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The Found Object Society By: Michelle Maryk
Happy publication day! For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a…
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A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage By: M.K. Oliver
A book dripping with sarcasm and blood … if you are looking for a break from serious reading, here is your calling. A whip-smart and darkly funny crime novel—perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Maid—that follows a wife and mother with a deadly secret that she must suppress if she wants to maintain…
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Skylark By: Paula McLain
Accidentally picked up another WWII book – my fault. The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below—where a woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that…
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The Midnight Knock By: John Fram
The latest horror book I read. I don’t read a lot of horror, but when I do … I like to make sure it’s weird-horror. A locked-room/Groundhog Day mystery meets white-knuckle horror in this thriller, where strangers must survive a deadly night in a remote Texas motel. The Midnight Knock is Groundhog Day meets horror-locked-room-mystery.…
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The Bookbinder’s Secret By: A.D. Bell
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. An absolute page turner. It feels like there is so much going on in this book, but it also feels very manageable chaos. I felt…
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An Academic Affair By: Jodi McAlister
From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only to discover that it may be harder to pretend than they realized. Big news: This is my first McAlister book and it won’t be my last. This is a perfect enemies to lovers…
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Just Friends By: Haley Pham
Catching up on some ARC reads I did this summer. Coming to you in spring of 2026! Heartwarming and swoon-worthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham. Let’s get the biases out-of-the-way, I do watch Haley’s YouTube channel. I do enjoy her cute…
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