en-US Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:22:11 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 50659472 The epic third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.]]> 699 Sarah J. Maas 1635575605 helloayesha 3 4.47 2017
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average rating: 4.47
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Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.

As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.

Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.]]> 626 Sarah J. Maas 1635575583 helloayesha 4 4.65 2016
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.65
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rating: 4
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]]> 199531989 Knives Out gets a rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers Christmas romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas.

Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt:
She¡¯s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery.
He¡¯s Mr. Big-Time Thriller Guy.

She hates his guts.

He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she¡¯s told him otherwise.)

But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself.

That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone.

She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has to wonder: Is Eleanor in danger? Or is it all some kind of test? Is Ethan the competition? Or is he the only person in that snowbound mansion she can trust?

As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth¡ªand each other. Because, this Christmas, these two rivals are going to have to become allies (and maybe more) if they have any hope of saving Eleanor.

Assuming they don¡¯t kill each other first.]]> 293 Ally Carter 0063276682 helloayesha 4 3.92 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> 212976970 A stolen latte results in a meet-cute for the ages in this brand-new edition, with bonus content, of New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter's rom-com Accidentally Amy.

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she¡¯s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for ¡°Amy¡± three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable.

Izzy takes that PSL.

It¡¯s the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the queue¡ªand she¡¯ll take whatever bad karma is coming for her; she¡¯s desperate and very late. But when she turns around and runs directly into the most attractive man she¡¯s ever seen, spilling the drink all over his made-for-GQ shirt and tie, she ends up having the ultimate meet-cute. Karma who? Sparks fly and things feel beyond promising, until he says to her: ¡°See you tomorrow, Amy.¡±

Izzy reasons she can just straighten things out the next day, no biggie. Only when she gets to her new office and meets the VP of her department, it is none other than Blake Phillips¡ªthe hottie from Starbucks. And the man might¡¯ve been charming to ¡°Amy,¡± but he is an arrogant grump to Izzy, an arrogant grump who does not find her explanation funny at all. But day by day, an attraction simmers between them and they¡¯ll have to find a way to work together without ripping each other¡¯s heads¡ªor clothes¡ªoff.]]> 352 Lynn Painter 0593817087 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.71 2022
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average rating: 3.71
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At least, he¡¯s not a beast all the time.

As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she¡¯s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin¡ªand his world¡ªforever.

From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.]]> 419 Sarah J. Maas 1635575567 helloayesha 3 bookshelf 4.16 2015
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/10/18
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I finally finished this book after trying to read it on two separate occasions. It¡¯s so slow and boring in the beginning, but it did pick up. Not a huge fan of what happens towards the end
]]> 199798006
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can¡¯t believe the killer deal they¡¯ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they¡¯re working in the house one day, there¡¯s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.

As soon as the strangers enter their home, inexplicable things start happening, including the family¡¯s youngest child going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can¡¯t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family¡ªor is Eve just imagining things?

This unputdownable and spine-tingling novel ¡°is like quicksand: the further you delve into its pages, the more immobilized you become by a spiral of terror. We Used to Live Here will haunt you even after you have finished it¡± (Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender Is the Flesh).]]> 312 Marcus Kliewer 1982198788 helloayesha 4 3.66 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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Summer 1999: Twentysomething Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, her is plate full. Only one problem: She is facing an incredibly lonely summer as her fianc¨¦ has been spending longer and longer hours at work . . . with an all-too-close female colleague, Kendra.

When Kendra¡¯s boyfriend, Nick, invites Sawyer to meet up and compare notes about their suspicions, the meeting goes awry. She finds Nick cocky and cynical, and he finds her stuck in her own head. But then Nick seeks out Sawyer online to apologize, and a friendship develops.

Soon, Sawyer¡¯s lonely summer takes an unexpected turn. She and Nick begin an unofficial ritual¡ªexploring New York City together every summer Friday. From hot dogs on the Staten Island Ferry and Sea Breezes in a muggy East Village bar to swimming at Coney Island, Sawyer feels seen by Nick in a way that surprises her. He pushes her to be braver. To ask for what she wants. Meanwhile, Sawyer draws Nick out of his hard shell, revealing a surprisingly vulnerable side. They both begin living for their Friday afternoons together.

But what happens when the summer is over?]]> 432 Suzanne Rindell 0593473914 helloayesha 4 3.94 2024
author: Suzanne Rindell
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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Emma hadn't planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.

It's supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma's toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they're suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected--including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?]]> 432 Abby Jimenez 1538704439 helloayesha 4 4.35 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz¡¯s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him.

Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves. Only . . . Liz will have none of it! Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her. Even worse, Liz has a new friend . . . a guy friend.

Still, Wes won¡¯t give up, adapting his clever plans and going hard to get Liz¡¯s attention and win back her affection. But after his best efforts get him nowhere, Wes is left wondering if their relationship is really over for good.]]> 442 Lynn Painter 1665947136 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.98 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.98
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While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends.

Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.]]> 295 Jeneva Rose helloayesha 4 4.03 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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]]> 177178032 Their name? The objectors.

Their job? To break off weddings as hired.

Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.

When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fianc¨¦ has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad¡¯s cutthroat boss, she doesn¡¯t want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show up at weddings and proclaim the words no couple (usually) wants to hear at their ceremony: ¡°I object!¡±

During anti-wedding festivities that night, Sophie learns more about Max the Objector¡¯s job. It makes perfect sense to her: he saves people from wasting their lives, from hurting each other. He¡¯s a modern-day hero. And Sophie wants in.

The two love cynics start working together, going from wedding to wedding, and Sophie¡¯s having more fun than she¡¯s had in ages. She looks forward to every nerve-racking ceremony saving the lovesick souls of the betrothed masses. As Sophie and Max spend more time together, however, they realize that their physical chemistry is off the charts, leading them to dabble in a little hookup session or two¡ªbut it¡¯s totally fine, because they definitely do not have feelings for each other. Love doesn¡¯t exist, after all.

And then everything changes. A groom-to-be hires Sophie to object, but his fianc¨¦e is the woman who broke Max¡¯s heart. As Max wrestles with whether he can be a party to his ex¡¯s getting hurt, Sophie grapples with the sudden realization that she may have fallen hard for her partner in crime.]]> 304 Lynn Painter 0593638026 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.87 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 127280062 Torn apart by war. Reunited by love?

Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again ¨C but this time for the enemy.

When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious¡­ and strangely familiar.

As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.]]> 420 Rebecca Ross 1250857457 helloayesha 4 bookshelf 3.98 2023
author: Rebecca Ross
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/02/07
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]]> 203805180 Romantic & sexy dreams link a false princess to a dangerous, disgraced fae prince in this fun, steamy enemies-to-lovers romantasy.

In her dreams, he envelops her in love. In real life, he imprisons her in ice.

Assassin, liar, impersonator¡ªdreamer.

As a royal decoy, trained to replace the Krastel princess even in a political marriage, Astra¡¯s life is not her own. With a duty like that, how can she dream about love?

And yet she knows she has a kindred soul. She can feel his presence every night, holding her in his arms, surrounding her with his warmth.

But ice-cold reality crashes in when Astra¡¯s carriage is attacked by the Crystal Court¡¯s disgraced prince. Banished for heinous crimes and armed with powerful relics, he¡¯s a wielder of mighty magic and can even penetrate minds.

It turns out that he is the man in her dreams.

And this is about to get very, very awkward.

A Cursed Son is a fun, sexy, enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy for fans of fae, elemental magic, arranged marriage, forced proximity, snarky banter, and dream connection.]]> 420 Day Leitao 1990790143 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.98 2024
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.98
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Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?

FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.]]> 272 Mike Bockoven 1510709444 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.84 2016
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2016
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]]> 18283207 176 Hiromi Kawakami 1846275083 helloayesha 4 3.63 2001
author: Hiromi Kawakami
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit, and death.

An enigma his entire life, Vad Deverell likes being a closed book but knowing exactly everything that happens in the university. A part-time professor working on his thesis, Vad has been around long enough to know the dangers the castle possesses. And he knows the moment his path crosses with Corvina, she's dangerous to everything that he is.

They shouldn't have caught each other's eye. They cannot be. But a chill-inducing century-old mystery forces them to collide. People have disappeared every five years over the past century, Corvina is getting clues to unraveling it all, and Vad needs to keep an eye on her.

And so begins a tale of the mysterious, the morbid, the macabre, and a deep love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.]]> 399 RuNyx helloayesha 0 to-read 3.78 2021
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 57649352 Fans of Josie Silver's?One Day in December and Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze will adore watching Victoria and Oliver's pretend engagement dissolve as?their very real chemistry threatens to upend?all their?carefully laid-out secrets. Set against the most charming London backdrop, Meet Me in London is an irrisistable?seasonal treat!

What do you do when your fake engagement starts to feel too real¡­

Aspiring clothes designer Victoria Scott spends her days working in a bar in Chelsea and her evenings designing vintage clothes, dreaming of one day opening her own boutique. But these aspirations are under threat from the new department store opening at the end of her road. She needs a Christmas miracle, but one is not forthcoming.

Oliver Russell¡¯s Christmas is not looking very festive right now. His family¡¯s new London department store opening is behind schedule, and on top of that his interfering, if well-meaning, mother is pressing him to introduce his girlfriend to her over the holidays¡ªa girlfriend who does not exist. He needs a diversion¡­something to keep his mother from meddling while he focuses on the business.

When Oliver meets Victoria, he offers a proposition: pretend to be his girlfriend at the opening of his store and he will provide an opportunity for Victoria to showcase her designs. But what starts as a business arrangement soon becomes something more tempting as the fake relationship starts to feel very real. But when secrets in Victoria¡¯s past are exposed, will Oliver walk away, or will they both follow their hearts and find what neither knew they were looking for¡­?

"An ideal Christmas escape!"¡ªLaura Jane Williams, Bestselling author of Our Stop
?]]> 336 Georgia Toffolo 1335459979 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.47 2020
author: Georgia Toffolo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.

Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It¡¯s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.]]> 346 Adam Cesare 0062854593 helloayesha 3 3.73 2020
author: Adam Cesare
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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Not a bad YA slasher. Rating it three stars because it was very drawn out in the beginning and focused a lot on the main character and not enough of the town she just moved to. I would have loved to have known more about the townspeople and their ways. It was difficult to get through the dialogue at times as an adult, but it was still an easy read and picked up a lot more in the middle and towards the end. I can definitely see it being turned into a movie on a streaming platform.
]]> 52578874 THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HULU ORIGINAL FILM

Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. Here then are the stories written on the Book of Blood. Read, if it pleases you, and learn....

This Volume includes: "The Book of Blood" - "The Midnight Meat Train" - "The Yattering and Jack" - "Pig Blood Blues" - "Sex, Death and Starshine" - "In the Hills, the Cities"]]> 304 Clive Barker 0593201051 helloayesha 4 3.87 1984
author: Clive Barker
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> 65213595 A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it¡¯s best to let the uncanny house¨Dand its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling¨Dgo to rot.

Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she¡¯s never had: a home.

As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.

If Opal wants a home, she¡¯ll have to fight for it.]]> 320 Alix E. Harrow 1250799058 helloayesha 4 bookshelf 3.77 2023
author: Alix E. Harrow
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/19
date added: 2023/10/19
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This book started off a bit slow. It wasn't hard to read, it just wasn't exciting. It definitely picked up towards the middle, and the ending tied up the story nicely. The illustrations were gorgeous and portrayed what was happening in the story perfectly.
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Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen¡ªespecially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he'd be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it's harder and harder to keep him at arm's length.

The Friend Zone will have you laughing one moment and grabbing for tissues the next as it tackles the realities of infertility and loss with wit, heart, and a lot of sass.]]> 372 Abby Jimenez helloayesha 0 to-read 3.85 2019
author: Abby Jimenez
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 124948406 From the author of the ¡°raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless¡± (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve.

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she¡¯s even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she¡¯s avoided drawing attention to herself¡ªbut as she¡¯s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything¡¯s going according to her master plan¡­until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident¡ªeverything Carly wishes she could be¡ªand the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay...and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.

Featuring Layne Fargo¡¯s trademark ¡°propulsive writing style¡± (Kirkus Reviews) and ¡°sinister, of the moment¡± (Chicago Review of Books) suspense, They Never Learn is a feminist serial killer story perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.]]> 349 Layne Fargo helloayesha 0 to-read 3.86 2020
author: Layne Fargo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2020
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]]> 57693184 Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes¡¯ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.

A GHOST SHIP.
A SALVAGE CREW.
UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed¡ªmade obsolete¡ªwhen her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn¡¯t right.

Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.]]> 343 S.A. Barnes 1250819997 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.76 2022
author: S.A. Barnes
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?]]> 149 Victor LaValle 0765387867 helloayesha 4 3.80 2016
author: Victor LaValle
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> 133286777 From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio P¨¦rez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen¡ªand P¨¦rez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive¡ªeven if that means enlisting the help of Guill¨¦n Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.]]> 387 Leigh Bardugo 125088425X helloayesha 0 to-read 3.74 2024
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]]> 60784546 After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again¡­

All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris¡¯s best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

But when Iris¡¯s letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands ¨C that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her rival at the paper ¨C an unlikely magical connection forms.

Expelled into the middle of a mystical war, magical typewriters in tow, can their bond withstand the fight for the fate of mankind and, most importantly, love?

An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.]]> 357 Rebecca Ross 1250857430 helloayesha 5 4.14 2023
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average rating: 4.14
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I loved it. Cannot wait for December so I can read the next book!
]]> 58938609 From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell¡¯s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something a man in a forest, dragging a woman¡¯s lifeless body.

As the days pass, Teddy¡¯s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell¡¯s house.

With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy¡ªwhile coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past¡ªbefore it¡¯s too late.]]> 375 Jason Rekulak 1250819369 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.29 2022
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]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general¡ªalso known as her tough-as-talons mother¡ªhas ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you¡¯re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don¡¯t bond to ¡°fragile¡± humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother¡¯s daughter¡ªlike Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She¡¯ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda¡ªbecause once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 517 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 helloayesha 5 4.56 2023
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]]> 55225045
When Rin aced the Keju¡ªthe Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies¡ªit was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn¡¯t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin¡¯s guardians, who believed they¡¯d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard¡ªthe most elite military school in Nikan¡ªwas even more surprising.

But surprises aren¡¯t always good.

Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power¡ªan aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive¡ªand that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .

Rin¡¯s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.]]> 545 R.F. Kuang helloayesha 0 to-read 4.15 2018
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> 69704909
Nobody has a ¡°normal¡± family, but Vesper Wright¡¯s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back¡ªmostly 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 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.57 2023
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]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher¡ªthe body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane¡¯s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war¡ªand the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.79 2023
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]]> 68054323
Ruth Collier has always felt like an outsider, even as her father rains fire and brimstone from the church pulpit. In Bottom Springs, his word is as good as law.

But there are things the townspeople fear more than God, like the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to kill sinners in their beds on moonless nights.

When a skull is found deep in the swamp, a hunt for the Low Man begins. Suspicion turns to Everett ¨C Ruth's oldest friend, with a dark past. As Ruth and Everett grow closer, Ruth begins to unearth the town's secrets, determined to discover the truth.

But as the line between good and evil grows ever thin, how far will Ruth go to save the person she loves most?]]> 386 Ashley Winstead 1728269962 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.40 2023
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]]> 58340706
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder¡ªshe needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.

But nothing comes for free, especially magic.

When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King¡¯s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder¡­and guilty of high treason.

Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards¡ªthe keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.]]> 399 Rachel Gillig 0316312487 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.25 2022
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]]> 63242162
Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It¡¯s said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived.

Eden White knows that isn¡¯t true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow¡ªand live.

Delphine now lives in careful isolation, sealed off from the world. Even a single drop of unpurified water could be deadly to her, and no one but Eden has any idea why. Eden has never told anyone what she saw or spoken to Delphine since, but now, unable to cover her tuition, she has to make a her expenses will be paid in return for serving as a live-in companion to Delphine.

Eden finds herself drawn to the strange and mysterious girl, and the two of them begin to unravel each other¡¯s secrets. Then Eden discovers what happened to the last girl who lived with she was found half-drowned on dry land. Suddenly Eden is waking up to wet footprints tracking to the end of her bed, the sound of rain on the windows when the skies are clear, and a ghostly silhouette in her doorway. Something is haunting Delphine¡ªand now it¡¯s coming for Eden, too.]]> 384 Kate Alice Marshall 0593405145 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.71 2023
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> 101145480
Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school¡ªreally one another¡¯s only friends¡ªbut now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend¡¯s support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.

A professor of women¡¯s and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine¡¯s landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she¡¯s struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice¡¯s play, she relents, if only to escape writer¡¯s block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice¡¯s performance and realizes that her daughter¡¯s once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.

Set over the course of decades¡ªfrom Alice and Sadie¡¯s early friendship days and Celine¡¯s decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood¡ªAlice and Celine¡¯s affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright¡¯s debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.]]> 272 Sarah Blakley-Cartwright 1668021595 helloayesha 0 to-read 2.97 2023
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]]> 61492433 At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning.

Tonight, Tempest Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, cleaning up popcorn and mopping floors for the last time.

But after an unexpected altercation puts everyone on edge, the power goes out. Their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe, where the crew's phones are locked each shift. Then, the crew's tension turns to terror when Jo discovers the dead body of one of her co-workers.

Now their only chance to escape the murderer in their midst is through the dark, shuttered mall. With its boarded-up exits and disabled fire alarms, the complex is filled with hiding places for both pursuer and pursued. In order to survive this night, Jo and her friends must trust one another, navigate the sprawling ruins of the mall, and outwit a killer before he kills again.]]> 321 Natalie D. Richards 1728215811 helloayesha 3 bookshelf 3.46 2023
author: Natalie D. Richards
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2023
rating: 3
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]]> 122764527 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal¡ªan experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She¡¯s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive¡¯s bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.]]> 258 Emily St. John Mandel 059346673X helloayesha 0 to-read 4.08 2022
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 59366244
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother¡¯s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called ¡°calorie restriction,¡± eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, ¡°Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn¡¯t tint hers?¡± She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I¡¯m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail¡ªjust as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (¡°Hi Gale!¡±), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I¡¯m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 304 Jennette McCurdy 1982185821 helloayesha 4 bookshelf 4.42 2022
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> 17810
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psycho-thriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this shocking, hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo¡¯s sex industry.]]> 217 Ry¨± Murakami 014303569X helloayesha 5 3.62 1997
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.62
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rating: 5
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]]> 157184735 From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother¡¯s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother¡¯s fate¡ªand find a connection that is more than skin deep?

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother¡¯s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother¡¯s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de M¨¦duse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother¡¯s) obsession with the mirror¡ªand the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry¡ªas well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.]]> 383 Mona Awad helloayesha 0 to-read 3.54 2023
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.54
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]]> 43398196
Akutagawa-award-winning author Y¨± Miri uses her outsider¡¯s perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan¡¯s most vulnerable people.]]> 168 Y¨± Miri 1911284169 helloayesha 4 3.46 2014
author: Y¨± Miri
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he¡¯s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz¡¯s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz¡¯s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she¡¯s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 helloayesha 4 bookshelf 4.28 2021
author: Lynn Painter
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> 57693172
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she¡¯s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?

In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.]]> 357 Stacy Willingham 1250803829 helloayesha 5 bookshelf 3.96 2022
author: Stacy Willingham
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> 141421 254 Simone de Beauvoir helloayesha 0 to-read 4.01 1967
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 32601841 Can you fall in love with someone you¡¯ve never met, never even spoken to ¨C someone who is light years away?

Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity amongst the stars. Alone in space, she is the loneliest girl in the universe until she hears about a new ship which has launched from Earth ¨C with a single passenger on board. A boy called J.

Their only communication with each other is via email ¨C and due to the distance between them, their messages take months to transmit across space. And yet Romy finds herself falling in love.

But what does Romy really know about J? And what do the mysterious messages which have started arriving from Earth really mean?

Sometimes, there¡¯s something worse than being alone . . .]]> 290 Lauren James 1406375470 helloayesha 3 3.75 2018
author: Lauren James
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens¡¯ life is books¡ªshe¡¯s read them all¡ªand she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters¡¯ trip away¡ªwith visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she¡¯s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they¡¯ve met many times and it¡¯s never been cute.

If Nora knows she¡¯s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he¡¯s nobody¡¯s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again¡ªin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow¡ªwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they¡¯ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.09 2022
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.09
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]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zaf¨®n helloayesha 0 bookshelf, to-read 4.26 2001
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2001
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]]> 14061957 Alternative Cover Edition #1

The capital has fallen.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction¡ªand claiming it could cost Alina the very future she¡¯s fighting for.]]> 350 Leigh Bardugo helloayesha 4 bookshelf 3.97 2014
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/04/19
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]]> 14061955 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Darkness never dies.

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can¡¯t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling¡¯s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her¡ªor risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.]]> 435 Leigh Bardugo helloayesha 4 bookshelf 3.81 2013
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> 10194157 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life¡ªa power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.]]> 358 Leigh Bardugo 1250048117 helloayesha 4 bookshelf 3.93 2012
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> 53968556 A mother¡¯s secret past and her daughter¡¯s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of?The Animals at Lockwood Manor.

In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were?obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings¡ªand a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth¡¯s house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks.

Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns to the suffocating, once grand house she grew up in, the mother of young twins and seventeen-year-old Maeve. Joining the family in the country is Stuart, Ruth¡¯s childhood friend, who is quietly insinuating himself into their lives and gives Maeve the attention she longs for. She is recently in remission, unsure of her place in the world now that she is cancer-free. Her parents just want her to be an ordinary teenage girl. But what teenage girl is ordinary?

Alternating?between the two fateful summers,?The Ophelia Girls?is a suspense-filled exploration of mothers and daughters, illicit desire, and the perils and power of being a young woman.]]> 368 Jane Healey 0358106419 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.36 2021
author: Jane Healey
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 55985254 Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl¡¯s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for¡ªwho happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family¡¯s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she¡¯s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane¡¯s mother says. In a respectable house.

The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it¡¯s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane¡¯s mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job¡ªhelping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in.

Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy). Caught between the lifestyle she¡¯s always known and the future she¡¯s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she¡¯s going to be.?]]> 318 Jessica Anya Blau 0063052318 helloayesha 4 4.28 2021
author: Jessica Anya Blau
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2023/03/02
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]]> 41015038 337 Grady Hendrix helloayesha 0 to-read 3.94 2016
author: Grady Hendrix
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 34051011
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters¡ªstrong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis¡ªsurvive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.]]> 496 Min Jin Lee helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.35 2017
author: Min Jin Lee
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 58733693 Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.]]> 368 Shelby Van Pelt 0063204150 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.35 2022
author: Shelby Van Pelt
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 58446227 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." --The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.]]> 259 Emily St. John Mandel 0593321448 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.04 2022
author: Emily St. John Mandel
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 836607
And the girl who will change their lives forever...

It's Valentines Day and you know what that means - lots of chocolates for the cutest boys at school! In this case, it's a pretty close tie between hot-headed Kyo Sohma and "Prince Charming" Yuki Sohma. Of course the kind-hearted Tohru, guest of the Sohma family, has chocolates for everyone! But when White Day comes around, what will the Sohma family give her in return?]]> 208 Natsuki Takaya 1591826055 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.41 1999
author: Natsuki Takaya
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> 6867
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives¡ªtogether with her precocious literary gifts¡ªbrings about a crime that will change all their lives.

As it follows that crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.]]> 351 Ian McEwan 038572179X helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 3.94 2001
author: Ian McEwan
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 1087205
It's summer break, and the Host Club crew head to the beach, dragging our reluctant heroine with them. When Haruhi stands up to some local bullies and gets tossed into the ocean, Tamaki, the Host Club King, rescues her. But afterward, he's so mad that he won't speak to her until she apologizes. Trouble is, Haruhi can't figure out what she should be sorry for!]]> 192 Bisco Hatori 1421500620 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.44 2004
author: Bisco Hatori
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> 1011359
The school-wide physical exam has thrown the members of the Host Club for a loop. How can the doctor not discover that Haruhi is a girl?! And once the female customers learn the truth, Haruhi can kiss her job goodbye. But then life at the club will be unbearably boring if she leaves! So the guys wrack their brains for a solution....]]> 192 Bisco Hatori 1591169909 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.43 2003
author: Bisco Hatori
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 1110433 192 Yuu Watase 1591165040 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.05 2002
author: Yuu Watase
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 1110426 192 Yuu Watase 1591164699 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.02 2000
author: Yuu Watase
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> 873414 208 Yuu Watase 1591163307 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 3.96 2000
author: Yuu Watase
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> 6609611 208 Hiro Fujiwara 1427814058 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.48 2007
author: Hiro Fujiwara
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 50891162 192 Keiko Ishihara 1974714837 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.02 2019
author: Keiko Ishihara
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 52758026 192 Keiko Ishihara 1974708772 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 3.99 2018
author: Keiko Ishihara
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 51066247 192 Keiko Ishihara 1974708764 helloayesha 4 manga 3.72 2018
author: Keiko Ishihara
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> 696177 184 Arina Tanemura 1421511835 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 3.95 2005
author: Arina Tanemura
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> 17571466 358 Nick Cutter 1476717710 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.83 2014
author: Nick Cutter
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> 19294751 Back in print for the first time in years¡ªand available in eBook for the first time¡ªthe New York Times bestselling tie-in to the hit television show and cult classic, Twin Peaks.Laura Palmer was introduced to television audiences in the opening scenes of "Twin Peaks"¡ªas a beautiful dead girl, wrapped in plastic. Now available in print for the first time in many years (and in e-book for the very first time!), The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer chronicles Laura's life from age 12 to her death at 17, and is filled with secrets, character references, and even clues to the identity of her eventual killer. Fans of the show will love seeing their favorite characters again, and Laura's diary makes compelling reading as she turns from a naive freshman having her first kiss to a "bad girl" experimenting with drugs, sex and the occult. "As seen by" Jennifer Lynch, creator David Lynch's daughter, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is authentic, creepy, and a perfect book for anyone who loves supernatural suspense.]]> 225 Jennifer Lynch 1451664788 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 3.89 1990
author: Jennifer Lynch
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> 3974 Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.

When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.]]> 769 Dan Simmons 0316017442 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.06 2007
author: Dan Simmons
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 59900674 Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating--and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst.

PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation--if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years.

It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). But it's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier--a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.]]> 352 Alicia Thompson 0593438655 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 3.44 2022
author: Alicia Thompson
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 50239837 176 Keiko Iwashita 1632369672 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.19 2018
author: Keiko Iwashita
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 39859426
In high school, Futaba gets a second chance with her first love, Kou.

Futaba Yoshioka has encountered her first love again in high school, but he seems different from the boy she once knew. Kou has confessed to Futaba that in junior high he liked her too, but they can never return to those times. However, a leadership training session brings the two closer together.]]> 184 Io Sakisaka 1974702669 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.17 2011
author: Io Sakisaka
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 49988130 177 AidaIro 1975332873 helloayesha 4 manga 4.15 2015
author: AidaIro
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 52950513 194 Tatsuya Endo 4088821203 helloayesha 5 4.56 2019
author: Tatsuya Endo
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> 55302954 365 A.G. Slatter 1789094380 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 3.98 2022
author: A.G. Slatter
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 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¡ªa 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¡ªand of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.]]> 336 Alex Michaelides 1250301696 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.17 2019
author: Alex Michaelides
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2019
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]]> 41057294
A year later, they¡¯re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.]]> 273 Sally Rooney 1984822179 helloayesha 0 bookshelf, to-read 3.81 2018
author: Sally Rooney
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 38240511 176 Keiko Iwashita 1642120758 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.16 2017
author: Keiko Iwashita
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 57147079 EXORCISE YOUR DESTINY

When Nanoka travels back in time to a supernatural early 20th century, she gets recruited by aloof exorcist Mao. What is the thread of fate that connects them? Together, they seek answers...and kick some demon butt along the way!

Nanoka passes through a portal into the Taisho era, where exorcist Mao reluctantly rescues her from the jaws of a grotesque yokai. When Nanoka gets back to the present, she discovers she has some new, incredible abilities. She returns to the past looking for answers, only to get caught up in Mao¡¯s investigation of a series of gruesome murders. As her questions about herself multiply, Nanoka learns that Mao is cursed by a cat demon named Byoki¡ªand so is his sword. If anyone but Mao attempts to wield it, they are doomed. But when Mao¡¯s life is in jeopardy, Nanoka picks up his blade and swings...!]]> 192 Rumiko Takahashi 1974720527 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.04 2019
author: Rumiko Takahashi
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 58844858 It's one hex of an attraction in this romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Clare.

When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she's astonished to find that she's not applying to work at her favorite card game, Spellcraft: The Magicking. Instead, she's applying to be an actual familiar for an actual witch. As in, real magic.

The new job has a few perks - great room and board, excellent pay, and she's apprenticing to a powerful witch. Sure, the witch is a bit eccentric. And sure, there was that issue with the black cat Reggie would prefer to forget about. The biggest problem, however, is warlock Ben Magnus, her employer's nephew and the most arrogant, insufferable, maddening man to ever cast a spell.

Reggie absolutely hates him. He's handsome, but he's also bossy and irritating and orders her around. Ben's butt might look great in a crystal ball vision, but that's as far as it goes. But when someone with a vendetta targets the household, she finds herself working with Ben to break a deadly curse. Apparently, when they're not fighting like cats and dogs, things get downright...bewitching.]]> 384 Jessica Clare 0593337565 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.68 2022
author: Jessica Clare
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2022
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]]> 13153400 Based on the Multiple Award Winning Film

Remember a time before cell phones could be found in every pocket? Or when even accessing the world wide web was something only readily available in a library? Back then letters still filled up postboxes and moments just felt so much more precious when captured on Polaroid film. Now life seems to move at the speed of light. Our memories are captured and shared with the world on social media platforms. And love, which is already capricious, can feel like it is moving at terminal velocity.

In Makoto Shinkai¡¯s defining work, the internationally renowned director and animator unfolds a love story that is as timeless as it is fleeting. Yukiko Seike¡¯s rendition of this modern classic adds a new level of emotion and intimacy that is unique to its source material.]]> 463 Yukiko Seike 1932234969 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.88 2007
author: Yukiko Seike
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2007
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]]> 28219400
A perennial favorite of fans and librarians alike, Natsuki Takaya's beloved bestselling Fruits Basket series returns to print in gorgeous deluxe English-language omnibus editions with beautiful full-color illustrations that are not to be missed!]]> 400 Natsuki Takaya 0316360163 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.50 2016
author: Natsuki Takaya
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2016
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]]> 33232472 Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two begin swapping lives, a miraculous story is set in motion.]]> 180 Ranmaru Kotone helloayesha 0 to-read 4.39 2016
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name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2016
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]]> 39863194 A Bittersweet Romance

In this deeply moving first-person story, an introverted high school boy finds his classmate¡¯s diary¨Dand learns her biggest secret. Yamauchi Sakura is dying from a pancreatic disease and now he is the only one person outside her family to know the truth. The last thing the boy wants is to be her friend, but Sakura¡¯s cheerful demeanor and their shared secret draw them together in this heartrending tale of friendship and mortality.]]> 442 Yoru Sumino 1642750328 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.39 2014
author: Yoru Sumino
name: helloayesha
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2014
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]]> 59705289
"And if you had any favorite characters in Clown in a Cornfield, I'm preemptively sorry. #FrendoLives" - Adam Cesare]]> 406 Adam Cesare 0063096919 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.84 2022
author: Adam Cesare
name: helloayesha
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 385255 Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies. Jessica and Boy George ride the wild adventure between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a precarious dance between survival and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of prison, and, throughout it all, the insidious damage of poverty.

Charting the tumultuous cycle of the generations - as girls become mothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation - LeBlanc slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and true story.]]> 409 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 0743254430 helloayesha 4 4.26 2003
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But then, in an instant, their lives are changed forever.

In the aftermath, Eve¡¯s world is upended. As stunning secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if she really knew her friends as well as she thought. And when someone from the past comes back into her life, Eve¡¯s future veers in a surprising new direction...

They say every love story starts with a single moment. What if it was just last night?]]> 393 Mhairi McFarlane 0063036851 helloayesha 0 to-read 3.96 2021
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]]> 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters¡ªshooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919¨C2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 helloayesha 0 3.81 1951
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In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the ¡°Secret Annexe¡± of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
--back cover]]> 283 Anne Frank helloayesha 0 4.19 1947
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Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)]]> 254 Gillian Flynn 0297851535 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.05 2006
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]]> 34912895 Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America¡¯s last true frontier.

Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents¡¯ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.

At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights¡¯ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.

But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt¡¯s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.

In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska¨Da place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.]]> 435 Kristin Hannah helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.44 2018
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]]> 53138081 Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.

In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli¡ªlike so many of her neighbors¡ªmust make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America¡¯s most defining eras¡ªthe Great Depression.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250178602]]> 464 Kristin Hannah 1250178606 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.27 2021
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Except that right now, he doesn¡¯t know that. He can¡¯t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he¡¯s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he¡¯s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it¡¯s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery¡ªand conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he¡¯s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 helloayesha 0 to-read 4.49 2021
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Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.]]> 336 Colleen Hoover 153872474X helloayesha 0 bookshelf 4.29 2018
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Lily hasn¡¯t always had it easy, but that¡¯s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She¡¯s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up ¡ª she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily¡¯s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He¡¯s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn¡¯t hurt. Lily can¡¯t get him out of her head. But Ryle¡¯s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his ¡°no dating¡± rule, she can¡¯t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan ¡ª her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.]]> 386 Colleen Hoover 1668021048 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.11 2016
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]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn¡¯s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ¡®80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn¡¯s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique¡¯s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 helloayesha 0 to-read, bookshelf 4.39 2017
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Given how fast everything has happened, Satomi is still clueless about how dating is supposed to work. How will she forge ahead in her relationship with Yagyu?]]> 192 Ayuko Hatta 1974728951 helloayesha 4 manga 4.10 2020
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]]> 26247042 An Epic Love Story Across Time

Naho immediately feels a connection to the new boy who has transferred to her class. Kakeru is calm, kind, and seems to like Naho as well. But their relationship gets thrown for a loop when Naho receives a letter from the future. The letter explains that Kakeru will die unless Naho does exactly as the letter says. But changing fate is no easy task. When the letter starts to get things wrong, Naho worries that she will still lose Kakeru forever. Luckily, Naho has her friends to back her up. Not only do they want to see Naho and Kakeru get together, they also have time-traveling letters of their own...

Orange: The Complete Collection 2 also includes a bonus story, Haruiro Astronaut. This five chapter story is about a pair of twins who discover that they can't share everything in life--or at least not an alien that suddenly becomes a part of it.]]> 523 Ichigo Takano 1626922713 helloayesha 0 to-read, manga 4.40 2016
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