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A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

After a phone call with her brother, Sam chalks up his concerns for their mom as just that – a son’s habitual worry for his aged mother.

But the moment she steps through the doorway of her childhood home, everything feels wrong. The house no longer looks like it once did, her mom is acting strange, and Sam wakes up to whispers that are vaguely familiar.

Read if you like: paranormal fiction, a protagonist with a science-field job, creepy and weird stories, fantasy with humour

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Take the Lead by Alexis Daria

The stakes are high this season of The Dance Off for Gina Morales. If she doesn’t make it to the finals on the reality show, she’ll be out of a job.

When the celebrity assigned to her, Stone Nielson threatens to crumble all the walls she has built around herself, Gina is compelled to choose between her career and a shot at happiness with Stone.

Read if you like: romance contemporary novels, forbidden love trope, themes of media & dance reality television, books with Latina protagonists, s...

Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

Christa is stuck in a nightmare that doesn’t end. She and her boyfriend were on their way to a vacation lodge in the mountains when everything goes wrong. Christa wakes up in a cabin full of her tour companions who say that Kiernan never made it back through the snowstorm.

Her plans to find him are foiled when one by one, the people in the cabin wind up brutally murdered, and Christa is now forced to watch her back every step she takes in the dark, unforgiving landscape.

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Sell Like Crazy by Sabri Suby

A great starting point for business owners or anyone looking to excel at sales, Sell Like Crazy presents a well-rounded understanding of how to market a product/ service.

As the founder of a renowned digital marketing agency, Sabri Suby brings his experience of working with thousands of businesses to make this nonfiction book valuable.

Read if you like: nonfiction books about sales or marketing, books by founders, practical insights on running a business

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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Rosemary joins The Wayfarer ship, eager to put distance between her former identity and her family. When the captain of the ship, Ashby gets an offer that will keep the crew financially stable for a while, he accepts the mission, not knowing just how treacherous the long space journey is going to be.

Read if you like: science fiction books with loads of different species, a motley group of characters, intricate world-building, AI, space adventure, protagonists with a mysterious past

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In Order To Live by Park Yeonmi

A nonfiction book that reveals the harrowing circumstances Park Yeonmi and her family have gone through as North Koreans looking for freedom.

In Order To Live is not just a woman’s call for change, it is an eye-opener about the crimes against humanity that are to this very day carried out in the world.

Read if you like: memoirs, stories about freedom & resilience, books set in multiple countries, North Korean refugee stories, books that depict harsh realities

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Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Meddy Chan is ready to put her past troubles behind her and focus on the good – her marriage to Nathan Chan, her college sweetheart.

But when her wedding planner turns out to be part of a mafia family and is planning an execution during her wedding, her aunts once again step in to save the day and keep Meddy from trouble.

Read if you like: light mystery novels, books with Asian families & culture, wedding-themed plot, chaotic comedies

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The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail

It’s 2014 and a city in northern Iraq has been taken over by an extremist religious organisation. Helen and hundreds of women face horrors beyond their worst nightmares as they are sold off to men who bid for them in an auction.

Driven to find out what happened to her husband and escape the organisation’s control, she hurtles headlong into a dangerous mission.

Read if you like: historical fictions set in Iraq, books about atrocities women face, stories of resilience and freedom, themes of ...

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

Matriarch of the Montoya family, Orquídea Divina Montoya, invites her children and grandchildren to collect their inheritance. She is not long for this world, and must warn them about the dangers she’s been running from.

Zoraida Cordova’s fantasy novel bursts with life, reminding us of the power of family and traditions.

Read if you like: stories about large intergenerational families, themes of magical realism & fantasy, a mysterious matriarch, multi-timeline narrative with multiple POVs...

The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion

Sharon Lemke spots something she shouldn’t have. A little girl washing dishes at night in the house next door. But the Flemings don’t have a girl living in their house. Even when Sharon probes into the matter, her efforts are thwarted.

Karen McQuestion’s mystery novel depicts the horrors of neglectful parenting and the cost of silence.

Read if you like: suburban mystery novels, books with older main characters, narcissistic antagonists, unlikely friendship trope, dark themes related to pa...