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Code Name Verity unfolds through a confession written under captivity in Nazi-occupied France.
Code Name Verity
Historical Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · War Fiction · World War 2
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Code Name Verity unfolds through a confession written under captivity in Nazi-occupied France. After a spy plane crashes, one young woman is imprisoned and forced to recount her mission piece by piece. As her story circles back to friendship, sacrifice, and survival, truth becomes both weapon and shield. This historical novel blends espionage with emotional depth, examining courage under pressure and the cost of loyalty.
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The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times)
"A heart-in-your mouth adventure (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson).
October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
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Protection and obsession blur when the person watching from across the street may not be the hero he believes himself to be.
The Guy Next Door
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Bisexual Romance · Gay Romance · New Adult · Romantic Suspense
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Protection and obsession blur when the person watching from across the street may not be the hero he believes himself to be. Zane moves next door to keep Leif safe from a threat no one else sees, even as his own motives grow complicated. When attraction and suspicion collide, trust becomes fragile and dangerous. The Guy Next Door is an MM romantic suspense novel about desire, perception, and the fear of being wrong.
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ZANE
Is it wrong that I watch him?
Leif Anderson seems like a friendly, kind, normal, boy-next-door type.
Unlike me.
His stalker, a creep who moved into the place next to his parents' house to keep an eye on him.
I'm not the bad guy, though.
I'm the one who will protect him.
The cops don't believe he's in danger.
Maybe they're right, and this is all in my messed-up head.
I've been wrong before.
And no matter how I justify this to myself, my motives aren't entirely pure.
It's impossible to watch a guy this hot walking around in those adorable beanies without getting a little turned on.
When he discovers my secret surveillance, I'm sure it's over.
No way he believes my reasons for watching him, but he doesn't report me for my crime.
He's curious about me in a way I don't expect from a straight guy.
Or as I quickly learn, maybe not so straight.
Before I know it, we're on a journey, exploring this wild, exciting part of Leif while I try to keep him safe from harm.
But the closer we get to one another, the more I wonder: what if it was all in my head?
What if no one's coming for him?
What if the real threat to Leif is me, the guy next door?
CW: The Guy Next Door is a steamy romantic suspense novel but contains content that may trigger some readers. Please use the "Look Inside" preview to view the complete CW at the start of the book. This warning contains spoilers for the novel.
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I Will Mend You traps its story inside fractured memory, where rescue and ruin feel indistinguishable.
I Will Mend You
Romance · Gothic Romance · Psychological Thriller
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I Will Mend You traps its story inside fractured memory, where rescue and ruin feel indistinguishable. Amethyst is imprisoned in a nightmare shaped by trauma, while Xero moves through her mind as both ghost and threat. Told through dual unreliable perspectives, this dark romance leans into obsession, vengeance, and psychological survival, with disturbing themes that blur the line between protection and destruction.
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My worst nightmare finally stepped out of the mirror.
And the only man who can save me is a ghost.
Prey
I'm trapped in a forgotten nightmare with the monster I most fear.
The key to my freedom lies behind a wall of memories.
Xero's specter invades my mind, whispering both vengeance and salvation.
He insists he's real, yet I can't trust my shattered psyche.
But as my tormentors draw close, I must rely on the phantom I betrayed for protection—and for revenge.
Predator
She’s ensnared by darkness, and only I can set her free.
To save her, I must become the vengeful spirit she fears.
Amethyst’s mind is a maze of terror and confusion.
Freeing her will mean confronting the darkest parts of my past.
Vengeance will be mine, but first, I must earn redemption.
Because if I fail to save my little ghost, I will reduce the world to ashes.
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Best Man follows control-loving agency boss Zeb Evans, whose orderly life unravels when he asks his chaotic employee Jesse Reed to fake being his boyfriend at a wedding.
Best Man
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Gay Romance
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Best Man follows control-loving agency boss Zeb Evans, whose orderly life unravels when he asks his chaotic employee Jesse Reed to fake being his boyfriend at a wedding. What starts as a convenient arrangement quickly challenges Zeb’s rules, defenses, and assumptions about love, age, and power. This warm, funny romance explores vulnerability, opposites, and the risk of letting go.
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Zeb Evans doesn’t do messy.
The product of a disorganised and chaotic childhood, Zeb likes order and control, and as the boss of his own employment agency he can give that to himself. Life runs along strict lines and he never mixes business with pleasure. Everything in his life lives in neat, alphabetized boxes. Until Jesse.
Jesse Reed is Zeb’s complete opposite. He’s chaos personified. A whirling cyclone of disorder. He’s also charming and funny and a very unwanted distraction. Which is why it comes as a complete surprise to Zeb to find himself asking Jesse to pose as his boyfriend for a few days in the country at a wedding.
Zeb doesn’t do impulsive, but as the time away progresses, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the merry and irreverent Jesse. But can he bring himself to break the hard-won lessons he’s learnt in life? And even if he can, how could Jesse be attracted to him anyway? He’s so much older than Jesse, not to mention being his boss.
From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages and Finding Home series comes a warm and funny romance about one man’s fight for control and another man’s determination to circumvent it.
This is the first book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be read as a standalone.
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Magic promises certainty, but its greatest weakness is the person who wields it.
The Flaw in All Magic
Fantasy · Steampunk · Urban Fantasy
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Magic promises certainty, but its greatest weakness is the person who wields it. In The Flaw in All Magic, a nonmagical investigator is pulled back into a warded university after an impossible murder exposes cracks in a city built on spells. Forced to rely on logic, old grudges, and uncomfortable alliances, he uncovers a mystery where intellect matters more than power.
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In a city of magic, it takes a man with none to solve an impossible murder.
Tane Carver can't use magic, and he doesn't trust it. But he understands it better than most, even in a city of elves and dwarves and sprites and mages. So when an impossible murder is committed on the campus of a warded magical university, he's called in to consult.
The only problem is, it's the same university he was kicked out of for lying about his ability to use magic. And the lead investigator is an old flame who isn't so fond of him anymore. And then there's the half-crazy half-orc who insists she's his partner, whether he likes it or not. Oh, and the masked mage who keeps trying to kill him.
So there are a lot of problems, really.
Now, Tane’s life depends on the one truth that has never failed him. The flaw in all magic that those who have it like to ignore: the mage.
Outsmart the mage, and you outsmart the spell.
And outsmarting mages is what Tane does best.
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Imagine Me follows Juliette as the truth of Ella Sommers shatters everything she thought she knew.
Imagine Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Imagine Me follows Juliette as the truth of Ella Sommers shatters everything she thought she knew. With her memories returning and old enemies closing in, the final battle against The Reestablishment forces her to confront a destiny she never chose. With strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings and recognition across BookTok, this finale delivers high-stakes emotion and explosive revelations.
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The explosive last novel in Juliette and Warner's story, the globally bestselling Shatter Me series.
Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?
Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.
The day of reckoning for The Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.
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Defy Me follows Juliette Ferrars as her world collapses under the weight of long-buried truths.
Defy Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Defy Me follows Juliette Ferrars as her world collapses under the weight of long-buried truths. As memories resurface and everything she believed unravels, she must decide whether to be a weapon or a warrior, supported by Warner and her closest allies. With strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings, this installment pushes the Shatter Me series into deeper emotional territory.
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Restore Me follows Juliette Ferrars as she steps into her role as Supreme Commander, only to find her newfound power tested by tragedy and the darkness she thought…
Restore Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Restore Me follows Juliette Ferrars as she steps into her role as Supreme Commander, only to find her newfound power tested by tragedy and the darkness she thought she had mastered. With Warner at her side and the world watching, every choice becomes a reckoning. A New York Times bestseller with strong Amazon and Goodreads ratings, this installment deepens the series’ emotional stakes.
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An instant New York Times bestseller! Juliette and Warner’s story continues in the electrifying fourth installment of Tahereh Mafi’s bestselling Shatter Me series.
The girl with the power to kill with a single touch now has the world in the palm of her hand. Juliette Ferrars thought she’d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander of North America, and now has Warner by her side. But when tragedy strikes, she must confront the darkness that dwells both around and inside her.
Who will she become in the face of adversity? Will she be able to control the power she wields, and use it for good?
This bestselling series from powerhouse author Tahereh Mafi showcases relentlessly thrilling action, heart stopping romance, and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom.
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Ignite Me follows Juliette as she rises from the destruction of Omega Point and joins forces with Warner to master her powers and confront The Reestablishment.
Ignite Me
Dystopian · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Ignite Me follows Juliette as she rises from the destruction of Omega Point and joins forces with Warner to master her powers and confront The Reestablishment. Every alliance is fragile, every emotion sharpened by war, and her choices could decide the fate of their fractured world. With 4.6 stars on Amazon and more than 650,000 Goodreads ratings, this installment is a reader favorite.
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The explosive last novel in Juliette and Warner's story, the globally bestselling Shatter Me series.
Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?
Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong—between Ella and Juliette—blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.
The day of reckoning for The Reestablishment is coming. But she may not get to choose what side she fights on.
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On the sixth floor’s deadly Hunting Grounds, Carl and Princess Donut face dinosaurs, rival crawlers, and a sinister celebration known as the Butcher’s Masquerade.
The Butcher’s Masquerade
Fantasy · LitRPG
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On the sixth floor’s deadly Hunting Grounds, Carl and Princess Donut face dinosaurs, rival crawlers, and a sinister celebration known as the Butcher’s Masquerade. But when outside tourists are finally allowed in—and elite hunter Vrah joins the chase—the hunters become the hunted. Survival means fighting back harder than ever in the fifth explosive entry of Matt Dinniman’s series.
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Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose.
Run, Run, Run.
A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade.”
The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds.
As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.
But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed litrpg series.
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Murder, inheritance, and a garden that sounds extremely interested in human blood.
Hazelthorn
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Bisexual Romance · Body Horror · Gay Romance
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Murder, inheritance, and a garden that sounds extremely interested in human blood. This gothic horror throws Evander back into the orbit of the boy who once tried to kill him just as he inherits a sprawling estate, a fortune, and what appears to be a very alive botanical nightmare. With family secrets rotting at the roots and danger creeping through the walls, this one delivers body horror, obsession, and deeply unsettling atmosphere in equal measure.
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
CG Drews, instant New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Annihilation, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow:
He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie.
That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him.
When Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. But Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next.
Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering.
Childhood’s End
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Galactic Empire · Speculative Fiction
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When alien ships appear over Earth, the Overlords bring an end to war and suffering. Humanity enters an age of peace, but perfection hides a purpose no one can imagine. Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a haunting, prophetic masterpiece about evolution, utopia, and the cost of surrendering control to those who promise salvation.
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They came in silence, their ships shining above every city on Earth. They promised peace. They delivered something else.
When the Overlords arrive, humanity’s wars end overnight. Poverty, cruelty, and hunger vanish, replaced by a new golden age. Yet beneath this perfect order lies a mystery no one can unravel. The Overlords rule with unseen power, their true purpose hidden behind their calm benevolence.
As decades pass, a chilling truth emerges: their plan for humanity’s future will change the species forever.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a visionary masterpiece of science fiction, exploring the price of utopia, the limits of progress, and the destiny of a civilization that dares to dream beyond itself.
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