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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION BY EMILY HENRY
Title: People We Meet On Vacation Author: Emily Henry Release date: May 11, 2021 Series: Standalone Pages: 384 Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of…
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THE WHO LIVED IN THE CEILING BY CARA THURLBOURN
Title: The Boy Who Lived In The Ceiling Author: Cara Thurlborn Release date: July 8, 2021 Series: Standalone Pages: 302 Rating: 4 STARS Blurb Heartbreaking yet heartwarming – a coming-of-age story filled with love, loss, and blossoming friendships. Freddie’s life isn’t like it used to be – he’s alone, homeless, and carrying a secret that threatens to swallow him up. Every day is a struggle, until he meets Violet Johnson. Violet’s life is going down-hill. Her parents argue, her little brother’s stopped speaking, and she’s about to move schools. She used to be popular, she used to be happy, but now she feels as though that is all slipping away.…
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THE INSIDERS BY TIJAN
Title: The Insiders Author: Tijan Release date: May 4, 2021 Book details: Trilogy Pages: 384 Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen―a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices―go with him and meet her father or survive…
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THE HOUSE SWAP BY JO LOVETT
Title: The House Swap Author: Jo Lovett Release date: April 19, 2021 Book details: Standalone Pages: 337 Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb Island house off coast of Maine, with private beach, sea views and the occasional farmyard animal, seeks super swanky Central London penthouse overlooking Holland Park, complete with concierge service and spurned ex-lovers… When thirty-somethings Cassie and James find each other on a home swap website, it feels meant to be. City hotshot James needs a bolthole after a relationship goes sour and Cassie needs to leave the comfort of her little island to research her new book. Soon, James is living in Cassie’s cute but ramshackle beachside cottage, and Cassie’s living in James’s…
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KING OF SCARS BY LEIGH BARDUGO
Title: King of Scars Author: Leigh Bardugo Release date: January 29, 2019 Book details: Book 1 of 2: King of Scars Duology Pages: 604 Rating: FOUR STARS BLURB Face your demons… or feed them. The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war–and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy…
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ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN BY TALIA HIBBERT
Title: Act Your Age, Eve Brown Author: Talia Hibbert Release date: March 9, 2021 Series: Book 3 of 3 in the Brown Sisters Series Pages: 400 Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong. So she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she’s not entirely sure how… Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality…
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SPELLMAKER BY CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG
Title: Spellmaker Author: Charlie N. Holmberg Release date: March 9, 2021 Pages: 301 Series: Book 2 of 2: Spellbreaker Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb Dead wizards, stolen enchantments, and broken promises force a young spellbreaker out of the shadows in the next thrilling installment of the Spellbreaker series by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician. England, 1895. An unsolved series of magician murders and opus thefts isn’t a puzzle to Elsie Camden. But to reveal a master spellcaster as the culprit means incriminating herself as an unregistered spellbreaker. When Elsie refuses to join forces with the charming assassin, her secret is exposed, she’s thrown in jail, and the murderer disappears. But Elsie’s…
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SPELLBREAKER BY CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG
Title: Spellbreaker Author: Charlie N. Holmberg Release date: November 1, 2020 Pages: 300 Series: Book 1 of 2: Spellbreaker Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb A world of enchanted injustice needs a disenchanting woman in the newest fantasy series by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician. The orphaned Elsie Camden learned as a girl that there were two kinds of wizards in the world: those who pay for the power to cast spells and those, like her, born with the ability to break them. But as an unlicensed magic user, her gift is a crime. Commissioned by an underground group known as the Cowls, Elsie uses her spellbreaking to push back against…
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FABLE BY ADRIENNE YOUNG
Title: Fable Author: Adrienne Young Release date: September 1, 2020 Series: Fable Pages: 361 Rating: 4 STARS Blurb Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first book in this new captivating duology. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men. As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever…
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MAKE UP BREAK UP BY LILY MENON
Title: Make Up Break Up Author: Lily Menon Release date: February 2, 2021 Book details: Standalone Pages: 336 Rating: FOUR STARS Blurb Love, romance, second chances, fairy-tale endings…these are the things Annika Dev believes in. Her app, Make Up, has been called the “Google Translate for failing relationships.” High efficiency break-ups, flashy start-ups, penthouses, fast cars…these are the things Hudson Craft believes in. His app, Break Up, is known as the “Uber for break-ups.” It’s wildly successful―and anathema to Annika’s life philosophy. Which wouldn’t be a problem if they’d gone their separate ways after that summer fling in Las Vegas, never to see each other again. Unfortunately for Annika, Hudson’s moving…