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“Life is the prickly pear. It’s always going to be a combination of beauty and hurt, no matter how hard you try to protect yourself from the hard parts. There is no way to avoid pain." A long time ago, Logan Maletis and Rosemary Hale used to be friends. They spent their childhood summers runnin...

Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire.A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to ...

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all.Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confi...

“Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back."Viv's career with the renowned mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the slee...

“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful."Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. S...

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as."After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success ...

“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic a...

“Can you imagine what that’s like – to be seen only for the life you could make, not the life you already possess?”In , Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped th...

“What if I wish for impossible things?Then you're doing it right. It always seems impossible when you first start.”In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots―fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, an...

"History, huh? Bet we could make some.”First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, Presid...

“Tru's face closes as though she has already figured out that promises are merely sweet lies.”Beating with the pulse of a long-witheld confession, gives voice to a woman who looks to America for the opportunity to choose herself first―not to give a better life to her family back home....

“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.”Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged...

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”  A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect ...

“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there...

“Other people’s dreams are no basis for a life. We must seek as hard as we can, as a matter of emergency, to find our own dreams, our own lives.”'Your brother takes me for a barbarian, Mr Bowen. But I assure you, I’m quite well trained.' When Benjamin and Edgar Bowen embark on a ...

“I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of per...

"The line between pain and comedy is so thin, it might as well not even exist."Eighteen-year-old aspiring comic Joey Rossi just found out his boyfriend has been cheating on him for the past ten months. But what did he expect? Joey was born with an addiction to toxic jerks—something he inherited...

“I don't know how to do anything else but love you.”Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. The Dark Grace is dead. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her re...

“That each person could choose what brought them closest to belonging, the power in that. Knowing that one day, people might discover even better words for it. That there was only ever freedom in continuing to find new names for who we were, who we could be.”Recently divorced and on the ve...

“Home Again” by Shihad is in my top ten song list. I love the bit that goes “it’s been a day of tiny triumphs”. If you look back at the end of each day I bet there is some kind of tiny triumph, even if the rest of the day has been a bit pants.Trans: a definitiona. across, be...