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When she¡¯s tasked with caring for an injured prisoner, Ophelia sees the perfect way to prove she¡¯s ready for her Sainting. The prisoner is none other than the Umbra Knight¡ªthe most dangerous warrior of Lumendei¡¯s sworn enemy, the Sepulchyre. If she can save the Umbra Knight¡¯s soul by converting her to the Church of the Host, the Saints will surely fight amongst themselves to claim Ophelia.

But the disarmingly beautiful and undeniably deadly knight¡¯s soul is in even worse shape than Ophelia feared. In fact, she insists Ophelia¡¯s beloved God is a murderous liar and her adopted city is built on blackened bones. It¡¯s easy to dismiss as blasphemy, at least at first. Until Lumendei¡¯s gilded secrets begin to tumble from their hiding places and Ophelia herself uncovers a conspiracy ... then she¡¯s forced to consider the idea that Nyatrix¡ªotherwise known as the Umbra Knight¡ªmight be telling the truth, and that saving the alluring knight¡¯s soul is the least of her concerns.

A sapphic high fantasy for fans of The Fall That Saved Us and The Foxglove King, Holy Wrath is a standalone novel about the fierceness of queer love and two women who no longer want equality once they¡¯ve tasted revenge.]]> 478 Victoria Mier Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.26 2025
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]]> 216009057 122 Meg Smitherman Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2025 4.12 2024
author: Meg Smitherman
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.12
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]]> 18280797
¡°Blubber is a good name for her,¡± the note from Caroline said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her school desk. She didn¡¯t want to think about Linda or her dumb report on whales just then. Jill wanted to think about Halloween.

But Robby grabbed the note and before Linda stopped talking it had gone halfway around the room. There was something about Linda that made a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they could go¡­but nobody, Jill least of all, expected the fun to end where it did.

In an honest exploration of childhood bullying, this story is told from the perspective of the bully. While she's not the worst in her class, Jill still participates in bullying Linda, and it takes a drastic turn of events for Jill to understand the consequences of her actions. Written in Judy Blume's celebrated candid style, Blubber is a story of bullying, self-discovery, and what makes a true friendship.]]> 208 Judy Blume 148141013X Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.74 1974
author: Judy Blume
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1974
rating: 2
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]]> 769265 48 Joanna Cole 0590405160 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 read-in-2025 4.40 1983
author: Joanna Cole
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average rating: 4.40
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]]> 581409 44 Tomie dePaola 8424133498 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 read-in-2025 4.26 1975
author: Tomie dePaola
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]]> 18280799 171 Judy Blume 148140993X Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 4.11 1970
author: Judy Blume
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 2
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I know this shit slaps for 12 yr old girls but I am a 26 yr old man so
]]> 199346768 Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after¡ªbut this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA.

Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family¡¯s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their noble name. When she is forced to marry Sir Riftan, a lowborn knight caught in one of her father¡¯s schemes, Maxi doesn¡¯t dare hope for happiness, let alone love. Her stumbling communication and his gruff manner sour their relationship before it can begin, and Riftan leaves without a word the morning after their vows are exchanged.

Now, three years after their disastrous wedding night, Riftan has returned as a war hero. To Maxi¡¯s surprise, despite rumors that he was offered marriage to Princess Agnes, a beautiful and renowned sorceress, Riftan still wants Maxi for his wife. And when he comes to claim her, his longing becomes a desire that bewilders Maxi, even as she is overcome by the scorching heat that Riftan¡¯s presence ignites within her. As she learns to navigate the intricacies of her new life, Maxi will find herself and her courage, and discover that she is anything but powerless.

This volume collects chapters 1-76 of the original webnovel by Suji Kim.]]> 496 Suji Kim 0593871197 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.69 2024
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]]> 3342821 32 Kazuno Kohara 1596434279 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 read-in-2025 4.02 2008
author: Kazuno Kohara
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 458958
What kind of a house can this be? And why does the person wearing the large sneakers seem to be more frightened than the one in the small pair?]]> 32 Eve Bunting 0395699428 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 read-in-2025 3.89 1990
author: Eve Bunting
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.89
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]]> 18280795
Deenie¡¯s mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers¡ªmaybe even in the movies¡ªbut Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth¡¯s. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.

Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face, and a terrifying brace that she¡¯ll need to wear for years that goes from her neck to her hips. Suddenly Deenie has to cope with a kind of specialness that¡¯s frightening¡ªand might be hers forever.]]> 208 Judy Blume 1481410369 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.80 1973
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]]> 48727813 Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner
Astounding Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist
Locus Award Finalist
Otherwise Award Finalist

"Magnificent in every way."¡ªSamantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."¡ªZen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s founding emperor.

To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything

¡°I refuse to be nothing¡­¡±

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness¡­

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family¡¯s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family¡¯s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother's abandoned greatness.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 416 Shelley Parker-Chan 1250621798 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.87 2021
author: Shelley Parker-Chan
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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started rly good but then it lost me ngl
]]> 46156880
Doctor Orfea Leung has come here to escape her past of mercenary violence. Krissana Khongtip has come here to reinvent herself from haunted spy to holy cyborg. But the utopian peace of Shenzhen is shattered when the haruspices begin committing suicide, and the pair are called upon to solve the mystery¡ªand survive the silent war between machines . . .]]> 87 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 1607015331 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.82 2019
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> 55111157
Admiral Anoushka was once a ghost. Now she's the universe's most brutal commander with a debt to a godlike AI. To repay it¡ªand to complete her long revenge¡ªshe¡¯s set her sights on the leviathan. Neither the warship¡¯s flesh horrors nor its ruthless ruler will stand in her way.

But all her plans couldn't prepare her for what waits in the belly of the beast: a foe that matches her in ferocity and thirst for vengeance . . . and a deep treachery that may prove her undoing.

Set in the same universe as And Shall Machines Surrender.]]> 86 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 1607015412 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.23 2020
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> 231319976 A disillusioned lady knight and the princess she never meant to rescue¡­

Imprisoned in a witch¡¯s tower eighteen years ago, Princess Eliza did not expect to still be waiting. Now past the age of thirty, with several alarming silver strands in her hair, the rescue attempts are growing rarer, and her only companions remain several well-loved bookshelves and her own increasingly lonely mind.

Destitute and out of options, Sir Kaylen accepts the king of Alludan¡¯s doomed quest (and reward) to rescue his daughter. What is meant to be her final act to help her family goes all wrong when she arrives at the witch¡¯s tower to discover, not the deadly hydra waiting for her, but something else entirely.

Together, the weathered knight and sheltered princess face a perilous journey back through the monster-ridden outerlands to civilization, where the monsters only become more human. As ill-timed attraction ignites, the lines between them blur.

Eliza and Kaylen each have expectations tearing them apart. They were never supposed to meet. Will the lady knight who accidentally saved the princess get to keep her?

***
The second in a series of stand-alone stories set in the same world, this slow-burn, steamy queer romantasy is a sapphic reimagining of classic fairytale tropes. It can be enjoyed alone, or in combination with the first book in the Sapphic Lady Knights series, Her Pretty Knight.

This story is intended for adult audiences. Please see the author¡¯s note at the front of the book.]]> 331 Mariah Rae Birch Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.32
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]]> 215149209 From Axie Oh, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Final Fantasy meets Shadow and Bone in this romantic fantasy reimagining the Korean legend of Celestial Maidens.

Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score of a lifetime¡ªa chest of coins for any mercenary who can hunt down a girl who wields silver light.

Meanwhile, far to the east, Ren is a cheerful and spirited acrobat traveling with her adoptive family and performing at villages. But everything changes during one of their festival performances when the village is attacked by a horrific humanlike demon. In a moment of fear and rage, Ren releases a blast of silver light¡ªa power she has kept hidden since childhood¡ªand kills the monster. But her efforts are not in time to prevent her adoptive family from suffering a devastating loss, or to save her beloved uncle from being grievously wounded.

Determined to save him from succumbing to the poisoned wound, Ren sets off over the mountains, where the creature came from¡ªand from where Ren herself fled ten years ago. Her path sets her on a collision course with Sunho, but he doesn't realize she's the girl that he¡ªand a hundred other swords-for-hire¡ªis looking for. As the two grow closer through their travels, they come to realize that their pasts¡ªand destinies¡ªare far more entwined than either of them could have imagined...]]> 368 Axie Oh 1250853087 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.07 2025
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]]> 19161852
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 468 N.K. Jemisin Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.29 2015
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.29
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]]> 60867798
But the machines are not done with her yet. Her wife Daji has breached the treaty between humans and machines, and for that she will be subjected to a punishment worse than execution.

Thannarat is not a hero. She is an artifact of war, a force of devastating annihilation. All she knows is how to fight. But to save Daji, what she will need the most will not be her gun or her might at arms . . . it will be a confrontation with her past, her mistakes, and a proof that she is more than an engine of violence.]]> 178 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 1607015536 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.37 2022
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]]> 59809239
War between godlike machines is breaking out, and at its center is the AI who aided Anoushka's ascent. Now payment has come calling: her closest allies are subverted, her body is twisted by poison that bends her toward madness, and her wife has been stolen.

The machines will devour the stars as they battle each other for the ultimate prize the next step in AI evolution, the key that will give them the universe. Yet Anoushka hasn't survived this long to become collateral damage. She will fight until she no longer can . . . and she will take back what's hers.]]> 164 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 160701551X Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.30 2022
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]]> 58232014
Within the Garden of Atonement, artificial intelligences offer healing and a return to innocence. Brought in as an inmate, Recadat must keep up a dangerous charade while she readies a weapon built to destroy AIs--and prove that machines are not gods. But as she's pulled into games of control and obsession, she draws ever closer to forgetting her purpose.

Yet she has not been sent alone, and a hidden ally watches from the shadows to ensure that she carries out her mission . . . or else that she never leaves the Garden alive.]]> 112 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 1607015498 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.15 2021
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]]> 56795751
War veteran Thannarat has sought this hidden world to realize a single goal: bringing back the dead. To fulfill this wish, she joins the game alongside a seductive AI who pledges to give her victory. The tournament is full of lethal secrets¡ªand so is the AI that professes to be her weapon. Yet to have what she needs, Thannarat will sacrifice everything. Her home world, the woman she once loved, and herself.

All she has to do is defy the game¡¯s inescapable rule: that in the end, the only true victors are the machines . . .]]> 131 Benjanun Sriduangkaew 1607015447 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.24 2021
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]]> 44033470
Born into Kusanagi's legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always know his purpose: to master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen's alleged age of peace, Mamoru ralizes that he might not have much time before he has to become the fighter he was bred to be. Even worse, the empire he was born to defend might stand on a foundation of lies.

Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of invasion looming on the horizon, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies ever reach their shores?]]> 631 M.L. Wang 172019386X Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.51 2019
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.51
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]]> 821470 Penelopiad is a sharp, brilliant and tender revision of a story at the heart of our culture: the myths about Penelope and Odysseus. In Homer¡¯s familiar version, The Odyssey, Penelope is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes to fight in the Trojan Wars, she manages to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son and, in the face of scandalous rumours, keep over a hundred suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills Penelope¡¯s suitors and¨Ccuriously¨Ctwelve of her maids.

In Homer the hanging of the maids merits only a fleeting though poignant mention, but Atwood comments in her introduction that she has always been haunted by those deaths. The Penelopiad, she adds, begins with two questions: what led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? In the book, these subjects are explored by Penelope herself¨Ctelling the story from Hades ¡ª the Greek afterworld - in wry, sometimes acid tones. But Penelope¡¯s maids also figure as a singing and dancing chorus (and chorus line), commenting on the action in poems, songs, an anthropology lecture and even a videotaped trial.

The Penelopiad does several dazzling things at once. First, it delves into a moment of casual brutality and reveals all that the act contains: a practice of sexual violence and gender prejudice our society has not outgrown. But it is also a daring interrogation of Homer¡¯s poem, and its counter-narratives ¡ª which draw on mythic material not used by Homer - cleverly unbalance the original. This is the case throughout, from the unsettling questions that drive Penelope¡¯s tale forward, to more comic doubts about some of The Odyssey¡¯s most famous episodes. (¡°Odysseus had been in a fight with a giant one-eyed Cyclops, said some; no, it was only a one-eyed tavern keeper, said another, and the fight was over non-payment of the bill.¡±)

In fact, The Penelopiad weaves and unweaves the texture of The Odyssey in several searching ways. The Odyssey was originally a set of songs, for example; the new version¡¯s ballads and idylls complement and clash with the original. Thinking more about theme, the maids¡¯ voices add a new and unsettling complex of emotions that is missing from Homer. The Penelopiad takes what was marginal and brings it to the centre, where one can see its full complexity.

The same goes for its heroine. Penelope is an important figure in our literary culture, but we have seldom heard her speak for herself. Her sometimes scathing comments in The Penelopiad (about her cousin, Helen of Troy, for example) make us think of Penelope differently ¨C and the way she talks about the twenty-first century, which she observes from Hades, makes us see ourselves anew too.

Margaret Atwood is an astonishing storyteller, and The Penelopiad is, most of all, a haunting and deeply entertaining story. This book plumbs murder and memory, guilt and deceit, in a wise and passionate manner. At time hilarious and at times deeply thought-provoking, it is very much a Myth for our times.]]> 216 Margaret Atwood 067697418X Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.65 2005
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 91571 Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare¡¯s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning him to death because he impregnated Juliet before their marriage.

Claudio¡¯s sister Isabella, who is entering a convent, pleads for her brother¡¯s life. Angelo attempts to extort sex from her, but Isabella preserves her chastity. The duke, in disguise, eavesdrops as she tells her brother about Angelo¡¯s behavior, then offers to ally himself with her against Angelo.]]> 278 William Shakespeare 0743484908 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 3.66 1604
author: William Shakespeare
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.66
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rating: 2
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]]> 213075628 In Coney Island, true love rises to the surface. With lush illustrations and buoyant prose, Venessa Vida Kelley forges an unforgettable New York fairytale.

Benigno ¡°Benny¡± Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can¡¯t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds the eccentric sideshow proprietor who commissioned it. He invites Benny to join the show¡¯s eclectic cast and share in their shocking secret: the tank will cage their newest exhibit, a live merman stolen from the salty banks of the East River.

More than a mythic marvel, Benny soon comes to know the merman R¨ªo as a kindred spirit, wise and more compassionate than any human he¡¯s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny¡¯s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of R¨ªo¡¯s captivity¡ªand his own.

Releasing R¨ªo could mean losing his found family, his new home, and his soulmate forever. Yet Benny¡¯s courageous choice may just reveal a love strong enough to free them both.]]> 464 Venessa Vida Kelley 1645661539 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.40 2025
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]]> 214152260
A stunning debut middle grade fantasy about a girl caught between the realms of the living and the dead who gets lost in the Underworld¡ªperfect for fans of Greenwild and Rick Riordan.

Senka lives between the realm of the Living and the realm of the Dead. As ward to Charon, the Ferryer of the Underworld, Senka assists in ferrying recently departed souls across the river and into their afterlife. Although Charon has taught her many Rules about life in the Underworld, there is much he avoids telling her. Though she doesn¡¯t understand why the Rules are so important, she listens¡ªshe must heed them in order to become an official Ferryer, just like Charon.

Then a Living girl, Poppy, enters the Underworld to plead for help in finding the ghost of her brother. Poppy¡¯s grief tugs at Senka¡¯s heart¡ªbut helping Poppy goes against the very Rules Senka is so desperate to follow. When Poppy is yanked away by the river¡¯s current, Senka leaps to save her, and she and Poppy are swept downriver, far from everything Senka has ever known.

Lost in the Underwild, Senka and Poppy encounter malevolent spirits of lore and eccentric ghosts¡ªand not all are willing to let souls slip through their grasp. Senka knows the Living can¡¯t stay in the realm of the Dead for long, and if Poppy ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù returned home soon, she will risk becoming lost to the Underworld forever. But as Senka travels deeper into the Underwild, she discovers there are secrets her guardian has kept from her, including the mystery surrounding her own existence. As Poppy and Senka dodge angry demigods, hungry wraiths, and terrifying dragon chimera, Senka gets closer to learning the truth of her own past. Soon, Senka won¡¯t just need to save Poppy¡¯s life¡ªshe¡¯ll also need to save her own.]]> 432 Shana Targosz 1665957638 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.18 2025
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 212294563 184 Sumiko Arai 1975399684 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.54 2023
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¡¾±¦µºÉ硸¤³¤Î¥Þ¥ó¥¬¤¬¤¹¤´¤¤!2024¡¹¥ª¥ó¥Ê±àµÚ2λ&²¹³¾±è;¡¸´Î¤Ë¤¯¤ë¥Þ¥ó¥¬´óÉÍ2023¡¹°Â±ð²ú¥Þ¥ó¥¬²¿ÃŵÚ1λ¡¿±Õ±Õ> 160 Sumiko Arai 4046831731 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.65
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]]> 174146852 A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.

Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness to secure his reign of the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she¡¯s only ever read about.

The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader¡ªLorelei¡¯s beloved mentor¡ªis murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are her five remaining expedition mates, each with their own motive. The only person Lorelei knows must be innocent is her longtime academic rival, the insufferably gallant and maddeningly beautiful Sylvia von Wolff. Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again¡ªand a coup begins in earnest.

But there are other dangers lurking in the forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons waiting beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.

As Lorelei and Sylvia grudgingly work together to uncover the truth¡ªand resist their growing feelings for one another¡ªthey discover that their professor had secrets of her own. Secrets that make Lorelei question whether justice is worth pursuing, or if this kingdom is worth saving at all.]]> 370 Allison Saft 0593722345 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.58 2024
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average rating: 3.58
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¡º¤³¤Î¥Þ¥ó¥¬¤¬¤¹¤´¤¤!2024¡»£¨±¦µºÉ磩¥ª¥ó¥Ê±àµÚ2λ¡¢¡¸´Î¤Ë¤¯¤ë¥Þ¥ó¥¬´óÉÍ2023¡¹°Â±ð²ú¥Þ¥ó¥¬²¿Ãŵڣ±Î»¤ËÑ¡³ö£¡
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]]> 208840739 We Were Liars meets The Raven Boys in this mind-bending YA debut about dark revenge, twisted desire, and the sinister secrets lurking behind the walls of an elite boarding school.

Seventeen-year-old Marin James has spent her entire life living in the shadow of the exclusive Huntsworth Academy. And when her cousin¡¯s dead body is found in a creek on school property, Marin knows exactly who¡¯s to blame: Adrian Hargraves and Henry Wu, the enigmatic yet dangerously alluring leaders of the school's social elite.

Swapping her ripped jeans for a crisp prep school skirt, Marin infiltrates Huntsworth to seek justice. But her quest is quickly muddied by a confusing attraction to her new life, and to the two dysfunctional and depraved boys who somehow understand her better than anyone ever has.

When Marin uncovers an otherworldly secret the boys are hiding within Huntsworth's ivied gates, the lines between right and wrong, love and hate, and nightmare and reality begin to crumble -- and nothing is as it seems.

Welcome to Huntsworth Academy.]]> 400 Jenni Howell 1250334594 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.28 2025
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average rating: 3.28
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]]> 216364822 Lose yourself in this exhilarating return to the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe, the first book in a new series set ten years after the fall of The Reestablishment.

James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. All that matters is that he managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. In the past decade no outsider has breached the stronghold of the authoritarian regime, but James is in. In a prison cell, sure, but as far as James is concerned, a win is a win.

It¡¯s been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo ¡ª Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner Anderson ¡ª led a worldwide rebellion and established the New Republic of the West. But after a decade of unsettling quiet, The Reestablishment is ready to make a devastating move, and they have the perfect person for the job.

Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. She always has a plan. On Ark Island, where constant surveillance is packaged as security, even emotions must be experienced with caution. A trained assassin, her every movement is monitored by synthetic intelligence¡ªand when she¡¯s given an order to kill, she never hesitates.

Brimming with pulse-pounding action and torturous romance, Watch Me is an explosive journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible. Step into a beloved and breathtaking world that demands an answer to a desperate question¡ª

Who are we when no one is watching?]]> 368 Tahereh Mafi 0063419009 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.31 2025
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.31
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rating: 0
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]]> 195791340
It¡¯s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor.

Maddileh is a knight. There aren¡¯t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt from her peers is harder to stomach than the actual dragon slaying. But she¡¯s a knight, and made of sterner stuff.

A minor infraction forces her to redeem her honor in the most dramatic way possible, she must retrieve the fabled Fireborne Blade from its keeper, legendary dragon the White Lady, or die trying. If history tells us anything, it's that ¡°die trying¡± is where to wager your coin.

Maddileh¡¯s tale contains a rich history of dragons, ill-fated knights, scheming squires, and sapphic love, with deceptions and double-crosses that will keep you guessing right up to its dramatic conclusion. Ultimately, The Fireborne Blade is about the roles we refuse to accept, and of the place we make for ourselves in the world.]]> 168 Charlotte Bond 1250290317 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.75 2024
author: Charlotte Bond
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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]]> 36405805 Holly Riordan Edgar Allan Hoe 1 read-in-2017, what 3.64
author: Holly Riordan
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.64
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]]> 13188676
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that's not all he wants with her.

The Shatter Me series is perfect for fans who crave action-packed young adult novels with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu. Tahereh Mafi has created a captivating and original story that combines the best of dystopian and paranormal and was praised by Publishers Weekly as "a gripping read from an author who's not afraid to take risks."

Don¡¯t miss Restore Me, the electrifying fourth installment of this New York Times bestselling series, available now!]]> 408 Tahereh Mafi 006208559X Edgar Allan Hoe 5 4.46 2014
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2017/08/26
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]]> 18006496
She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.

She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen¡¯s triumphant return.

The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena¡¯s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.]]> 648 Sarah J. Maas 1619636042 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 4.56 2015
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/24
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]]> 36118682 Wicked Saints¡ªan epic, passionate novel that you won't soon forget. Prepare to meet:

A GIRL named Nadya, who hears the whisper of the gods inside her head.

A PRINCE surrounded by desperate suitors and deadly assassins

A MONSTER hidden behind pale, tortured eyes ¡ª and a smile that cuts like a knife

The paths of these three characters become entwined during a centuriea-long war filled with sinners and saints, magic and mystery, and a star-crossed romance that threatens to tip the scales between dark and light . .. forever.]]> 385 Emily A. Duncan 1250195667 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2019 3.55 2019
author: Emily A. Duncan
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2019/09/01
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]]> 30256248
When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn't think things could get any worse. But that's before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her.

Autumn doesn't know much about Dax except that he's trouble. Between the rumors about the fight he was in (and that brief stint in juvie that followed it) and his reputation as a loner, he's not exactly the ideal person to be stuck with. Still, she just keeps reminding herself that it is only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost-boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her.

Only he doesn't come. No one does.

Instead it becomes clear that Autumn is going to have to spend the next couple of days living off vending-machine food and making conversation with a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Except there is more to Dax than meets the eye.

As he and Autumn at first grudgingly, and then not so grudgingly, open up to each other, Autumn is struck by their surprising connection. But can their feelings for each other survive once the weekend is over and Autumn's old life, and old love interest, threaten to pull her from Dax's side?]]> 346 Kasie West 0062455869 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2019 3.86 2017
author: Kasie West
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2019/06/24
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]]> 12751687
Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.

But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.

As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for.]]> 466 Becca Fitzpatrick 1442426675 Edgar Allan Hoe 1 read-in-2017 4.12 2012
author: Becca Fitzpatrick
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2012
rating: 1
read at: 2017/08/11
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]]> 37586799 Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780007550227
For all editions see here

Betrayed by his family and left for dead, prince Yarvi, reluctant heir to a divided kingdom, has vowed to reclaim a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the shattered sea itself - all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of a hard, cold world, he cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so has sharpened his mind to a deadly edge. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast, he finds they can help him more than any noble could. Even so, Yarvi's path may end as it began - in twists, traps and tragedy.]]> 416 Joe Abercrombie 0007550227 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2020 3.94 2014
author: Joe Abercrombie
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2020/04/02
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]]> 42356924 An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!

This special movie tie-in edition features 16 pages of color movie stills starring Bel Powley and Jonah Hauer-King in never-before-seen footage and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie, plus a brand-new letter from the author!

"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." -- The Washington Post

Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life -- until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father's prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive?

A moving and haunting novel perfect for readers of The Book Thief.

Praise for Between Shades of Gray
"Superlative. A hefty emotional punch." --The New York Times Book Review

"Heart-wrenching . . . an eye-opening reimagination of a very real tragedy written with grace and heart." --The Los Angeles Times

"At once a suspenseful, drama-packed survival story, a romance, and an intricately researched work of historial fiction." --The Wall Street Journal

* "Beautifully written and deeply felt . . . An important book that deserves the widest possible readership." --Booklist, starred review

A New York Times Notable book
An international bestseller
A Carnegie Medal nominee
A William C. Morris Award finalist
A Golden Kite Award winner
A Best Children's Book of 2011 selection from The Wall Street Journal, PW, SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus, iTunes, Amazon, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Columbus Dispatch
ILA Notable Book for a Global Society Award winner
Winner of 10 international book prizes across France, Sweden, Belgium, Lithuania, and Canada
26 state award lists
4 starred reviews
And more!]]> 384 Ruta Sepetys 1984836749 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2020 4.31 2011
author: Ruta Sepetys
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2020/10/11
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]]> 20312462 ¡°Miss Rook, I am not an occultist,¡± Jackaby said. ¡°I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world¡¯s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.¡±

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby¡¯s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it¡¯s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it¡¯s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.

Doctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter¡¯s debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre.]]> 299 William Ritter 1616203536 Edgar Allan Hoe 4 read-in-2017, books-i-own 3.83 2014
author: William Ritter
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2017/09/12
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]]> 1045757 Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.

Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad.

Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house.

Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh.

My name is Felix. This is my story.

Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Boy Overboard. The next books in the series Then, Now and After are also available from Puffin.]]> 160 Morris Gleitzman 014132063X Edgar Allan Hoe 5 4.23 2005
author: Morris Gleitzman
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/18
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]]> 31700746 Ari Eastman Edgar Allan Hoe 1 books-i-own, read-in-2019 4.26
author: Ari Eastman
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.26
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rating: 1
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]]> 30295312
All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation¡ªa lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke.

Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand and its elusive new leader before the cult can cause any more damage. As if it wasn¡¯t bad enough that their romantic getaway has been sidetracked, demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. As their quest for answers becomes increasingly dire, Magnus and Alec will have to trust each other more than ever¡ªeven if it means revealing the secrets they¡¯ve both been keeping.]]> 368 Cassandra Clare 1471162141 Edgar Allan Hoe 1 books-i-own, read-in-2023 4.10 2019
author: Cassandra Clare
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 1
read at: 2023/02/18
date added: 2025/04/21
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]]> 16143347 A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends¡ªthe Liars¡ªwhose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.

And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.]]> 242 E. Lockhart 0385741278 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 read-in-2017, books-i-own 3.65 2014
author: E. Lockhart
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> 39988 ¡°The Trunchbull¡± is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...

For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.]]> 240 Roald Dahl 043512398X Edgar Allan Hoe 4 books-i-own, read-in-2021 4.33 1988
author: Roald Dahl
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2021/01/12
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]]> 821611 240 Helen Keller 0553213873 Edgar Allan Hoe 1 read-in-2024, what 4.08 1902
author: Helen Keller
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1902
rating: 1
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]]> 23587115 A darkly funny and spectacularly original exploration of friendship, goodbyes¡ªand spontaneous combustion.

Mara Carlyle¡¯s senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until¡ªwa-bam!¡ªfellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc.

Katelyn is the first, but she won¡¯t be the last teenager to blow up without warning or explanation. As the seniors continue to pop like balloons and the national eye turns to Mara¡¯s suburban New Jersey hometown, the FBI rolls in and the search for a reason is on.

Whip-smart and blunt, Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It's an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice cream trucks, ¡°Snooze Button?,¡± Bon Jovi, and the filthiest language you¡¯ve ever heard from the President of the United States.

Aaron Starmer rewrites the rulebook with Spontaneous. But beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the 21st century . . . and the heartache of saying goodbye.]]> 368 Aaron Starmer Edgar Allan Hoe 2 3.33 2016
author: Aaron Starmer
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2016
rating: 2
read at: 2017/10/09
date added: 2025/04/21
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]]> 29749090
The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list.

One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. But after a run-in with the police, he's forced to do community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison that holds the city's most brutal criminals.

Madeleine Wallace is a brilliant killer . . . and Bruce's only hope.

In Arkham, Bruce meets Madeleine, a brilliant girl with ties to the Nightwalkers. What is she hiding? And why will she speak only to Bruce? Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel. But is he getting her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees? Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer.]]> 272 Marie Lu 0399549781 Edgar Allan Hoe 5 3.73 2018
author: Marie Lu
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2018/01/05
date added: 2025/04/21
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]]> 7970778 Jane Eyre, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray-capturing the haunting beauty, sensual horror, and decadence of these iconic tales.

Perfect additions to the first set of Couture Classics: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, and The Scarlet Letter.]]> 432 Bram Stoker 0143106163 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2020 3.94 1897
author: Bram Stoker
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1897
rating: 3
read at: 2020/10/27
date added: 2025/04/21
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]]> 26032887 The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.

The first lesson is to make yourself strong.

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.

When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.]]> 336 Holly Black 0316310336 Edgar Allan Hoe 5 4.27 2019
author: Holly Black
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2019/01/09
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]]> 11594257 WORLDS KEPT THEM APART.

DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.

Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim.

Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He's searching for someone too. He's also wild¡ªa savage¡ªbut might be her best hope at staying alive.

If they can survive, they are each other's best hope for finding answers.]]> 374 Veronica Rossi 1907411054 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2019 3.98 2011
author: Veronica Rossi
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.98
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rating: 2
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the romance was so bad it gave me an aneurysm
]]> 21518344
But when Gwen and Olivia are kidnapped by shadowy creatures and taken to a world of flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous Fey, Gwen realizes her mom might have been sane all along.

The world Gwen finds herself in is called Neverland, yet it¡¯s nothing like the stories. Here, good and evil lose their meaning and memories slip like water through her fingers. As Gwen struggles to remember where she came from and find a way home, she must choose between trusting the charming fairy-tale hero who says all the right things and the roguish young pirate who promises to keep her safe.

With time running out and her enemies closing in, Gwen is forced to face the truths she¡¯s been hiding from all along. But will she be able to save Neverland without losing herself?]]> 342 Lisa Maxwell 1481432044 Edgar Allan Hoe 5 3.53 2016
author: Lisa Maxwell
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> 57185878 Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.

Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.

Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she'd been missing from birth.

It was cumbersome; it was uncomfortable; it was wrong.

It wasn't her.

Frustrated and unable to express why, Nadya began to wander, until the day she fell through a door into Belyyreka, the Land Beneath the Lake--and found herself in a world of water, filled with child-eating amphibians, majestic giant turtles, and impossible ships that sailed as happily beneath the surface as on top. In Belyyreka, she found herself understood for who she was: a Drowned Girl, who had made her way to her real home, accepted by the river and its people.

But even in Belyyreka, there are dangers, and trials, and Nadya would soon find herself fighting to keep hold of everything she had come to treasure.]]> 160 Seanan McGuire Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2025 4.02 2025
author: Seanan McGuire
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2025
rating: 3
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]]> 8852
This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare¡¯s most popular and influential masterpieces.]]> 249 William Shakespeare 0743477103 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 hate this guy 3.90 1623
author: William Shakespeare
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1623
rating: 3
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hate this guy
]]> 22364136 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439679.

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root everything else'

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humility' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimised weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognise the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery.

This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint's introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens' great critique of Victorian industrial society.]]> 321 Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.42 1854
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 213726350 I do not care what they think of me. I can¡¯t. It only matters that I play.

Jeremy Knox is no stranger to damage control, but his last season on an Exy court is off to a disastrous start. The relentless crusade against his newest teammate threatens the haven he and his friends have worked so hard to build. He promised Jean a fun senior year, but tragedy and ugly truths make every step forward an uphill fight.

Jean Moreau promised the USC Trojans a championship trophy, and he intends to deliver. Granted, it would be significantly easier if they¡¯d slide off their high horses and throw a few elbows on the court. Their steadfast refusal to do things his way is nearly as aggravating as their unwanted affection, but maybe they¡¯re not the ones that need to change.

With so many ready to drag him down, how can he learn to fly?]]> 484 Nora Sakavic Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.58 2025
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 220505767 An addictive forbidden romance between a fake princess and her bodyguard¡­

After losing everything ten years ago, Sir Galeon has dedicated her life to serving her kingdom as a knight. When the prince entrusts her with guarding his soon-to-be bride in his arranged marriage, Galeon does not expect to have her heart captured by the confounding princess.

Della has more than one deadly secret. Not only is she pretending to be Princess Cordelia, but she is also a witch in a world where magic is as dangerous as it is illegal. Her ability to manipulate death is the reason she is here, and her only way out. The last thing she wants is an overly loyal knight following her everywhere.
Della knows that Galeon can never learn her secrets. And Galeon knows the prince¡¯s bride is entirely off-limits.

As reluctant proximity turns to tentative trust, initial attraction becomes burning desire. What should have been simple becomes terribly complicated.

Yet nothing will stop Della from fulfilling the bargain she made to save her sister. Not even an inconveniently timed baby phoenix or rumors of false identity. Not even murdered corpses in the library or a jealous prince.

Not even a pretty knight.

The first in a series of stand-alone stories set in the same world, this slow burn steamy queer romantasy is inspired by classic fairy tales and Arthurian legend, where the shining knight is a scarred woman, the princess is also the witch, and the prince is anything but charming.

This story contains grief, violence, explicit language, and a guaranteed HEA.]]> 247 Mariah Rae Birch Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.29
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]]> 5439 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.]]> 198 Jhumpa Lahiri 0618101365 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 4.18 1999
author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> 222376570 Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske¡ªa queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher.

Ella is a haunting.

Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.

Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.

Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.

You think you know Ella's the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.

You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.

Rediscover a classic fairy tale in this debut novella from "the queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon).

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 144 Freya Marske 125034171X Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 5.00 2025
author: Freya Marske
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 5.00
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]]> 38424 Baby-Sitters Club book, Raina Telgemeier captures all the drama of the original in warm, spunky illustrations. Witness Kristy's eureka moment, when she gets the idea for a "baby-sitters club" and enlists her best friends, shy Mary Anne and artistic Claudia, in an exciting new venture. But the baby-sitting business isn't the only thing absorbing their attention: Kristy is having a hard time accepting her stepdad-to-be, and the newest member of the gang, Stacey, seems to be hiding a secret.]]> 192 Raina Telgemeier Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 it was diabetes lmfaooooooo 4.14 2006
author: Raina Telgemeier
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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it was diabetes lmfaooooooo
]]> 298664 In? Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American¡ªa native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away.

Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy.

But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets.

Native Speaker?is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.
]]> 349 Chang-rae Lee 1573225312 Edgar Allan Hoe 1 3.74 1995
author: Chang-rae Lee
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1995
rating: 1
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]]> 55948826 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, Traci Chee, comes a Japanese-influenced fantasy brimming with demons, adventure, and plans gone awry.

In the realm of Awara, where gods, monsters, and humans exist side by side, Miuko is an ordinary girl resigned to a safe, if uneventful, existence as an innkeeper¡¯s daughter. But when Miuko is cursed and begins to transform into a demon with a deadly touch, she embarks on a quest to reverse the curse and return to her normal life. Aided by a thieving magpie spirit and continuously thwarted by a demon prince, Miuko must outfox tricksters, escape demon hunters, and negotiate with feral gods if she wants to make it home again. But with her transformation comes power and freedom she never even dreamed of, and she¡¯ll have to decide if saving her soul is worth trying to cram herself back into an ordinary life that no longer fits her¡­ and perhaps never did.]]> 400 Traci Chee Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.78 2022
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.78
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]]> 195790847 A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic

Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn¡¯t have any doors between rooms, and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend¡ªunless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don¡¯t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren¡¯t sorcerers.

After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia¡¯s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away on Falada¡¯s sturdy back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia¡¯s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage, and Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.

Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother, how the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.]]> 327 T. Kingfisher 1250244072 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.06 2024
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 221190705 Sara Wolf 8419873586 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.67 2024
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.67
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]]> 195790663
Traditionally portrayed as a jealous wife, a wicked stepmother, and a victim-blaming instrument of the patriarchy, Hera is ripe for a retelling that shows her as a powerful queen¨Druthless when she needs to be, but also compassionate, strategic, and ambitious. With Hera, beloved and bestselling author Jennifer Saint delivers another epic and enthralling reimagining of a Greek heroine we only thought we knew.]]> 389 Jennifer Saint Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.49 2024
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.49
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]]> 200982383 It¡¯s the season
for treason¡­

The king of Yusan must die.

The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the God King Joon.

He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined¡­or sold.

And now each of the five blades will come for him. Each has tasted bitterness¨Dfrom the hired hitman seeking atonement, a lovely assassin who seeks freedom, or even the prince banished for his cruel crimes. None can resist the sweet, icy lure of vengeance.

They can agree on murder.

They can agree on treachery.

But for these five killers¨Deach versed in deception, lies, and betrayal¨Dit¡¯s not enough to forge an alliance. To survive, they¡¯ll have to find a way to trust each other¡­but only one can take the crown.

Let the best liar win.]]> 474 Mai Corland 1649376901 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.80 2024
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 303136
An ALA Notable Children's Book.]]> 192 Lois Lowry 0440403448 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.93 1980
author: Lois Lowry
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.93
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]]> 58857887 Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of ¡°Sleeping Beauty¡± reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice.

The Dark Grace is dead.

Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce¡¯s wicked domain. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Not even the one person who holds her heart.

Princess Aurora saw through Alyce¡¯s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce¡¯s vast power cannot seem to break. And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.

Alyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. But could Aurora love the villain Alyce has become?

Or is true love only for fairy tales?

Book Two of the Malice Duology]]> 432 Heather Walter 1984818686 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.79 2022
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]]> 245140 192 SparkNotes 1411404475 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 5.00 2005
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]]> 57282211 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle grade novel-in-verse about the bonds between two brothers and the love they share.

Twelve-year-old Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who's five years older, has never looked down on him. It was Will who taught Trace to ride a bike, would watch sports on TV with him, and cheer him on at little league. But when Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury--everything changed. Now, sixteen months later, their family is still living under the weight of the incident, that left Will with a facial tic, depression, and an anger he cannot always control, culminating in their parents' divorce. Afraid of further fracturing his family, Trace begins to cover for Will who, struggling with addiction to pain medication, becomes someone Trace doesn't recognize. But when the brother he loves so much becomes more and more withdrawn, and escalates to stealing money and ditching school, Trace realizes some secrets cannot be kept if we ever hope to heal.]]> 384 Ellen Hopkins 0593108647 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.12 2021
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]]> 62919162 327 Daniel Kraus 1665918160 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.66 2023
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 62031346
" Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak ." ¡ªLeigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone

Born without a trace of magic, Tamsin Lark is no match for the sorceresses and Hollowers who populate the magical underground of Boston. But when the only parent she¡¯s ever known disappears without so much as a goodbye, she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted relics to keep herself¡ªand her brother, Cabell¡ªalive.

Ten years later, rumors are swirling that her guardian found a powerful ring from Arthurian legend just before he vanished. A run-in with her rival Emrys ignites Tamsin¡¯s hope that the ring could free Cabell from a curse that threatens both of them. But they aren¡¯t the only ones who covet the ring.

As word spreads, greedy Hollowers start circling, and many would kill to have it for themselves. While Emrys is the last person Tamsin would choose to partner with, she needs all the help she can get to edge out her competitors?in the race for the ring. Together, they dive headfirst into a vipers¡¯ nest of dark magic, exposing a deadly secret with the power to awaken ghosts of the past and shatter her last hope of saving her brother. . . .]]> 467 Alexandra Bracken 0593481658 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.88 2023
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]]> 61884932 There¡¯s a princess trapped in a tower. This ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù her story.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

But nothing with fairies is ever simple.

Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold¡­]]> 116 T. Kingfisher 1250244099 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.95 2023
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]]> 18631826
Then her brainy little brother, Ralph, finds a box hidden in the attic. In it are a baffling jumble of broken antiques¡ªclues to her past left by her ¡°Gone Mom.¡± Lily and Ralph attempt to match these fragments with rare Chinese artifacts at the art museum. She encounters the artistic genius Elliot James, who attracts and infuriates Lily as he tries to draw out the beauty of her golden heritage. Will Lily summon the courage to confront her own remarkable creation story? The real story, and one she can know only by coming face-to-face with the truth long buried within the people she thought she knew best.]]> 320 Barbara Stuber 1442497343 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.61 2014
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.61
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]]> 53086843
Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his things, and tries everything to forget him and the tragic way he died. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces back memories. Desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls Sam¡¯s cellphone just to listen to his voicemail.

And Sam picks up the phone.

In a miraculous turn of events, Julie¡¯s been given a second chance at goodbye. The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam¡¯s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam¡¯s family is going through. Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever.]]> 296 Dustin Thao 1250762030 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.64 2021
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]]> 197448796 A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.

Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul¡¯s Mapo Bridge.

But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white¡ªher guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And our protagonist just may be that special someone.

But the young woman¡¯s initial excitement turns to frustration when she learns being a magical girl in real life is much different than how it¡¯s portrayed in stories. It ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù just destiny¡ªit¡¯s work. Magical girls go to job fairs, join trade unions, attend classes. And for this magical girl there are no special powers and no great perks, and despite being magical, she still battles with low self-esteem. Her magic wand . . . is a credit card¡ªwhich she must use to defeat a terrifying threat that ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù a monster or an intergalactic war. It¡¯s global climate change. Because magical girls need to think about sustainability, too.

Park Seolyeon reimagines classic fantasy tropes in a novel that explores real-world challenges that are both deeply personal and universal: the search for meaning and the desire to do good in a world that feels like it¡¯s ending. A fun, fast-paced, and enchanting narrative that sparkles thanks to award-nominated translator Anton Hur, A Magical Girl Retires reminds us that we are all magical girls¡ªthat fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight can be anyone's game.

Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.]]> 160 Park Seolyeon 0063373262 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.57 2022
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]]> 254262 192 Elizabeth Yates 0140341587 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.91 1950
author: Elizabeth Yates
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 123361932 ?
Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. But she doesn¡¯t see Ren¡¯s betrayal coming, not until she¡¯s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps.
?
As she¡¯s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right.
?
Mingshin wakes up two years earlier, her prayer granted, and swears two things: Ren will never become king, and she will never fall in love again.
?
But the timeline in this life has changed: a dignitary gifted with dark magic is threatening her kingdom¡¯s peace, and Ren¡¯s thirst for power runs deeper than Mingshin could have imagined.?
?
She finds herself allying with Jieh, another contender for the throne. Mingshin knows better than anyone not to give her heart to a prince. But in the viper¡¯s nest of the royal court, she and Jieh prove a phenomenal team. Can Mingshin avert the catastrophe of her past by once again learning to trust¡­and maybe even love??
?]]> 344 Kate Chenli 1454949929 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.78 2023
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]]> 43562313 From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters switching places and committing insurance fraud to save one of their lives.

Jayne Baek is barely getting by. She shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she¡¯s not fully ready to confront. But that¡¯s New York City, right? At least she ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù in Texas anymore, and is finally living in a city that feels right for her.

On the other hand, her sister June is dazzlingly rich with a high-flying finance job and a massive apartment. Unlike Jayne, June has never struggled a day in her life. Until she¡¯s diagnosed with uterine cancer.

Suddenly, these estranged sisters who have nothing in common are living together. Because sisterly obligations are kind of important when one of you is dying.]]> 400 Mary H.K. Choi Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.95 2021
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.95
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]]> 58409712 An epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic¡ªthe story of a spoiled hero, an exacting grandmaster, and an immortal god-king from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of Tao.

It has been foretold: A child will rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, a cruel immortal god-king, and save the kingdom.

The hero: Jian, who has been raised since birth in luxury and splendor, celebrated before he has won a single battle.

But the prophecy was wrong.

Because when Taishi, the greatest war artist of her generation, arrives to evaluate the prophesied hero, she finds a spoiled brat unprepared to face his destiny.

But the only force more powerful than fate is Taishi herself. Possessed of an iron will, a sharp tongue¡ªand an unexpectedly soft heart¡ªTaishi will find a way to forge Jian into the weapon and leader he needs to be in order to fulfill his legend.

What follows is a journey more wondrous than any prophecy can foresee: a story of master and student, assassin and revolutionary, of fallen gods and broken prophecies, and of a war between kingdoms, and love and friendship between deadly rivals.]]> 533 Wesley Chu 0593237633 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.04 2022
author: Wesley Chu
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 26030734
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is¡ªbut she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home¡ªuntil, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.]]> 282 Peter Brown 0316381993 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.19 2016
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 49090884
His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the ¡°Transition.¡± Now, eating human meat¡ª¡°special meat¡±¡ªis legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he¡¯s given a a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he¡¯s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost¡ªand what might still be saved.]]> 209 Agustina Bazterrica 1982150920 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.75 2017
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 58212203
All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?]]> 496 Claire Legrand 0062696637 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 3.51 2022
author: Claire Legrand
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.51
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rating: 0
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]]> 92936 306 Anchee Min 1400096987 Edgar Allan Hoe 1 300 pages of pining 3.85 1993
author: Anchee Min
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1993
rating: 1
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300 pages of pining
]]> 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.85 1959
author: Shirley Jackson
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> 41880609 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born ¡ª a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam ¡ª and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.]]> 246 Ocean Vuong 0525562028 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.05 2019
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 1625 Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino¡¯s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia¡ªonly to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.]]> 272 William Shakespeare 0743482778 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.97 1602
author: William Shakespeare
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.97
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]]> 218398084
When Isobel reveals that she will never let the Fisherman go, even if they find the mad god, the Fisherman knows:

It's time to get violent.]]> 176 Drew Huff Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.14
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]]> 195322527 On a cursed island where birds steal hearts and blades of grass cut sharper than knives, two young women driven by revenge take on solving a series of mysterious deaths.

Every winter¡¯s first snow, a flock of silver birds descends upon Namu Island and leaves with a heart. When River¡¯s father is taken, she seeks vengeance. But soon uncanny events unfold: islanders die in eerie ways, the woods turn green in the dead of winter, River¡¯s brother disappears, and a strange woman turns up. To save her brother and unravel the island¡¯s mystery, River will be cast into an unexpected alliance that will challenge her beliefs, trust, and love.
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THE SILVER BIRDS is a queer enemies-to-lovers dark fantasy novel, which features conflicted characters filled with rage and wants for revenge, yet fiercely protective of the ones they trust enough to love. There is no good and evil, but rather a beautifully dark grey where monsters who aren¡¯t really monsters live.]]> 394 Apolline Lucy Edgar Allan Hoe 0 3.60 2023
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.60
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]]> 205833753 Capture one harmless fugitive. What could go wrong?

Nyssa Blacksea is eager to silence her doubters. The only warrior in her guild without magick, she¡¯s forced to rely solely on her martial arts mastery, unwavering confidence, and charisma. When given the chance to hunt down a mysterious woman named Quinn, and earn the coveted title of Ashcloak, Nyssa seizes the opportunity. Track down a fugitive? An easy task.

There¡¯s just one problem¡ªQuinn ¾±²õ²Ô¡¯³Ù receptive to Nyssa¡¯s charms and refuses to go down without a fight. Dangerous secrets swirl around Quinn and a treacherous guild leader, rattling Nyssa¡¯s faith in the very system that raised her.

Though troubled by the sinking feeling she¡¯s not meant to survive the mission, Nyssa confronts the dangers awaiting her, clashing with pirates, assassins, and undead horrors. Duty pulls her in one direction, but a strange, undeniable spark of connection draws her towards Quinn. With only her heart and code of honor to guide her, Nyssa risks death to stay true to herself.

For readers who love unique epic fantasy set against a semi-modern backdrop, featuring a sapphic enemies-to-lovers slow burn romance. Unworthy will appeal to fans of Arcane (Netflix), The Legend of Korra, and Gideon the Ninth.]]> 447 J.A. Vodvarka Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.37
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> 184447530 Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as never seen before.

For centuries, colossi have besieged the gates of Elysium. Each day, the city¡¯s fall looms closer.

As one of Elysium¡¯s rulers, Hades has long sought to break this stalemate. In Persephone, a cyborg tailor-made to kill, she finds the key to victory and the perfect pilot for her war machine. She will acquire Persephone at any cost.

Born to wield violence and with the bloodthirst to match, Persephone chafes under her mother¡¯s control. At the first opportunity, she brutally breaks free and seeks sanctuary with the unlikeliest of the Lord of the Machine Dead, the Master of the Underworld.

All Hades and Persephone have to do to realize their goals is to navigate the city¡¯s treacherous politics¡ªand survive the coming war.]]> 418 Maria Ying Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.36 2024
author: Maria Ying
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.36
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]]> 223338534 Fates collide and passions ignite in New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer¡¯s steamy adult fantasy debut about three characters torn between chasing, betraying, and craving each other: a princess caught between duty and desire, the fearsome warrior king she¡¯s promised to, and the assassin now tasked with hunting them down.

WARRIOR. King Maddox Kyronan¡¯s fire magic has earned him a ruthless reputation on the battlefield, but now his land is slowly burning. Ky¡¯s only chance to save his people is to enter a marriage alliance with the neighboring nation of Astranza, and hope that their royal family¡¯s power to manipulate the weather will help his kingdom flourish once more. He just needs to ensure no one finds out how this blaze began.

PRINCESS. With enemies advancing on Astranza, Princess Jory¡¯s home needs the protection of the fearsome warrior king, but she is hiding a dangerous secret: her family¡¯s magic is fading. Tempting as it is to reject her duties and run away with her childhood friend, Asher, Jory knows that she is the kingdom¡¯s last hope. When she meets her intended, Jory is surprised to discover that beneath Ky¡¯s daunting exterior is a compassionate and sharp-witted man who sets her heart aflame. But what will he do when he realizes she¡¯s deceiving him?

ASSASSIN. Asher¡¯s done what he must to survive, even if that means getting his hands dirty. Once a young nobleman in Astranza¡¯s palace, where he and Jory caused mischief together, now he¡¯s part of the Hunter¡¯s Guild, employing much darker skills. When a lucrative job comes his way, Asher can¡¯t say no¡ªuntil he discovers the targets. Someone wants Ky and Jory dead. With the Guild watching, Asher must decide what he¡¯s willing to do to protect the woman he loves.

A tale of three complex characters torn between chasing, betraying, and craving each other, Warrior Princess Assassin marks the beginning of a thrilling new fantasy trilogy filled with enchantment, adventure, and passionate romance.]]> 400 Brigid Kemmerer 0063450879 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 to-read 4.14 2025
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name: Edgar Allan Hoe
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]]> 42607 As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.

Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns cross-dressing. Most of Orlando¡¯s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, ¡°Ganymede.¡± At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl.]]> 263 William Shakespeare 074348486X Edgar Allan Hoe 1 3.81 1599
author: William Shakespeare
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1599
rating: 1
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why am I taking a Shakespeare studies class when I fucking hate the guy
]]> 21816586 No-No Boy has the honor of being the very first Japanese-American novel," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword to John Okada's classic of Asian-American literature. First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese-American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.

No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world."

The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.]]> 232 John Okada 0295994045 Edgar Allan Hoe 4 4.04 1956
author: John Okada
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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]]> 60784419 A Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors' Pick for Amazon

For fans who have always wanted their Twin Peaks to have some wizards, The Warden is a non-stop action adventure story from author Daniel M. Ford.

There was a plan.

She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was become one of the only female necromancers, earn as many degrees as possible, get a post in one of the grand cities, then prove she¡¯s capable of greatness. The funny thing about plans is that they are seldom under your control.

Now Aelis de Lenti, a daughter of a noble house and recent graduate of the esteemed Magisters¡¯ Lyceum, finds herself in the far-removed village of Lone Pine. Mending fences, matching wits with goats, and serving people who want nothing to do with her. But, not all is well in Lone Pine, and as the villagers Aelis is reluctantly getting to know start to behave strangely, Aelis begins to suspect that there is far greater need for a Warden of her talents than she previously thought.

Old magics are restless, and an insignificant village on the farthest border of the kingdom might hold secrets far beyond what anyone expected. Aelis might be the only person standing between one of the greatest evils ever known and the rest of the world.]]> 307 Daniel M. Ford 1250815657 Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.73 2023
author: Daniel M. Ford
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2023
rating: 2
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this read like a younger YA novel but with cuss words why is this considered adult?
]]> 201129898 Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure?inspired by the legend of Mulan follows a young woman?determined to choose her own destiny¡ªeven if that means going against everyone she loves.

The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin¡¯s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry. But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent, ill-tempered man, she realizes that nothing will change for her unless she takes matters into her own hands.

The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father¡¯s place.

In the army, Meilin's relentless hard work brings her recognition, friendship¡ªand a growing closeness with Sky, a prince turned training partner. But has she simply exchanged one prison for another??As her kingdom barrels toward destruction, Meilin begins to have visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.

With the future of the Three Kingdoms hanging in the balance, Meilin will need to decide whom to trust¡ªSky, who inspires her loyalty and love; the sea dragon spirit, who has his own murky agenda; or an infuriating enemy prince who makes her question everything she once knew¡ªabout her kingdom and about her own heart.]]> 432 K.X. Song 0593815726 Edgar Allan Hoe 3 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.80 2024
author: K.X. Song
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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]]> 853949 The second book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.

Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, is the last of the Little House girls. Going fishing for the first time, starting in a new school, saving the farmhouse from a fire¡ªthese are just a few things that happen during young Rose Wilder's first year at Rocky Ridge Farm. She and her parents, Laura and Almanzo, have moved to the Missouri Ozarks to begin a new life. Rose feels out of place as the new girl in her class but gradually gains confidence, and Rocky Ridge truly becomes her home.]]> 286 Roger Lea MacBride 0064405109 Edgar Allan Hoe 0 4.05 1994
author: Roger Lea MacBride
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1994
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]]> 24727085 ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP
Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical talent a bonus. Must be good with heights. Enter Baba Yaga's house to apply.

Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with a witch, but not Masha. Her beloved grandma taught her many things: that stories are useful, that magic is fickle, and that nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure. She may be clever enough to enter Baba Yaga's house on chicken legs, but within its walls, deceit is the rule. To earn her place, Masha must pass a series of tests, outfox a territorial bear, and make dinner for her host. No easy task, with children on the menu!

Wry, spooky and poignant, Marika McCoola's debut--with richly layered art by acclaimed graphic artist Emily Carroll--is a storytelling feat and a visual fest.]]> 132 Marika McCoola 076366961X Edgar Allan Hoe 2 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.88 2015
author: Marika McCoola
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2015
rating: 2
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]]> 854252 Pioneer for a New Century

Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the Little House girls.

Rose and her parents, Laura and Almanzo, say good-bye to Ma and Pa Ingalls and Laura's sisters. In a covered wagon containing all their possessions, they make their way across the drought-stricken Midwest to the lush green valleys of southern Missouri. The journey is long and not always easy, but at the end is the promise of a new home and a new life for the Wilders.

Little House on Rocky Ridge is the first book in The Rose Years, an ongoing series about another spirited girl from America's most beloved pioneer family.]]> 353 Roger Lea MacBride 0064404781 Edgar Allan Hoe 4 books-i-own, read-in-2025 3.93 1993
author: Roger Lea MacBride
name: Edgar Allan Hoe
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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