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Doors of Sleep by Tim Pratt | Journals of Zaxony Delatree #1

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Zax Delatree is transported into a new world every time he falls asleep. Having visited utopias, barren landscapes, and worlds of unimaginable proportion, Zax never knows what to expect; all he has to survive are his wits and technological advancements he’s picked up along the way. Thankfully, he sometimes has …

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A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

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In a secluded home by the lakeside lives Derry, her eight siblings, and Frank, the man who raised them. Frank tells them the isolation is for their safety as the world isn’t safe for people with magic and the forest which surrounds them is too dangerous to enter. Derry and …

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As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson | A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #3

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In As Good as Dead, the victim is someone Pip knows well – herself. She has become desensitised to the online hate, no longer fazed when people angrily post insults at her but when a particular one comes her way asking, “who will look for you when you’re the one who …

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A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

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Dalloway School was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. After a year of grieving and learning to cope, Felicity is back at Dalloway to finish what she started and graduate. She even has her old room in Godwin House rumoured to be haunted by the ghosts of five …

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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

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Fifteen years ago, Emma watched as her three cabin mates snuck out into the dead of the night never to be seen again. Present day, Emma is a rising artist who has transformed that painful night into something of beauty. At her gallery depicting countless paintings of that night, one of …

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That Weekend by Kara Thomas

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Prom weekend. A secret vacation. Three best friends. All whom go hiking up the mountain and yet, only one returns. Two missing teenagers leave police and family desperate for answers but not as desperate as Claire, whose only memory of that weekend is waking up alone and hurt on the …

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The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

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April Sawicki lives inside a motorised home her father won in poker. Having failed out of high school, April is desperately trying to find herself in a town that has never felt like home. When she “borrows” a car to perform an open mic-night, April comes to the realisation that …

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Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen

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Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen is the first instalment in the Detective Annalisa Vega series and is the ideal novel for lovers of detective mysteries. As the first in the series, Gone for Good revolves around the Lovelorn killer and two detectives, one amateur and one professional. Grace Harper is …

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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

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Seventeen years ago, the water turned neon green and Nora has been fighting for justice since. All she needs to prove Belsum Chemicals poisoned their water supply is the smoking gun hidden among the thousands of  bureaucratic files. Her three daughters; Mab, Monday, and Mirabel have watched since birth the …

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The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson | Truly Devious #4

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Stevie Bell is itching to catch another killer. She solved the elusive Ellingham mystery and yet, she craves more. When the owner of Sunny Pines, the site of another infamous mystery, reaches out to Stevie offering her a place at the summer camp to help record their podcast documenting the …

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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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It’s time for the annual end of the summer party hosted by Nina Riva and everybody in Malibu is itching to rage. The partygoers crave the entertainment and to be important enough to be invited by the famous Riva’s – Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit. Together, the four are a …

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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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Located on the outskirts of a small town and nestled between two looming mountains lays a teashop. Hugo is both the owner of the teashop and ferryman for souls recently passed and it is this teashop where Wallace Price has just been led by a reaper. Wallace isn’t ready to …