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Favourite Reads of 2022
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
The year is 1918 when a little girl named Jade gets sold into a courtesan school and told never to come back home by her mother. Not too far away, a young boy named Nam Jungho, the son of a hunter, arrives in Seoul in…
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Dead Silence by S.A Barnes
20 years ago, the Aurora, a luxury space vessel, went missing on its maiden voyage, carrying close to 700 people on board for a tour across the space. When the team lead of a comm web maintenance mission, Claire Kovalik, finds the lost ship, she…
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Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Nora Stephens is the career-driven, city person that gets left behind in the typical romance novels when the male character heads to a small town for a business trip and has a “reawakening”. So, when her sister Libby insists that they take a trip to…
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The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
Wylie Lark is a true-crime writer. So what if her writing retreat comes at the cost of being isolated in a farmhouse with a grisly history of murder, and there’s a snowstorm that has sealed her in? It’s nothing she can’t handle. But that’s until…
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A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
Seven years ago, Cheesemaster Grandible found Neverfell abandoned, hiding away in his cheese tunnels. Now, he keeps her hidden away from the rest of Caverna, fearful of what may come to pass should the Court and their enemies find the truth behind Neverfell’s presence in…
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
Emmett Farmer’s days are spent working at his family farm, all the while striving to keep the symptoms of his illness from taking over. But when a letter comes for him, he finds himself sent off to be a binder’s apprentice. In a world where…
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Twenty-Five Twenty-One: Putting Life in Perspective with a 90s-Themed Korean Drama
We may never know our parents the way we know ourselves; insecurities, first love, purpose, and grief carved onto the crevices of our soul. This was true for Kim Min Chae, daughter of Na Hee Do, a long-reigning South Korean fencing champion. Well, until the time Min Chae stumbles upon her mother’s journals and begins…
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