Catfantastic's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:41:10 -0700 60 Catfantastic's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Damsel 36260155
When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, however, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon, or what horrors she has faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome prince, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny to sit on the throne beside him. Ama comes with Emory back to the kingdom of Harding, hailed as the new princess, welcomed to the court.

However, as soon as her first night falls, she begins to realize that not all is as it seems, that there is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows–and that the greatest threats to her life may not be behind her, but here, in front of her.]]> 320 Elana K. Arnold 0062742345 Catfantastic 0 3.28 2018 Damsel
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average rating: 3.28
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[It's Raining Men: A Slacker Demons Novel]]> 24485005 "Stevenson has a gift for showing you the heart of characters...Plenty of story, laughs, and tugs on the heart." - Katharine Kimbriel, 欧宝娱乐

Archie is a sex demon who's so lazy, he's this close to being kicked out of hell. Chloe is a brand bimbo for a liquor distributor, dating bums and secretly crushing on her favorite bartender, Archie.
Archie only wants to comfort Chloe after her latest jerk dumps her. He doesn't plan to show her the sex demons' sweat-socky man lair, or confess to collecting thirty pieces of silver a month for seducing women, or describe the Ravenswood Project, a spell he cast on the neighborhood to make all the women easy pickings. He doesn't even intend to kiss her. It all starts with one well-meant lie...
"You've been selected for victim's compensation. Just for you, it's gonna start raining men."]]> 303 Jennifer Stevenson 1611384656 Catfantastic 0 3.41 2012 It's Raining Men: A Slacker Demons Novel
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average rating: 3.41
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]]> Lady John 1382709 224 Madeleine E. Robins 0449502767 Catfantastic 0 3.27 1982 Lady John
author: Madeleine E. Robins
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.27
book published: 1982
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]]> Exit, Pursued by a Bear 22715193 49 Greer Gilman 1618730959 Catfantastic 0 3.65 2014 Exit, Pursued by a Bear
author: Greer Gilman
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> Midnight Rooms 199534540 Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh voice in the genre that will leave you questioning who, or what, you can trust . . . including your own sanity.

England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman—an outsider with no fortune or connections—Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.

The new bride is quickly whisked away to Korringhill Manor, the Blakersby family estate, and far from everything she knows. Expecting splendor, Orabella is shocked to find decay, skittish servants, and curt elders. But her kind new husband’s loving touch, promises of a happy life together, and his assurances she’ll never want for anything soothe her concerns.

Yet there is a darkness deep within this house. Rooms are locked or hidden away, and the walls seem to thrum with secrets. Orabella can never venture outside unattended; she spends her days having tea with a catatonic sister-in-law and evenings at Elias’s side, dutifully hosting lavish dinners. The darkness soon begins to engulf her, too. Becoming dizzy and drowsy after dinner, she falls into a fitful sleep filled with macabre dreams, and is awakened by blood-curdling screams in the night. In the morning she rises from her bed covered in mysterious bruises. Confused and terrified, she begins to question where her dreams end and reality begins. The longer Orabella stays in this place, the more she loses parts of herself . . . how long until she no longer exists?

Midnight Rooms is a sweeping saga with supernatural undertones set in Victorian England. Vibrating with tension, richly atmospheric—haunted by ghosts, guilt, and familial bonds—it is an electrifying story that will linger in your dreams.]]> 336 Donyae Coles 0063228092 Catfantastic 0 3.35 2024 Midnight Rooms
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]]> <![CDATA[Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)]]> 199535412
In the tradition of Legends & Lattes , comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world would let them.

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on every table, firelight drifting between the rafters… all complemented by love and good company. Thing is, Reyna works as one of the Queen’s private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Leaving their lives 颈蝉苍’迟 so easy.

But after an assassin takes Reyna hostage, she decides she’s thoroughly done risking her life for a self-centered queen. Meanwhile, Kianthe has been waiting for a chance to flee responsibility–all the better that her girlfriend is on board. Together, they settle in Tawney, a town nestled in the icy tundra near dragon country, and open the shop of their dreams.

What follows is a cozy tale of mishaps, mysteries, and a murderous queen throwing the realm’s biggest temper tantrum. In a story brimming with hurt/comfort and quiet fireside conversations, these two women will discover just what they mean to each other… and the world.]]> 339 Rebecca Thorne 1250333296 Catfantastic 0 to-read 3.75 2022 Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Moonblood (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #3)]]> 11756117
Vowing to redeem himself, Lionheart plunges into the mysterious Goldstone Wood, seeking Rose Red. In strange other worlds, Lionheart must face a lyrical yet lethal tiger, a fallen unicorn, and a goblin horde on his quest to rescue the girl he betrayed.

With the Night of Moonblood fast approaching--when King Vahe seeks to wake the Dragon's sleeping children--Lionheart must discover whether or not his heart contains courage before it's too late for Rose Red...and all those he loves.]]> 373 Anne Elisabeth Stengl 0764207814 Catfantastic 0 4.34 2012 Moonblood (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #3)
author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> A House with Good Bones 60784409 A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.

"Mom seems off."

Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.

She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out.

But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home 颈蝉苍’迟 what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.

To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.]]> 247 T. Kingfisher 1250829798 Catfantastic 5 3.65 2023 A House with Good Bones
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.65
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Piercing the Darkness (Darkness, #2)]]> 17303 John 1:5 (ESV)

It all begins in Bacon's Corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate . . . An attempted murder, a case of mistaken-or is it covered up?-identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, a burnout, a kind of "leftover hippie,"finds herself caught in the middle of these bizarre events, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past.

Across a vast panorama of heart-stopping action, Sally Roe's journey is a penetrating portrayal of our times, a reflection of our wanderings, and a vivid reminder of the redemptive power of the Cross. A companion volume to This Present Darkness, readers have purchased over two million copies of Piercing the Darkness since its publication in 1989.]]> 448 Frank E. Peretti 1581345275 Catfantastic 1 4.32 1989 Piercing the Darkness (Darkness, #2)
author: Frank E. Peretti
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average rating: 4.32
book published: 1989
rating: 1
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]]> The Night Wanderer 1190695 215 Drew Hayden Taylor 1554510996 Catfantastic 5 3.46 2007 The Night Wanderer
author: Drew Hayden Taylor
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average rating: 3.46
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rating: 5
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]]> Elyon (The Lost Books, #6) 5080018 New York Times best-selling author Ted Dekker revisits the universe of his half-million selling Circle Trilogy with the continuation of this popular YA series--and brings along a member of "The Circle" as his coauthor.

Darsalis trying to love the Horde as Elyon asked her to, but she's torn between this new mission and her original one . . . especially now that Johnis and Silvie no longer seem to be on her side.

The Chosen Ones are facing their greatest threat--extinction--and only by Elyon's grace will they survive to tell the tale.

]]> 0 Ted Dekker 1598595318 Catfantastic 1 3.97 2009 Elyon (The Lost Books, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)]]> 26032912 He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.]]> 321 Holly Black 0316310409 Catfantastic 0 4.33 2019 The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)
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]]> The Breathing Method 4945933 Different Seasons collection. In this masterful horror story, thirteen men gather in their gentlemen's club to hear the story of "The Breathing Method." And they will be forever transfigured by this terrifying story of a woman who was determined to give birth at all costs.

The Breathing Method is one of four novellas in a collection that includes The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil.]]> 3 Stephen King 014314393X Catfantastic 0 3.68 1982 The Breathing Method
author: Stephen King
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1982
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]]> Lunatic (The Lost Books, #5) 6052140 304 Ted Dekker 1595543732 Catfantastic 1 3.86 2009 Lunatic (The Lost Books, #5)
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 3.86
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rating: 1
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]]> Mr Pye 827394 254 Mervyn Peake 0099283263 Catfantastic 0 3.69 1953 Mr Pye
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> Chaos (The Lost Books, #4) 2234033 A FINAL QUEST AND AN ULTIMATE BETRAYAL

Deep in the mountains of Romania stands a fortress, and deep within that fortress lies a chamber. In that chamber, ruling the dead for over two thousand years, live one Shataiki bat straight from the bowels of the Black Forest. He seeks the final Books of History with which he will destroy the world.

But there are four who stand in the way.

The chosen are trapped in a new world of high technology and weapons of mass destruction. In the midst of chaos, they must find the last book before the Dark One can in this final test to save the world.]]> 253 Ted Dekker 1595543724 Catfantastic 1 3.98 2008 Chaos (The Lost Books, #4)
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation]]> 11415146 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian fable penned by an anonymous bard in the early 1400s, remained hidden for most of English history; the sole remaining copy of the manuscript wasn't discovered until Victorian times. Since then, it's become something of a Christmas classic: Written in a distinctive alliterative style that harkens to the earliest forms of English poetry, it meanders through dangerous castles and visits enchanted creatures on quests of honor. The story goes like this: In the middle of Christmas revelry, as everyone's about to eat the roast, an enormous green giant party-crashes Arthur's court. He challenges startled onlookers to a game: Let someone deal a blow to the Green Knight's bare neck, then offer his own bare neck in return, a year hence. Not surprisingly, this invitation gets few takers -- until Arthur's cousin, Gawain, noted for honor, rises. Unfortunately, when he lops off the giant's head, the green beast picks it up and rides out the door, all the while instructing Gawain to come find him next New Year's. Fast-forward: In the waxen light of the following Christmas, Gawain sets out to complete his mission -- and perhaps to meet his doom. In the meantime, he's waylaid by a tempting queen, offered protection by a mysterious lord, and led to his final showdown. It's an unforgettable story, and now it's been lit again with the lamp of keen language. The rich tapestry of sporting, courting, hunting and wooing -- of verbal sparring and physical spearing -- is available anew in an energetic verse translation by noted British poet Simon Armitage. Among the joys of rediscovering Gawain is one this edition offers: the chance to look across the page and feel the violent strife and courtly play roiling beneath the old English. It's hard not to be moved by lines like these, where Gawain takes a swing at the beast's green head: "Let hit doun lightly on the naked, / That the scharp of the schalk schyndered on the bones, / And schrank thrugh the schiyire grece, and scade hit in twynne, / That the bit of the broun stel bot on the ground." Once we've reveled in the rich sounds, we can see that Armitage has parsed them as "(he) sings (the axe) swiftly towards the bare skin. / The cleanness of the strike cleaved the spinal cord / and parted the fat and the flesh so far / that the bright steel blade took a bite from the floor." It's not all so gory as this, but what delicious-sounding gore it is. Equally rich are capturings of deer skinning, winter feasting, and fair ladies. The story that kilters along could be alternative to any Christmas movie -- and it's a tribute to this translation that it seems to demand a wintry day or fireside evening to read the words aloud to family or friends. The tale, with all its verbal jousting, gathers us in. --Tess Taylor]]> 198 Unknown 1442072717 Catfantastic 3 3.91 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
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]]> Renegade (The Lost Books, #3) 2234034 278 Ted Dekker 1595543716 Catfantastic 1 3.92 2008 Renegade (The Lost Books, #3)
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> Deliverance 592657 278 James Dickey 038531387X Catfantastic 0 3.88 1970 Deliverance
author: James Dickey
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1970
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]]> Infidel (The Lost Books, #2) 1620912 245 Ted Dekker 1595543635 Catfantastic 0 3.98 2007 Infidel (The Lost Books, #2)
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies]]> 51236405 Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics.

Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears; and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fj?llr?ven K?nken backpacks, and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. Cut off from nature, the characters are cut off from their natural selves.

Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush,” and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie’s 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. To read Simpson’s work is an act of decolonization, degentrification, and willful resistance to the perpetuation and dissemination of centuries-old colonial myth-making. It is a lived experience. It is a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits, who are all busy with the daily labours of healing — healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. Enter and be changed.]]> 368 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 1487007647 Catfantastic 0 4.23 2020 Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
author: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> That Printer of Udell’s 227086934
Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was a best-selling author who is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel. More than 21 movies were made or claimed to have been made from his stories, including Gary Cooper’s first major movie The Winning of Barbara Worth and the John Wayne film The Shepherd of the Hills. Behind all of his works lies the simple desire to write about the goodness of mankind.]]> Harold Bell Wright Catfantastic 0 0.0 That Printer of Udell’s
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]]> The Convenient Marriage 32106 272 Georgette Heyer 0099474425 Catfantastic 0 3.63 1934 The Convenient Marriage
author: Georgette Heyer
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average rating: 3.63
book published: 1934
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]]> <![CDATA[Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)]]> 33832433
In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It’s also the story of a century-long feud—seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch—that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. It is said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are like the eight limbs of one spider. Aesi’s power is considerable—and deadly. It takes brains and courage to challenge him, which Sogolon does for reasons of her own.

Both a brilliant narrative device—seeing the story told in Black Leopard, Red Wolf from the perspective of an adversary and a woman—as well as a fascinating battle between different versions of empire, Moon Witch, Spider King delves into Sogolon’s world as she fights to tell her own story. Part adventure tale, part chronicle of an indomitable woman who bows to no man, it is a fascinating novel that explores power, personality, and the places where they overlap.]]> 626 Marlon James 0735220220 Catfantastic 0 4.16 2022 Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)]]> 58724626 From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Catfantastic 5 3.86 2022 What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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]]> Saint (Paradise, #2) 125959 "We call you Saint."

The name ignited a light in Carl's mind. Saint. He'd been covertly recruited for Black Ops and given his life to the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. He was here because he belonged here. To the X Group.

An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet...Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth - but not all of it.

Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity and made him someone new - for this he is grateful. But there are some things they can't take from him. The love of a woman, unbroken loyalties to his past, the need for survival.

From the deep woods of Hungary to the streets of New York, Saint takes you on a journey of betrayal in a world of government cover-ups, political intrigue, and one man's search for the truth. In the end, that truth will be his undoing.]]> 347 Ted Dekker 1595540067 Catfantastic 1 4.03 2006 Saint (Paradise, #2)
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail]]> 9791 A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).]]> 397 Bill Bryson 0307279464 Catfantastic 0 4.07 1998 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1998
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]]> Thornhedge 61884932 There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This 颈蝉苍’迟 her story.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

But nothing with fairies is ever simple.

Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…]]> 116 T. Kingfisher 1250244099 Catfantastic 5 3.95 2023 Thornhedge
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> The Ministry of Time 199798179 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.]]> 339 Kaliane Bradley 1668045141 Catfantastic 5 3.54 2024 The Ministry of Time
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]]> The Overstory 40180098 The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

A New York Times Bestseller.]]> 502 Richard Powers 039335668X Catfantastic 0 4.10 2018 The Overstory
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 336 Holly Black 0316310336 Catfantastic 0 4.27 2019 The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
author: Holly Black
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Catfantastic 5 4.14 2012 Wool - Holston (Wool, #1)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2018/06/01
date added: 2025/01/09
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]]> The Changeling 31147267
Thus begins Apollo’s odyssey through a world he only thought he understood, to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined. His quest, which begins when he meets a mysterious stranger who claims to have information about Emma’s whereabouts, takes him to a forgotten island, a graveyard full of secrets, a forest where immigrant legends still live, and finally back to a place he thought he had lost forever.

This captivating retelling of a classic fairy tale imaginatively explores parental obsession, spousal love, and the secrets that make strangers out of the people we love the most. It’s a thrilling and emotionally devastating journey through the gruesome legacies that threaten to devour us and the homely, messy magic that saves us, if we’re lucky.]]> 431 Victor LaValle 0812995945 Catfantastic 5 3.75 2017 The Changeling
author: Victor LaValle
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> 4th Armada Ghost Book 43444415 128 Mary Danby 000690467X Catfantastic 0 3.25 4th Armada Ghost Book
author: Mary Danby
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average rating: 3.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadowed: The Final Judgment (Underground Zealot, #3)]]> 347338 320 Jerry B. Jenkins 0842384154 Catfantastic 1 4.28 2004 Shadowed: The Final Judgment (Underground Zealot, #3)
author: Jerry B. Jenkins
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2004
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)]]> 39333207
Christmas 1138. Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he suddenly takes ill. Luckily, the abbey boasts the services of the clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man’s bedside, only to be confronted with two surprises: In Master Bonel’s wife, the good monk recognizes Richildis, whom he loved before he took his vows—and Master Bonel has been fatally poisoned by monk’s-hood oil from Cadfael’s stores.

The sheriff is convinced that the murderer is Richildis’s son, Edwin, who hated his stepfather. But Cadfael, guided in part by his concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son’s innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder.]]> 288 Ellis Peters 1497671132 Catfantastic 0 4.14 1980 Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
author: Ellis Peters
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average rating: 4.14
book published: 1980
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book (Armada)]]> 35080192 128 Mary Danby 0006920721 Catfantastic 0 2.60 The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book (Armada)
author: Mary Danby
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]]> <![CDATA[The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection]]> 23922
Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe's most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work ever to be recorded: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.

Between them, they perform 20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience.

CD #1 read by Basil Rathbone
To -- (1:48)
Alone (1:01)
The City in the Sea (3:01)
The Fall of the House of Usher (22:57)
The Haunted Palace (2:15)
The Pit and the Pendulum (30:27)

CD #2 read by Basil Rathbone
The Masque of the Red Death (16:25)
The Tell-Tale Heart (13:40)
The Black Cat (25:57)

CD #3 read by Basil Rathbone
The Raven (8:15)
The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar (16:15)
The Cask of Amontillado (15:45)
The Bells (4:02)
Annabel Lee (2:03)
Eldorado (0:39)

CD #4 read by Vincent Price
Ligeia (47:03)
The Imp of the Perverse (14:06)
Morella (14:45)

CD #5 read by Vincent Price
Berenice (23:50)
The Gold Bug (53:50)]]> 5 Edgar Allan Poe 0694524190 Catfantastic 0 4.08 The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
author: Edgar Allan Poe
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]]> <![CDATA[Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends (Underground Zealot, #2)]]> 30822 348 Jerry B. Jenkins 0842384111 Catfantastic 1 4.24 2004 Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends (Underground Zealot, #2)
author: Jerry B. Jenkins
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average rating: 4.24
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rating: 1
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]]> Eyeballs for Midnight Snack 1545275 What a way to spend a week! Murphy, Ashley, and their classmates head for a "Wilderness Adventure," a woodland classroom, to learn about nature, about each other, and about themselves. Little do they know they'll have to deal with a seven-foot python named Elvis, a homesick freak named Gummy, a murdering ghost named Crazy Annie, and a kidnapper who will stop at nothing!

]]> 144 Margaret M. Ragz 0671884115 Catfantastic 0 4.33 1994 Eyeballs for Midnight Snack
author: Margaret M. Ragz
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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]]> Me: Moth 50498335 A debut YA novel-in-verse that is both a coming-of-age and a ghost story.

Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.

Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he’ll be able to understand his ongoing depression. And if Moth can help him feel grounded, then perhaps she too will discover the history she carries in her bones.

Moth and Sani take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors. The way each moves forward is surprising, powerful, and unforgettable.

Here is an exquisite and uplifting novel about identity, first love, and the ways that our memories and our roots steer us through the universe.]]> 256 Amber McBride 1250780365 Catfantastic 0 4.04 2021 Me: Moth
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> A House Far from Home 51096 130 Budge Wilson 0590716794 Catfantastic 0 3.75 1986 A House Far from Home
author: Budge Wilson
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> Stuart Little 138959 E.B. White's classic novel tells the story of one small mouse on a very big adventure!

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born into a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though Stuart is shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.

Stuart's greatest journey begins when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, suddenly disappears from her nest. Determined to find her, Stuart sets off on an adventure away from home for the very first time in his life. Along the way, he encounters plenty of excitement—but will he be able to find his friend?]]> 131 E.B. White 0064400565 Catfantastic 0 3.90 1945 Stuart Little
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1945
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]]> Their Eyes Were Watching God 37415 238 Zora Neale Hurston 0061120065 Catfantastic 5 3.98 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
author: Zora Neale Hurston
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1937
rating: 5
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]]> A Christmas Carol 5326
Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.]]> 184 Charles Dickens 1561797464 Catfantastic 0 4.06 1843 A Christmas Carol
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Fire Next Time 464260 The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,” The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.]]> 106 James Baldwin 067974472X Catfantastic 5 4.55 1963 The Fire Next Time
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average rating: 4.55
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rating: 5
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]]> Front Desk (Front Desk #1) 36127488
Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.

Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.

Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?

It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?]]> 298 Kelly Yang 1338157795 Catfantastic 5 4.36 2018 Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.36
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rating: 5
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]]> When No One Is Watching 49398072 Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning...

Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block--her neighbor Theo.

But Sydney and Theo's deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.

When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other--or themselves--long enough to find out before they too disappear?

Featured in Parade, Essence, Bustle, Popsugar, Elle, Shondaland, Marie Claire, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Brit + Co, Real Simple, Lit Hub, Crime Reads, Blavity, Ms. Magazine, Hello Giggles, The New York Times, Town & Country, Newsweek, New York Post, Refinery29, Woman's World, Washington Post, the Skimm, Book Riot, Bookish, Huffington Post, and more!
]]> 352 Alyssa Cole 0062982656 Catfantastic 5 3.45 2020 When No One Is Watching
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average rating: 3.45
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon]]> 58022908
As the story goes, Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle after being deeply affected by Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day. If a novel gave us Amazon, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in literature. Its innovations have little to do with how the novel is written and more to do with how it’s distributed online. On the internet, all fiction becomes genre fiction, which is simply another way to predict customer satisfaction.

With an eye on the longer history of the novel, this witty, acerbic book tells a story that connects Henry James to E. L. James, and Faulkner and Hemingway to contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy writers. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the gutter of complete critical disregard, it stages a copernican revolution in how we understand the world of letters: it’s the stuff of high literature—Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, and Amitav Ghosh—that revolves around the star of countless unknown writers trying to forge a career by untraditional means, adult baby diaper lover erotica being just one fortuitous route. In opening the floodgates of popular literary expression as never before, the age of Amazon shows a democratic promise, as well as what it means when literary culture becomes corporate culture in the broadbest but also deepest and most troubling sense.]]> 320 Mark McGurl 183976385X Catfantastic 0 3.42 2021 Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
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average rating: 3.42
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]]> <![CDATA[Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying]]> 203021475 359 Henk De Berg 3031518322 Catfantastic 5 4.80 Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying
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average rating: 4.80
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Written with wit and compassion.
]]> <![CDATA[One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)]]> 776384 214 Ellis Peters 0446400513 Catfantastic 0 4.06 1979 One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
author: Ellis Peters
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)]]> 78411
I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket]]> 162 Lemony Snicket 0439206472 Catfantastic 0 4.02 1999 The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones]]> 673493
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozens scary stories -- and even a scary song -- all just right for reading along or for telling aloud in the dark..]]> 128 Alvin Schwartz Catfantastic 0 3.93 1991 Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
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average rating: 3.93
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Hide and Don't Seek: And Other Very Scary Stories]]> 54746639 A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!

A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long...

A look-alike doll makes itself right at home...

A school talent-show act leaves the audience aghast...

And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains...

This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedtimes, looking over their shoulders to see what goes bump in the night.

So if you're feeling brave, turn the page.]]> 224 Anica Mrose Rissi 0063026953 Catfantastic 0 3.46 2021 Hide and Don't Seek: And Other Very Scary Stories
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average rating: 3.46
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]]> <![CDATA[More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]> 413110 100 Alvin Schwartz 0397320825 Catfantastic 0 4.16 1984 More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1984
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]]> <![CDATA[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]> 1325218
There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney.

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories—and even scary songs—all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark.

If You Dare!]]> 111 Alvin Schwartz 0590431978 Catfantastic 5 4.09 1981 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
author: Alvin Schwartz
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)]]> 18966806
Finally, the time has come.

But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.]]> 525 Pierce Brown 0345539842 Catfantastic 0 4.52 2016 Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
author: Pierce Brown
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2016
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]]> Paper Towns 6442769 Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...]]> 305 John Green 014241493X Catfantastic 0 3.68 2008 Paper Towns
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Life Before Legend (Legend, #0.5)]]> 17235347 44 Marie Lu 1101622113 Catfantastic 0 3.98 2012 Life Before Legend (Legend, #0.5)
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 2012
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]]> The Saint of Bright Doors 61884985
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy.

He walked among invisible devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhood, Fetter escaped his rural hometown for the big city, and fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen.

Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potential, and once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doors, looming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolis, Fetter will discover what kind of man he is, and his discovery will rewrite the world.]]> 356 Vajra Chandrasekera 1250847389 Catfantastic 0 3.64 2023 The Saint of Bright Doors
author: Vajra Chandrasekera
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average rating: 3.64
book published: 2023
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Catfantastic 3 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key]]> 123381046
In 2008 Chicago, in the Southside community of Washington Park, Montgomery"Monty" Carver has planned the best summer ever! Unfortunately, things aren't going as planned. Monty is struggling to prove to his parents that he's old enough to be without adult supervision--especially after a very embarrassing incident with a metal detector. Man!

So when Monty finds a golden key in Old Lady Jenkins's sunflowers, he decides he's going to unravel the key's mystery all by himself, thank you very much--not with friends, and definitely not with his parents. Besides, he's ten years old now, and he's mastered the perfectly round 'fro! (It takes a protractor, you see.)

Soon Monty's hunt to determine the origin of the key leads him to discover the rich history--like famous Black jockeys!--of his Chicago community, which has been speculating its future since one of their residents, Barack Obama, is running for president and the Olympics might come to town in 2016.

On top of all that speculating, there are rumors going around that a ghost is hanging out behind their apartment building, and that Monty's elementary school may have to close.

So much to solve! Should the Olympics come? Will his community change if his school closes? Is there really a ghost? And where, oh where, did the key come from anyway? Monty is determined to find out.]]> 304 Tracy Occomy Crowder 1643795171 Catfantastic 0 3.72 Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
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]]> Legend (Legend, #1) 29863662 Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B0052RDJAO.

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors.

Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles.

Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect.
Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.]]> 318 Marie Lu Catfantastic 0 4.13 2011 Legend (Legend, #1)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)]]> 18966819
A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.

He must live for more.]]> 466 Pierce Brown 0345539826 Catfantastic 0 4.47 2015 Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
author: Pierce Brown
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 Catfantastic 0 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
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]]> The Colossus of New York 16275

A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city’s inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against its cruelties.

Whitehead’s style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms.

The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 158 Colson Whitehead Catfantastic 0 3.71 2003 The Colossus of New York
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.71
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]]> The Tusks of Extinction 127284214 When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.
The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help.
While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.
Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?

A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genre.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 192 Ray Nayler 1250855535 Catfantastic 0 3.77 2024 The Tusks of Extinction
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> Bride (Bride, #1) 181344829 A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again...

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.]]> 410 Ali Hazelwood Catfantastic 0 3.98 2024 Bride (Bride, #1)
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Catfantastic 2 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
author: A.A. Milne
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1928
rating: 2
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]]> 1st Armada Ghost Book 10409596 9 ? Sandy MacNeil and His Dog ? (1964) ? Sorche Nic Leodhas
20 ? School for the Unspeakable ? (1937) ? Manly Wade Wellman
34 ? The House of the Nightmare ? (1906) ? Edward Lucas White
47 ? The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost ? (1902) ? H. G. Wells
66 ? The Giant Bones ? (1964) ? Sorche Nic Leodhas
72 ? Prince Godfrey Frees Mountain Dwellers and Little Shepherds from a Savage Werewolf and Witches ? (1967) ? Halina Gorska
88 ? The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall ? (1891) ? John Kendrick Bangs
102 ? The Red Room ? (1896) ? H. G. Wells
115 ? Spooks of the Valley ? (1952) ? Louis C. Jones
132 ? The Lads Who Met the Highwayman ? (1965) ? Sorche Nic Leodhas
142 ? A Pair of Hands ? (1934) ? Arthur Quiller-Couch]]> 158 Christine Bernard Catfantastic 0 3.16 1967 1st Armada Ghost Book
author: Christine Bernard
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.16
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> The Only Good Indians 52180399 The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.]]> 305 Stephen Graham Jones 1982136456 Catfantastic 0 3.69 2020 The Only Good Indians
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average rating: 3.69
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)]]> 321545
The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin.]]> 197 Ellis Peters 0446400157 Catfantastic 0 3.97 1977 A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
author: Ellis Peters
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Green: The Beginning and the End (The Circle, #0)]]> 4789801
But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest.

Then, when least expected, a twenty-four year old named Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and woke up in that future Black Forest. A gateway was opened for Teeleh to ravage the land. Devastated by the ruin, Thomas Hunter and his Circle swore to fight the dark scourge until their dying breath.

But now The Circle has lost hope. Samuel, Thomas Hunter's cherished son, has turned his back on his father. He gathers the dark forces to wage a final war. Thomas is crushed and desperately seeks a way back to our reality to find the one elusive hope that could save them all.

Enter an apocalyptic story like none you have read. A story with links to our own history so shocking that you will forget you are in another world at all. Welcome to "GREEN." Book Zero.

FOUR NOVELS. TWO WORLDS. ONE STORY.
]]> 392 Ted Dekker 1595542884 Catfantastic 1 4.02 2009 Green: The Beginning and the End (The Circle, #0)
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 2009
rating: 1
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I don't think the claim that this could be read as the first book in the series holds true. Well, let me rephrase: if I had tried to read this one first, I probably wouldn't have bothered slogging through the rest, and if somehow I DID bother, the few tepid pleasures that the plot afforded would have been spoiled.
]]> <![CDATA[Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)]]> 36679274
Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

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

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

As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?]]> 624 Cassandra Clare 0525619992 Catfantastic 0 3.79 2023 Sword Catcher (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
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]]> <![CDATA[White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)]]> 125955 370 Ted Dekker 1595540350 Catfantastic 2 4.29 2003 White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 4.29
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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I still found it ridiculous and reprehensible, but I have to admit, there was a passage I was reading that I had to change trains in the middle of, and I found myself interested enough to keep reading on the escalator. For that, it gets an extra star.
]]> The Bezzle (Martin Hench, #2) 127306588
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life.

Martin has made his most dangerous mistake trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they’ve found their newest mark―California’s Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy.

A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues .]]> 230 Cory Doctorow 1250865875 Catfantastic 5 4.01 2024 The Bezzle (Martin Hench, #2)
author: Cory Doctorow
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Veiled Rose (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #2)]]> 9463960
Until she meets a privileged young man sent to spend his summer in the mountains. Headstrong young Leo startles everyone by befriending Rose Red, and together they begin searching for the monster rumored to be stalking these lands.

But the hunt, which began as a game, holds greater risk than either imagines. Soon both are forced to test their trust in each other as a far more terrifying scourge puts their entire land at risk.]]> 394 Anne Elisabeth Stengl 0764207822 Catfantastic 0 4.10 2011 Veiled Rose (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #2)
author: Anne Elisabeth Stengl
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> Pet (Pet, #1) 43568395 A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose talent is sniffing out monsters in a world that claims they don't exist anymore. Perfect for fans of Akata Witch and Shadowshaper.

There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster--and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?

In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.]]> 208 Akwaeke Emezi 0525647074 Catfantastic 0 4.14 2019 Pet (Pet, #1)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)]]> 15839976 "I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. "That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them."

"I live for you," I say sadly.

Eo kisses my cheek. "Then you must live for more."

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.]]> 382 Pierce Brown 0345539788 Catfantastic 0 4.26 2014 Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> The Host (The Host, #1) 1656001
As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1 - ACE #2 ]]> 619 Stephenie Meyer 0316068047 Catfantastic 0 3.85 2008 The Host (The Host, #1)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)]]> 65213543 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.

In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.]]> 336 Travis Baldree 1250886104 Catfantastic 0 4.13 2023 Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 2023
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]]> Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle 32105 410 Georgette Heyer 0373836082 Catfantastic 0 4.11 1957 Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
author: Georgette Heyer
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Damsel (Alan Grofield, #1)]]> 447208 183 Richard Stark 0881501565 Catfantastic 0 3.61 1967 The Damsel (Alan Grofield, #1)
author: Richard Stark
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)]]> 125956
Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.

From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head.

Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other-both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits...even beyond the limits of space and time.

Black is an incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and a terrorist's threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.

Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man's choice.]]> 408 Ted Dekker 1595540210 Catfantastic 1 4.19 2003 Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)
author: Ted Dekker
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2003
rating: 1
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]]> The Quick 18050175 An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
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London, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society, and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Unnerved, his sister, Charlotte, sets out from their crumbling country estate determined to find him. In the sinister, labyrinthine city that greets her, she uncovers a secret world at the margins populated by unforgettable characters: a female rope walker turned vigilante, a street urchin with a deadly secret, and the chilling “Doctor Knife.” But the answer to her brother’s disappearance ultimately lies within the doors of one of the country’s preeminent and mysterious institutions: The Aegolius Club, whose members include the most ambitious, and most dangerous, men in England.
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In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying. The Quick will establish her as one of fiction’s most dazzling talents.]]> 523 Lauren Owen 0812993276 Catfantastic 0 3.24 2014 The Quick
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average rating: 3.24
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)]]> 6294 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.]]> 329 Diana Wynne Jones 006441034X Catfantastic 5 4.30 1986 Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Soon: The Beginning of the End (Underground Zealot, #1)]]> 590708 2004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion—flush it out, expose it, and kill it—until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world start to make sense. Something big is coming—something that can't be stopped. And it is coming soon.]]> 368 Jerry B. Jenkins 0842384073 Catfantastic 1 4.06 2003 Soon: The Beginning of the End (Underground Zealot, #1)
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2003
rating: 1
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In a future America where religion is illegal, a heroic double agent protects his fellow Christians from unjust persecution... by ruthlessly persecuting everyone else.
]]> The New Moon's Arms 49047 336 Nalo Hopkinson 0446576913 Catfantastic 5 3.90 2007 The New Moon's Arms
author: Nalo Hopkinson
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 50659467
At least, he’s not a beast all the time.

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

From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.]]> 419 Sarah J. Maas 1635575567 Catfantastic 0 4.16 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
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]]> 爪先に光路図 [Tsumasaki ni Kourozu] 17901647 访れた先で待っていたのは、室田という気难しそうな男だった。
最初は不安を感じていた岩井だったが、室田の教えてくれる未知の世界に触れたり、
生活能力のない室田の世话を焼いたりする毎日は、楽しいものだった。
そんな时间の中、岩井は次第に室田に心惹かれていき???

书き下ろし「夏来るらし」収録!!

Iwai Arata was recommended by his professor to work part-time under a rather eccentric mycologist, Murota. The mycologist seemed hard to approach at first. But slowly as he got used to Iwai's presence, he became friendlier in his own way, showing Iwai a whole new world and giving him guidance with life. Though every day was fun and exciting, a sense of unease began to creep into Iwai's heart.]]> 166 Aki Aoi 4813053661 Catfantastic 2 3.65 2012 爪先に光路図 [Tsumasaki ni Kourozu]
author: Aki Aoi
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2012
rating: 2
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Beautiful artwork! I'm... not sure I completely understood the story.
]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)]]> 8680417
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780345524256]]> 310 Ben Aaronovitch Catfantastic 0 3.88 2011 Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2011
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]]> Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there 颈蝉苍’迟 talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,” recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist – an informational topologist with half his mind gone – as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Catfantastic 3
It reminded me a lot of Bloom, which I read a few weeks ago. Same setup: a bunch of unlikely and kind of prickly shipmates head into dangerous territory, with a journalist along to narrate. But I got along with Bloom a lot better. ]]> 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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I understand that this was a very good book. I just didn't like it all that much. And it did that obnoxious thing that SF does sometimes, that "I'm going to show you all that this thing you treasure is actually a load of nonsense" thing. Bradbury tried to do it with pop culture; Egan does it with religion; I am given to understand that Sawyer tried to do it with privacy; now Watts seems to be trying to do it with consciousness.

It reminded me a lot of Bloom, which I read a few weeks ago. Same setup: a bunch of unlikely and kind of prickly shipmates head into dangerous territory, with a journalist along to narrate. But I got along with Bloom a lot better.
]]> <![CDATA[The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)]]> 45047384
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.

When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.

But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.

An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.]]> 394 T.J. Klune Catfantastic 5 4.37 2020 The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
author: T.J. Klune
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> Prophet 8492
He's caught his producer fabricating a story and lying to cover her tracks—and she seems to be hiding something much bigger. His supposedly professional and objective colleagues have descended into a dogfight over the meaning of truth. His father's "accidental" death suddenly isn't looking so accidental. And John's estranged son, Carl, has returned to get the truth about the man behind the TV image. All of these events pale in comparison to the mysterious voices that John is hearing.]]> 416 Frank E. Peretti 1581345267 Catfantastic 1 3.94 1992 Prophet
author: Frank E. Peretti
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1992
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]> 429983 250 Ursula K. Le Guin 0060168358 Catfantastic 4 4.25 1979 The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1979
rating: 4
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]]> The Ballad of Black Tom 26883558
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?]]> 149 Victor LaValle 0765387867 Catfantastic 5 3.81 2016 The Ballad of Black Tom
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name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> Medicine River 196429 249 Thomas King 014305435X Catfantastic 0 3.81 1990 Medicine River
author: Thomas King
name: Catfantastic
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> Nightbane (Lightlark, #2) 58410355 The seductive and action-packed follow-up to Alex Aster’s instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling novel, Lightlark

Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers.

Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself struggling to win respect as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Worse, her fellow rulers haven’t ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla’s midst who don’t believe her ascent to power was earned.

As certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart.

Alex Aster’s intricate world expands after the riveting culmination of the Centennial games, delving more deeply into Isla’s memories of her past, as her future hurtles toward two possible fates.]]> 432 Alex Aster Catfantastic 0 4.11 2023 Nightbane (Lightlark, #2)
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> Lightlark (Lightlark, #1) 60310757 Welcome to the Centennial.

Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The invitation is a summons—a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. Each ruler has something to hide. Each realm’s curse is uniquely wicked. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die.

Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling—a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial.

To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything.]]> 416 Alex Aster 1419760866 Catfantastic 0 3.84 2022 Lightlark (Lightlark, #1)
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average rating: 3.84
book published: 2022
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]]> <![CDATA[Sovereign (The Books of Mortals, #3)]]> 12959176
Only 36 truly alive followers remain loyal to Rom. This meager band must fight for survival as The Order is focused on their total annihilation. Misunderstood and despised, their journey will be one of desperation against a new, more intensely evil Order.

As the hand of this evil is raised to strike and destroy them they must rely on their faith in the abiding power of love to overcome all and lead them to sovereignty.]]> 336 Ted Dekker 1599953595 Catfantastic 1 4.06 2013 Sovereign (The Books of Mortals, #3)
author: Ted Dekker
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2013
rating: 1
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A fitting end for the trilogy, I suppose. Begins by banishing any tension built up in the last installment. Meanders pointlessly and angstily through bad science, 1930s sword-and-sorcery-without-the-sorcery fiction, and the grossest religious conversion method ever, before stumbling to a finish in an apocalyptic (and yet somehow really boring) battle between the forces of redeemable white people and people with dreadlocks who were never really alive anyway. The real message is that love is the most important thing. Wait, no: murdering everyone while TELLING them love is the most important thing is the most important thing.
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