Beth's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:14:33 -0700 60 Beth's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Bluest Eye 292327
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.]]> 206 Toni Morrison 0307278441 Beth 4 4.18 1970 The Bluest Eye
author: Toni Morrison
name: Beth
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/04/10
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]]> Jazz 11341 229 Toni Morrison 1400076218 Beth 0 to-read 3.88 1992 Jazz
author: Toni Morrison
name: Beth
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Quick & Easy Guide to Coming Out (Quick & Easy Guides)]]> 209695903
Part of the bestselling and critically acclaimed A Quick & Easy Guide series from Oni Press.]]> 80 Kristin Russo 1637155069 Beth 0 to-read 4.48 A Quick & Easy Guide to Coming Out (Quick & Easy Guides)
author: Kristin Russo
name: Beth
average rating: 4.48
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]]> <![CDATA[A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent]]> 50891503 A quick, easy and important educational illustrated guide to giving and receiving consent in sex, relationships, and other physical contact.

How do you tell someone you want to do stuff with them? How do you ask if they want to do stuff with you? How do you know what stuff you want to do with each other? Enter: Sargeant Yes Means Yes from the Consent Cavalry, a beacon of clarity in a fuzzy minefield of questions. Sarge drops in on a diverse range of folks deciding whether to engage in sexual activity in this short and fun comic guide to communicating what you want, don't want, and how you want it!

With wit and charm, Sarge also includes tips on what affirmative consent looks like, advocating for what you want, and setting boundaries that honor your comfort and safety. The result is a positive resource illustrating how easy it really is to respect each other’s bodies and desires.

Part of the acclaimed QUICK & EASY GUIDE series from Limerence Press.]]> 80 Isabella Rotman 1620107945 Beth 0 to-read 4.42 2020 A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent
author: Isabella Rotman
name: Beth
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability]]> 52759748
"This guide can help disabled people (and their partners) on their journey toward self-love, better communication, and confidence." –� Alice Wong, Founder and Director, Disability Visibility Project

All different kinds of bods want to connect with other bods, but lots of them get left out of the conversation when it comes to S-E-X. As explained by disabled cartoonist A. Andrews, this easy-to-read guide covers the basics of disability sexuality, common myths about disabled bodies, communication tips, and practical suggestions for having the best sexual experience possible. Whether you yourself are disabled, you love someone who is, or you just want to know more, consider this your handy starter kit to understanding disability sexuality, and your path to achieving accessible (and fulfilling) sex.

Part of the bestselling and critically acclaimedA Quick & Easy Guideseries from Limerence Press, an imprint of Oni Press.]]> 72 A. Andrews 1620106949 Beth 0 to-read 4.41 2020 A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
author: A. Andrews
name: Beth
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities]]> 40538740 96 Mady G. 1620105861 Beth 0 to-read 4.28 2019 A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
author: Mady G.
name: Beth
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[AQuick & EasyGuidetoThey/ThemPronouns]]> 36580693
ձ> 64 󾱱DzԲDZԲԾ 1620104997 Beth 0 to-read 4.36 2018 AQuick & EasyGuidetoThey/ThemPronouns
author: 󾱱DzԲDZԲԾ
name: Beth
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality]]> 54303302 This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to validate their experiences.

Asexuality is often called The Invisible Orientation. You don’t learn about it in school, you don’t hear “ace� on television. So, it’s kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they are broken � so writer Molly Muldoon and cartoonist Will Hernandez, both in the ace community, are here to shed light on society’s misconceptions of asexuality and what being ace is really like. This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to validate their experiences. Asexuality is a real identity and it’s time the world recognizes it. Here’s to being invisible no more!ձ> 72 Molly Muldoon 1620108593 Beth 0 to-read 4.07 2022 A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality
author: Molly Muldoon
name: Beth
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 58831139
The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best—and worst—that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness.]]> 255 Isaac Asimov Beth 0 4.16 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Beth
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1951
rating: 0
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]]> His Hideous Heart 43397269 Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.

Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales, and how they’ve been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways.

Contributors include Kendare Blake (reimagining “Metzengerstein�), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morge�), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait�), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee�), Tiffany D. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado�), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart�), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter�), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death�), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog�), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum�), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher�).]]> 480 Dahlia Adler 1250302781 Beth 0 3.52 2019 His Hideous Heart
author: Dahlia Adler
name: Beth
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Harley Quinn & the Gotham City Sirens]]> 203166814 320 Paul Dini 1779527306 Beth 0 3.84 2010 Harley Quinn & the Gotham City Sirens
author: Paul Dini
name: Beth
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> At the Mountains of Madness 32767 At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.

This Definitive Edition of At the Mountains of Madness (The Modern Library) also includes Lovecraft's long essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature."]]> 194 H.P. Lovecraft 0812974417 Beth 3 book-group-reads, read-2025 3.86 1931 At the Mountains of Madness
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Beth
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1931
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
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]]> Rouge 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—and 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 Méduse, 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—and 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—as 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 Beth 0 to-read 3.54 2023 Rouge
author: Mona Awad
name: Beth
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Lady Macbeth 202261114 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.

The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.

The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.

The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.

But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world.

She does not know this yet. But she will.]]> 320 Ava Reid 0593722574 Beth 0 3.63 2024 Lady Macbeth
author: Ava Reid
name: Beth
average rating: 3.63
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]]> Lady Macbeth 202102084 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.

The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.

The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.

The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.

But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world.

She does not know this yet. But she will.]]> 320 Ava Reid 0593722566 Beth 0 to-read 3.46 2024 Lady Macbeth
author: Ava Reid
name: Beth
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> A Colder War 22756840 31 Charles Stross Beth 0 to-read 3.84 2000 A Colder War
author: Charles Stross
name: Beth
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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]]> Turnaround: America's Revival 223318126 �TURNAROUNDis a powerful challenge from my friend Senator James Lankford to pay more attention to who we are, rather than just what we do. James� practical leadership ideas will encourage you to live your faith and find impactful ways to serve our community and our great nation. Every chapter is packed with history, humor and inspiration to be part of our national turnaround.“—MIKE POMPEO

“Senator James Lankford lives his faith with humility, grace, collegiality, and authenticity. In this book he adroitly puts his finger precisely on the key to change and revival in our country. The key is US. This book is both a challenge and a chance for us to reflect and act.”—TREY GOWDY




“To turnaround our country we are tempted to spend our energy fighting darkness, but you can’t turn down darkness, you can only turn up light. In a dark room, you look for the light switch, not the dark switch. For some reason, that simple truth seems to escape us when we think about people and problems. If you want less darkness, turn up more light.�

—Senator James Lankford

Americans live in the greatest representative republic in the history of the planet which is defined each day by “We the People.� Everyday, the nation is US.

When we look in our national mirror, if we don’t like what we see, we should do what it takes to improve our reflection.

TURNAROUNDis a journey book, filled with ancient truths, our modern division, personal faith, true stories, a case study on immigration politics, and a lesson about the bees that will kill you.

The pages are a celebration of our freedom and a challenge to reconnect to our faith and do something significant with our lives. The stories are deeply personal and practical.

TURNAROUND challenges us to step up and do something when we see the nation is drifting. We should not just allow cultural gravity to win. Each of us get the choice everyday to do the right thing, the right way.

Let’s pray and get to work on our national turnaround.]]> 220 James Lankford 163006291X Beth 0 to-read 0.0 Turnaround: America's Revival
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name: Beth
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Wicked This Way Comes]]> 240420 215 Ray Bradbury 0553280325 Beth 3 3.87 1962 Something Wicked This Way Comes
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Beth
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1962
rating: 3
read at: 2019/10/06
date added: 2025/04/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)]]> 199190261
Percy, Annabeth, and Grover settle into Hecate’s seemingly endless mansion and start getting acquainted with the fussy, terrifying animals. The trio has been warned not to touch anything, but while Percy and Annabeth are out at school, Grover can’t resist drinking a strawberry-flavored potion in the laboratory. It turns him into a giant frenzied goat, and after he rampages through the house, damaging everything in sight, and passes out, Hecuba and Gale escape. Now the friends have to find Hecate’s pets and somehow restore the house, all before Hecate gets back on Saturday. It’s going to take luck, demigod wiles, and some old and new friends to hunt down the animals and set things right again.]]> 322 Rick Riordan 1368112382 Beth 0 4.14 2024 Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #2)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Beth
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)]]> 63035432
Unfortunately, the gods aren’t quite done with him yet. Poseidon breaks the bad news that if Percy expects to get into New Rome University, he will have to fulfill three quests in order to earn the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus.

The first task is to help Ganymede, Zeus’s cupbearer, retrieve his golden goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. You see, one sip from it can turn a mortal into a god, and Zeus would not be pleased with that result. Can Percy and his friends Grover and Annabeth find the precious cup in time? And if they do, will they be able to resist its special power?

Readers new to Percy Jackson universe and fans who have been awaiting this reunion for more than a decade will delight equally in this latest hilarious take on Greek mythology by the "storyteller of the gods."]]> 288 Rick Riordan 1368098177 Beth 0 4.27 2023 The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures, #1)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Beth
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Rosemary's Baby 12021924
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor–husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome them; despite Rosemary’s reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband starts spending time with them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant, and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare; as the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets� circle is not what it seems.]]> 257 Ira Levin Beth 0 4.27 1967 Rosemary's Baby
author: Ira Levin
name: Beth
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> What Fury Brings 220908944 #1 New York Times-bestselling author Tricia Levenseller makes her adult debut in What Fury Brings, a sexy, empowering romantasy featuring a warrior general who must kidnap and train a husband in order to take her rightful place as queen.

There's a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.

Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband. And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet, docile temperament. He's the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.

Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father's overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother's place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he truly wants.]]> 368 Tricia Levenseller 1250379377 Beth 0 to-read 5.00 2025 What Fury Brings
author: Tricia Levenseller
name: Beth
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)]]> 51824384
Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner’s on a mission to dominate the hospitality industry—and he expects nothing less than perfection. So when a purple-haired tornado of a woman turns up out of the blue to interview for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car—supposedly by accident. Yeah, right.

Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously unpredictable Eve is fluttering around, trying to help. Before long, she’s infiltrated his work, his kitchen—and his spare bedroom. Jacob hates everything about it. Or rather, he should. Sunny, chaotic Eve is his natural-born nemesis, but the longer these two enemies spend in close quarters, the more their animosity turns into something else. Like Eve, the heat between them is impossible to ignore—and it’s melting Jacob’s frosty exterior.]]> 400 Talia Hibbert 0062941283 Beth 0 4.07 2021 Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Beth
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)]]> 49976087 Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing� her from their office building goes viral...

Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits—someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom.

When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae—and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?

Dani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf’s secretly a hopeless romantic—and he’s determined to corrupt Dani’s stone-cold realism. Before long, he’s tackling her fears into the dirt. But the former sports star has issues of his own, and the walls around his heart are as thick as his... um, thighs.

Suddenly, the easy lay Dani dreamed of is more complex than her thesis. Has her wish backfired? Is her focus being tested? Or is the universe just waiting for her to take a hint?]]> 400 Talia Hibbert 0062941259 Beth 0 3.98 2020 Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Beth
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)]]> 43884209
� Enjoy a drunken night out.
� Ride a motorcycle.
� Go camping.
� Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
� Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
� And... do something bad.

But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Redford ‘Red� Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.

But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…]]> 384 Talia Hibbert 0062941208 Beth 0 3.79 2019 Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Beth
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters Book Set: Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Act Your Age Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters)]]> 123239391 1057 Talia Hibbert 0063347792 Beth 0 4.32 Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters Book Set: Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Act Your Age Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Beth
average rating: 4.32
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]]> My Darling Dreadful Thing 193544852
Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air, and mysterious stone statues reside in the family chapel. Something dreadful festers in the manor, but still, the attraction between Roos and Agnes is undeniable.

Then, someone is murdered.

Poor, alone, and with a history of 'hysterics', Roos is the obvious culprit. With her sanity and innocence in question, she'll have to prove who—or what—is at fault or lose everything she holds dear.

"A Sapphic seance of preternatural proportions, My Darling Dreadful Thing summons a stunning new literary voice to be reckoned with. Johanna van Veen reaches beyond the veil to conjure up a gothic shocker like no other."—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

©2024 Johanna van Veen (P)2024 Tantor]]> 375 Johanna van Veen 1728281547 Beth 0 to-read 3.85 2024 My Darling Dreadful Thing
author: Johanna van Veen
name: Beth
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[A Steeping of Blood (Blood and Tea, #2)]]> 221604704 The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal; the gritty fantasy duology about an orphan girl and her crew who get tangled in a heist with vampires, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows.

She's had her tea, now she's out for blood.

White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press are dead, the public calls for justice, vampires are in danger, and amid the turmoil, the Ram announces a celebration.

Still reeling from the bloodshed, Arthie Casimir has no time to mourn the death of anyone, let alone her own. She has no time for love, either, but it had saved her life. As Arthie navigates new emotions and new allies, she must reassemble her scrambled crew and scrape what little they have left to fight one last time � and she will need to face the ghosts of her past to do it.

In Ceylan.

After the jaw-dropping ending of #1 bestselling A Tempest of Tea, Arthie and her crew still have plenty of hearts to break and crimson-red secrets to uncover. Hafsah Faizal crafts a deliciously twisty and seductive sequel that will leave readers breathless until the very last page.]]> 448 Hafsah Faizal 037438942X Beth 0 to-read 3.50 2025 A Steeping of Blood (Blood and Tea, #2)
author: Hafsah Faizal
name: Beth
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> Geek Love 13872 Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out � with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes � to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious � and dangerous � asset.

As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.]]> 348 Katherine Dunn 0375713344 Beth 0 3.96 1989 Geek Love
author: Katherine Dunn
name: Beth
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)]]> 24905366 Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.

I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.

But someone did notice.
Now I have to prove I’m not a delinquent, I’m not a total bonehead.

That one quick second turned into
juvie
a judge
a year of house arrest,
a year of this court-ordered journal,
a year to avoid messing up
and being sent back to juvie
so fast my head will spin.

It’s only 1 year.
Only 52 weeks.
Only 365 days.
Only 8,760 hours.
Only 525,600 minutes.

What could go wrong?]]> 304 K.A. Holt 1452134774 Beth 0 4.15 2015 House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
author: K.A. Holt
name: Beth
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft]]> 19558525 288 Stephen King Beth 5 4.58 2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
author: Stephen King
name: Beth
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tensorate Series (Tensorate #1-4)]]> 56900737 The Tensorate Series, which has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lambda Literary Awards, is an incomparable treasure of modern epic fantasy.

Across four novellas, Neon Yang established themself as a fantasist in bold defiance of the limitations of their genre. Available now in a single volume, these four novellas trace the generational decline of an empire and unfurl a world that is rich and strange beyond anything you've dreamed.

In the Tensorate Series you will find: rebellious nonbinary scions of empire, sky-spanning nagas with experimental souls, revolutionary engineers bent on bringing power to the people, pugilist monks, packs of loyal raptors, and much, much more.

The Tensorate Series omnibus contains The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, The Descent of Monsters, and To Ascend to Godhood]]> 451 Neon Yang Beth 0 3.95 2021 The Tensorate Series (Tensorate #1-4)
author: Neon Yang
name: Beth
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Dandadan, Vol. 1 60433195 218 Yukinobu Tatsu 1974734633 Beth 2 4.33 2021 Dandadan, Vol. 1
author: Yukinobu Tatsu
name: Beth
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/01
date added: 2025/04/01
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]]> Fever 52673910 A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,� the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the early twentieth century—by an award-winning writer chosen as one of �5 Under 35� by the National Book Foundation.

Mary Mallon was a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant woman who bravely came to America alone, fought hard to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic service ladder, and discovered in herself an uncanny, and coveted, talent for cooking. Working in the kitchens of the upper class, she left a trail of disease in her wake, until one enterprising and ruthless “medical engineer� proposed the inconceivable notion of the “asymptomatic carrier”—and from then on Mary Mallon was a hunted woman.

In order to keep New York’s citizens safe from Mallon, the Department of Health sent her to North Brother Island where she was kept in isolation from 1907-1910. She was released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary—spoiled by her status and income and genuinely passionate about cooking—most domestic and factory jobs were heinous. She defied the edict.

Bringing early twentieth-century New York alive—the neighborhoods, the bars, the park being carved out of upper Manhattan, the emerging skyscrapers, the boat traffic—Fever is as fiercely compelling as Typhoid Mary herself, an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the hands of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes an extraordinarily dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable character.]]> 346 Mary Beth Keane Beth 0 3.81 2013 Fever
author: Mary Beth Keane
name: Beth
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> Rocket Raccoon: Grounded 32498372
COLLECTING: ROCKET RACCOON (2016) 1-5 GROUNDED]]> 112 Matthew Rosenberg 1302906798 Beth 3 3.55 2017 Rocket Raccoon: Grounded
author: Matthew Rosenberg
name: Beth
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/31
date added: 2025/03/31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea]]> 216470365
Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.

Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina seeks out the Sea God, only to find him caught in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin—as well as a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits—Mina sets out to wake the Sea God and bring an end to the killer storms once and for all.

But she doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking…]]> 352 Axie Oh 125086609X Beth 0 to-read 4.67 2022 The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
author: Axie Oh
name: Beth
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold]]> 44323 240 Francesca Lia Block 0064407454 Beth 4 3.77 2000 The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
author: Francesca Lia Block
name: Beth
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2018/05/03
date added: 2025/03/31
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]]> Poison Ink 25711714 290 Christopher Golden Beth 1 3.29 2008 Poison Ink
author: Christopher Golden
name: Beth
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2008
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/30
date added: 2025/03/30
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]]> A Song for You & I 214269388 Being a ranger means adventure, action, and protecting the weak. But who protects the ranger when they lose their way? From the bestselling author of The Moth Keeper and the Tea Dragon Society comes a must read MG graphic novel for fans of soft sweeping fantasy romances.

Rowan knows exactly what they to be a ranger, protecting their village alongside their trusted flying horse Kes. But when Rowan's eagerness to show off their worth gets Kes injured, Rowan is suddenly unsure if they're capable of being the protector they've always dreamed of becoming.

With Kes needing to heal, Rowan is assigned a slow and winding expedition across the outlying lands. Paired with a lackadasical sheep hearder Leone, Rowan only finds frustration as they seem to fail even the simplest tasks. But Leone's own struggles, and endless support brings a new possibility to Rowan. Could their unlikely friendship be something more? And if it is, will Rowan be able to leave Leone behind to pursue being a ranger once Kes is healed?]]> 240 K. O'Neill 0593182308 Beth 0 4.40 2025 A Song for You & I
author: K. O'Neill
name: Beth
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story (2024)]]> 209611688 193 Nicole Maines 1779510462 Beth 0 4.21 Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story (2024)
author: Nicole Maines
name: Beth
average rating: 4.21
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman]]> 204642474
Unable to enjoy her newfound anonymity for too long though, Selina decides that she must return to her infamous persona. Donning a new costume and attitude, Catwoman returns to the streets and sets her sights on the serial killer that has been preying upon the people she calls friends.

Collects Catwoman: Selina's Big Score, ,Catwoman #1-9, and backup stories from Detective Comics #759-762.]]> 336 Ed Brubaker 1779527284 Beth 0 4.16 Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman
author: Ed Brubaker
name: Beth
average rating: 4.16
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[V for Vendetta: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 230528343 368 Alan Moore 1799503135 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 V for Vendetta: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Alan Moore
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[We3: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 230528319 144 Grant Morrison 1799503259 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 We3: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Grant Morrison
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Absolute Superman/Batman, Vol. 1]]> 17137661
Collects SUPERMAN/BATMAN #1-13]]> 336 Jeph Loeb 1401240968 Beth 0 to-read 4.01 Absolute Superman/Batman, Vol. 1
author: Jeph Loeb
name: Beth
average rating: 4.01
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 219303525 240 Greg Rucka 1799501825 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 Batwoman: Elegy: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Greg Rucka
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Batman: The Long Halloween: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 229080266 376 Jeph Loeb 1799502880 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 Batman: The Long Halloween: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Jeph Loeb
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Y: The Last Man Book One: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 229187495 248 Brian K. Vaughan 1799502899 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 Y: The Last Man Book One: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Superman/Batman: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 220460402 304 Jeph Loeb 1799502139 Beth 0 to-read 0.0 Superman/Batman: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Jeph Loeb
name: Beth
average rating: 0.0
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 203166770 136 Brian Azzarello 1779527314 Beth 0 to-read 3.54 Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Brian Azzarello
name: Beth
average rating: 3.54
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[American Vampire 1: DC Compact Comics Edition]]> 204642479
Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet is a thoroughly corrupt gunslinger. When European vampires come to the American Old West, they turn Skinner into a true monster: the very first American vampire.

Skinner becomes something entirely new--a stronger breed of vampire immune to sunlight, who hates every last one of his aristocratic European ancestors.

Follow this dark symbol of the New World's bloody path as he moves through American history's most distinctive eras--from the Wild West in the 1880s to the glamorous classic Hollywood of the 1920s to mobster-run Las Vegas in the 1930s, and beyond.

But as Skinner's war with his predecessors inspires a mysterious society to rise and fight them both, his most upsetting decision might involve the first person he chooses to join his vampiric ranks: a struggling young movie star named Pearl Jones.]]> 320 Scott Snyder 1779527349 Beth 0 to-read 4.02 American Vampire 1: DC Compact Comics Edition
author: Scott Snyder
name: Beth
average rating: 4.02
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer]]> 219484513 Actress and content creator Dylan Mulvaney’s honest account of her journey through girlhood

When Dylan Mulvaney came out as a woman online, she was a viral sensation almost overnight, emerging as a trailblazing voice on social media. Dylan’s personal coming-out story blossomed into a platform for advocacy and empowerment for trans people all over the world. Through her “Days of Girlhood� series, she connected with followers by exploring what it means to be a girl, from experimenting with makeup to story times to spilling the tea about laser hair removal, while never shying away from discussing the transphobia she faced online. Nevertheless, she was determined to be a beacon of positivity.

But shortly after she celebrated day 365 of being a girl, it all came screeching to a halt when an innocuous post sparked a media firestorm and right-wing backlash she couldn’t have expected. Despite the vitriolic press and relentless paparazzi, Dylan was determined to remain loud and proud.

In Paper Notes from a Late Bloomer, Dylan pulls back the curtain of her “It Girl� lifestyle with a witty and intimate reflection of her life pre- and post-transition. She covers everything from her first big break in theater to the first time her dad recognized her as a girl to how she handled scandals, cancellations, and . . . tucking. It’s both laugh-out-loud funny and powerfully honest—and is a love letter to everyone who stands up for queer joy.]]> 272 Dylan Mulvaney 141977039X Beth 5 4.13 2025 Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
author: Dylan Mulvaney
name: Beth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/27
date added: 2025/03/28
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]]> Soulless 3348007 Newly reissued, the rollicking, action-packed zombie story from one of the genre’s hottest writers!

Times Square, New York City: The first ever mass séance is broadcasting live on the Sunrise morning show. If it works, all the spirits of the departed on the other side will have a brief window -- just a few minutes -- to send a final message to their grieving loved ones.

Clasping hands in an impenetrable grip, three mediums call to their spirit guides as the audience looks on in breathless anticipation. Then the mediums slump over, slack-jawed -- catatonic. And in cemeteries surrounding Manhattan, fragments of old corpses dig themselves out of the ground . . .

The spirits have returned. The dead are walking. They will seek out those who loved them in life, those they left behind . . . but they are savage and they are hungry. They are no longer your mother or father, your brother or sister, your best friend or lover.

They are soulless.

The horror spreads quickly, droves of the ravenous dead seeking out those they left behind -- shredding flesh from bone, feeding. But a disparate group of unlikely heroes -- two headstrong college rivals, a troubled gang member, a pop star and her bodyguard -- is making its way to the center of the nightmare, fighting to protect their loved ones, fighting for their lives, and fighting to end the madness.]]> 310 Christopher Golden 1416551352 Beth 0 to-read 3.65 2008 Soulless
author: Christopher Golden
name: Beth
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)]]> 71865 276 John Marsden 0439829100 Beth 4 4.05 1993 Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
author: John Marsden
name: Beth
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/27
date added: 2025/03/27
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dead of Night (Tomorrow, #2)]]> 71864 264 John Marsden 0439829119 Beth 0 to-read 4.13 1994 The Dead of Night (Tomorrow, #2)
author: John Marsden
name: Beth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/27
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]]> A Canticle for Leibowitz 60155857 381 Walter M. Miller Jr. Beth 0 4.09 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz
author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
name: Beth
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/26
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]]> Julia 77980762 An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.

Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It's 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell's 1984.

All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia.

Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.]]> 304 Sandra Newman 0063265354 Beth 0 3.94 2023 Julia
author: Sandra Newman
name: Beth
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)]]> 8235474 MATTEO ALACRÁN WAS NOT BORN; HE WAS HARVESTED.

His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster -- except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself.

As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón's power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.]]> 309 Nancy Farmer 143910655X Beth 0 3.91 2002 The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)
author: Nancy Farmer
name: Beth
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[On Nature: Collected Works & Poems]]> 62875615
The bold illustrations are a visual ode to nature and inspired by excerpts from Emerson, Thoreau, Wordsworth, Frost, Shelley, Rossetti, Cather, Yeats, Machado, Keats, Verlaine, Whitman, Teasdale, Hughes and more.]]> 84 Evan Robertson 1633300218 Beth 0 to-read 3.57 On Nature: Collected Works & Poems
author: Evan Robertson
name: Beth
average rating: 3.57
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Illustrated]]> 209815748 84 Evan Robertson 1633300234 Beth 0 to-read 3.55 The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Illustrated
author: Evan Robertson
name: Beth
average rating: 3.55
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Beth 0 4.67 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Beth
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> The Common Reader 18840 272 Virginia Woolf 015602778X Beth 0 to-read 4.16 1925 The Common Reader
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Beth
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1925
rating: 0
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]]> The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel 199543346
When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit dwelling in peaceful Hobbiton.

Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. But as they journey from the wonders of Rivendell to the terrors of Mirkwood and beyond, Bilbo will find that there is more to him than anyone—himself included—ever dreamed. Unexpected qualities of courage and cunning, and a love of adventure, propel Bilbo toward his great destiny . . . a destiny that waits in the dark caverns beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring.

This comprehensive edition collects the three-issue series originally published by Eclipse Comics and thereafter augmented with many pages of additional artwork and improvements. Carefully abridged from Tolkien’s classic novel, and brought thrillingly to life with striking, evocative art by David Wenzel, this graphic novel is a perennial delight to Hobbit fans old and new.]]> 148 Chuck Dixon 0063388472 Beth 0 4.16 1989 The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel
author: Chuck Dixon
name: Beth
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> Breaking the Dark 215363279 In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This Is True) launches the Marvel Crime series of thriller books for adults with an original story starring the private detective Jessica Jones.

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York.

The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.�

Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins� new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community?

A mother’s intuition is never wrong. And Jessica knows that nothing in life is perfect—not these kids, not her on-again, off-again relationship with Luke Cage, and certainly not Jessica herself. But even as she tries to buy into the idea that better days are ahead, Jessica Jones has seen all too clearly that behind every promise of perfection trails a dark, dangerous shadow.

Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favorite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura.]]> 400 Lisa Jewell 1368099815 Beth 0 to-read 3.85 2024 Breaking the Dark
author: Lisa Jewell
name: Beth
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)]]> 20878022 "This was Vere, voluptuous and decadent, country of honeyed poison"

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the truthful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else...]]> 209 C.S. Pacat 0698155084 Beth 0 3.90 2013 Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> To Be Taught, If Fortunate 43445841 A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarer series.

At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.

A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.]]> 160 Becky Chambers 0062936026 Beth 0 to-read 4.25 2019 To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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]]> Strange Grace 54765225 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

“Gloriously dark and romantic.� —Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen
“An alluring and seductive fairy tale.� —Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation
“Horrifying, heartbreaking, and heartwarming, a lush fairy tale rooted in a moral quandary.� �Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An eerie, consuming tale of sacrifice and faith. Haunting and unique.� �Booklist
“Evocative.� �BCCB

Once, a witch made a pact with a devil. The legend says they loved each other, but can the story be trusted at all? Find out in this lush, atmospheric fantasy novel that entwines love, lies, and sacrifice.

Long ago, a village made a bargain with the devil: to ensure their prosperity, when the Slaughter Moon rises, the village must sacrifice a young man into the depths of the Devil’s Forest.

Only this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early.

Bound by duty, secrets, and the love they share for one another, Mairwen, a spirited witch; Rhun, the expected saint; and Arthur, a restless outcast, will each have a role to play as the devil demands a body to fill the bargain. But the devil these friends find is not the one they expect, and the lies they uncover will turn their town—and their hearts—inside out.]]> 416 Tessa Gratton 1534402098 Beth 0 3.62 2018 Strange Grace
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spore Queen (Dark Earth Rising)]]> 211550070 Forest. Fungi. Family secrets.
Reporter Maria Hart ventures into the depths of Nils Forest chasing a news story about a violent storm, but she never returns. Within months, four other people will also disappear in the woods.
Tech mogul David Eager lives at the forest’s edge. He is haunted by Maria’s disappearance, and something more. Fungus is common in the foggy woodland, but now it’s behaving in unnatural ways, creeping onto his property and into his dreams.
Maria’s friend, Amy Matthews, hears strange rumors about Nils Forest and, motivated by a dark secret, decides to investigate for herself. It’s no easy task. The terrain is notoriously rugged. But Amy is cunning and determined to find her former roommate, dead or alive.
Amy’s not alone. Maria’s mother, desperate for answers about her daughter, joins the search.
Together, they journey into the heart of Nils Forest where they make a chilling discovery—there’s a new fungus in these woods, and it has transformative powers. As they push deeper into the trees, they uncover a terrifying, mind-bending force. Her name is The Spore Queen.]]> 253 Debra Castaneda Beth 0 to-read 3.79 The Spore Queen (Dark Earth Rising)
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]]> The Sacrifice 60190095
Pristine beaches, lush greenery, and perfect weather, the island of Kisapmata would be the vacation destination...if not for the curse. The Philippine locals speak of it in hushed voices and refuse to step foot on the island. They know the lives it has claimed. They won't be next.

A Hollywood film crew won't be dissuaded. Legend claims a Dreamer god sleeps, waiting to grant unimaginable powers in exchange for eight sacrifices. The producers are determined to document the evidence. And they convince Alon, a local teen, to be their guide.

Within minutes of their arrival, a giant sinkhole appears, revealing a giant balete tree with a mummified corpse entwined in its gnarled branches. And the crew start seeing strange visions. Alon knows they are falling victim to the island's curse. If Alon can't convince them to leave, there is no telling who will survive. Or how much the Dreamer god will destroy...

Creepy and suspenseful, The Sacrifice is perfect for readers looking for:
* Spooky, scary books for young adults
* Horror novels
* Ghost story books for teens
* East Asian folklore]]> 332 Rin Chupeco 1728255937 Beth 0 3.77 2022 The Sacrifice
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]]> We Are the Beasts 209721716 Deaths and disappearances pile up as a mysterious beast stalks the French countryside and two girls seize an unlikely opportunity that just might save them all—or serve them up on a platter.

Step into this chilling, historical horror inspired by the unsolved mystery of the Beast of Gévaudan.

When a series of brutal, mysterious deaths start plaguing the countryside and whispers of a beast in the mountains reach the quiet French hamlet of Mende, most people believe it’s a curse—God’s punishment for their sins.

But to sixteen-year-old Joséphine and her best friend, Clara, the beast isn’t a curse. It’s an opportunity.

For years, the girls of Mende have been living in a nightmare—fathers who drink, brothers who punch, homes that feel like prisons—and this is a chance to get them out.

Using the creature’s attacks as cover, Joséphine and Clara set out to fake their friends� deaths and hide them away until it’s safe to run. But escape is harder than they thought. If they can’t brave a harsh winter with little food� If the villagers discover what they’re doing� If the beast finds them first...

Those fake deaths might just become real ones.]]> 348 Gigi Griffis 0593707745 Beth 0 3.75 2024 We Are the Beasts
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]]> <![CDATA[Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)]]> 208840265 A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the hit drama One Tree Hill. Her career was about to take off, but her personal life was slowly beginning to unravel. What none of the show’s millions of fans knew, hidden even from her costars, was her secret double life in a cult.

An only child who often had to fend for herself and always wanted a place to belong, Lenz found the safe haven she’d been searching for in a Bible study group with other Hollywood creatives. However, the group soon morphed into something more sinister—a slowly woven web of manipulation, abuse, and fear under the guise of a church covenant called The Big House Family. Piece by piece, Lenz began to give away her autonomy, ultimately relocating to the Family’s Pacific Northwest compound, overseen by a domineering minister who would convince Lenz to marry one of his sons and steadily drained millions of her TV income without her knowledge. Family “minders� assigned to her on set, “Maoist struggle session”–inspired meetings in the basement of a filthy house, and regular counseling with “Leadership� were just part of the tactics used to keep her loyal.

Only when she became a mother did Lenz find the courage to leave and spare her child from a similar fate. After nearly a decade (and with the unlikely help of a One Tree Hill superfan), she finally managed to escape the family’s grip and begin to heal from the deep trauma that forever altered her relationship with God and her understanding of faith. Written with powerful honesty and dark humor, Dinner for Vampires is an inspiring story about the importance of identity and understanding what you believe.]]> 303 Bethany Joy Lenz 1668067307 Beth 0 to-read 4.28 2024 Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
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]]> <![CDATA[Frost (Reapers Rejects MC, #15)]]> 54308380
I’m doing something I’d never thought I would. Something I swore I wouldn’t do when Elena went off and married Reed. But, as the years went by I saw the unity within the biker lifestyle and I began to crave it. Now I’m in my late-thirties and all I have to show is scars on my body, battle wounds and marks that will forever scar my skin after being on the field for the bureau.

Is it wrong I want more than that? I asked myself this question for years, and not long ago I made the decision to quit my job, abandoning every benefit and decided to live for myself. For so long I had thought my work would give me purpose, but that wasn’t the case. It turned out I was much like every other woman. I only wanted to belong somewhere.

It turns out where I belong is with the Reapers MC. I’ve been here for a bit now and we’re finally starting to see some fresh blood into the charter other than myself.

A woman by the name of Cheyenne transferred to our charter. She’d been providing medical care down in Las Vegas with Sakura to the club and patients in their clinic. No one here knows my preferences, but I haven’t been able to keep my eyes off her.

I wasn’t always a lesbian, but somewhere in my early-thirties I realized who it was I really loved-- women.

The moment Cheyenne’s family hears she’s with us, they lose their shit . . . and in doing so, they ignite a war with the Reapers. They used to be our allies, but now they’re public enemy number one. Above anything else, we’ll always protect our own.]]> 244 Elizabeth Knox Beth 2 ebooks-shelf, read-2025 4.44 2020 Frost (Reapers Rejects MC, #15)
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average rating: 4.44
book published: 2020
rating: 2
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]]> The Wave 481743 The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

]]> 138 Todd Strasser 0440993717 Beth 0 3.53 1981 The Wave
author: Todd Strasser
name: Beth
average rating: 3.53
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]]> <![CDATA[What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)]]> 222615926 The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America

Alex Easton does not want to visit America.

They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.

But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin—who went missing in that very mine—well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> T. Kingfisher 1250354935 Beth 0 to-read 4.60 2025 What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
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name: Beth
average rating: 4.60
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]]> Herland 23482836 What would happen if society was run by women? In Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result.

When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfect isolation in the Amazon, they decide there simply must be men somewhere. How could these women survive without man's knowledge, experience and strength, not to mention reproductive power? In fact, what they have found is a civilisation free from disease, poverty and the weight of tradition. All alone, the women have created a society of calm and prosperity, a feminist utopia that dares to threaten the very concept of male superiority.

This edition also includes The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman’s chilling autobiographical story of a woman’s descent into madness.]]> 216 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1784870528 Beth 5 3.55 1915 Herland
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Beth
average rating: 3.55
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Savior's Champion (The Savior's Series, #1)]]> 38240456 Best Books of All Time by Book Depository.Tobias Kaya doesn't care about The Savior. He doesn't care that She's the Ruler of the realm or that She purified the land, and he certainly doesn't care that She's of age to be married. But when competing for Her hand proves to be his last chance to save his family, he’s forced to make The Savior his priority.

Now Tobias is thrown into the Sovereign’s Tournament with nineteen other men, and each of them is fighting—and killing—for the chance to rule at The Savior's side. Instantly his world is plagued with violence, treachery, and manipulation, revealing the hidden ugliness of his proud realm. And when his circumstances seem especially dire, he stumbles into an unexpected romance, one that opens him up to unimaginable dangers and darkness.

Trigger this novel contains graphic violence, adult language, and sexual situations.]]> 671 Jenna Moreci 0999735225 Beth 0 to-read 3.75 2018 The Savior's Champion (The Savior's Series, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity]]> 48635421 A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our unique friendliness is the secret to our success as a species.

For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?

Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the "self-domestication theory," Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.

But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an "outsider." The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare's groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest.

Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.]]> 304 Brian Hare 0399590668 Beth 0 to-read 4.06 2020 Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
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]]> Elysium Girls 52782471
When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town. Ever since she was a kid, Sal has been plagued by false visions of rain, and though people think she's a liar, she knows she's a leader. Even the arrival of enigmatic outsider Asa-a human-obsessed demon in disguise-doesn't shake her confidence in her ability. Until a terrible mistake results in both Sal and Asa's exile into the Desert of Dust and Steel.

Face-to-face with a brutal, unforgiving landscape, Sal and Asa join a gang of girls headed by another Elysium exile-and young witch herself-Olivia Rosales. In order to atone for their mistake, they create a cavalry of magic powered, scrap metal horses to save Elysium from the coming apocalypse. But Sal, Asa, and Olivia must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor-only by reinventing the rules can they beat the Life and Death at their own game.]]> 400 Kate Pentecost 1368041868 Beth 0 to-read 3.71 2020 Elysium Girls
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> The Ministry of Time 220160351 A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats� from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridge�: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as �1847� or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,� “Spotify,� and “the collapse of the British Empire.� But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.]]> 368 Kaliane Bradley 166804515X Beth 0 to-read 3.62 2024 The Ministry of Time
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding]]> 182030637 63 Agatha Christie Beth 5 4.07 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
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]]> My Lobotomy 6092355 In this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim the life that was taken from him, and his redemption.

At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital—or ice pick—lobotomy.

Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn’t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the “normal� life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why?

There were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor’s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn’t intervened on his son’s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers.

Through his research, Howard met other lobotomy patients and their families, talked with one of Freeman’s sons about his father’s controversial life’s work, and confronted Rodney about his complicity. And, in the archive where the doctor’s files are stored, he finally came face to face with the truth. Revealing what happened to a child no one—not his father, not the medical community, not the state—was willing to protect, My Lobotomy exposes a shameful chapter in the history of the treatment of mental illness. Yet, ultimately, this is a powerful and moving chronicle of the life of one man.]]> 306 Howard Dully Beth 0 4.06 2007 My Lobotomy
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]]> <![CDATA[Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story]]> 31869108 What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew

For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists—most of them male, of course—claimed to find evidence to support this.

Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition, or behavior, science has continued to assert that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be regarded as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of new research reveals that women are as strong, strategic, and smart as anyone else.

In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating—and necessary—new science of women, investigating the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delving into cutting-edge studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women's brains, bodies, and role in human evolution. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women, she finds that we're still living with the legacy of an establishment that's just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.]]> 200 Angela Saini 0807071706 Beth 0 4.03 2017 Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> With Her in Ourland 17871845 144 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1627930825 Beth 0 to-read 3.33 1916 With Her in Ourland
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]]> Moving the Mountain 27026839 166 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1514832224 Beth 0 to-read 2.75 1911 Moving the Mountain
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average rating: 2.75
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]]> Our Infinite Fates 211202756 ‘Maybe that’s all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.�

Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday.

The problem is that she’s quite fond of the one she’s in now, and more importantly, her sister needs her for bone marrow transplants to stay alive. So now she has to:

1. find the centuries-old enemy who hunts her through each life and destroy them forever
2. figure out exactly why she’s being hunted in the first place,
3. try quite hard not to fall in love with them

…a.ձ> 406 Laura Steven 0241671124 Beth 0 3.88 2025 Our Infinite Fates
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]]> Speak 11382112
"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication.

In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.

Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.]]> 220 Laurie Halse Anderson Beth 5 4.10 1999 Speak
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name: Beth
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> Fish Girl 33512496 The triple Caldecott winner David Wiesner brings his rich visual imagination and trademark artistry to the graphic novel format in a unique coming-of-age tale that begins underwater. A young mermaid, called Fish Girl, in a boardwalk aquarium has a chance encounter with an ordinary girl. Their growing friendship inspires Fish Girl's longing for freedom, independence, and a life beyond the aquarium tank. Sparkling with humor and brilliantly visualized, Fish Girl's story will resonate with every young person facing the challenges and rewards of growing up.]]> 192 David Wiesner 1328809390 Beth 4 3.90 2017 Fish Girl
author: David Wiesner
name: Beth
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> Close Range 6640477 From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes—confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty—with the more benign values of the new west. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.]]> 289 Annie Proulx 1416588892 Beth 0 4.23 1999 Close Range
author: Annie Proulx
name: Beth
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/13
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]]> I'll Make A Spectacle Of You 217439210 This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.

Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student at her dream program, the Appalachian Studies at Bricksbury University. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary and suggests she research the local folklore about a beast roaming the woods surrounding campus, Zora finds a community uneager to talk to an outsider.

As she delves into the history of the beast, she uncovers a rumored secret society called the Keepers that has tenuous ties to the beast…and Bricksbury itself. Zora soon finds herself plagued by visions of the past, and her grip on reality starts to slip as she struggles to uncover what is real and what is folklore. But when a student goes missing, Zora starts to wonder if the Keepers ever really disbanded.

There’s something in the woods and it has its eyes on Zora.]]> Beatrice Winifred Iker Beth 0 to-read 5.00 2025 I'll Make A Spectacle Of You
author: Beatrice Winifred Iker
name: Beth
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> Aces Wild: A Heist 58505006 What happens in Vegas when an all-asexual online friend group attempts to break into a high-stakes gambling club? Shenanigans ensue.

Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school’s basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do?

Everything starts falling apart when Jack’s mom is arrested for their family’s ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family’s chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something’s not right. His mom was sold out, and he knows by who. Peter Carlevaro: rival casino owner and jilted lover. Gross.

Jack hatches a plan to find out what Carlevaro’s holding over his mom’s head, but he can’t do it alone. He recruits his closest friends—the asexual support group he met through fandom forums. Now all he has to do is infiltrate a high-stakes gambling club and dodge dark family secrets, while hopelessly navigating what it means to be in love while asexual. Easy, right?]]> 352 Amanda DeWitt 1682634663 Beth 0 to-read 3.77 2022 Aces Wild: A Heist
author: Amanda DeWitt
name: Beth
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Wonderful Women of the World 52265779
Wonder Woman has been an inspiration for decades, and while not everyone would choose her star-spangled outfit for themselves, her compassion and fairness are worthy of emulation. We'll be presenting tales of the real-world heroes who take up Diana's mantle and work in the fields of science, sports, activism, diplomacy, and more!

New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson brings together an all-star cast of authors and illustrators in this anthology of contemporary Wonder Women--and how they've changed our world.]]> 208 Laurie Halse Anderson 1779503784 Beth 0 to-read 4.04 2021 Wonderful Women of the World
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Beth
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution]]> 2974057 Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?

Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner prove the case in this entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to those independent dames!]]> 37 Laurie Halse Anderson 0689858086 Beth 0 to-read 4.13 2008 Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Beth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School]]> 5280620 32 Laurie Halse Anderson 0689858094 Beth 0 to-read 3.89 2009 The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Beth
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving]]> 537036 We the people of the United States...

Almost Lost Thanksgiving

Yes. That's right!

Way back when "skirts were long and hats were tall" Americans were forgetting Thanksgiving, and nobody seemed to care!

Thankfully, Sarah Hale appeared. More steadfast than Plymouth Rock, this lady editor knew the holiday needed saving. But would her recipe for rescue ever convince Congress and the presidents?

Join acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson on a journey of a woman and a pen that spanned four decades, the Civil War, and five presidents, all so you could have your turkey and eat it too!

]]> 40 Laurie Halse Anderson 068985143X Beth 0 to-read 4.26 2002 Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Beth
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed 48932520 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca reimagine Wonder Woman's origins in this timely story about the refugee experience, teenage activism, and finding the love and strength to create change.

Princess Diana believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings--namely acceptance into the warrior tribe of Amazons. The celebrations are cut short, however, when rafts of refugees break through the Themysciran barrier. Diana tries to help them, but she is swept away by the sea--and from her home--thus becoming a refugee herself.

Now Diana must survive in the world outside of Themyscira for the first time; the world that is filled with danger and injustice. She must redefine what it means to belong, to be an Amazon, and to make a difference.

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is a story about growing into your strength, battling for justice, and the power of friendship.]]> 207 Laurie Halse Anderson 1401286453 Beth 0 to-read 3.94 2020 Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Beth
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection]]> 167616432 344 Junji Ito 1974739295 Beth 4 horror, manga, read-2025 4.24 1994 Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
author: Junji Ito
name: Beth
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/27
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: horror, manga, read-2025
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]]> Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 40893782 A TOUCH OF MAGIC

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows� might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…]]> 204 Kamome Shirahama 163236770X Beth 5 4.45 2017 Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1
author: Kamome Shirahama
name: Beth
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/07
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: manga, witches, book-group-reads, recommended-general, ebooks-shelf, read-2025
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]]> When I Arrived at the Castle 217989575
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering flags. Emily Carroll has fashioned a rich gothic horror charged with eroticism that doesn't just make your skin crawl, it crawls into it.]]> 72 Emily Carroll 0571390218 Beth 4 3.55 2019 When I Arrived at the Castle
author: Emily Carroll
name: Beth
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: comics, horror, lgbtq-books, read-2025
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]]> Venus in the Blind Spot 49081449 No Longer Human—each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror.]]> 272 Junji Ito 1974715477 Beth 5 4.12 2019 Venus in the Blind Spot
author: Junji Ito
name: Beth
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/05
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: book-group-reads, horror, manga, recommended-general, read-2025
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]]> Nightbitch 57123268
At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined - what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...

With its clear eyes on contemporary womanhood and sharp take on structures of power, Nightbitch is an outrageously original, joyfully subversive read that will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. Addictive enough to be devoured in one sitting, this is an unforgettable novel from a blazing new talent.]]> 256 Rachel Yoder 0385546823 Beth 3 3.55 2021 Nightbitch
author: Rachel Yoder
name: Beth
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/16
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: ebooks-shelf, victress, book-group-reads, read-2025
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