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Fantasy, Classic LiteratureA Fairy Story
A magical star swallowed at a village feast grants Smith passage into Faery, but the gift carries a season and must eventually pass to another traveler.
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Fantasy, Contemporary Romance, Psychological HorrorA Novel
By John Wiswell
Shapeshifting monster Shesheshen falls for kind human Homily, then learns her new girlfriend's family is hunting the very creature Shesheshen must pretend not to be.
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Science Fiction, Psychological Horror, ThrillerA Novel
A team of specialists descends to a deep-sea habitat to investigate an enormous spacecraft discovered on the ocean floor, where an apparently impossible sphere turns fear and imagination into physical danger.
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Non Fiction, HistoryA History of Ancient Rome
By Mary Beard
This SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome review looks at how Mary Beard retells a thousand years of Roman history through citizenship, power, and everyday life rather than a simple rise and fall story.
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Thriller, Science FictionA Novel
Attorney Peter Evans becomes involved in a pursuit of extremists attempting to manufacture natural disasters, while the novel builds a controversial argument about climate science, environmental advocacy, and media fear.
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Dystopian Fiction, FantasyA Hunger Games Novel
Sunrise on the Reaping returns to Panem with Haymitch Abernathy’s tense and tender perspective on the Fiftieth Hunger Games.
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Fantasy, Romantasy, Romantic ComedyA Novel
When greedy relatives imprison new heiress Halla, she draws an old sword and releases Sarkis, an immortal warrior magically compelled to protect whoever holds his blade.
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Fantasy, Classic LiteratureFive Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
This collection brings together Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and the poems of Tom Bombadil in one illustrated volume.
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Science Fiction, Hard Science FictionA Novel
Pathologist Quillon flees the vertical city of Spearpoint with an angel's secret, crossing zones where different technologies function and the world itself resists a single explanation.
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Fantasy, Classic LiteratureAnd Other Verses from the Red Book
This playful collection presents poems attributed to the Red Book, including Tom Bombadil's encounters and verses that reveal the songs, humor, folklore, and shadows of Middle-earth.
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Existential Fiction, Classic LiteratureInspirational Fable Review
By Paulo Coelho
A shepherd named Santiago journeys from Spain to the Egyptian desert to pursue his recurring dream and discover his personal legend.
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Science Fiction, ThrillerA Novel
After a satellite falls near an Arizona town and almost every resident dies, a team of scientists enters an underground laboratory to identify an extraterrestrial microorganism before containment fails.
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Non Fiction, Popular Science, Parenting And EducationHow the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
This The Anxious Generation review looks at how Jonathan Haidt links the shift from play based childhoods to phone based childhoods with rising teen anxiety and depression, and which practical norms parents and schools might try in response.
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Historical FictionA Novel
By Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, this World War II story follows young Liesel Meminger as she discovers the redemptive power of words amidst profound loss and danger.
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Thriller, Psychological ThrillerA Psychological Thriller
This The Boyfriend review follows Sydney Shaw through online dating disasters, a dream doctor boyfriend and the chilling suspicion that she might be falling for a serial killer instead of a soulmate.
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Classic Literature, Existential Fiction, Russian LiteratureA Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
This Brothers Karamazov review looks at a turbulent Russian family where jealousy, faith, and doubt spiral into murder, a public trial, and searching conversations about guilt and God.
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Existential Fiction, Classic LiteratureKafka Review of Bureaucratic Surrealism
By Franz Kafka
Kafka immerses readers in a snowbound village where a land surveyor named K. confronts opaque officials and a living bureaucracy.
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Fantasy, Classic LiteratureA Tale of the First Age
Under Morgoth's curse, Túrin Turambar and his sister Niënor are drawn through war, pride, secrecy, and the dragon Glaurung toward one of Middle-earth's darkest tragedies.
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