Tag: closed door
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Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2021 Synopsis: When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower…
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Fable by Adrienne Young: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2020 Synopsis: For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home she has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned…
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Regency & Regicide by J. J. Fischer: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Synopsis: When aspiring young novelist Miss Diana Crewe falls asleep on her manuscript in early nineteenth century England, the last thing she expects is to wake in the middle of the world she’s created…a world in which, she’s horrified to discover, she’s both venerated as a…
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Lovestruck by Dana LeCheminant: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: In the glittering world of Hollywood, actress Bonnie Aiken lands the role of a lifetime in a captivating mystery romance. For Bonnie, this isn’t just another gig—it’s her chance to prove she’s more than just a pretty face and showcase her depth and talent. But…
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The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1911 Synopsis: Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for…
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Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2021 Synopsis: Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family she’s got left…
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Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 1995 Synopsis: Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals – the old art known as the Wit – gives him solace and companionship.…
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The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton: Content Warnings
Publication Date: March 2018 Synopsis: In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately…
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Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2023 Synopsis: California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees…
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Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2019 Synopsis: From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she’s the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she’s not very smart. If you’ve ever felt like no one was listening to you,…
