The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown

In the basement of a bookshop in London, a secret society meets twice a year, guardians of an archive of magical items that look like ordinary, everyday things, which they call Unknowable Objects. Their aim is to hide the magic and never use it, because absolute power corrupts absolutely, according to their leader and oldest …

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The Hideaway by Nikki Allen

Five strangers are selected for a free, all expenses trip to a lush eco-resort in Costa Rica, but when they arrive, their host, Hannah, a wellness influencer, is mysteriously detained elsewhere. Over text, they're encouraged to start on a wilderness hike to a local waterfall, but it soon spirals out of control when there's an …

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The Girl With Ice In Her Veins by Karin Smirnoff

Lisbeth Salander returns in the 8th book in the Millennium series, continuing Stieg Larson's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo novels. When Lisbeth sends her niece in Gasskas, in Swedens far north, a drone for Christmas, she sets off a chain of events as Salva finds out about secret mining operations and an old enemy raises …

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Dealing With Feeling: Use Your Emotions To Get The Life You Want by Marc Brackett

"Proven Strategies, Profound Results." Emotional regulation and emotional intelligence are two of the most important skills for a happy, successful life. In Marc Brackett's latest book, he makes the point that these skills are the cornerstones of our lives, key to career, friendship, love, etc. And yet, these are not skills that are often talked …

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Women Of The Fairytale Resistance by Jane Harrington

"The forgotten founding mothers of the Fairy Tale and the stories that they spun". This pretty book sets out to tell us the personal stories and some of the output of Les Conteuses, a group of literary women in the French Upper Classes, who wrote in the era from 1690 to 1709, and who wrote …

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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …

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This House Of Burning Bones (Logan McCrae bk #13) by Stuart MacBride

In Aberdeen, Scotland, DI Logan McCrae is working with a skeleton crew, as officers across the board are decimated by the flu, while he's investigating the bombing of a motel that was full of immigrants and holding down the fort at the station too. But things are about to get really crazy when a body …

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