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Morgana and Oz, Vol. 3 by Miyuli

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Magical cuteness overload! I simply ADORE Morgana and Oz ! An incredibly infectious world created by Miyuli. I want more!! Purchase Link -  https://amzn.to/41USYT2 2025 RINGO AWARD NOMINATION for Best Digital Book of the Year! In this stunning debut series by Miyuli, perfect for fans of fantasy and romance, a struggling witch crosses paths with an angsty vampire, setting the stage for either love or war. Morgana Winterberry belongs to a long line of witches, while Oz belongs to the rival vampire clan. After lifting a magical curse on the vampires, Morgana makes an uneasy truce with them, very much against her family’s warnings. Morgana and Oz plan to work together to investigate who cursed the vampires in the first place, and who summoned the ghouls that are stalking the forest. Much to Morgana’s worry, signs point to someone in her family using her powerful ancestor Neil Winterberry’s grimoire. As Morgana tries to understand her stronger but more volatile magic, and learn more ab...
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Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner

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Thank you, @GCP, for the 4th installment of the Frankie Elkin series! Buy now -  https://amzn.to/3HCn3A0 Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera's closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder.   Frankie quickly notes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. Which given everything that has happened during the girl's short life, may be a terrible curse. When Isaad also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie re...
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Children of the Book by Ilana Kurshan

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Buy now -  https://amzn.to/4lW8166 In Children of the Book, Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature weaves an invisible thread through the tapestry of family life. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, struggles to balance her passion for books with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually, she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and an escape from the messiness of life, but rather as a way of forging connection and teaching independence. Introducing her children to sacred and secular literature―including the beloved classics of her childhood―she becomes both a better mother and a more compassionate reader. Chief among the books Kurshan reads with her children is the Torah, whose ancient wisdom illuminates her family's path. Structured in five parts corresponding to the first five books of the Bible, this memoir traces the profound parallels between the biblical narrative and the daily rhythms of parenthood – from the first picture books that create ...
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The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman

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YES!! Fall friends, our time is here! The most perfect fall-time read is out and ready for purchase. This is the antithesis of a Hallmark movie. The big city has done its damage, and now Ellie Lawson is back home in her picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on Long Island! Cue the opening credits and the smell of pumpkin spice! Pardon me while I pull on my comfy sweater, Mr. Rogers style, and settle in! ~T Purchase link -  https://amzn.to/42cOTcT Ellie Lawson’s city life was treating her just fine until a sour turn of events knocks her out in one fell swoop. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her event planning job, she is left with no choice but to return to her parents’ idyllic inn, nestled within a picturesque Honeycrisp orchard on Long Island. Anticipating a quiet hiatus in the attic apartment, she is instead met with Aiden, the stubborn, attractive son of the orchard owner who is currently occupying her planned refuge. Forced together by circumstance, they find themselves not on...
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Lover Forbidden by J.R. Ward

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In 2013, I picked up the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, Dark Lover. The first six books in the series specifically hold a very special place in my book-loving heart. Since those first six books, JR Ward has expanded her series, adding a collection and supporting cast of characters that feel like family. Now, a new generation is taking the lead. Lover Forbidden has breached the past and the present. Something about it feels reminiscent of those first six books with the camaraderie and the getting-to-know-you’s.  It’s like a fresh new series, but with the comfort and guiding hands of those who have taken up the mantle before them, giving them a soft space to land. I’m gonna let this emotion be my review. Simply because there is so much happening, and I don’t want to spoil a first reading experience for anyone. Especially the hard-core fans. You're gonna be blown away. Below are a few favorite quotes without any context other than they made me happy. “You’re ...
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The Incredible Kindness of Paper by Evelyn Skye

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Told via two POV’s, The Incredible Kindness of Paper tells the story of childhood pen pals and their current lives, with a bit of magical flair added in. A mix of real-life issues and some family drama, Evelyn Skye has created a wonderful premise that I think many will enjoy. Buy now -  https://amzn.to/47pL4oe In elementary school Chloe Hanako Quinn is assigned Oliver Jones as her pen pal. Before sending her letter she also whispers a note into it…and he hears her. It is the beginning of a friendship that blooms into something more—that is, until disaster strikes. Now more than twenty years later Chloe is a high school guidance counselor in New York City, but life is not what she dreamed it would be as she faces a layoff, rising rent, a situationship, and loneliness. Desperate for encouragement, she gives herself a pep talk via uplifting messages written on yellow origami paper that she folds into roses. When one of the roses accidentally finds its way to a neighbor in need of ch...
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The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland by Rachael Herron

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Thank you to Grand Central Publishing for sharing this title with me. Fans of a grown-up Parent Trap with magic thrown in will be thrilled. It's out now wherever books are sold. Buy Now -  https://amzn.to/47iAEH0 A "warm, witchy, and wonderful" family story that is the queer love-child of Practical Magic and The Parent Trap as one woman is about to discover that she's a witch (Sarah Beth Durst). Beatrice Barnard doesn’t believe in magic. She definitely doesn’t believe the predictions of the celebrity psychic who claims that she will experience seven miracles and that she will die. And as it turns out, her husband is cheating on her. Bea, now in desperate need of solitude, flees to Skerry Island, off the Pacific Northwest coast. Immediately upon arrival, she finds her life on the line as a rogue woodchopper blade almost kills her. Her survival is almost like a miracle. And then things get more miraculous when she discovers her twin sister, Cordelia, and her mother, As...
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