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• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

  Reeves, Ben

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  Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. He's stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. He's handsome, he seems young,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ending Writes Itself

  Clarke, Evelyn (Novelist)

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  Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending. World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won't write itself. When six struggling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mad Wife

  a Novel

  Church, Meagan

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  In the 1950s, nothing is valued more than conformity, and Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the ideal housewife. But after the birth of her daughter, Lulu's carefully constructed life begins to teeter. Exhausted by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disappoint Me

  Dinan, Nicola

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  Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She's living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Dark Shore

  McConaghy, Charlotte

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  Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chemist

  Dhand, A. A.

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  Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mires

  Makereti, Tina, 1973-

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  Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture; your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fishbone Cinderella

  Lim, Elizabeth

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  Guangdong, 1940. When Ha Yut Ying narrowly escapes Japanese soldiers by turning invisible, she knows her new-found magic must be kept a secret. But her mother, whose dreams foretell the future, suspects her daughter has changed, and warns her of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Find a Nameless Fae

  Lancaster, A. J., 1987-

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  Princess Gisele has spent her life preparing for an evil fae sorcerer to claim her. That was the bargain her mother was tricked into: one royal first-born in exchange for spinning straw into gold. But it’s been decades, and he still hasn’t shown up.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Reverence

  Ross, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)

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  Born to the firelit domain of the underworld, Matilda is the youngest goddess of her clan, blessed with humble messenger magic. But in a land where gods kill each other for magic, Matilda must come of age sooner than most. She may be known to carry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alchemised

  SenLinYu

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  Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war,…Read moreRead more of this annotation