The Cozy Lover<\/i><\/u><\/span> Read: The Teller of Small Fortunes<\/i><\/b> by Julie Leong<\/p>\n About<\/b>: A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.<\/i><\/p>\n Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells “small” fortunes: whether it will hail next week; which boy the barmaid will kiss; when the cow will calve. She knows from bitter experience that big fortunes come with big consequences\u2026<\/p>\n Even if it\u2019s a lonely life, it\u2019s better than the one she left behind. But a small fortune unexpectedly becomes something more when a (semi) reformed thief and an ex-mercenary recruit her into their desperate search for a lost child. Soon, they\u2019re joined by a baker with a knead for adventure, and\u2014of course\u2014a slightly magical cat.<\/p>\n Tao sets down a new path with companions as big-hearted as her fortunes are small. But as she lowers her walls, the shadows of her past are closing in\u2014and she\u2019ll have to decide whether to risk everything to preserve the family she never thought she could have.<\/p>\n The Never-Left-Their-YA-Phase Reader<\/i><\/u><\/span> Read: Watch Me<\/i><\/b> (Shatter Me: The New Republic #1) by Tahereh Mafi<\/p>\n About<\/b>: 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.<\/i><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo \u2014 Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner Anderson \u2014 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2014and when she\u2019s given an order to kill, she never hesitates.<\/p>\n 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\u2014<\/p>\n Who are we when no one is watching?<\/p>\n The Pub Trivia Teammate<\/i><\/u><\/span> Read: The Killer Question<\/i><\/b> by Janice Hallett<\/p>\n About<\/b>: Janice Hallett, \u201cthe new queen of crime\u201d (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub\u2019s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence.<\/i><\/p>\n Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes\u2014that is, until a body is found in the nearby river. Soon after, a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the diverse field of regulars by scoring top marks in every round…every week.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Sue and Mal have a secret of their own. Before arriving here, they were caught up in a secret police operation which meant they had to leave town\u2014and whatever happened back then seems to have finally caught up with them.<\/p>\n Five years later, the pub lies derelict, and their nephew Dominic is determined to make a documentary about their story. What happened at this unassuming pub? And can a single question really kill?<\/p>\n The Bestseller Follower<\/i><\/u><\/span> Read: My Friends<\/i><\/b> by Fredrik Backman<\/p>\n About<\/b>: #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger\u2019s life twenty-five years later.<\/i><\/p>\n Most people don\u2019t even notice them\u2014three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it\u2019s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.<\/p>\n Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.<\/p>\n Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa\u2019s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting\u2019s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she\u2019ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don\u2019t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.<\/p>\n The History Buff<\/i><\/u><\/span> Read: The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery<\/i><\/b> by Siddharth Kara <\/p>\n About<\/b>: From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement<\/i><\/p>\n In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa\u2019s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning \u201ccare\u201d) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.<\/p>\n After reaching Africa, the Zorg was captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of water. So a proposition was put forth: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slaves\u2014by throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard.<\/p>\n What followed was a fascinating legal drama in England\u2019s highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front-page news. The case of the Zorg catapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in history\u2014sparking the abolitionist movement in both England and the young United States<\/p>\n Siddharth Kara utilizes primary-source research, gripping storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover the Zorg\u2019s journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mysterious identity of the abolitionist who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.<\/p>\n source<\/a> 1<\/a> 2<\/a> 3<\/a> 4<\/a> 5<\/a><\/p>\n are you wishing for any books this Christmas?? \/\/ book post?? \ud83d\udcda\ud83c\udf84 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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