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Five
by Ilona Bannister
Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die.
Ilona Bannister’s Five introduces readers to five seemingly random people waiting for a train. But these are not just any five people. From the beginning we know that one of them is going to die soon. Very soon. In five minutes the next train to London will arrive, killing one of them. But before this happens you will learn their stories. These are the candidates for this morning’s misfortune. But they don’t know it. Only you know. And you, our complicit reader, will not be able to resist deciding who deserves to walk away, and who deserves only five more minutes to live.
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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
by Ilona Andrews
Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new epic fantasy series.
When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, she immediately recognizes Kair Toren: a city she knows intimately from the dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading while waiting for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she's coming to love.
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Songs of the Dead
by Brandon Sanderson
A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe.
When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London’s West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history. Many of those who reside in the stratums of London’s past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past. A past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake.
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The Mortons
by Justine Larbalestier
Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency—and business is booming.
The Mortons are a modern day, old-money dynasty with impeccable taste, from their exquisitely crafted cocktails to their expertly tailored vintage garments. They are also stone-cold killers. For the Mortons, homicide is heritage. They, along with the other legacy crime families, send their progeny to Helshire College, where the legacy kids strategically intermingle with ordinary students from wealthy families. Jessica Morton has always excelled at Helshire. Now, having committed her first kill at her matriarch's behest, it should be Jessica's moment, her honor. But that kill will cut more ways than one, unknotting deep secrets that propel a series of revelations.
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The Body
by Bethany C. Morrow
One woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.
Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right. Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife.
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Carry Me to My Grave
by Christopher Golden
A man tries to protect his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them.
Maggie Wise will take your eyes.
When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings have left Malcolm and his sister-in-law Violet to hold a vigil at her bedside. But they’re not as alone as they think they are. A dark figure waits and watches from beneath the willow tree across the street. Across the country, other buried things begin to dream in anticipation of Maggie’s demise. On her deathbed, the old woman elicits a promise from Malcolm, her youngest child―when she dies, he and Violet must return her body to her birthplace in Shediak, Maine. Long-buried things are coming to make Maggie Wise pay for her past. God help anyone who stands in their way.
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Wisdom Untethered: The Time for Questions
by Michael A. Singer
A profound new guide to inner freedom and spiritual clarity.
In this groundbreaking guide, Singer explores the universal struggles we all face, such as the need to control, the fear of change and surrender, and the illusion that peace lies somewhere outside of ourselves. With clarity and compassion, he reveals that spiritual growth isn’t about fixing your outer life—it’s about releasing what blocks you from the love, clarity, and freedom that is already within you. Through insightful dialogues and timeless wisdom, Singer illuminates how every challenge—whether in relationships, work, or your own mind—can become a doorway to awakening. Life itself is the ultimate teacher, presenting daily opportunities to relax, release, and return to the calm center of your being.
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Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable
by Danielle Crittenden
Dispatches from Grief brings a journalist's eye to the landscape of loss.
On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden's world cleaved in two: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. With unflinching honesty and unexpected grace, she chronicles the shattering impact of a child's death and the strange afterlife of grief–how it infiltrates grocery stores and dinner parties, transforms friendships, and ultimately reshapes the mourner as fundamentally as the world. For those walking through grief, for those who love someone grieving, and for all who dare imagine how precious and precarious our time together is, this book stands as both singular portrait and universal truth.
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Invincible: Defy Your Genetic Destiny to Live Better, Longer
by Florence Comite
From endocrinologist and pioneering expert in longevity, this groundbreaking book reveals how precision medicine can be used to defy your genetic destiny and live healthier longer.
Your genes do not have to be your destiny. Endocrinologist and foremost female expert in longevity Florence Comite, MD has treated thousands of patients over twenty-plus years and collected significant data about how to reverse the diseases and symptoms of biological aging. Even into middle-age, you can reverse the unhealthy trajectory you're on, live disease-free and pain-free, be active and happy, and enjoy the energy of your twenties for the rest of your life to beyond 100. Aging badly is not inevitable. Aging well can make you invincible.
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When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine
by Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese, the first woman to serve as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, conveys the soul of a people through ten unforgettable stories of resilience and humanity.
The spirit of a place lies in the people who inhabit it, in the stories that intertwine through its streets. And this is especially true of a land like Palestine, the witness to defining historic transitions to one of the most painful chapters in contemporary history. With a voice both authoritative and deeply human, Francesca Albanese (who lived in Palestine for many years while following the legal battles of numerous Palestinian families) takes on the role of narrator and elegantly composes a gallery of stories, characters and places, starting with the stories of the people she met.
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The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (and Gain Ridiculous Amounts of Time) by Getting Out of Your Own Way
by Neal Schore
An elite executive coach brings us his proprietary approach to finding at least another hour in our day to do anything we want.
We often equate saving time with working smarter. If only we could cut unnecessary meetings, streamline emails, and collaborate more strategically, we could claw back all the stolen hours in our day. While these tactical adjustments help, they only skim the surface. The real problem isn’t external, but internal. In The 25th Hour, Neal Schore reveals how our emotional reactions quietly eat away not just at our time but also our energy. It’s the unproductive worrying, the anxiety that blooms and spirals, the decisions we make based on fear, the obsession over other people’s actions and behaviors—all those complicated emotional dynamics that we so rarely address at work. In three parts, The 25th Hour offers a simple, practical, paradigm-shifting approach to professional development, moving the focus beyond strategies for greater efficiency to what really costs us so much time and our uncontrolled emotional responses.
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Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life
by Rachel Hartigan
Unravel one of history's greatest mysteries in this spellbinding narrative exploring three leading theories of Amelia Earhart’s tragic disappearance.
When Amelia Earhart’s plane disappeared in 1937, the clues poured in, attracting wild conspiracies about her tragic fate. In Lost, former National Geographic reporter Rachel Hartigan delves into Earhart’s disappearance, introducing a host of eccentric characters who have become obsessed with finding the truth. Did the great aviator crash land near the Marshall Islands, only to be captured by Japanese soldiers? Did she manage to land on Nikumaroro Island but die of injury or starvation? Or did she run out of fuel and crash into the ocean? Interspersed with the search for Earhart is the story of her extraordinary her unstable childhood, her itinerant early career, and how a PR-savvy publisher transformed her into an aviation icon and became her husband in an unconventional marriage.
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