Tag: family
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Father Material by Alexis Hall: Emotional and Vulnerable
Luc and Oliver have been through it all: fake dating to save Luc’s career, I-guess-this-is-actually-for-real dating when all of that blew up spectacularly, (briefly) breaking up over irreconcilable differences, (definitively) getting back together over perfectly reconcilable everything else, (almost) getting married, (finally) moving in together, and ultimately celebrating years of perfect domestic bliss. But as…
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean: Unique Ghost Story
When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge she finds is the infamous, ghost-infested slum of Kowloon Walled City. Since then, she has rebuilt her life, working for the local triad as a ghost talker and dealing with the angry and…
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We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune: Emotional Journey
The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky…. Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the…
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A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio: Fantastic Murder Mystery
Rustic cabins. Lakefront bonfires. A painfully hot lifeguard. And a murder? Summer has never been this camp. Mikey Hartford IV has coasted through his twenties in a distracted blur of yachts and sex and partying. But when his father discovers his latest million-dollar impulse buy and changes the terms of his trust, the party’s finally…
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Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan: Wonderfully Strange
In the wake of The Great War, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Battle of the Somme, her cousin’s body disappeared into the mud, and her brother was left with debilitating shell shock. It…
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A Crime Through Time by Amelia Blackwell: Murder Meets Time Travel
Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future. Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film…
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The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore: Intriguing and Mysterious
Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where they have lived quietly since Zina’s mother’s untimely death. By day, the women serve tea, mostly to members of the bustling Russian émigré community, but when dusk falls, they divine fortunes and perform séances for their loyal clientele.…
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Sourwood by Logan Spurgeon: Chilling and Haunting
Reed and Leighton thought all their family secrets died with their parents. That is, until the siblings received a call from their estranged grandmother, Violet, who had been searching for them for years. She gives them surprising news: their grandfather Royce will pass soon, and a sizable inheritance awaits them on one condition—they pay a…
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The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigendale by C. M. Waggoner: Hilarious and Cozy
Once upon a time, a somewhat wicked witch named Gretsella lived in a cozy little cottage in the Dark Forest of Brigandale. She dispensed herbs and tinctures at reasonable prices, met with her slightly oddball coven on a regular basis, and had absolutely no need of any further company whatsoever, thank you very much. But…
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Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett: Charming and Magical
Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a…
