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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Alice of Oz

by Terence Sullivan

Some mirrors remember. This one has been waiting for Alice.

Most portal fantasies open with a door. Alice of Oz by Terence Sullivan opens with an iron tub of ice water in a mildewed London cellar, a soft-voiced doctor standing behind a shivering girl, and a single instruction: no more rabb…

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Editor’s pick★ 5

GIANT- 2nd Inspector Shaktawat Thriller

by Vijay Medtia

One murder. One honest inspector. One enemy too big to see.

GIANT, 2nd Inspector Shaktawat Thriller, by Vijay Medtia opens on a half-built tower on the edge of Santacruz and Andheri. Twelve floors sanctioned on paper, six standing in reality.

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Editor’s pick★ 4

The Last King of Faerie

by Cassandra Clare

The youngest Blackthorn was never supposed to be the one they came for.

Four years after the Dark Artifices, Dru Blackthorn is a prisoner of the Seelie Court and Kit and Ty are crossing Europe to reach her. Clare opens her final Shadowhunter series with her best heroine in years and a sharp captive ro…

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

He bought every face on the wall. Then he went looking for their owners.

An 86-year-old Portuguese stranger buys every pencil portrait on a coffee shop wall and hands each one to the person it shows. Levi's self-published phenomenon is generous, funny and deeply felt, though its hero is close to flawle…

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Editor’s pick★ 4.5

Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?

by Judi Dench

Seventy years on the stage, and the bag is still by the door.

Judi Dench talks her way through 26 themed chapters with her friend Brendan O'Hea, from a wartime York childhood to the garden where she plants trees for lost friends. Funny, filthy and quietly devastating about her husband, thoug…

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To Vex & To Hex

by Neena Noon

A witch who runs a Long Island bookshop wages a prank war on her boss's estranged grandson, a tweedy Dublin professor with no magic. Neena Noon's debut has real comedy, a warm Main Street and a lonely hero written with care, but it leans on miscommunication tw…

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ColdwireChloe Gong★ 4

Captive Traitor KingBrigid Kemmerer★ 4

Monsters of OhioJohn Scalzi★ 4

Defy the DuskDanielle L. Jensen★ 4

★ 4WantedPaisley Hope

★ 4Dangerous ImpulsesJennifer Lynn Barnes

★ 3.5Warm BodiesJohn Marrs

★ 3.5The Woman I’ve BecomeDebra Webb

★ 4The Wolves of WarJohn Gwynne

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This Wretched Alchemy

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RomanceAn icy vampire corporate heiress and a human software engineer must team up to thwart the saboteur who’s turned their sexy human-vampire dating app in…See the book →Swipe BiteAlexandra VastiOut tomorrow

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HorrorFlickering neon lights and hot Miami nights turn deadly in this gothic horror about a daughter investigating her best friend’s disappearance at an aba…See the book →Until the Last Light Goes OutCourtney GouldOut tomorrow

RomanceA forbidden love forces a shift in gears in the next sizzling Formula 1 romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Cross the Line.Formula 1 driv…See the book →Crash into YouSimone SoltaniOut tomorrow

FantasyA RICH, DARKLY WHIMSICAL FANTASY WITH A TOUCH OF HORROR AND A SLOW-BURN ROMANCE.Linh's mother was just buried this morning. At the funeral, Linh is vi…See the book →Blood of SilverAllie NguyenOut tomorrow

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by Rebecca Yarros · Tuesday 17 November

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#9FantasyFirst in the enchanting new epic by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lost Bride TrilogyNiamh McShane was born a witch and died a witch…See the book →Birth of the WitchNora RobertsIn 8 days · 17 Nov

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#1Romance“A funny and moving story about living with mental illness, surviving loss, and finding the love we all deserve. A compulsively readable delight.” –#1…See the book →Compulsively YoursAllison RaskinIn 29 days · 8 Dec

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