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The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)

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Stephen King

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The Crossroads at Midnight

Abby Howard

A masterful collection of tales from the faded border between our day-to-day world and the horrifying unknown on the other side of midnight. An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected — and unsettling — visitor, throwing her quiet life into a long-buried mystery. An isolated backwoods family stumbles into good fortune for a time with a monstrous discovery in the lake behind their house, but that time is running short. And a misfit little girl, struggling to make friends, meets an understanding soul one day at the beach: but why will he only play with her alone at night? All these lonely souls — and more — have reached out into the darkness, not knowing what they might find. Around the dark edges of reality lurk unknown beings with unknowable intentions — ordinary objects can become cursed possessions, entities who seem like friends can become monstrous, and those who seem monstrous can become the truest companions. In this collection of evocative, unnerving slice-of-life horror, five stories explore what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace in the unnatural, and what might be waiting for us at the Crossroads at Midnight.

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The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)

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The Crossroads at Midnight

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The Crossroads at Midnight

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Strange Plagues 😷🦠❓

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Forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales—these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical.

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Japanese Crime Fiction 🌸🕵️🔍

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Japan has a long history of crime fiction. From police procedurals, thrillers, murder mysteries and assassins, Japan has it all.

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The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)

Stephen King

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The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)

Stephen King

Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past. In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,” Roland says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.” And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us. King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic. ~from first edition jacket

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

What would you change if you could go back in time? 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. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

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maeladapt

Quest Voters Support Group

Shout out to all of us out here absolutely struggling to narrow our choices down to just 3 votes because there are SO MANY great lists and we're interested in so much!

I spent over an hour going through everything and making some tough calls...and still ended at almost 30 lists. 😬

Anyone have a process you're using that's been helpful in deciding your final 3? Are you only considering what you're interested in, or are you also thinking about the community overall and what genres or themes aren't currently represented? Are you trying to have both main and side quests represented in your vote? I'd love to see other ways I can approach my next round of consideration.

I hope community voting goes well enough for Pagebound to move forward with it quarterly because I'm so incredibly excited we get this opportunity. These badges are gonna be so sick. 🤯

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Fave Badge You've Earned

Happy Thursday. What's been your favorite badge to earn and why? Im a bit biased to the sheer design of a badge, but also the unexpected 4+ star reads that come from participating in a readalong or seasonal. I really like my sparkly winter badge ☃️ because 1. its cute and 2. it included so many unexpectedly wonderful reads. It also got me to read books I probably would have never picked on my own!

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone , biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us -- prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.

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Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.

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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn

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HyacinthBlue

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Joining quests just to get the badge?

Okay, this might be a weird one. I technically have read enough books in one quest that I've not joined to get the badge for it, and I kind of want that badge. However, most of the books I read within that quest are books I'm actually not that bothered by, even if others sound interesting, and it would feel sort of dishonest to join it and get that badge? I'm not so bothered about it in general – I'm basically using quests as recommendation lists for stuff that I either know that I like (e.g. Gothic literature) or want to get into (e.g. intro to poetry). This specific quest would kind of be an exception to that, since while it's something that I like when done well it's not really something that would drive me to read a book. I guess I'm mainly looking for second opinions? Should I join the quest and get the badge, or leave it for now? And has anyone else here had a situation like this before?

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Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm (Bone, #3)

Jeff Smith

In "Eyes of the Storm," book three in the epic BONE series, Gran'ma Ben reveals long-kept secrets about Thorn's royal heritage and the ancient enmities that may lead to war. In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat creatures and return safely to Lucius' tavern in Barrelhaven. Phoney, desperate to win a bet with Lucius, stokes the townspeople's fear of dragons and boasts that he is a professional dragonslayer. Back at the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are troubled by strange dreams, and Gran'ma Ben's reaction to them is stranger still: She reveals long-kept secrets and warns of great danger. Thorn, Fone Bone, and Gran'ma Ben may have to leave the farm forever.

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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn

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