China exclusively by women to record the songs and stories of their inner this unique book profiles dozens of scripts and the cultures they encapsulate, offering glimpses of worlds unknown to us - and ways of saving them from vanishing entirely.

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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

Elyse Graham

The riveting, untold story of the scholars, librarians, and university professors who were recruited as spies during WWII and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world.

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Theo of Golden

Allen Levi

Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern city of Golden. Who is he, and why is he here? He arrives early one spring and by chance - or is it? - he visits a coffee shop where 92 framed pencil portraits are on display. Inspired, Theo sets out on a mission of purchasing all the portraits one at a time and quietly bestowing them on their 'rightful owners.' Stories are told; friendships are born; and lives are changed. Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted story about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the far-reaching possibilities of anonymous kindness.

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Jul 11, 2026

Floodgates

3.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5

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Jul 11, 2026

Triple Sec

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

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I love a food-or-drink themed romance, and this was no exception. Did anyone else want to go out for fancy cocktails while reading? 👀

As for the romance aspects, I appreciated the way Mel’s relationships with Bebe and Kade developed separately and differently, and believed in the chemistry in both pairings. I know for a lot of others, the lack of communication at times was very frustrating, but I found the conflict between them to feel pretty realistic considering their individual experiences and insecurities. I was 100% rooting for them all to be happy together and was satisfied with the conclusion of everything, although it was a very standard romance ending. I would definitely read another book by this author, and I’d recommend this one to those who don’t mind a little miscommunication in their romances.

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Jul 11, 2026

Into Thin Air

5.0

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

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

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Jul 11, 2026

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0Audiobook: 5.0

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Well one of them was going to have to be my least favorite (meaning 4 stars instead of 5).

Set during November and December, Emma still gets up to some hijinks, but the majority of Vol. 5 is centered on Emma processing her grief and trying to figure out how to move on. Vol. 5 was still very charming, and some great humor. I do think the cozy atmosphere would been amplified by reading this over the winter, but I’m afraid I couldn’t wait that long to continue the series :)

What made this slightly less enjoyable than the others: the storylines felt a bit choppy and disjointed, and occasionally the funny moments felt a bit over the top to me, which hadn’t happened in the other volumes.

I will of course continue the series, but I’m think I’m going to take a small break before diving into Vol. 6. I’m wondering if how quickly I’ve moved through the first 5 has made the narration lose a tiny bit of its charm.

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All Systems Red

Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

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