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📚 The Glass Hotel by: Emily St. John Mandel

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace...

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Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: 'Why don't you swallow broken glass.' Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the towers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020 PRAISE FOR THE GLASS HOTEL
September 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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📚 Termination Shock by: Neal Stephenson

One man, a visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D has a Big Idea for rever...

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One man, a visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease? Epic in scope while heartbreakingly human in perspective, Termination Shock sounds a clarion alarm, ponders potential solutions and dire risks, and wraps it all together in an exhilarating, witty, mind-expanding speculative adventure. New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson--who coined
September 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. Free audiobook with scrolling text:

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September 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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📚 Never Let Me Go by: Kazuo Ishiguro

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where...

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As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled
August 31, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Books I want to read based on the cover & title alone:

This exercise is proving cool because I'm realizing that I don't consider enough books because I want to stay in my genre of choice.

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Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke the top half of A woman's face from the front of a magazine is ripped off and where her eyes and forehead should be underneath the ripped page is visible a pastoral paitning of a woman in a dress, apron and cap milking a black and while heifer in a field while other cattle graze around her. "everyone will be talking about this book" Bella Mackie "Maddening, mesmerising, ingenious." New York Times
August 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Books I want to read based on the cover & title alone:

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Cover for Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou Two people are moments away from a tender kiss, eyes closed. They are both pale in complexion, though the taller one is slightly paler and has elven ears and elven script tattoo under one eye. There are many moths all around them, encircling them. The moths are purple and darker pueple with slight tear drop shapes on their wings.
August 29, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. Black background, white kind of piratey degraded capital font an abstract painting square in the centre, its yellow on the top and then kind of fades to now what looks like dried and crusted blood, I cant really see any discernable image or pattern, kind of a face, maybe not. It's a bit eerie.
August 29, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Whistler, A Novel Ann Patchett This looks like an oil painting with the focus being a saddled light chestnut horse with a white streak down their forehead and white socks. the reins trail down and the horse looks alert directly at the viewer. The foreground is a yellow green grassy meadow with the background being distant hills to either side, but mostly flat in the centre. the sky is dark royal blue and thisi part looks more watercolour, it is night and some specks of stars are visible. the font is white and serif.
August 29, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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John of John by Douglas Stuart. White bold font that takes up the entirety of the cover. Behind is a rain spattered painting of clouds above maybe a body of water or an ocean at sunset or sunrise. along the bottom in the same font, but medium orange colour: Booker Prize-Winning Author of Shuggie Bain.
August 29, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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📚 The Reformatory by: Tananarive Due

Gracetown, Florida

June 1950

Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetow...

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Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only
August 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Happy Senior Citizens Day. Seniors love my general fiction novels that don't have unearthly creatures involved in strange love stories. (Of course, I'm writing one of those too, out next summer.😜) #booksy #fiction #generalfiction #beerpour #goosecreekholler #seniorcitizen #friday #books #novels
I write general fiction sometimes. My latest is an Appalachian story that a man bought at a book signing. He grew up in rural Virginia, so I think he's gonna like my Appalachian tale about a corrupt small-town sheriff and his orbit of crooks and grifters.
August 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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The Windsor Affair by Melanie Benjamin
pub date - 6/2/26

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August 12, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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📚 Rabbit Cake by: Annie Hartnett

Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male ...

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Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn’t yet know—like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother's silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief, family, and the endurance of humor after loss.
August 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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📚 The World Jones Made by: Philip K. Dick

Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year befo...

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Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism. If, that is, he can avoid the radioactively unstable government hitman on his tail. Precognition; a world ruled by Relativism; giant alien jellyfish. The World Jones Made is a classic Philip K. Dick mash-up, taking deep philosophical musings and infusing them with wild action.
August 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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📚 Ed by: qntm

Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them,...

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Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them, he's your guy. When a galaxy goes missing, he's the one who misplaced it. But there's something wrong in the dark layers of Ed's universe - and the problem might just be Ed himself...
July 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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The GOOSE CREEK HOLLER paperback will be available from Amazon on 8/3/26. #booksky #viral #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #writer #books #novels #appalachia #southernfiction #ruralfiction #appalachianfiction #generalfiction #paperbacks #book #reader #amazon #now #tuesday #sales
The paperback of my new book will be available on Amazon on 8/3.
July 28, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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📚 Japanese Gothic by: Kylie Lee Baker

October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred an...

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October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window. One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie. Something is hiding beneath the house of sword f
July 27, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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📚 Firestarter by: Stephen King

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for a...

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Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of the Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own... Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time)—now featuring a stunning vintage
July 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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📚 Under the Dome by: Stephen King

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed o...

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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s
July 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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📚 Enormous Wings by: Laurie Frankel

At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retire...

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At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant. As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make. Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how
June 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Daggermouth
by H.M. Wolfe
Expected June 25th 2026

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June 17, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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"I'm going to wash myself until my skin feels raw and all traces of the accident are gone. From the outside of me at least."

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June 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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📚 The Road to Tender Hearts by: Annie Hartnett

At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest ma...

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At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn’t have much time left—he’s had three heart attacks already. But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he’s going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back. Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brother’s grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask
June 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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📚 Taiwan Travelogue by: Shuang-zi Yang

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan....

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May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp
May 30, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham

Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable ...

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Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution. As each scientist wrestles with the implications and practicalities of exploiting the discovery, the world comes ever closer to learning the truth... Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives and asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians? FROM THE RENOWNED CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS AND THE CHRYSTALIDS 'Ingenious' Evening Standard
April 25, 2026 at 4:58 PM