Jannitta's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:02:08 -0800 60 Jannitta's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Legendborn (Legendborn, #1) 51679954
A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so called “Legendborn� students that hunt the creatures down.

And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin� and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.

She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.]]> 511 Tracy Deonn Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.44 2020 Legendborn (Legendborn, #1)
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]]> Confess 22609310
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it?]]> 306 Colleen Hoover 1476791457 Jannitta 5 4.14 2015 Confess
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"I'll love you forever, even when I can't." Oh my heart. I loved this story. I loved the art work. I loved the concept of art work being created from anonymous confessions. This was perfect. Simply perfect.
]]> Tress of the Emerald Sea 68320207 C’est le début d’un périple au bout du monde, où l’on retrouve tous les ingrédients qui font le sel des grandes aventures : des contrebandiers de la pire espèce, une sorcière malintentionnée, un redoutable dragon, des pirates sales et méchants (ou pas), et même un rat qui parle...
Tress de la mer Émeraude est le premier des quatre « romans secrets » écrits par Brandon Sanderson, l’auteur best-seller aux plus de trente-six millions d’exemplaires vendus à travers le monde, durant les confinements de la pandémie de Covid-19. Ces romans ont fait l’objet d’une campagne de financement participatif record sur la plateforme Kickstarter aux États-Unis.

Un roman à dévorer. Numerama.

Un roman du Cosmère.]]> 486 Brandon Sanderson Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.45 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea
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]]> Blood at the Root 198701013
Ten years ago,Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malikis finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university thatMalik’s mother attended.

At Caiman University, Malik’s eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisionedfor himself� one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution. Together with Alexis, Malik discovers a lot beneath the surface at feuding covens and magical politics, forbidden knowledge and buried mysteries.

In a wholly unique saga of family, history and community, Malik must embrace his legacy to save what's left of his old family as well as his new one. Exploring the roots and secrets that connect us in an unforgettable contemporary setting, thisheart-pounding fantasy series opener is a rich tapestry of atmosphere, intrigue, and emotion.]]> 421 LaDarrion Williams 0593711955 Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.24 2024 Blood at the Root
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)]]> 35917072 Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.

They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.

Now we rise.

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers—and her growing feelings for an enemy.]]> 525 Tomi Adeyemi 1250170982 Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.27 2018 Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn Trilogy (Mistborn, #1-3)]]> 10267807 New York Times bestselling series from Brandon Sanderson.

This omnibus


Mistborn
The Well of Ascension
The Hero of Ages


At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.]]> 2448 Brandon Sanderson 1429989815 Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.60 2009 Mistborn Trilogy (Mistborn, #1-3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)]]> 49021976 The eagerly awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.

Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals, and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

At the same time that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing role within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly enemy Fused awaken to wage war, no more honorspren are willing to bond with humans to increase the number of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the coalition’s envoy to the honorspren stronghold of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the cause against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of failure.]]> 1232 Brandon Sanderson 0765326388 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.58 2020 Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4)
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]]> Warbreaker 1268479
Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.]]> 688 Brandon Sanderson Jannitta 0 to-read 4.29 2009 Warbreaker
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]]> <![CDATA[Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)]]> 34002132 Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.

Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.]]> 1248 Brandon Sanderson Jannitta 0 to-read 4.60 2017 Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)]]> 17332218 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.

Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.

The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.

Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.

Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.]]> 1088 Brandon Sanderson 0765326361 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.76 2014 Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)]]> 2767793
Who is the Hero of Ages?

To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.

Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. Vin can't even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!]]> 572 Brandon Sanderson 0765316897 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.54 2008 The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)]]> 68429
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler—the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years—has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.

As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her.

Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal.

As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.]]> 590 Brandon Sanderson 0765316889 Jannitta 0 currently-reading 4.38 2007 The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.66 2010 The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Jannitta 0 4.48 2006 Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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]]> The Other Black Girl 55824957 Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.

Then the notes begin to appear on Nella's desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.

It's hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there's a lot more at stake than just her career.]]> 356 Zakiya Dalila Harris 1982160152 Jannitta 0 3.49 2021 The Other Black Girl
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]]> The Reformatory 74891190 A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

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 American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.]]> 573 Tananarive Due Jannitta 0 to-read 4.50 2023 The Reformatory
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]]> Cadaverous 123981421 When darkness falls, the nightmare begins...Step into the twisted world of Gaige Penrod. This self-taught metal guitarist is consumed by a burning desire to be the epitome of greatness, and his journey takes an ominous turn when he attends a fateful concert during an eclipse.

Enveloped by an unearthly presence, Gaige's very essence undergoes a malevolent transformation. Driven by an insatiable hunger for answers, he becomes fixated on realizing his musical destiny, embarking on a treacherous quest to reunite his band for a shot at immortal glory. But little does he know, his lust for fame will lead him down a perilous path.

In a moment of desperation, Gaige strikes a Faustian bargain with a demonic figure, unwittingly releasing an unspeakable evil that threatens to consume him and all those he holds dear.

Prepare yourself for Cadaverous, an icy tale that exposes the dangers of unchecked ambition. As the horrifying consequences unfold, you'll be left questioning the true price of desire.]]> 300 Jay Bower Jannitta 0 to-read 4.18 Cadaverous
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]]> <![CDATA[Shift Happens (New Orleans Nocturnes, #2)]]> 204285516 She wants to bang a werewolf, not become one.

Sophie Burroughs is determined to be a witch. Her grandmother was a witch. All the other supes say she smells like a witch, but she can’t cast a spell to save her life.

Sprouting fur is so not on her to-do list.

But when a smokin' hot werewolf bites her and then accuses her of crimes against his pack, she has until the next full moon to prove him wrong and stop his magic from transforming her into a wolf.

A romp in the sack would be a nice bonus, too.

Trace Thibodeaux didn’t mean to bite Sophie. The red wolves have been cursed, she's the prime suspect, and if he wants to keep his rank in the pack, he has to end her magic by any means necessary.

But that doesn’t include sheathing his sword in a witch’s scabbard.

He’s gotten into bed with the enemy before, and that’s a mistake he’ll never make again.

Or will he?

If you like funny heroines and smoldering shifters, you'll love this steamy paranormal romantic comedy.]]> 242 Carrie Pulkinen Jannitta 0 to-read 4.04 2020 Shift Happens (New Orleans Nocturnes, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Destined Mate (Twisted Fate Trilogy, #1)]]> 188520453
As the adopted and weakest member of my pack, I’ve always been an outcast and mistreated, especially since I've never been able to shift into my animal form.

Every time I try to find a way to escape my personal hell, my pack leader stops me so that I'll never be free from him.

Then the worst happens.

A group of my pack members attacks me.

Alone, outnumbered, and stuck in my human form, I'll fight for my life even though there’s no hope for survival.

Until a group of unfamiliar wolves comes to my aid.

The sexiest and strongest of them, Bodey, is adamant to protect me.

And something inside me tugs toward him almost unnaturally.

But it turns out things aren't what they seem.

There might be something more to my past than I knew . . . and Bodey might be the very person I need protecting from.

Get this steamy and suspenseful forced proximity, touch her and unalive, broody male, fated mates, royal wolf shifter romance today!]]> 404 Jen L. Grey Jannitta 0 to-read 4.22 2023 Destined Mate (Twisted Fate Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps, #1)]]> 123425292
All she wanted to do was live her life in peace--maybe get a cat, expand the family spice farm. Really, anything that didn't involve going on an adventure where an orc might rip her face off. But they say the Goddess has favorite, and if so, Cin is clearly not one of them...

After saving the demon Fallon in a wine-drunk stupor, all Fallon wants to do is kill an evil witch enslaving his people. And, who can blame him? But he's dragging Cinnamon along for the ride.On the bright side, at least he keeps burning off his shirt.]]> 279 Kimberly Lemming Jannitta 0 3.92 2021 That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Mead Mishaps, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Snow so White (Urban Magick & Folklore, #1)]]> 59397330 In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.

But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.

To avert a war, save her village--and herself--Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest � If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.

A retelling of Snow White with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver.]]> 384 C. Gockel Jannitta 0 to-read 3.74 2022 Snow so White (Urban Magick & Folklore, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Apple Pie (Slice of Forever #1)]]> 63036084
Being in love with your best friend may seem like the end of the world...

For Noah and Lincoln, sometimes, it has. Yet it's never kept them from always sticking together.

But after four years apart due to Lincoln's military career, Lincoln's tired of just being Noah's friend--he wants more.

He wants to make Noah his baby boy.

*If you're looking for a sweet twink and overprotective bear with a friends to lovers trope thrown in, this is definitely your book.*]]> 28 West Greene Jannitta 0 to-read 3.50 Apple Pie (Slice of Forever #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Naughty List (Naughtier and Naughtier, #1)]]> 203112353 Ella, a desperate, newly single goth girl with a mountain of debt, would do anything to see her parents this Christmas� the problem is, her parents live on the other side of the world.

So, when she’s granted access to The Naughty List � a marketplace for dirty proposals from rich strangers � she opts to take everything and anything she can get.

She thinks she’s a good player, getting five-star reviews like a good girl and climbing the ranks � until she stumbles onto The Naughty List’s most daring group of all�

The Hardcorers.

Players who will fulfil any proposal clients ask them to, just so long as the price is right.

Can Ella be one? Can she really climb The Naughty List right the way to the top of the tree?

The idea gets even more thrilling when she meets Weston� the hottest Hardcorer of them all.

As it turns out, maybe it’s not just money that Ella’s truly desperate for this Christmas�

ܳٳǰ’s This spicy, Christmas, full-length standalone novel is jam packed full to the brim of dirty Christmas presents for you. Please proceed with caution. Believe me, this isn’t just about kisses under the mistletoe!]]> 274 Jade West Jannitta 0 to-read 3.87 2023 The Naughty List (Naughtier and Naughtier, #1)
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]]> Do Not Disturb 58778536
To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she’s done.

But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.

Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.

In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.

But first, she must survive the night.

Do Not Disturb is a Hitchcock-style psychological thriller that will keep you tearing through the pages until you reach the shocking conclusion!]]> 325 Freida McFadden Jannitta 4 3.93 2021 Do Not Disturb
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]]> The Boyfriend 209950981 She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.

Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.

Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.

Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim...

A dark story about obsession and the things we’ll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest…]]> 370 Freida McFadden Jannitta 4 4.20 2024 The Boyfriend
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]]> <![CDATA[Growling For More (Grayslake: More Than Mated)]]> 41067089
Lola didn’t plan on her deadbeat mom blowing the rent and then skipping town, so she’s without a home. Again. But this time it’s going to be different. Hearing whispers of shifters in Gray Ridge, she takes off in search of something, anything, that can bring some light to her life. When her car slips and she ends up in danger, she never expects her rescuer to be the one to give her everything she’s ever wanted.

Will being snowed in lead to steamy nights and mating bites? You betcha!

This is a short shifter story filled with sweet, cheesy possessiveness and lots of growling. Obviously. Go ahead and read it. You know you want to!

This book was previously released in Kindle Worlds. It has now been re-covered with bonus material added and is now available on all Amazon platforms in the Kindle Unlimited program.]]> 69 Alexa Riley Jannitta 5 3.92 2016 Growling For More (Grayslake: More Than Mated)
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]]> Ward D 123193218 spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.

Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.

And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.

Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.

And now she might never escape.
]]> 348 Freida McFadden Jannitta 5 3.98 2023 Ward D
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]]> Run on Red 61381555
By the time Laura and Olivia notice the headlights tailing them through the hills, it’s too late. What seems, at first, like a case of road rage quickly unfolds into a heart-pounding chase—and a battle for survival.

Who are the men in the truck? What do they want? And can Laura and Olivia outrun—and outsmart—them long enough to call for help, even if it means taking their chances in the hills on foot?

As their situation grows more perilous, the girls realize that the real terror has only just begun. But flight won’t save them from their pursuers. If they’re going to make it home alive, they'll have to fight.]]> 291 Noelle W. Ihli Jannitta 4 3.73 2022 Run on Red
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]]> <![CDATA[Burn (Songs of Submission, #5)]]> 17909617
Until you surrender yourself to me fully, I will not touch you.

Until the world can know you belong to me, I will not kiss you.

I'm going to be inches away, at your side. I'm going to whisper in your ear and put my breath on your neck, but the heat of my skin will not feel the shudder of yours until you commit yourself to me completely and without reservation.]]> 197 C.D. Reiss Jannitta 3 4.25 Burn (Songs of Submission, #5)
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]]> The Inmate 61149872 1) Treat all prisoners with respect.
2) Never reveal any personal information.
3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.

But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary's most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don't know that Shane was Brooke's high school sweetheart―the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there.

But Shane knows. And he will never forget.]]> 388 Freida McFadden Jannitta 5 4.03 2022 The Inmate
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]]> The Teacher 198218463 A mind-bending, psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!

Lesson #1: trust no one

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except�

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets and long-awaited revenge.]]> 362 Freida McFadden Jannitta 5 4.15 2024 The Teacher
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]]> Never Lie 62080187
But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate� with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.

In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.

Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.

And then Tricia reaches the final cassette.

The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.]]> 286 Freida McFadden Jannitta 5 4.09 2022 Never Lie
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> You Can't Hide 104449182
Beth and Ian are desperate to have a child. So much so that they decide to sell his family cabin in upstate New York to pay for IVF.

When they arrive at the cabin, they meet Ryan, the caretaker. But Ryan is not who he says he is� He’s here because he knows Beth has a dark secret. And now he intends to use it against her.

He threatens to tell Ian everything about Beth's past unless she does exactly what he says.

Beth finds herself caught in a nightmarish trap. If Ian discovers what she’s been hiding from him, she’s sure he’ll leave her. She’ll lose everything she cares about, including the chance to have a child of her own.

On the other hand, what Ryan wants her to do is so dark and twisted it’s beyond horrifying.

Either way, Beth is sure her life is over, she can see no way out. Unless� Unless she digs deep and finds a part of herself that is willing to do something so awful it doesn’t even bear thinking about…]]> 225 Emily Shiner 1837560854 Jannitta 0 3.77 2023 You Can't Hide
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]]> Good Girls Don’t Die 122658643
Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip―but then her friend's boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. The cabin looks recently assembled and there are no animals or other life anywhere in the forest. Nothing about the place seems right. Then, in the middle of the night, someone bangs on the cabin door�

Maggie, along with twelve other women, wakes up in a shipping container with the number three stamped on the back of her T-shirt. If she wants to see her daughter Paige again, Maggie must complete The Maze―a deadly high-stakes obstacle course.

Three women. Three stories. Only one way out...]]> 320 Christina Henry Jannitta 0 3.43 2023 Good Girls Don’t Die
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]]> <![CDATA[Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)]]> 578587
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]> 620 Dan Brown 0552150738 Jannitta 5 3.82 2000 Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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I absolutely loved this book. To the point I could barely put it down. I loved it even more than I loved the Davinci Code. I think the fact that I'm not religious at all helps. There were so many twists and turns and I loved the suspense. I'm a sucker for the kind of thing. All in all I thought this book was amazing.
]]> <![CDATA[The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks]]> 60305888 I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books.

If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.

When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to her small-town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past, and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat.

And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken.

To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club, running a series of events celebrating the books readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books, and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible. Especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything.

Maggie will have to decide what's more important: the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change it all.]]> 336 Shauna Robinson Jannitta 0 to-read 3.74 2022 The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
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]]> <![CDATA[Come Juneteenth (Great Episodes)]]> 100202
How could the state of Texas keep the news of the Emancipation Proclamation from reaching slaves? In this riveting Great Episodes historical drama, Ann Rinaldi sheds light on the events that led to the creation of Juneteenth, a celebration of freedom that continues today.
Includes an author's note.]]> 256 Ann Rinaldi 0152059474 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.52 2007 Come Juneteenth (Great Episodes)
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]]> The Underground Railroad 30555488
In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.

Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.]]> 320 Colson Whitehead 0385542364 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.04 2016 The Underground Railroad
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]]> The Women of Brewster Place 765811 In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and open-hearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Her remarkable sense of community and history makes The Women of Brewster Place a contemporary classic—and a touching and unforgettable read.

]]> 192 Gloria Naylor Jannitta 0 to-read 4.20 1982 The Women of Brewster Place
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]]> The Darkest Child 331260
But Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle's grasp without ruinous--even fatal--consequences?]]> 400 Delores Phillips 1569473781 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.39 2004 The Darkest Child
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]]> White Teeth 3711 White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.]]> 448 Zadie Smith 0375703861 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.80 2000 White Teeth
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]]> The Book of Night Women 4682558 The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear.

The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.

Lilith's story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion between slave and master, between slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently--and the secret of that voice is one of the book's most intriguing mysteries.]]> 417 Marlon James 1594488576 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.36 2009 The Book of Night Women
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]]> A Lesson Before Dying 5197 256 Ernest J. Gaines 0375702709 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.98 1993 A Lesson Before Dying
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]]> Uncle Tom’s Cabin 46787 438 Harriet Beecher Stowe Jannitta 0 to-read 3.88 1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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]]> The Book of Negroes 23316548
A sweeping story that transports the reader from a tribal African village to a plantation in the southern United States, from the teeming Halifax docks to the manor houses of London, The Book of Negroes introduces one of the strongest female characters in Canadian fiction, one who cuts a swath through a world hostile to her colour and her sex.]]> 512 Lawrence Hill 0393351394 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.50 2007 The Book of Negroes
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]]> Wench 6751356 An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses

wench \'wench\ n. from Middle English "wenchel," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child.

Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. The main building, with its luxurious finishes, is loftier than the white cottages that flank it, but then again, the smaller structures are better positioned to catch any breeze that may come off the pond. And they provide more privacy, which best suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. It's their open secret.

Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They have become friends over the years as they reunite and share developments in their own lives and on their respective plantations. They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory–but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.

To run is to leave behind everything these women value most–friends and families still down South–and for some it also means escaping from the emotional and psychological bonds that bind them to their masters. When a fire on the resort sets off a string of tragedies, the women of Tawawa House soon learn that triumph and dehumanization are inseparable and that love exists even in the most inhuman, brutal of circumstances–all while they are bearing witness to the end of an era.

An engaging, page-turning, and wholly original novel, Wench explores, with an unflinching eye, the moral complexities of slavery.]]> 290 Dolen Perkins-Valdez 006170654X Jannitta 0 to-read 3.72 2009 Wench
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]]> The Bluest Eye 11337 The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways.

With its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.]]> 216 Toni Morrison Jannitta 0 to-read 4.13 1970 The Bluest Eye
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]]> Invisible Man 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison Jannitta 0 to-read 3.91 1952 Invisible Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]> 546018 her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.

Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.

But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.]]> 729 Alex Haley 0440174643 Jannitta 0 to-read 4.44 1976 Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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]]> The Last Letter 51342403 Kann ein gebrochenes Herz lernen, wieder zu lieben?

Ella hätte nie gedacht, dass sie als Brieffreundin eines anonymen Soldaten in diesem einen wahren Freund finden würde. Dennoch entwickelt sich eine tiefe Zuneigung zwischen ihr und ›Chaos� � vielleicht sogar mehr. Dann treffen Ella mehrere schwere Schicksalsschläge und als auch die Briefe von ›Chaos� ausbleiben, muss sie glauben, dass sie allein auf der Welt ist.
Obwohl er sie nicht persönlich kennt, hat Beckett alias ›Chaos� sich in die Frau hinter den Briefen verliebt. Ella, die Schwester seines besten Freundes. Als dieser stirbt, bittet er Beckett in einem letzten Brief, Ella beizustehen. Beckett wird alles tun, um Ella zu unterstützen, aber er wird ihr niemals sagen können, wer er wirklich ist, und Ella hasst nichts mehr als Lügen.]]> 432 Rebecca Yarros Jannitta 3 4.61 2019 The Last Letter
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]]> When the Reckoning Comes 56785841
A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.

More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse—the boy she secretly loved—arrested for murder.

But now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celine’s wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. Mira hopes to reconnect with her friends, and especially, Jesse, to finally tell him the truth about her feelings and the events of that devastating long-ago day.

But for all its fancy renovations, the Woodsman remains a monument to its oppressive racist history. The bar serves antebellum drinks, entertainment includes horrifying reenactments, and the service staff is nearly all black. Yet the darkest elements of the plantation’s past have been carefully erased—rumors that slaves were tortured mercilessly and that ghosts roam the lands, seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who tormented them, which includes most of the wedding guests.

As the weekend unfolds, Mira, Jesse, and Celine are forced to acknowledge their history together, and to save themselves from what is to come.]]> 256 LaTanya McQueen 0063035057 Jannitta 4 3.69 2021 When the Reckoning Comes
author: LaTanya McQueen
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average rating: 3.69
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys, #1)]]> 60130867
For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken.

Now, on the afternoon of my 18th birthday, my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked.

But it’s pointless.

Because when night falls, he comes for me. And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go.

The Never King is a dark retelling of Peter and Wendy. If you like your enemies to lovers romance with hot, ruthless, morally gray love interests, you’ll enjoy The Never King and the Lost Boys. You can expect hate kissing, fighting, bickering, and ‘touch her and I’ll unalive you� vibes.]]> 193 Nikki St. Crowe Jannitta 4 3.97 2022 The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys, #1)
author: Nikki St. Crowe
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Beast of Burden: A Horror Novella]]> 195046650 It's decided that they will go into the forest for a photoshoot, which should lift their spirits ...
But things go wrong for the band members (Virtue, Mort, and Rufus) when they are forced into a cave. A dark place, where something evil, ancient, and hungry lurks!

From the twisted mind of Judith Sonnet, the author of NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE, comes a love letter to metal, horror, and unbreakable friendships. A coming of age story, laced with gory and demonic depravity!]]> 140 Judith Sonnet Jannitta 3 3.79 2023 Beast of Burden: A Horror Novella
author: Judith Sonnet
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> Nestlings 65212029 Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of 'Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

Ana and Reid need a break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling―with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia, but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on their baby.]]> 293 Nat Cassidy 1250265258 Jannitta 3 3.81 2023 Nestlings
author: Nat Cassidy
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> The Anti-Boyfriend 55171501 Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

At first, my neighbor Deacon frustrated me.

Sure, he was great-looking and friendly.

But our walls were thin, and on occasion, he’d bring women to his place and keep me awake while he “entertained� them.

As a single mother to an infant, I didn’t appreciate it.

So, finally it was my turn.

When my daughter wouldn’t stop wailing one night, Mr. Manwhore came knocking on my door.

Miraculously, at the sound of his voice, Sunny stopped crying. And when he held her…she eventually fell asleep in his arms.

Deacon was rough on the exterior, but apparently on the inside? Mr. Single-and-Ready-to-Mingle was a baby whisperer.

After that night, we became friends.

He’d go for coffee runs. Come over to chat. Normal friend stuff.

But over time, our conversations ran deeper. We got closer.

Until one night we crossed the line.

Our friendship turned into a complicated mess.

I’d gone and fallen for a guy who’d sworn off commitment and kids.

I knew Deacon was starting to care for me too, even though Sunny and I didn’t fit into any plan he’d ever imagined for himself.

He was wrong for me—so wrong that I’d dubbed him the “anti-boyfriend.�

Then why did I wish more than anything that I could be the one woman to change him?]]> 260 Penelope Ward 1951045351 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.93 2020 The Anti-Boyfriend
author: Penelope Ward
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.93
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]]> It's Always the Husband 48675081
How did things come to this?

As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other—but can feelings that strong lead to murder? Or will everyone assume, as is often the case, that it’s always the husband?]]> 337 Michele Campbell Jannitta 0 to-read 3.80 2017 It's Always the Husband
author: Michele Campbell
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> The Coworker 161380710
Dawn Schiff is strange.

At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell―beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running―is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything...

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider� she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her who's the real victim?

But one thing is incredibly somebody hated Dawn Schiff.

Enough to kill.

The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present―with deadly consequences.]]> 370 Freida McFadden Jannitta 4 3.97 2023 The Coworker
author: Freida McFadden
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> A Fine Evening in Hell 60279447 On the verge of divorce, Heather needs some excitement in her life, but she’s about to get more than she bargained for.

On a date with a younger man, the two park at an abandoned warehouse for some intimate privacy, unaware of the criminals using the abandoned building as a hideout.

Max and Bastian have just pulled a big heist. Now they’re running from vengeful gangsters, dirty cops, and demented ex-cons.

When things go wrong, the criminals take Heather hostage, forcing her to drive them across state lines on a snowy night. What began as a night of fun quickly becomes a nightmare—not only for Heather, but for Max and Bastian as well. If she’s ever going to get home to her child, Heather must fight to survive, even if it means fighting alongside the men who abducted her.

A Fine Evening in Hell is a taut, gripping thriller from Kristopher Triana, the award-winning author of Gone to See the River Man and Shepherd of the Black Sheep. It is a novel about new starts and last chances, facing up to consequences, and the courage that comes with motherhood.]]> 226 Kristopher Triana Jannitta 3 4.13 2022 A Fine Evening in Hell
author: Kristopher Triana
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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]]> Hooked (Never After, #1) 58545703 From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan.

He wants revenge, but he wants her more�

James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.

Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.

Hooked is a dark contemporary romance and the first complete standalone in the Never After Series: A collection of fractured fairy tales where the villains get the happy ever after. It is not a literal retelling and not fantasy. Hooked features mature themes and content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website. ]]> 312 Emily McIntire 173750832X Jannitta 3 3.78 2021 Hooked (Never After, #1)
author: Emily McIntire
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average rating: 3.78
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rating: 3
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]]> The Locked Door 57795665
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.

Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.

Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.

Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.

As long as they don’t look in her basement.]]> 313 Freida McFadden Jannitta 3 4.00 2021 The Locked Door
author: Freida McFadden
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters� beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out� and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of�

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Jannitta 3 4.31 2022 The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
author: Freida McFadden
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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I have mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, I did dive into it easily. The set up of Nina as the villain was very believable. I wanted to throat punch her at times so I was definitely on Millie’s side. The twist though, I don’t know if I liked it. It was different but also a little irritating. I know that’s the thing to do in suspense. Whomever the bad guy is in the beginning is never really the bad guy buuuuut, I don’t know. It makes me feel like I just got roped in with the masses for whom this formula works. I don’t know if I will read the other stories in this series. I put three stars but it’s more like 2 1/2 for me.
]]> Bunker Dogs 152523698
What started as a simple night of babysitting, will descend into a psychological and claustrophobic nightmare Cassie couldn't have prepared for.]]> 265 Gage Greenwood Jannitta 5 4.16 Bunker Dogs
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> A Christmas Carol 5326
Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.]]> 184 Charles Dickens 1561797464 Jannitta 4 4.06 1843 A Christmas Carol
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1843
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)]]> 58763686
I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
He's always there, watching and waiting.
And I can never look away.
Not when I want him to come closer.


The Shadow

I didn't mean to fall in love.
But now that I have, I can't stay away.
I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
The way she undresses...
I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
And once she is, I'll never let her go.
Not even when she begs me to.]]> 583 H.D. Carlton Jannitta 0 DNF 3.95 2021 Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
author: H.D. Carlton
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.95
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DNF
]]> Saving Noah 36121086 We forgive murderers, not pedophiles.

Not since Lionel Shriver brought us We Need to Talk About Kevin has a writer delved into the complexities of a disturbed mother/son relationship. Until now.

Meet Noah—an A-honor roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren’t any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim team practice. He’s sentenced to eighteen months in a juvenile sexual rehabilitation center.

His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won’t allow Noah back into their home. In a series of shocking and shattering revelations, Adrianne is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. Just how far will she go to protect her son?

Saving Noah challenges everything you think you know about teenage sexual offenders. It will keep you up at night long after you've read the last page, questioning beliefs you once thought were true.]]> 259 Lucinda Berry Jannitta 4 3.89 2017 Saving Noah
author: Lucinda Berry
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> Zayne (Confessions, #8) 122751944 Rebellion is necessary for development of character. ~ Cynthia Voight

Impatient. Impulsive. Rebellious.
Zayne Copeland’s been getting in trouble for as long as he can remember.
But if trouble goes by the name Ethan Holt, he’s quite okay with that.
Why wouldn’t he be, when Ethan has been the one to show him what love is?

From boys to men. From school to The Office.
He and Ethan have always been inseparable.
They’re possessive of one another, protective to a fault.
They had to be to survive.

But as they fall deeper for Chloé, the woman they’ve claimed as their own, they realize they have to open up their lives in order to hang on to her.

Three fathers. An overprotective brother. Their relationship becoming public. It would be enough to send two weaker men running.

Lucky for Chloé, Ethan and Zayne have never been the type to back down from a challenge.

Confessions: Zayne is the continuation of Chloé, Ethan & Zayne's story and should only be read after Confessions: Ethan.
]]> 322 Ella Frank Jannitta 3 4.19 2023 Zayne (Confessions, #8)
author: Ella Frank
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average rating: 4.19
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rating: 3
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]]> Ethan (Confessions, #7) 75514196 Everything in the world is about sex except sex.
Sex is about power. ~ Oscar Wilde

Desire. Dominance. Sex.
Ethan Holt is in the business of all three.
He believes that any fantasy can be created, and that any kink should be explored.
Why wouldn’t he, when he has several of his own?

Control. Ethan has to have it.
In his job at The Office. In his relationship with Zayne.
He's very particular on who he lets in his world, and even more so on who he lets in his bed.
After all, he’s not the only one who sleeps in it.

Everything in their world is in perfect order, just the way Ethan likes it.
Until a mysterious redhead walks into their club and turns their world inside out.

What happens when control turns to chaos?
Do you give in to it? Or do you make chaos� submit?

Confessions: Ethan begins a new sub-series within the Chicagoverse. It is an MMF contemporary romance series that revolves around Chloé Thornton-Priestley, the wild-child daughter of the three P’s. This can be read as a standalone series.
]]> 282 Ella Frank Jannitta 4 4.23 2023 Ethan (Confessions, #7)
author: Ella Frank
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average rating: 4.23
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rating: 4
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]]> Talia (Talia, #1) 57863802 Talia, a Midwest dreamer, leaves home in search of fame under the blinding Broadway lights. But nothing could have prepared her for what she finds instead. Savage violence, bottomless depravity, and no way out.

Talia will unapologetically drag you into the foul underbelly of society. A sanity straining journey, full of hot bloodshed and betrayal.]]> 165 Daniel J. Volpe Jannitta 3 3.66 2021 Talia (Talia, #1)
author: Daniel J. Volpe
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood]]> 45299992
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

]]> 431 Gregg Olsen 1542005248 Jannitta 3 3.99 2019 If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
author: Gregg Olsen
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2019
rating: 3
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]]> Along the Path of Torment 53583995 256 Chandler Morrison Jannitta 0 3.83 2020 Along the Path of Torment
author: Chandler Morrison
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average rating: 3.83
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DNF The subject content was just more than I could handle. Check your triggers before picking this up.
]]> Black Sheep 69704909
Nobody has a “normal� family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep.

Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.

When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.]]> 289 Rachel Harrison 0593545850 Jannitta 4 3.57 2023 Black Sheep
author: Rachel Harrison
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> The Silent Patient 40097951
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 Jannitta 4 4.17 2019 The Silent Patient
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name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Once & Future (Once & Future, #1)]]> 36233085 King Arthur as you've never imagined! This bold, sizzling YA retells the popular legend with the Once and Future King as a teenage girl -- and she has a universe to save.
I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur.


Now I'm done hiding.


My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start.


When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the newest reincarnation of King Arthur. Then she meets Merlin, who has aged backward over the centuries into a teenager, and together they must break the curse that keeps Arthur coming back. Their quest? Defeat the cruel, oppressive government and bring peace and equality to all humankind.


No pressure.]]> 336 A.R. Capetta Jannitta 4 3.54 2019 Once & Future (Once & Future, #1)
author: A.R. Capetta
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)]]> 40404720
After an injury ends Travis Ford’s major league baseball career, he returns home to start over. He just wants to hammer out his frustrations at his new construction gig and forget all about his glory days. But he can’t even walk through town without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his� bat. And then there’s Georgie, his buddy’s little sister, who is definitely not a kid anymore.

Georgette Castle has crushed on her older brother’s best friend for years. The grumpy, bear of a man working for her family’s house flipping business is a far cry from the charming sports star she used to know. But a moody scowl doesn’t scare her and Georgie’s determined to show Travis he’s more than a pretty face and a batting average, even if it means putting her feelings aside to be “just friends.�

Travis wants to brood in peace. But the girl he used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman who makes him feel whole again. And he wants her. So damn bad. Except Georgie’s off limits and he knows he can’t give her what she deserves. But she’s becoming the air he breathes and Travis can’t stay away, no matter how hard he tries...]]> 380 Tessa Bailey 0062872834 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.71 2019 Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)
author: Tessa Bailey
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.71
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales, Vol. 1]]> 35271478 69 Jacob Grimm 1503995933 Jannitta 2 4.04 1817 The Brothers Grimm: Illuminated Fairy Tales, Vol. 1
author: Jacob Grimm
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1817
rating: 2
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]]> Psych Ward Blues 198619651 If this is the Rapture ... then it isn't at all like what the Bible described.
We were all lied to.
The afterlife is no place of peace and rest.
Heaven is no paradise.
We are watching the world as it tears itself apart ... and we are terrified of what is going to happen to us after we die.

Judith Sonnet presents a dark vision of apocalyptic and psychological horror. PSYCH WARD BLUES also contains additional splatterpunk horror stories!

WARNING
This book contains graphic content.

“PSYCH WARD BLUES by Judith Sonnet will take you by surprise. The violence is extreme, the action intense, and the emotions raw and honest. Apocalyptic horror with heart. What more could you possibly ask for?� Gord Rollo, author of Jigsaw Man. ]]> 298 Judith Sonnet Jannitta 4 4.12 Psych Ward Blues
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Baker's Dozen 59678260
Delicious Dark Delights for your horror consumption!

Come indulge in the dark and disturbing with 13 tantalizing tales of terror written by an incredible lineup of independent horror authors. With stories ranging from delightful to disturbing, you are sure to find something to please your sweet spot.

Authors include Jeff Strand, Christine Morgan, Ruthann Jagge, Aron Beauregard, Lee Franklin, Chris Miller, Patrick C. Harrison, III, Carver Pike, Kenzie Jennings, Daniel Volpe, Rowland Bercy, Jr., Candace Nola and M. Ennenbach. Includes a special foreword by Jeff Strand.

Bon Appétit!]]> Candace Nola Jannitta 4 4.48 2021 Baker's Dozen
author: Candace Nola
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> Wet Market and Other Horrors 196968515
World-renowned chef, Kason Anders, has a secret compulsion. Divulging in his obsession has brought him to the darkest corners of the globe. But redundancy can make even the most extraordinary experiences grow old. However, if the rumors prompting his return to Singapore are true, Kason's taste buds will never be bored again.

Lao Goh has fallen on hard times. In an attempt to fund a procedure for his ailing daughter, he's involved himself with an insidious enterprise. If he can appease Kason's palate and guide the celebrity chef through the underbelly of Pinzhong wet market, Lao may acquire a lifesaving commission. But will he make it back out of the wet market or become another product inside it?

Get ready for one of Aron Beauregard's most squirm-worthy and heartbreaking tales. Includes five other stories of the macabre and an expanded personal essay, The Best and Worst Days of My Life, exploring the inspiration behind Wet Market and his viral success.

This volume contains 15 interior illustrations.

WARNING: This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.]]> 180 Aron Beauregard Jannitta 4 4.32 Wet Market and Other Horrors
author: Aron Beauregard
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.32
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Halloween (Quick Bites Chapbook, #5)]]> 199109131
Dark Halloween is ten stories and images of reimaginings from different cultural traditions, legends and folklore from around the world.

Come on an adventure through shadowed woods, haunted houses, dark crossroads and where the difference between tricks and gifts are hard to discern. This is Halloween as you’ve never known it.]]> 52 Leanbh Pearson Jannitta 0 to-read 4.20 Dark Halloween (Quick Bites Chapbook, #5)
author: Leanbh Pearson
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.20
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]]> Faces of Beth 60797906
Marriage has its hardships, Andrew knows that, but there seems to be something else wrong with Beth. A dark entity grows inside her and he can’t help wondering if she might be possessed. Andrew can look past all the other drama in their new life, but the thing inside her that seems to want him dead � that’s kind of a deal breaker.

Written by 2x Splatterpunk Award-nominated author Carver Pike, with an introduction by Bram Stoker and World Horror Grandmaster Award-winning author Brian Keene.]]> 290 Carver Pike Jannitta 5 4.21 Faces of Beth
author: Carver Pike
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.21
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Nursery Stories for Dumb Crotch Goblins: A Child's Garden of Curses]]> 187600041 Gloom House Publishing & Mothers of Mayhem proudly offer this charity anthology of horrors -- Nursery Stories for Dumb Crotch A Child's Garden of Curses. All proceeds go to DONATE LIFE AMERICA.

We all have an inner child. Sometimes that child is joyful and well-behaved, a shining symbol of nostalgia. At other times, that inner presence is decidedly darker and more disturbed, a small figure crouched in our mental shadows, grinning menacingly while holding a sharp knife. Our formative years teach us much about ourselves and the adults we will become. They teach us what delights us and what devastates us. They also reveal to us what we fear most in the world. Whether empirical and rational or imagined and impossible, such fears tend to stay with us. These stories are what happens when adult horror authors give their inner children permission to come out and play. But the authors in this book aren’t just any authors, and their inner children didn’t just come out and play; they ran amok, leaving trails of carnage and bloody sneaker prints across the floor. Good luck getting these uncomfortable and terrifying bedtime stories out of your head.

This title features...
Jay Wilburn
Edward Lee
Christine Morgan
M Ennenbach
Brian Keene
Ruthann Jagge
Allisha McAdoo
Carver Pike
Kristopher Triana
Megan Stockton
Chris Grindstaff
Lucas Milliron
Dani Brown
Russell Holbrook]]> 242 Edward Lee Jannitta 3 4.71 Nursery Stories for Dumb Crotch Goblins: A Child's Garden of Curses
author: Edward Lee
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.71
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]]> Deep Dark 152651865 What he doesn't know is that something is slithering through the caves beneath the resort. Something ancient... and hungry...
A murderer is taking advantage of the bizarre creatures that live in Rabbit Cave. He's a thrill killer, who has decided to target the family as they take the Deep Dark tour. And after he kills them, he's going to feed them to the prehistoric beasts!
From the depraved author of THE CLOWN HUNT, SOMETHING AKIN TO REVULSION, and NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE. DEEP DARK is a throwback to 70's disaster flicks and 50's creature features! If you like slime, blood, and family drama... you need to read DEEP DARK!]]> 287 Judith Sonnet Jannitta 0 to-read 4.60 Deep Dark
author: Judith Sonnet
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.60
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]]> 400 Days of Oppression 123893384 Are you oppressed?



Can you really imagine what it's like to be a slave?



Erotic and psychological, Wrath James White has created a new genre of BDSM novels.



Natasha has found the man of her dreams.



Kenyetta has given her a sense of safety and opened her up to a new world of sexual experiences.



Now that Natasha is comfortable, Kenyetta is raising the stakes on their erotic games.



Take the ultimate BDSM challenge, but beware, once you open 400 Days of Oppression�



There is no safe word!


"If Wrath James White doesn't make you cringe, you must be riding in the wrong end of a hearse." ~ Jack Ketchum]]> 258 Wrath James White 1393258328 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.43 2013 400 Days of Oppression
author: Wrath James White
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unlikely Heir (Unlikely Dilemmas, #1)]]> 179592122 What happens when the Prince of Wales falls in love with the Prime Minister?

My boring life working in an insurance call center in sunny California just took an unexpected turn. Thanks to my misbehaving relatives, I’ve leapt from obscurity to royalty as the new heir to the British throne.

But my welcome in England is about as warm as the weather. I arrive to discover a country horrified at the thought of an American version of Prince Charming and ready to revolt against the monarchy. I vow to my grandmother, the Queen, that I will do everything possible to help her save the crown.

Unfortunately, royal life isn’t easy. From bewildering traditions, traitorous friends, and malevolent swans, the only thing I’m succeeding in is providing entertainment for the tabloids and social media trolls.

And then the broodingly handsome Prime Minister, Oliver Hartwell, bursts into my life.

With his meteoric rise from poverty to the most powerful man in the country, Oliver understands my current plight. Innocent messages of support turn into late-night chats—and unexpected feelings.

But there’s one major problem. The royal family must remain politically neutral at all times.

So how can I keep my promise to save the monarchy when I’m falling in love with the Prime Minister?

A forbidden romance filled with humor and drama featuring a bumbling Prince of Wales and a stern yet dashing Prime Minister, with a love that could transform a nation.]]> 408 Jax Calder Jannitta 0 to-read 4.23 2023 The Unlikely Heir (Unlikely Dilemmas, #1)
author: Jax Calder
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Stay With Me (Stay with Me, #1)]]> 50026195
Though Mia never anticipated Ollie Masters.

With green eyes, tattoos, and the voice of a poet, she is quickly drawn to him. But because of her sociopath tendencies, she knows it could only end in one of two ways. Either he will be the one to free her from her past, or she will be the one to destroy him.]]> 362 Nicole Fiorina Jannitta 0 to-read 4.18 2019 Stay With Me (Stay with Me, #1)
author: Nicole Fiorina
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Ex-Boogeyman 62889459
As Nicky Hector—the unstoppable slasher from the Lunatic horror movie franchise—Jonathan Zain reached levels fame once unimaginable to a young actor. On top of headlining fifteen films, he appeared on MTV, had his own 976 number, and became one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s.

But that was thirty years ago.

Now it’s 2010, and Zain is a has-been celebrity making his living signing autographs at fan conventions, a relic of the bygone slasher movie boom. He’s broke, separated from his wife and children, lives in a crummy apartment, and hasn’t landed a role in years.

When he learns the studio is remaking Lunatic, he thinks it’s his chance for a comeback. But Redmax Studios isn’t interested in resurrecting Zain’s fame. They want the reboot to have a new face, to escape the campiness that plagued the latter films in the Lunatic series. For the studio, this is a brand-new start.

For Jonathan Zain, it's the last straw.

Discovering the remake is being filmed at the same rafting center as the original, and his former “final girl� co-star Lola Lang is involved, Zain begins a descent into insanity. He slips into his old costume, sharpens his meat cleaver, and brings the Nicky Hector character back from the dead for one last bloodbath.

“Kristopher Triana’s latest is a chillingly convincing portrait of an aged horror icon driven to the brink of madness as he fights tooth and nail against an inexorable slide into irrelevance. Loaded with fun references to the glory days of the slasher genre, Ex-Boogeyman is a bloody and thrilling feast for horror fans.�

–Bryan Smith, author of Merciless]]> 263 Kristopher Triana Jannitta 5 ]]> 4.31 2022 Ex-Boogeyman
author: Kristopher Triana
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/08
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So I just finished Ex-Boogeyman and now I need to talk about it. My rating for this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved this. As someone who feels weary about stuff from my childhood being remade, I felt this story was awesome. We don’t let a lot of our old movies and books stay classic. So many things get picked apart and remade. Yes, some of it is good but a lot of it is garbage. The concept of this story about remaking a film that had one person playing the main part and not even including his input in the remake, I feel like realistically that would make anyone upset. I loved watching the progression of Jonathan just slowly losing it and method acting becomes madness as he morphs into Nicky (the character he played for years). I also love how Kristopher Triana never ceases to write bad ass females and how the youngest one was the most bad ass! The kills were creative and at times uncomfortable which I expect from a Triana piece. For the most part because I have been working so much this week I mostly listened to this and the narration was also exceptional. The voice Chuck put on for Nicky was both creepy and satisfying. Truly a masterpiece all around.

]]> Off Season 18801281
This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels.]]> 320 Jack Ketchum Jannitta 0 to-read 3.79 1980 Off Season
author: Jack Ketchum
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls (I Found Horror)]]> 177119189 Can you tell me how to get... out alive?

★★★★� - "I can't remember the last time a book scared me and made me this nervous." Andrew Van Wey, author of Head Like a Hole

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed.

He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio.

Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet inside the building’s walls, ever deeper into a puppet-infested labyrinth...

I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls is a horror tale from the “darkly inventive� purveyor of uncanny places and wondrous evils, Ben Farthing.

Each book in the I Found Horror series is a STANDALONE. They can be read in any order.

Praise for Ben

“Reminds me of early Stephen King.� ★★★★�

“Excuse me while I go cry from fear� ★★★★�

“When Mr. Farthing comes out with a book, I drop everything else I'm doing to read it� ★★★★�

“No one is writing the kind of horror this man is writing� ★★★★�

“This has become a yearly Halloween must-read� ★★★★�

“Now one of my favorite horror books� ★★★★�

“One of the creepiest books I’ve ever read� ★★★★�

“Ben Farthing is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors� ★★★★�

“Stunningly good� ★★★★�

“A master of building suspense� ★★★★�

“I can't wait to read everything by Ben Farthing!!� ★★★★�

“Reminiscent of '80s-era Stephen King� ★★★★�

“One of my favorites� ★★★★�

“I haven't been let down by Ben yet. He's a really great storyteller" ★★★★�

“Good luck putting it down" ★★★★�

“The perfect book to kick off spooky season� ★★★★�

“The scariest book I’ve read all year" ★★★★�

“Farthing's ability to creep the heck out of you in so few pages is incredible� ★★★★�

“One of the best books I read in 2023� ★★★★�

“Restores my faith in horror novels� ★★★★�

“The master of terror and dread� ★★★★�

“I LOVEEEE Ben Farthing. His books are *chefs kiss*� ★★★★�

“I couldn't stop reading until I got to the end. This was a mix of The Twilight Zone meets Tales From The Crypt� ★★★★�

“I can't wait for the next boo]]> 160 Ben Farthing Jannitta 5 3.81 I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls (I Found Horror)
author: Ben Farthing
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.81
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]]> Chloé (Confessions, #9) 147979042 “Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.� ~ Lucille Ball

Stubborn. Sassy. Wild.
Chloé Thornton-Priestley has lived a life most dream of.
One that was nurtured with love, acceptance, and trust.
Raised by three wonderful men, she is free-spirited and
has never let society’s conventions tame her.
Why would she, when she’s seen what beauty can come
from an unconventional love?

Life is good.
She has her family. Her dream job. Her future is going exactly as planned.
The last thing she is looking for is more men in her life.
Her fathers and brother are enough.
So no one is more surprised than Chloé to find out she
has fallen in love with not one, but two of them.

Ethan Holt and Zayne Copeland are exactly what she wasn’t looking for.
Sexy, possessive, and protective, these two doms make her want to
kneel and submit—something she never would’ve dreamed of in the past.
But one look at the two of them and Chloé knew she was in trouble,
and she hasn’t looked away since.

Life has a funny way of knowing exactly what you need—or in Chloé’s case, whom—and now that she’s found them, she plans to never let them go.

Chloé is the conclusion of Chloé, Ethan & Zayne's story and should only be read after Ethan & Zayne.
]]> 306 Ella Frank Jannitta 5 4.11 Chloé (Confessions, #9)
author: Ella Frank
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Full Brutal 39716206 266 Kristopher Triana Jannitta 4 4.00 2018 Full Brutal
author: Kristopher Triana
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> Gone to See the River Man 52373510
These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actors or authors. Or even serial killers.

Lori is just such a fanatic. Her obsession is with Edmund Cox, a man of sadistic cruelty who butchered more than twenty women. She’s gone so far as to forge a relationship with him, visiting him in prison and sending him letters on a regular basis. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she eagerly accepts it.

She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.

Edmund tells her she must go to his cabin in the woods of Killen and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.

In her quest, she brings along her handicapped sister, and they journey through the deep, dark valley, beginning their trip upriver. The trip quickly becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori’s personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. The river runs with flesh, the cabin is a vault of horrors, and ghostly blues music echoes through the mountains. Soon they will learn that The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human -- at least, not anymore. And the key is just the beginning of what is required of Lori to prove she’s worthy of a madman’s love.]]> 182 Kristopher Triana Jannitta 5 3.65 2020 Gone to See the River Man
author: Kristopher Triana
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/28
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]]> Left to You 59632879 Robert's mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robert's friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price.
Will Robert accept what's left to him and save his mother? Or will the cost be too high, weighing Robert's soul down to the depths of Hell?]]> 259 Daniel J. Volpe Jannitta 4 4.13 2024 Left to You
author: Daniel J. Volpe
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Not-So Temporarily Married (Not-So, #1)]]> 33133162
Landon wants the beautiful Canadian for his own, and he’s not above using her situation to tie her to him—permanently. He knows he has to move quickly, before she realizes they’re not-so temporarily married.

Bonus Content! Not-So Temporarily Married includes an extra Fiona Davenport book, Pursuit (Mafia Ties: Brandon & Carly #1), which starts at about the 58% mark. For a limited time only!]]> 132 Fiona Davenport Jannitta 0 to-read 3.82 2016 Not-So Temporarily Married (Not-So, #1)
author: Fiona Davenport
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Alpha's Danger (Bad Boy Alphas, #2)]]> 36070873 "YOU BROKE THE RULES, LITTLE HUMAN. I OWN YOU NOW."

I am an alpha wolf, one of the youngest in the States. I can pick any she-wolf in the pack for a mate. So why am I sniffing around the sexy human attorney next door? The minute I catch Amber's sweet scent, my wolf wants to claim her. Hanging around is a bad idea, but I don't play by the rules. Amber acts all prim and proper, but she has a secret, too. She may not want her psychic abilities, but they're a gift. I should let her go, but the way she fights me only makes me want her more. When she learns what I am, there's no escape for her. She's in my world, whether she likes it or not. I need her to use her gifts to help recover my missing sister � and I won't take no for an answer. She's mine now.

Publisher's Note: Alpha's Danger is a stand-alone book in the Bad Boy Alphas series. HEA guaranteed, no cheating. This book contains a hot, demanding alpha wolf with a penchant for protecting and dominating his female. If such material offends you, do not buy this book.]]> 216 Renee Rose Jannitta 0 to-read 4.13 2017 Alpha's Danger (Bad Boy Alphas, #2)
author: Renee Rose
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Tender Is the Flesh 49090884
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.� Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.]]> 209 Agustina Bazterrica 1982150920 Jannitta 0 to-read 3.75 2017 Tender Is the Flesh
author: Agustina Bazterrica
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bedhead (Hate to Love You Book 1)]]> 181654613 From USA Today bestselling author Brooke Blaine comes a sexy M/M enemies-to-lovers romance in the new Hate to Love You series.

Hudson
I hate Drew Edwards. That isn’t a secret to anyone in New York.
Smug, charming, flippant, and a royal pain in my ass, Drew has a way of making everyone fall in love with him, but I know the truth. Under that public persona is a ruthless man who’ll do anything to come out on top. He’s done it to me before…and a leopard doesn’t change his spots.

Drew
Hudson Montgomery. He hates me. Eh, no breaking news there. If anything, his hate only fuels my desire to provoke the pompous bastard at every opportunity. So when the chance to publish the most scandalous book of the year comes down to our companies, I’m determined to do whatever I have to in order to take Hudson down.

Nobody said I couldn’t play dirty�

Each book in the Hate to Love You series follows a different couple and can be read as a stand-alone novel. ]]> 242 Brooke Blaine Jannitta 4 4.07 Bedhead (Hate to Love You Book 1)
author: Brooke Blaine
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.07
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]]> Playground 63189132
When a band of dysfunctional children is suddenly thrust into a diabolical realm of violence, they must grow up instantly to have a chance at survival. Will they find a way to put their differences aside, or be swallowed up by the insidious architecture all around them?



"With Playground, Aron Beauregard transcends himself, delivering a genuinely chilling, uncomfortable novel that will make even the most jaded horror fan squirm. A harrowing, relentless read that left me breathless."

- Brian Keene



This volume contains 15 interior illustrations.



This book contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised.]]> 364 Aron Beauregard Jannitta 4 3.74 2022 Playground
author: Aron Beauregard
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/04/04
date added: 2023/04/04
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]]> Taken (Dark Legacy #1) 42507486 296 Natasha Knight Jannitta 0 to-read 3.84 2018 Taken (Dark Legacy #1)
author: Natasha Knight
name: Jannitta
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> COWS 20370379
Mother's corpse in pieces, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a hundred tons of homicidal beef stampeding through the subway system. And Steven thought the slaughterhouse was bad . .]]> 217 Matthew Stokoe 0987453637 Jannitta 0 to-read 2.63 1998 COWS
author: Matthew Stokoe
name: Jannitta
average rating: 2.63
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> Whit (Unexpected, #1) 60870308 Straight guys don’t have crushes on other dudes, right?

Except my roommate, Whit, is intriguing, and I find myself watching him constantly. He’s a mystery I can’t figure out. And these feelings I’m having about him are confusing.
Then, one night, I find myself wrapped around him, and after that, I can't get enough.
But Whit has secrets. He doesn’t let people in, and the more I fall for him, the less I know.
I can't let him go, though.
Until I realize I’m going to be the one broken at the end of our story.

This is a sexual-awakening MM romance book with sexually explicit material suitable only for adults. It's generally a sweet romance, but some content is not suitable for some readers. Trigger warnings include mentions of abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and the death of a loved one. Please take this into account before reading.]]> 308 Cora Rose Jannitta 3 4.09 2022 Whit (Unexpected, #1)
author: Cora Rose
name: Jannitta
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/03/14
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