Laura âś�'s bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:12:43 -0700 60 Laura âś�'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Les CitĂ©s de Poussière 221614210 Si ces citĂ©s prospèrent, c’est uniquement grâce Ă  la PoussièreĚý : une poudre dorĂ©e invisible Ă  l’œil nu qui s’échappe d’objets anciens. La Poussière prĂ©serve non seulement les villes de la chaleur du soleil, mais elle sert aussi Ă  crĂ©er de l’Élixir de jouvence, convoitĂ© de tous.
Délia Serpentine, une jeune Érudite, est sur le point de terminer sa formation pour devenir conservatrice, une fonction cruciale pour la récupération des artéfacts qui assurent la prospérité des cités. Son destin bascule lorsqu’elle découvre un étrange grimoire dans le sous-sol d’un collectionneur. Les souvenirs enfouis dans l’objet l’obligent à se lancer dans une quête périlleuse aux côtés de Dante, le bras droit du Chancelier, dans l’espoir de contrer l’effondrement des cités.
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512 Nell Pfeiffer 2017219614 Laura � 0 to-read 4.54 Les Cités de Poussière
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<![CDATA[The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)]]> 61198133 A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.

Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.

Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren’s help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind.

#1ĚýNew York TimesĚýbestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame in the first book in a thrilling new duology, following Jude's brother Oak, and the changeling queen, Suren.]]>
356 Holly Black 0316592706 Laura � 0 currently-reading 3.92 2023 The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology, #1)
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Les Éveillés (Absolu, #3) 217246039

Traqués comme des traîtres par leur propre nation, les anciens mobilisés se battent désespérément pour leur survie hors des griffes d'Erit. Confrontés à des horreurs qui dépassent l'imaginable et enchevêtrés dans des alliances précaires, ils cherchent à discerner la vérité du mensonge. Y aurait-il dans le passé de Prym des réponses qui pourraient ébranler les fondements mêmes de leur monde ?

Au coeur de cette révolte chaotique, une menace encore plus grande se profile à l'horizon. Le temps est compté, car Adam et ses Zduhaci travaillent dans l'ombre pour renverser le pouvoir en place et instaurer un nouvel ordre mondial.

Entre propagande de guerre et lutte pour l'avenir, le peuple d'Erit acceptera-t-il d'ouvrir les yeux ?]]>
704 Margot Dessenne 236231622X Laura � 0 to-read 4.52 Les Éveillés (Absolu, #3)
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Les Effacés (Absolu, #2) 179953380
La mission est rĂ©ussie et les mobilisĂ©s se rĂ©veillent Ă  Erit avec l'espoir de reprendre une vie normale. Si Prym, cĂ©lĂ©brĂ© en hĂ©ros, voit ses rĂŞves patriotiques se rĂ©aliser, d'autres n'ont pas cette chance. Prison dorĂ©e pour Aleksander et Lise, avenir incertain pour Edward, enrĂ´lement de force pour Olimpia et Ă©trange rencontre pour ZuzannaĚý: plus personne n'est en sĂ©curitĂ©.

Lorsqu'une guerre civile Ă©clate et divise le pays, les survivants de la Zone se retrouvent devant un choix Ă©pineuxĚý: se faire une place dans la sociĂ©tĂ© d'Erit et survivre aux intrigues politiques, Ă  la surveillance totale et Ă  la propagande mĂ©diatique, ou tenter de regagner leur libertĂ©, quel qu'en soit le prix.

Ă€ moins que le passĂ© ne balaie leurs dernières certitudes... Et si le vĂ©ritable conflit se prĂ©parait dans l'ombreĚý?Ěý

«ĚýMargot Dessenne dĂ©ploie dans cette saga post-apocalyptique un monde fracassĂ©, oĂą des communautĂ©s rivales s'affrontent pour leur survie.Ěý» La Voix du Nord

« Absolu signe le come-back de la dystopieĚý! » AnaĂŻs, libraire chez Cultura]]>
608 Margot Dessenne 2362314731 Laura � 0 to-read 4.42 Les Effacés (Absolu, #2)
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Les Mobilisés (Absolu, #1) 65654716
Amis depuis l'enfance, Prym et Joanna ont un avenir prometteur au sein de la nation d'Erit, construite sur les ruines d'une Pologne ravagée. Leur vie bascule le jour où ils sont choisis pour être envoyés dans la Zone où rôde la Chose. Les mobilisés n'ont qu'une mission : vaincre la plus dangereuse créature jamais créée par l'Homme, ou mourir en essayant.

Dix-neuf générations ont franchi les portes de la Zone. Personne n'en est jamais ressorti.

Pour Prym et Joanna, c'est un grand honneur - un sentiment que ne partage pas Edward, persuadé que ses talents de linguiste ne lui seront pas utiles de l'autre côté du Mur. Leur arrivée tumultueuse dans la Zone lui donne raison : entre guerre de territoires et phénomènes de plus en plus étranges, la Zone est un lieu de non-droits. À l'intérieur de ces murs, le monstre n'est peut-être pas celui qu'on croit...]]>
540 Margot Dessenne Laura � 0 to-read 4.41 Les Mobilisés (Absolu, #1)
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<![CDATA[Une femme de trente ans (French Edition)]]> 32823366 338 Honoré de Balzac 1539797430 Laura � 0 to-read 2.00 1834 Une femme de trente ans (French Edition)
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<![CDATA[Lever de soleil sur la moisson (Hunger Games #0.5)]]> 223761781 �; Haymitch Abernathy




À l'aube des cinquantièmes Hunger Games, la peur s'empare des districts de Panem. Cette année, en l'honneur des Jeux de l'Expiation, le nombre de tributs arrachés à leur famille pour participer à ces jeux cruels sera doublé !


Dans le district 12, Haymitch Abernathy tente de ne pas trop penser au terrible tirage au sort. Il est concentré sur sa survie et sur la survie de celle qu'il aime.
Alors, quand le destin le désigne comme tribut, son monde s'écroule.


Forcé de tout quitter, il est emmené au Capitole avec trois autres membres de son district : une amie qu'il considère comme une sœur, un parieur compulsif et la fille la plus prétentieuse de la ville.


Alors que les Jeux sont sur le point de commencer, Haymitch comprend que les épreuves sont truquées et qu'il n'a aucune chance. Pourtant, quelque chose en lui le pousse à se battre... pour que ce combat dépasse les frontières de l'arène mortelle.]]>
467 Suzanne Collins 2266350757 Laura � 0 to-read 4.65 2025 Lever de soleil sur la moisson (Hunger Games #0.5)
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<![CDATA[A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)]]> 62816044 Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.]]>
386 Stephanie Garber 1250851203 Laura � 2 4.14 2023 A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)
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<![CDATA[I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki]]> 222532937
But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book.]]>
Baek Se-hee 152666366X Laura � 0 to-read 3.56 2019 I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
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Everything I Know About Love 46041465
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else� realizing that you are enough.

Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones� Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.]]>
368 Dolly Alderton 0062968785 Laura � 0 3.98 2018 Everything I Know About Love
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All About Love: New Visions 17607 All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.

Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.

For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.]]>
240 bell hooks 0688168442 Laura � 5 4.06 1999 All About Love: New Visions
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<![CDATA[The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love]]> 17601
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.]]>
208 bell hooks 0743456084 Laura � 0 to-read 4.38 2003 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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Things I Don't Want to Know 17329120 109 Deborah Levy 1907903631 Laura � 3 4.13 2014 Things I Don't Want to Know
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Beach Read 52867387 A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.]]>
400 Emily Henry 1984806734 Laura � 3 3.99 2020 Beach Read
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Le couple et l'argent 62628166
Pour mieux comprendre le rapport des femmes à l’argent, les mécanismes toujours à l’œuvre dans leur appauvrissement et proposer des clés pour les déjouer, Titiou Lecoq remonte l’Histoire qui les a si longtemps exclues des mondes de l’argent et s’appuie sur de nombreuses études économiques contemporaines et des analyses d’experts.

Avec son art de la pédagogie, mêlant l’anecdote personnelle et l’enquête méticuleuse, Titiou Lecoq nous rappelle ainsi que l’argent n’est pas encore neutre mais qu’il doit le devenir pour qu’un euro gagné par une femme devienne l’équivalent d’un euro gagné par un homme. Une éducation financière indispensable pour tous !]]>
283 Titiou Lecoq 2378803079 Laura � 0 to-read 4.43 2022 Le couple et l'argent
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Practicalities 20420 143 Marguerite Duras 0802133118 Laura � 0 to-read 4.01 1987 Practicalities
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<![CDATA[Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)]]> 54546064 'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.'

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'

'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer on The Cost of Living

Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it.

'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.'

'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise... A brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph on The Cost of Living

'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times on The Cost of Living]]>
297 Deborah Levy 024126801X Laura � 0 to-read 4.31 2021 Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
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<![CDATA[The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography]]> 36820477 A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.

The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this “living autobiography� infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us, and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals. What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?

Levy draws on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value, and meaning--the making of a new kind of family home, the challenges of her mother's death--and those of women she meets in everyday life, from a young female traveler reading in a bar who suppresses her own words while she deflects an older man's advances, to a particularly brilliant student, to a kindly and ruthless octogenarian bookseller who offers the author a place to write at a difficult time in her life. The Cost of Living is urgent, essential reading, a crystalline manifesto for turbulent times.]]>
144 Deborah Levy 163557191X Laura � 0 to-read 4.18 2018 The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
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<![CDATA[Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]]> 9248688
Essay first published for Westminster Review in 1856.]]>
111 George Eliot 0141192755 Laura � 0 to-read 3.58 1856 Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
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Hera 195790663
Traditionally portrayed as a jealous wife, a wicked stepmother, and a victim-blaming instrument of the patriarchy, Hera is ripe for a retelling that shows her as a powerful queen―ruthless when she needs to be, but also compassionate, strategic, and ambitious. With Hera, beloved and bestselling author Jennifer Saint delivers another epic and enthralling reimagining of a Greek heroine we only thought we knew.]]>
389 Jennifer Saint 1250855608 Laura � 0 to-read 3.49 2024 Hera
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter Illustrated Edtn) & Unofficial Harry Potter - The Ultimate Amazing Complete Quiz Book 2 Books Collection Set]]> 58024456
Prepare to be spellbound by this dazzling depiction of the wizarding world and its much-loved characters in this exclusive Kindle in Motion edition of one of the world's favourite books - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Brimming with rich detail and humour that perfectly complements J.K. Rowling's timeless classic, Jim Kay's glorious illustrations will captivate fans and new readers alike.

In this Kindle in Motion edition, Jim Kay’s illustrations are available for the first time in a beautifully designed digital reading experience, with the artist’s interpretations of much-loved locations, characters and magical creatures newly animated to come alive on your device. See the smoke from the Hogwarts Express billow around Platform 9 ¾, experience the hustle and bustle of Diagon Alley, and witness the enchanting spectacle of the Sorting Ceremony. All this and other surprises and delights await in this specially-created digital book.

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers, which could be valuable, dangerous - or both. An incredible adventure is about to begin!]]>
0 J.K. Rowling 9123938501 Laura � 0 4.53 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter Illustrated Edtn) & Unofficial Harry Potter - The Ultimate Amazing Complete Quiz Book 2 Books Collection Set
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Funny Story 194802722 A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex... right?]]>
400 Emily Henry Laura � 0 to-read 4.21 2024 Funny Story
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<![CDATA[The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)]]> 37969723
When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. Keenly observant and coolly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position, able to observe the two men driving the Greek army in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate not only of Briseis's people but also of the ancient world at large.

Briseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war—the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead—all of them erased by history. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives—and it is nothing short of magnificent.]]>
325 Pat Barker Laura � 3 3.88 2018 The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
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Nous 216017144
L’Instinct est irrépressible et sert le NOUS.

Mais si le jeune Goliath, un Protecteur fracassé, sauve des vies, c’est aussi parce qu’il rêve de devenir Saint. Claire, elle, cache derrière son Instinct de Confidente un secret qui pourrait faire vaciller tout le système. Dans un monde où la Bureaucratie Instinctive est impénétrable, et où les détracteurs du NOUS œuvrent dans l’ombre, une chose les relie : leurs certitudes vont bientôt voler en éclats.

Une dystopie fascinante par l’autrice de LA PASSE-MIROIR.]]>
576 Christelle Dabos 2075211809 Laura � 0 to-read 4.19 Nous
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Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Laura � 0 to-read, classiques 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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Les sorcières de Pendle 54799403
A 17 ans, Fleetwood Shuttleworth est mariée et enceinte pour la quatrième fois. Mais après trois fausses couches, la maîtresse du domaine de Gawthorpe Hall n'a toujours pas donné d'héritier à son mari. Lorsqu'elle croise le chemin d'Alice Gray, une jeune sage-femme qui connaît parfaitement les plantes médicinales, Fleetwood voit en elle un dernier espoir.

Mais quand s'ouvre un immense procès pour sorcellerie à Pendle, tous les regards se tournent vers Alice, accusée comme tant d'autres femmes érudites, solitaires ou gênantes. Alors que le ventre de Fleetwood continue de s'arrondir, la jeune fille n'a plus qu'une obsession : innocenter Alice. Le temps presse et trois vies sont en jeu.]]>
400 Stacey Halls 2749944031 Laura � 0 to-read 3.85 2019 Les sorcières de Pendle
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¸éĂ©˛őľ±˛őłŮ±đ°ů 220260310 131 SalomĂ© SaquĂ© 2228937614 Laura âś� 0 to-read 4.54 ¸éĂ©˛őľ±˛őłŮ±đ°ů
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<![CDATA[Bonjour anxiété: Parler de santé mentale]]> 125089466 160 2317032668 Laura � 0 to-read 4.20 Bonjour anxiété: Parler de santé mentale
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<![CDATA[The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)]]> 196241667 From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller and viral TikTok phenomenon, The Pumpkin Spice Café, comes a brand new spicy romance set in Dream Harbor!

When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Bookstore, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues� she just need someone to help her out.

Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adventure. And a scavenger hunt sounds like a lot of fun. Even better that the cute bookseller he's been crushing on for months is the one who wants his help!

Hazel didn’t go looking for romance, but as the treasure hunt leads her and Noah around Dream Harbor, their undeniable chemistry might be just as hot as the fresh-out-of-the-oven cinnamon buns the bookstore sells�

The Cinnamon Bun Book Store is a cozy romantic mystery with a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:
� opposites attract
� small town
� forced proximity
� he falls first]]>
384 Laurie Gilmore Laura � 0 to-read 3.67 2024 The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)]]> 139391940 A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.

When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.

Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. But Jeanie's arrival disrupts Logan's routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.

Will Jeanie's happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won't fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes�

The Pumpkin Spice Café is a cozy romantic mystery for fans of Gilmore Girls, with a grumpy x sunshine dynamic, a small-town setting and a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:

� grumpy x sunshine
� small town
� found family
� spicy]]>
373 Laurie Gilmore 0008610665 Laura � 0 to-read 3.36 2023 The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1)
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The Crescent Moon Tearoom 207293850 A cozy and uplifting debut novel about three clairvoyant sisters who face an unexpected twist of Fate at the bottom of their own delicate porcelain cups.

Ever since the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that rest in the swirls of ginger, cloves, and cardamom at the bottom of their customers� cups. Their days at the teashop are filled with talk of butterflies and good fortune intertwined with the sound of cinnamon shortbread being snapped by laced fingers.

That is, until the Council of Witches comes calling with news that the city Diviner has lost her powers, and the sisters suddenly find themselves being pulled in different directions. As Anne’s magic begins to develop beyond that of her sisters�, Beatrix’s writing attracts the attention of a publisher, and Violet is enchanted by the song of the circus—and perhaps a mischievous trapeze artist threatening to sweep her off her feet. It seems a family curse that threatens to separate the sisters is taking effect.

With dwindling time to rewrite their future and help three other witches challenge their own destinies, the Quigleys set out to bargain with Fate. But in focusing so closely on saving each other, will they lose sight of themselves?]]>
336 Stacy Sivinski 1668058391 Laura � 0 to-read 3.63 2024 The Crescent Moon Tearoom
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The King's Witches 199660628 The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgettable voice to the women at the heart of the real-life witch trials in sixteenth-century Scotland.

Women whisper secrets to each other; it is how we survive.

1589. Princess Anne of Denmark is betrothed to King James VI of Scotland � a royal union designed to forever unite the two countries. But first, she must pass the trial period: one year of marriage in which she must prove herself worthy of being Scotland's new Queen. If the King and the Scottish royal court in Edinburgh find her wanting, she faces permanent exile to a convent. Determined to fulfil her duties to King and country, Anne resolves to be the perfect royal bride. Until she meets Lord Henry.

By her side is Kirsten Sorenson, her loyal and pious lady's maid. But whilst tending to Anne's every need, she has her own secret motives for the royal marriage to be a success . . .

Meanwhile, in North Berwick, a young housemaid by the name of Jura is dreaming of a new life. She practises the healing charms taught to her by her mother, and when she realises she is no longer safe under her master’s roof, she escapes to Edinburgh. But it isn't long before she finds herself caught up in the witchcraft mania that has gripped not just the capital but the new queen . . .

Will Anne, Kirsten and Jura be able to save each other and, in doing so, save themselves?]]>
304 Kate Foster 1529091802 Laura � 0 to-read 4.13 2024 The King's Witches
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<![CDATA[The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)]]> 61250159 An imprisoned prince. A vengeful queen. And a battle that will determine the future of Elfhame.
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Prince Oak is paying for his betrayal. Imprisoned in the icy north and bound to the will of a monstrous new queen, he must rely on charm and calculation to survive. With High King Cardan and High Queen Jude willing to use any means necessary to retrieve their stolen heir, Oak will have to decide whether to attempt regaining the trust of the girl he’s always loved or to remain loyal to Elfhame and hand over the means to end her reign—even if it means ending Wren, too.
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With a new war looming on the horizon and treachery lurking in every corner, neither Oak’s guile nor his wit will be enough to keep everyone he loves alive. It’s just a question of whom he will doom.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the stunning blood-soaked conclusion to the Stolen Heir duology.
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359 Holly Black 0316592730 Laura � 0 to-read 3.89 2024 The Prisoner’s Throne (The Stolen Heir Duology, #2)
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<![CDATA[The Bell Witches (Savannah Red, #1)]]> 199518924
After Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious.

But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret.

When Emily meets the alluring Wyn, she forms a connection that feels like it was always meant to be. As the spark between them grows more powerful, her life takes an exhilarating and terrifying turn; but every step closer to him, takes her a step further away from her family.

Emily will find out that blood is always thicker than water...

THERE’S NO BOND GREATER THAN MAGIC]]>
411 Lindsey Kelk Laura � 0 to-read 3.63 The Bell Witches (Savannah Red, #1)
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An Education in Malice 64414866 An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from Sunday Times bestselling author S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood.

Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold.

On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla.

But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and dark magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.]]>
352 S.T. Gibson 0356519325 Laura � 0 to-read 3.51 2024 An Education in Malice
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<![CDATA[The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society]]> 204316914 A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery.

Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies—and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths is unnatural. But when someone close to Sherry ends up dead, and her cat, Lord Thomas Crowell, becomes possessed by what seems to be an ancient demon, Sherry begins to think she’s going to need to become an exorcist as well as an amateur sleuth. With the help of her town's new priest, and an assortment of friends who dub themselves the "Demon-Hunting Society," Sherry will have to solve the murder and get rid of a demon. This riotous mix of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Murder, She Wrote is a lesson for demons and murderers.

Never mess with a librarian.]]>
339 C.M. Waggoner 1984805886 Laura � 0 to-read 3.39 2024 The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
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The Elgin Conspiracy 213985913 A Duke of One's Own on The Persephone Code1812

Lord Elgin’s Greek marbles are the talk of London society, but behind the scenes a dark and dangerous threat is closing in, intent on taking back that which was plundered. Fresh from their success in exposing the murderous Hell Fire Club, actress Dora Fitz-Pennington and ex-army doctor Jacob Sandys, are employed by the earl to go undercover and root out the culprit.

Now, as their investigation brings them face to face with reckless bombers, silent assassins and yet another secretive society with an agenda for chaos, Dora and Jacob must rely on an unusual band of brothers to root out the traitors in their midst and protect the priceless artifacts. Because it is not just stone that hangs in the balance, but also flesh, blood, and the very heart of what it means to be British!

Praise for Julia Goldingâ€I won't lie, I picked this book up because of the cover â€� absolutely stunning…it was a perfect readâ€� â­â­â­â­â­�

â€This book was so good, I couldn't put it downâ€� â­â­â­â­â­�

â€�Simply delicious! This book is absolutely glorious…in the midst of a lot of Regency retellings, it stands out â€� There is a wry wit throughout which balances beautifully with the dark themesâ€� â­â­â­â­â­�

â€This book is absolutely fantastic!!! I was so caught up in reading it that I missed lunch, and it was past time to start dinner. Only the rumbling of my stomach made me put it down for a quick meal, after which I resumed my readingâ€� â­â­â­â­â­�

â€�Starts with a bang, never really pauses for breath, and has two main protagonists who are instantly likeable and easy to cheer for!â€� â­â­â­â­

â€�A roller-coaster ride with plenty of twistsâ€� â­â­â­â­

â€�What a compelling read! I found it a captivating, dynamic and enthralling book that kept me glued to the pages from beginning to endâ€� â­â­â­â­

â€�The writing of this book was exquisite â€� I was hanging on to every last wordâ€� â­â­â­â­±Ő±Ő>
369 Julia Golding 0008636885 Laura � 0 to-read 4.09 The Elgin Conspiracy
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<![CDATA[Mary: or, the Birth of Frankenstein]]> 175362753 Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein

There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.

1816. Mary, eighteen years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley. She is tormented by his infidelities; haunted by the loss of her baby daughter.

Then one evening with friends, as storms rage outside and laudanum stirs their imaginations, Lord Byron challenges everyone to write a ghost story, and something fierce and wild awakens in Mary.

Memories surface of the long, strange summer she once spent with a family in Scotland, where she found herself falling in love with the enigmatic Isabella Baxter. She learned tales of mythical beasts, witches and spirits. And she encountered real monsters � both in the rocky wilds, and far, far closer to home�

Illuminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of Frankenstein takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin.]]>
352 Anne Eekhout 1782278974 Laura � 0 to-read 3.39 2021 Mary: or, the Birth of Frankenstein
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The Lost Bookshop 65137920 The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.

â€The thing about books,â€� she said â€is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.â€�

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found�

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.

But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder� where nothing is as it seems.]]>
432 Evie Woods 0008609209 Laura � 0 to-read 4.04 2023 The Lost Bookshop
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<![CDATA[The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)]]> 59427493
Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra -- daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)

Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra's arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon's triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.]]>
320 Pat Barker 0241568269 Laura � 0 to-read 3.98 2024 The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)
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<![CDATA[The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)]]> 55440232 A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy.

Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean.

It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.

Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.]]>
307 Pat Barker 0385546696 Laura � 0 to-read 3.81 2021 The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
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Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) 60652997 Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex� Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.

Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies� most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.

Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.]]>
481 Leigh Bardugo 1250313104 Laura � 0 to-read 4.09 2023 Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2)
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The Familiar 133286777 From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age

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

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

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.]]>
387 Leigh Bardugo 125088425X Laura � 0 to-read 3.74 2024 The Familiar
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<![CDATA[Huit: Le Coven, partie 1 : Bienvenue à Gwimeled (French Edition)]]> 219311841 Je n’ai, cependant, jamais rêvé d’être chassée et de mourir.
Il faut croire que le bonheur ne vient jamais seul.

Plongez dans mon univers où toutes les légendes sont vraies, que les sorcières et les vampires ne sont qu’une banalité comme une autre.
Malgré mes dix-sept ans passés à vivre une vie tranquille d’adolescente parfaite, tout a basculé avec la disparition de mon père et le déménagement chez mon oncle en Bretagne.
Ce que j'imaginais être un simple changement de décor a pris une tournure inattendue lorsque ma première amie s'est révélée être une sorcière. Pas n’importe quelle sorcière. Une gardienne.
Et elle affirme que j'en suis une également.

Bien que séduite par l'idée, je suis presque certaine de ne pas aimer les conséquences qui accompagnent mes pouvoirs naissants.
Il faut croire que les pouvoirs ne viennent jamais sans leur lot de problèmes, certains plus problématiques que d’autres. Comme la mort. Le meurtre.]]>
284 Nolwenn Baron Laura � 0 currently-reading 5.00 Huit: Le Coven, partie 1 : Bienvenue à Gwimeled (French Edition)
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Intermezzo 209310298 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties � successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women � his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude � a period of desire, despair and possibility � a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]>
432 Sally Rooney 0735281823 Laura � 0 to-read 4.04 2024 Intermezzo
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The Comfort Book 55825273 The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

“It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.�

The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.]]>
272 Matt Haig 0143136666 Laura � 4 non-fiction 4.07 2021 The Comfort Book
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People We Meet on Vacation 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]>
400 Emily Henry 1984806750 Laura � 5 3.85 2021 People We Meet on Vacation
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¸éĂ©˛őľ±˛őłŮ±đ°ů Ă  la culpabilisation 212034900
Préjugés, micro-agressions, harcèlement, humiliations, insultes : nous sommes en général bien averti.e.s de ces fléaux de la vie en société et nous nous efforçons de lutter contre eux. Mais il y a un cas de figure que nous négligeons : celui dans lequel l'agresseur, c'est... nous-mêmes.

Nous sommes en effet nombreuses et nombreux à entendre régulièrement résonner dans notre tête une voix sarcastique et malveillante qui nous attaque, qui nous sermonne, qui nous rabaisse; qui nous dit que, quoi que nous fassions, nous avons tort; que nous ne valons rien, que nous ne méritons rien de bon, que nous présentons un défaut fondamental, que notre existence même est illégitime. Cette voix parle particulièrement fort quand nous appartenons à une catégorie dominée : enfants, femmes, minorités sexuelles ou raciales...

Ce livre se propose donc de braquer le projecteur, pour une fois, sur l'ennemi intérieur. Quels sont ces pouvoirs qui parviennent ainsi à s'insinuer jusque dans l'intimité de nos consciences ? Comment se sont-ils forgés ?

Comment les identifier, comment les tenir en respect? Nous étudierons quatre de leurs manifestations : la diabolisation des enfants, qui persiste bien plus qu'on ne le croit ; la culpabilisation des femmes, et en particulier des mères; le culte du travail, qui indexe strictement notre valeur sur notre productivité ; et enfin, la résurgence de logiques punitives jusque dans nos désirs de changer le monde, preuve de leur capacité à entraver jusqu'à nos plus beaux élans.]]>
272 Mona Chollet 2355222142 Laura âś� 0 to-read 3.85 ¸éĂ©˛őľ±˛őłŮ±đ°ů Ă  la culpabilisation
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La révolution féministe 52287428
Le féminisme est révolutionnaire ou il n’est pas : voilà la thèse soutenue par Aurore Koechlin, qui se propose d’abord de guider ses lectrices et lecteurs à travers l’histoire trop méconnue des différentes vagues féministes. Du MLF à l’intersectionnalité, de l’émergence d’un « féminisme d’État » au féminisme de la reproduction sociale, ce petit livre tire le bilan politique et intellectuel d’une quarantaine d’années de combats, repère leurs impasses, souligne leurs forces, pour contribuer aux luttes actuelles et à venir.

Aurore Koechlin est militante féministe et doctorante en sociologie à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Elle travaille sur la gynécologie médicale en France.]]>
176 Aurore Koechlin 2354801947 Laura � 0 to-read 4.17 2019 La révolution féministe
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<![CDATA[En finir avec la culture du viol]]> 38354725
En France, chaque année, entre 60 000 et 100 000 femmes sont victimes de viol ou de tentative de viol. Environ 16 % des Françaises ont subi une telle agression au cours de leur vie. Et les viols ne représentent que la partie émergée d’un iceberg : celui des violences sexuelles, à la maison, au travail ou dans la rue. Or ces violences ont des conséquences graves : elles minent la confiance et limitent la liberté par la peur qu’elles instaurent. Elles constituent une atteinte aux droits et à la dignité des personnes et consolident la domination masculine.

Mais cette situation n’est pas une fatalité. C’est pourquoi il est important d’identifier les éléments culturels qui servent de justification et de terreau à ces actes, afin de proposer des pistes qui permettront d'y mettre fin.]]>
179 Noémie Renard Laura � 0 to-read 4.33 En finir avec la culture du viol
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<![CDATA[Les Hommes hétéros le sont-ils vraiment ?]]> 123162762 De Maupassant en passant par Jésus, Dracula, Beigbeder ou Victor Hugo, ce livre passionnant et ébouriffant décortique les ficelles sociales guidant nos désirs, que l’on soit un homme ou non, sans se limiter au seul champ de la sexualité. En s’appuyant sur cinquante ans de recherche française et anglo-saxonne, il analyse les rapports que les hommes entretiennent aux hommes, et tente d’élucider ce qui se cache derrière l’homophobie masculine. Et si explorer ce tabou était un point de départ essentiel pour repenser notre société ?]]> 306 Léane Alestra 2709671115 Laura � 0 to-read 4.32 Les Hommes hétéros le sont-ils vraiment ?
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En bons pères de famille 137218903 Ěý
Avec ce nouveau livre, à la force narrative impressionnante, Rose Lamy achève de s’imposer comme l’une des voix incontournables du féminisme contemporain.]]>
194 Rose Lamy 2709672456 Laura � 0 to-read 4.53 En bons pères de famille
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Dear Dolly 61343296 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. It was as if I had crept down to the docks under cover of darkness and floated a message out in a bottle, imagining how it might be received. By writing it, I was acknowledging that someone might care about me; that they'd be able to say the right thing without knowing me. Because I was feeling something that other people had felt and therefore I wasn't, as I suspected, the loneliest and strangest woman in the world.'

Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the pleasures and pitfalls of social media, sex, loneliness, longing, love and everything in between.

Without judgement, and with deep empathy informed by her own, much-chronicled adventures in love, friendship and dating, Dolly leads us by the hand through the various labyrinths of life, proving that a problem shared is truly a problem halved.]]>
224 Dolly Alderton 0241623642 Laura � 4 3.80 2022 Dear Dolly
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Atalanta 61884838
Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero

When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing.

Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. The Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she fights alongside. As she is swept into a passionate affair, in defiance of Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. Can Atalanta carve out her own legendary place in a world of men, while staying true to her heart?

Full of joy, passion, and adventure, Atalanta is the story of a woman who refuses to be contained. Jennifer Saint places Atalanta in the pantheon of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology, where she belongs.]]>
291 Jennifer Saint 1250855578 Laura � 4 3.74 2023 Atalanta
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<![CDATA[A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)]]> 31076583 229 Sarah J. Maas 168119631X Laura � 3 3.77 2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
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<![CDATA[Miroir, Miroir dis-moi ce que je vaux vraiment]]> 60475896 On n’est pas libre de rentrer seules chez nous le soir.
On n’est pas libre de s’habiller comme on veut.
On n’est pas libre de manger ce que l’on veut.
On n’est pas libre de gagner ce que l’on veut.
On n’est pas libre de coucher comme on veut.
Au fond, on n’est pas libre d’être qui l’on veut.
Alors, si cette liberté ne nous est pas accordée, il est temps de l’obtenir nous-mêmes.
Ce livre est lĂ  pour vous aider Ă  y parvenir."
xx Louise

Déconstruire pour mieux construire : voilà la promesse du livre que vous tenez entre vos mains.
Par une analyse fine et éclairante, Louise Aubery nous partage comment déconstruire les croyances qui nous desservent et qui nous empêchent de nous accomplir pleinement.
Un ouvrage édifiant qui vous donnera les clés pour enfin prendre le pouvoir de votre vie.

A tout juste 24 ans, Louise Aubery est une des créatrices de contenu et entrepreneuse les plus influentes de sa génération. Fondatrice de la plateforme MyBetterSelf, suivie par plus de 700 000 personnes à travers ses différentes plateformes, de la marque éthique et inclusive Je ne sais quoi, de la communauté GirlzInBiz et du podcast InPower, Louise a une mission : vous aider à prendre le pouvoir de votre vie.]]>
304 Louise Aubery 1028524013 Laura � 0 to-read 4.01 Miroir, Miroir dis-moi ce que je vaux vraiment
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<![CDATA[Jusqu'ici tout va mal: Pourquoi la quête du bonheur ne nous rend pas heureux]]> 209332478 C’est ce que je me suis dit, après avoir touché le fond et essayé littéralement toutes les méthodes prônées par le développement personnel pour m’en sortir.
Car force est de constater que le bonheur est loin de dépendre de notre volonté. Cette prise de conscience, de prime abord fataliste, est au contraire libératrice : en se détachant de l’injonction au bonheur, on peut enfin se concentrer sur ce qui relève réellement de notre pouvoir. »
Mais comment se libérer de nos croyances limitantes ? Quels sont les pièges tendus par la quête du bonheur ?
Dans cet essai stimulant, Louise Aubery nous livre une philosophie de la résilience afin d’aider chacun d’entre nous à rebondir face aux épreuves de la vie.
Un livre transformateur qui a pour but de développer l’outil le plus précieux pour avancer : l’esprit critique.
Car le meilleur moyen de trouver des réponses, c’est souvent de se poser des questions.]]>
224 Louise Aubery Laura � 0 to-read 3.85 Jusqu'ici tout va mal: Pourquoi la quête du bonheur ne nous rend pas heureux
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<![CDATA[Sois jeune et tais-toi : Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse]]> 75491890 301 Salomé Saqué Laura � 0 to-read 4.50 Sois jeune et tais-toi : Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse
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<![CDATA[When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)]]> 110396 Everything was so much simpler... when he was wicked.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.

After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer—the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.

But that was then... Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michael dares not speak to her of his love... until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets...]]>
368 Julia Quinn 0060531231 Laura � 4 3.96 2004 When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
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<![CDATA[Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear]]> 24453082 Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.]]> 276 Elizabeth Gilbert 1594634718 Laura � 5 non-fiction 3.95 2015 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Eat, Pray, Love 19501
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.

To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly.

An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.]]>
368 Elizabeth Gilbert 0143038419 Laura � 0 to-read 3.64 2006 Eat, Pray, Love
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Anatomie de la mélancolie 12094809 Sans équivalent à son époque (on peut toutefois le rapprocher des Essais de Montaigne) ni après elle, l'Anatomie est la somme de toutes les questions que se pose l'individu face au monde, la somme aussi de toute la culture classique. Si l'Anatomie est la Bible de l'honnête homme, elle demeure pour nous un livre total. Il aura fallu attendre plus de trois siècles pour que le lecteur français découvre le père de la psychologie moderne, l'ancêtre de la psychanalyse et s'aperçoive que les inquiétudes religieuses et existentielles sont toujours les mêmes.

La langue française est la seule à n'avoir pas très rapidement accueilli Robert Burton (1576-1640), malgré les avertisssements répétés d'autres grands monstres de la littérature (de Sterne à Mac Cormack � en passant par Melville �, de Baudelaire à Borgès, etc.).
Sous le nom de Démocrite junior, Robert Burton analyse la Mélancolie : ses causes, ses symptomes, ses effets, les caractéristiques les plus inattendues de ses manifestations, ses remèdes. Divisée en trois grandes parties, Anatomie de la mélancolie est précédée d'un succulent prologue de quelque 300 pages qui explique le pourquoi et le comment du sujet, le justifie en quelque sorte. Très lue dès sa sortie, pillée par la suite, oubliée au XVIIIe siècle, redécouverte par le mélancolique XIXe, si l'œuvre ne vient à bout d'un sujet ontologiquement inépuisable, elle révèle les aspects les plus divers de l'espèce humaine.]]>
463 Robert Burton 2070416453 Laura � 0 to-read 4.00 1621 Anatomie de la mélancolie
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<![CDATA[Nous ne dirons rien de leurs femelles]]> 29346108 La révolution n’est pas qu’une affaire d’hommes...

Marie n’est pas une intellectuelle, ni une aristocrate, encore moins une militante. La Commune, elle aurait pu ne pas la vivre, et continuer à accumuler de la rancœur et de l’amertume dans sa vie de servante, d’ouvrière à la journée. Seulement, la Commune est là et, avec elle, une occasion en or de régler les comptes, de laisser sortir enfin cette froide colère qui lui tord le ventre, de redresser la tête, de faire payer ceux qui ont fait de sa meilleure amie Eugénie : un fantôme dont le rire dément résonne dans une crypte de damnées. La Commune promet que les lâches et les oppresseurs d’hier vont payer. Ça tombe bien, Marie en connaît quelques-uns. Et elle est prête à se salir les mains...]]>
56 Wilfrid Lupano 2749307988 Laura � 0 to-read 4.07 2016 Nous ne dirons rien de leurs femelles
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L'aristocrate fantôme 28103334 56 Wilfrid Lupano 2749307538 Laura � 0 to-read 3.68 2015 L'aristocrate fantôme
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<![CDATA[Communardes ! - Les ElĂ©phants rouges (French Edition)]]> 73400697 «ĚýOn m’appellera la dame aux Ă©lĂ©phantsĚý!Ěý»

Hiver 1870. Prélude de la Commune. Alors que Paris, assiégée par l’armée prussienne, subit le froid et la famine, Victorine, onze ans, passe le plus clair de son temps à s’occuper de Castor et Pollux, les deux éléphants du Jardin des plantes. Cette passion pour les pachydermes a le don d’énerver sa mère, engagée dans le mouvement des femmes qui veulent s’impliquer dans la défense de la ville. Mais Victorine est bourrée d’imagination, et elle veut être à la hauteur des ambitions de sa mère. Nourrie par les exploits des célèbres éléphants d’Hannibal, elle élabore un plan pour libérer Paris. Un plan génial, démesuré, contre lequel Bismarck ne peut rien. Un plan de petite fille livrée à elle-même dans un monde d’adultes...]]>
58 Wilfrid Lupano 2331018405 Laura � 4 3.85 2015 Communardes ! - Les Eléphants rouges (French Edition)
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L'Iris blanc (Astérix, #40) 125483737 48 Fabcaro 2014001332 Laura � 3 3.76 2023 L'Iris blanc (Astérix, #40)
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A Room of One’s Own 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Laura � 5 classiques 4.21 1929 A Room of One’s Own
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Liv Strömquists Astrologie 123254069
Liv Strömquist ist zurück mit einem humorvollen, satirischen Comic, der den Tierkreis als Rahmen benutzt, um die Menschheit zu unterhalten. In diesem Buch lesen Sie über eine Reihe von Menschen, deren Handlungen und Leben sich durch ihr Sternzeichen erklären lassen: der Pharmafabrikant Arthur Sackler, der Rapper Flavor Flavv, Königin Christina von Schweden und der britische Designer, der die Menschheit verließ, um als Ziege in den Alpen zu leben, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen.

Wie keine andere schildert und reflektiert Liv Strömquist die Welt, in der wir leben, und zeigt gleichzeitig die wunden Punkte unserer Zeit � und unsere eigenen � auf. Ein Astrologiebuch auch für diejenigen, die Astrologie hassen.]]>
176 Liv Strömquist Laura � 3 3.65 2022 Liv Strömquists Astrologie
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<![CDATA[The Way of the Fearless Writer]]> 61884992 The Way of the Fearless Writer is a mindful approach to the writing life, based on Buddhist thought…]]> 272 Beth Kempton 1250892139 Laura � 0 to-read 4.33 The Way of the Fearless Writer
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<![CDATA[Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution]]> 75494215 THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today.

How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution?
� Why do women live longer than men?
� Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s?
� Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet?
� Is sexism useful for evolution?
� And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause?

These questions are producing some truly exciting science—and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: "We need a kind of user's manual for the female mammal. A no-nonsense, hard-hitting, seriously researched (but readable) account of what we are. How female bodies evolved, how they work, what it really means to biologically be a woman. Something that would rewrite the story of womanhood. This book is that story. We have to put the female body in the picture. If we don't, it's not just feminism that's compromised. Modern medicine, neurobiology, paleoanthropology, even evolutionary biology all take a hit when we ignore the fact that half of us have breasts. So it's time we talk about breasts. Breasts, and blood, and fat, and vaginas, and wombs—all of it. How they came to be and how we live with them now, no matter how weird or hilarious the truth is."

Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens has become such a successful and dominant species.]]>
624 Cat Bohannon 0385350546 Laura � 0 to-read 4.28 2023 Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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<![CDATA[How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division]]> 50485581
Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So, how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this age of division?

In this powerful, uplifting plea for conscious optimism, Booker Prize-nominated novelist and activist Elif Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to bring us together. In the process, she reveals how listening to each other can nurture democracy, empathy and our faith in a kinder and wiser future.]]>
96 Elif Shafak 1788165721 Laura � 0 to-read 4.00 2020 How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
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<![CDATA[Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: Expert Advice for Navigating Life's Challenges]]> 58536046 Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book.

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. The book tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance.

Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr Smith's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? might just change your life.]]>
368 Julie Smith 0063227932 Laura � 0 to-read 3.85 2022 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: Expert Advice for Navigating Life's Challenges
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The Essex Serpent 32075861
Moving between Essex and London, myth and modernity, Cora Seaborne's spirited search for the Essex Serpent encourages all around her to test their allegiance to faith or reason in an age of rapid scientific advancement. At the same time, the novel explores the boundaries of love and friendship and the allegiances that we have to one another. The depth of feeling that the inhabitants of Aldwinter share are matched by their city counterparts as they strive to find the courage to express and understand their deepest desires, and strongest fears.]]>
422 Sarah Perry 0062666371 Laura � 0 to-read 3.49 2016 The Essex Serpent
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<![CDATA[I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki]]> 49228706
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm � what's the word � depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.


—â¶Ä”â¶Ä”â¶Ä”â¶Ä”â¶Ä�


Aku: Bagaimana caranya agar bisa mengubah pikiran bahwa saya ini standar dan biasa saja?

Psikiater: Memangnya hal itu merupakan masalah yang harus diperbaiki?

Aku: Iya, karena saya ingin mencintai diri saya sendiri.

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I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokpokki adalah esai yang berisi tentang pertanyaan, penilaian, saran, nasihat, dan evaluasi diri yang bertujuan agar pembaca bisa menerima dan mencintai dirinya.

Buku self improvement ini mendapatkan sambutan baik karena pembaca meraskan hal yang sama dengan kisah Baek Se Hee sehingga buku ini mendapatkan predikat bestseller di Korea Selatan.]]>
232 Baek Se-hee 6237351035 Laura � 0 to-read 3.26 2018 I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
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<![CDATA[How to Live When You Could Be Dead]]> 53442272 240 Deborah James 1785043595 Laura � 0 to-read 4.21 How to Live When You Could Be Dead
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<![CDATA[Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes]]> 58838729 "C'est maintenant, à l'âge adulte, que je réalise la tromperie dont j'ai été victime sur les bancs de l'école. La relégation de mes ancêtres femmes me met en colère. Elles méritent mieux. Notre histoire commune est beaucoup plus vaste que celle que l'on nous a apprise."
Pourquoi ce grand oubli ? De l'âge des cavernes jusqu'à nos jours, Titiou Lecoq s'appuie sur les découvertes les plus récentes pour analyser les mécanismes de cette vision biaisée de l'Histoire. Elle redonne vie à des visages effacés, raconte ces invisibles, si nombreuses, qui ont modifié le monde. Pédagogue, mordante, irrésistible, avec elle tout s'éclaire. Les femmes ne se sont jamais tues. Ce livre leur redonne leurs voix.
" Femme libre et engagée, esprit avide et curieux, écrivaine confirmée, Titiou Lecoq livre un grand récit, passionnant et vrai. " Michelle Perrot]]>
326 Titiou Lecoq 2378802420 Laura � 5 4.66 2021 Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes
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<![CDATA[The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)]]> 8130423 In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.]]> 361 Rick Riordan Laura � 4 4.44 2008 The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
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<![CDATA[Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking]]> 8520610 The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.Ěý

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.]]>
333 Susan Cain 0307352145 Laura � 0 to-read 4.07 2012 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Love on the Brain 59571699 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.

Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.

But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?]]>
368 Ali Hazelwood 1408725789 Laura � 0 to-read 3.88 2022 Love on the Brain
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Love, Theoretically 61326735
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?]]>
389 Ali Hazelwood 1408725797 Laura � 0 to-read 4.07 2023 Love, Theoretically
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The Love Hypothesis 56732449
That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding... six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]>
356 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 Laura � 0 to-read 4.11 2021 The Love Hypothesis
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Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

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

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

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]>
377 Emily Henry 0593334833 Laura � 5 4.09 2022 Book Lovers
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Mes hommes (French Edition) 2751896 J'ai grandi parmi des garçons. J'ai été la seule fille de ma classe de la cinquième à la terminale. J'ai été la seule pionne dans l'internat au milieu des hommes... Je me suis faite avec eux et contre eux. Ils incarnent tout ce qu'il m'a fallu conquérir, pour accéder à la liberté. "]]> 304 Mokeddem-M 2246686415 Laura � 0 to-read 3.86 2005 Mes hommes (French Edition)
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<![CDATA[A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)]]> 40916679
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.]]>
433 Holly Jackson 1405293187 Laura � 0 to-read 4.30 2019 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
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<![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]>
213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Laura � 3 3.67 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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Happy Place 61718053
They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends� hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week� in front of those who know you best?

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.]]>
400 Emily Henry 0593441273 Laura � 5 favorites 3.95 2023 Happy Place
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Uprooted 22544764 “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.�

Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.

Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.

The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows�everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.

But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.]]>
438 Naomi Novik 0804179034 Laura � 0 to-read 4.02 2015 Uprooted
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Stone Blind: Medusa's Story 60445291 'There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?'

Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.

When desire pushes a God to commit the unforgivable, Medusa’s mortal life is changed forever. Her punishment is to be turned into a Gorgon: sharp teeth, snakes for hair, and a gaze that will turn any living creature to stone. Appalled by her own reflection, Medusa can no longer look upon anything she loves without destroying it. She condemns herself to a life of solitude in the shadows to limit her murderous range.

That is, until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

This is the story of how a young woman became a monster. And how she was never really a monster at all.]]>
371 Natalie Haynes 1529061474 Laura � 0 to-read 3.88 2022 Stone Blind: Medusa's Story
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<![CDATA[Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)]]> 60784546 After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again�

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

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

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

An epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.]]>
357 Rebecca Ross 1250857430 Laura � 0 to-read 4.14 2023 Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)
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<![CDATA[Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)]]> 35796008
At the same time, Kazi, a legendary former street thief, is sent by the queen to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the forbidding land of the Ballengers, she learns that there is more to Jase than she thought. As unexpected events spiral out of their control, bringing them intimately together, they continue to play a cat and mouse game of false moves and motives in order to fulfill their own secret missions.

Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives—and their hearts. ]]>
512 Mary E. Pearson 1250159016 Laura � 0 to-read 4.11 2018 Dance of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #1)
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<![CDATA[Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)]]> 42201395
Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.]]>
456 Margaret Rogerson 1481497618 Laura � 0 currently-reading 4.03 2019 Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)
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<![CDATA[Realm of Lore and Lies (Fair Ones, #1)]]> 62010062
In a land that harbours two realms, magical creatures and dangerous games are a way of life and death for the travelling Fianna clans. It is an honour to visit Tír na nÓg, even if the price is pretending Fair Ones don’t hunt humans for sport.
Ireland native Aisling never imagined she’d be alone, living a double life. But when your family shares the ability to see through Fae glamour, keeping secrets isn’t something you do for fun. You do it to stay alive.

A murder leaves Aisling motherless, thrusting her into the position of matriarch in a world she thought she’d never return to. Teaming up with an unlikely band of allies for a competition steeped in peril, she can’t resist the distraction warrior Setanta offers. Brooding, gorgeous and impossibly strong, he gives her a chance to be something she never could before—herself.

Bonded by troubled pasts and deadly circumstances, the team of misfits must face damaging truths as they try to stop their worlds from colliding.]]>
492 Claire Wright 1739732014 Laura � 0 to-read 4.12 2022 Realm of Lore and Lies (Fair Ones, #1)
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<![CDATA[Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3)]]> 52190991 Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.

In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.

For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages -- and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.

Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet.

This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest.

Carry On was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.]]>
579 Rainbow Rowell 1250254337 Laura � 0 to-read 4.11 2021 Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3)
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Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2) 44017627
Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after�

So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?

What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light�

That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.

They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place�

With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.

Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over � but your life has just begun.]]>
356 Rainbow Rowell 1250146070 Laura � 4 3.89 2019 Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
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<![CDATA[A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)]]> 20764879
Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games--an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries--a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.

And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.]]>
512 Victoria E. Schwab 0765376474 Laura � 5 4.20 2016 A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
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<![CDATA[A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)]]> 29939230 Witness the fate of beloved heroes - and enemies.

THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED...
The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.

WHO WILL CRUMBLE?
Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?

WHO WILL RISE?
Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.

WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?
And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.]]>
624 Victoria E. Schwab 0765387468 Laura � 4 4.30 2017 A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)
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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 Laura � 0 to-read 4.13 2023 Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)
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<![CDATA[Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)]]> 61246394 The Bachelor meets the Hunger Games. Ten women. A deadly contest. Only one can win the Sun King's heart.

Lor has endured twelve long years of torment under the Aurora King's rule. Her only desire is to get free and pay him back for every moment of misery.

When a surprise release finds her in the hands of the Sun King, Lor is thrust into the spotlight when she competes against nine other Tributes for the role of queen. If she wins his heart, she'll earn her freedom and finally get her revenge.

But Lor doesn't belong in the Sun Queen Trials. She doesn't understand why she was freed, and she isn't a citizen of the Sun King's court. The other Tributes resent her presence and will stop at nothing to ensure Lor is wiped off the gameboard, permanently.

Now Lor must win, because if she loses, she dies. Or worse, she'll be sent back into the hands of the Aurora King.

This glittering fae romance is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer Armentrout, and Raven Kennedy. Trial of the Sun Queen is the first book in a trilogy with an eventual happy ever after. ]]>
400 Nisha J. Tuli Laura � 0 to-read 3.76 2023 Trial of the Sun Queen (Artefacts of Ouranos, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)]]> 29588376 ASIN B000JMKNJ2 moved to the more recent edition

An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.]]>
752 Scott Lynch Laura � 0 to-read 4.32 2006 The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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Swordheart 42747739 426 T. Kingfisher 1614504636 Laura � 0 to-read 4.07 2018 Swordheart
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