Category: Fiction
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1886 Synopsis: The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde’s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil. What To Expect: Readers can…
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For the Record by Juliana Smith: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: After accidentally marrying her best friend on a last minute Vegas trip, Rachel decides that instead of getting an annulment, she and Adam could reap the benefits of marriage and play the system for his military benefits. This platonic, no-strings-attached marriage should, on paper, be…
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Humor Me by Cat Shook: Content Warnings
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: Presley Fry is not amused. She’s been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she’s adopted a “business casual” approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of seeking genuine connection, and she’s content to allow her gregarious roommate, Isabelle,…
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The Keeper of the Irish Secret by Susanne O’Leary: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Synopsis: Lily Fleury used to love visiting her eccentric grandmother Sylvia in Ireland, taking long sunset walks on the beach and exploring the nooks and crannies of the family’s old home Magnolia Manor. But when she arrives from Dublin broken-hearted, hoping to heal in Sylvia’s warm…
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Dec 1817 Synopsis: The story’s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger…
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Off The Beaten Path by Madison Wright: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Synopsis: Wren Daniels is in over her head. Between organizing a charity auction and trying to renovate a cabin she can’t afford, she’s barely keeping her head above water. The only bright spot is her new friend she met on an anonymous dating app four months…
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Fallen Mountains by Kimi Cunningham Grant: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2019 Synopsis: When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his sleepy hometown of Fallen Mountains, Pennsylvania, his secrets are not the only ones that threaten to emerge. Red, the sheriff, is haunted by the possibility that a crime Transom was involved in seventeen years earlier—a…
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A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope by K.M. Moronova: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Lanston. It’s been five years since I died and I’m still here. Still haunting this world. I’ve all but given up hope of passing on the other side when I’m dragged to a spring performance with Yelina and Jericho. It’s there that I see the…
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Illegal by Eoin Colfer: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2017 Synopsis: His sister left months ago. Now his brother has disappeared too, and Ebo knows it can only be to make the hazardous journey to Europe. Ebo’s epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the…
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Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2025 Synopsis: After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then he’s sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that…
