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  • Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Three Sisters Island collection by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Dance Upon the Air: When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago . . . But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease...
  • Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver

    Ghost Hunter by Michelle Paver

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Her cry rips the souls from your marrow. With her spear she snares them. She devours them. Eostra truly is an eater of souls. Winter is coming. Souls' Night draws near. Eostra, the Eagle Owl Mage, holds the clans in the grip of terror. Torak must leave the Forest and seek her lair in the Mountain of Ghosts, while Renn faces an agonizing decision...
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  • A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    A Light in the Forest by Melissa Payne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago...
  • South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree...
  • The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

    The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. When her beloved Grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls...
  • The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift...
  • Confessor by Terry Goodkind

    Confessor by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost...
  • 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

    11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    GROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday. It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited -- after all, 11 is so different from 10. But from the start, everything goes wrong. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, with whom she's shared every birthday, are on the outs and this will be the first birthday they haven't shared together...
  • Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

    Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 122 ratings
    The masterpiece that started The New York Times bestselling epic Sword of Truth In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence...
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  • Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

    Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    As his beloved Kahlan lies close to death, Richard Rahl, who distrusts prophecy more than anyone, is confronted by a compelling vision - one that bears a terrible price. It would mean taking Kahlan away to safety while abandoning his people to a grim fate...
  • The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    The Pink House by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury...
  • Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Phantom by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to end. As her husband, Richard, desperately searches for his beloved, whom only he remembers, he knows that if she doesn't soon discover who she really is, she will unwittingly become the instrument that will unleash annihilation...
  • A Contemporary Mythos Halloween by Carly Spade

    A Contemporary Mythos Halloween by Carly Spade

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Stephanie became the Queen of the Underworld and goddess of the Elysian Fields, she exchanged her mortal life for an immortal one—a marriage to Hades, the King of Ash and Bone himself. In time she would become submerged into the new life of a Greek goddess, but a human life with human customs was all she knew, leaving her with momentary bouts of homesickness...
  • The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

    The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine...
  • Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing...
  • The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apothecary by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy...
  • Sunrunner's Fire by Melanie Rawn

    Sunrunner's Fire by Melanie Rawn

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, must master potentially deadly magical knowledge before he can confront the ancietn foe who nearly destroyed the Sunrunners ages ago.  But the enemy is mobilizing to strike again, drawing on forbidden lore to play an ever-shifting game of treachery and betrayal...
  • Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

    Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some houses seem to want to hold their secrets. It’s 1759 and the world is at war, pulling the North American colonies of Britain and France into the conflict. The times are complicated, as are the loyalties of many New York merchants who have secretly been trading with the French for years, defying Britain’s colonial laws in a game growing ever more treacherous...
  • The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    The Apprentices by Maile Meloy, Ian Schoenherr

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his father are treating the sick and wounded in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. But Benjamin has also been experimenting with a magical new formula that allows him to communicate with Janie across the globe...
  • The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

    The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Blends mythology, magic, archaeology and women. Traces four women, their path to the Masada massacre. In 70 CE, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Four bold, resourceful, and sensuous women come to Masada by a different path...
  • Body at the Bakery by Stella Berry

    Body at the Bakery by Stella Berry

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cornish Cream Tea with a dollop of death on the side.When a body is found in her sister's bakery, Morgana rushes to Ellie’s aid. She’s supposed to have ‘abilities’ to see more than most, but she’s suppressed them for years. However, if she wants to help Ellie, then it’s time to dust off her pointy hat and get back on that metaphorical broomstick...
  • The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    The Tarot Cafe, #4 by Sang-Sun Park

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The spirit of Shandy visits Pamela's dreams in the hopes of reconciling with his sister, Fay, before he leaves the Earth forever. With a tragic past of betrayal, cruelty and eventual friendship, Shandy will do whatever it takes to make peace with the sister, who's the cause of his unexpected death...
  • The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Helen Dunmore The Ingo Chronicles Series Collection 5 Books Set, (Stormswept, The Crossing of Ingo, The Deep, The Tide Knot and...
  • Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Calamity at the Carnival by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, Jackson's kisses keep coming, and despite the occasional moodiness of her ghostly housemate, Sunni is looking forward to the season.It's spring break in Firefly Junction and the Stockton Traveling Carnival has come to town. Sunni finds herself saddled with an uninspiring story assignment...
  • Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Double Trouble by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Firefly Junction meets Port Danby as Lola and Lacey take a trip to the Cider Ridge Inn in Double Trouble. Sunni Taylor is finally going to meet Lola Button, the quirky antique dealer who sold her some rather unusual old photos of Cider Ridge Inn. When Lola arrives with her best friend, Lacey Pinkerton, Sunni and Lacey find they have a lot in common...
  • The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine

    The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caractacus, king of the mighty Catuvellauni tribe, and the invading Romans...
  • Gypsy by Trisha Leigh

    Gypsy by Trisha Leigh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Inconsequential: not important or significant. Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant, nonessential, irrelevant In the world of genetic mutation, Gypsy’s talent of knowing a person’s age of death is considered a failure...
  • The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” ( Shelf Awareness ) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time.When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate...
  • The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” ( Shelf Awareness ) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time.When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate...
  • The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time. When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate...
  • The Promise by Apryl Baker

    The Promise by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Armed with kick-ass shoes, can CJ stop a maniacal coven leader, save the town, and still get Mr. Melt In Your Mouth Gorgeous while surviving the darkness coming for her? The smoke from the fire burned her eyes, its heat caressed her skin and the taste of fear choked her. She was going to burn just as her ancestor did all those centuries ago in New Salem Village...
  • The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney

    The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Magical beings have been banned from the Golden City for decades, though many live there in secret. Now humans and nonhumans alike are in danger as evil stalks the streets, growing more powerful with every kill….   It’s been two weeks since Oriana Paredes was banished from the Golden City...
  • A Seamless Murder (Harlow Cassidy (Magical Dressmaking) Mysteries #6) by Melissa Bourbon

    A Seamless Murder (Harlow Cassidy (Magical Dressmaking) Mysteries #6) by Melissa Bourbon

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder.... Any garment Harlow stitches together has the power to grant the deepest desire of whomever wears it. So when she’s asked to sew aprons for a local women’s group, Harlow must get to know each member...
  • Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

    Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 71 ratings
    Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. The New World, and all the freedom of humankind, is under threat from the Imperial Order after he had brought down the barrier between the Old and New World. The Imperial Order has already sent delegations and armies into the New World...
  • Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris

    Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The tantalizing sequel to the blockbuster New York Times bestseller Chocolat Even before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism, whimsy, and, of course, chocolate...
  • Pies and Potions by Rose Pressey

    Pies and Potions by Rose Pressey

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elly's back and dishing up more magic! Elly Blair is finally getting the hang of her magic skills. That is, until the National Organization for Magic introduces her to a new type of magic: potions. Each year before the fall equinox, a special potion must be given to the residents of Mystic Hollow, Kentucky. But when the spell goes awry, Elly fears she's to blame...
  • Charms and Chocolate Chips by Bailey Cates

    Charms and Chocolate Chips by Bailey Cates

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Between brewing magically spiced treats at Honeybee Bakery and volunteering with a local conservation group, Katie Lightfoot barely has time to see her firefighter boyfriend, Declan McCarthy, much less delve further into her destiny as a witch. But avoiding her fate won't be as easy as whipping up a new recipe-especially when Katie finds herself once again mixed up in murder...
  • The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Gaughan, Evie Woods

    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Gaughan, Evie Woods

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Edie is … not in Paris?Edie Lane left everything behind in Ireland for a once-in-a-lifetime job at a bakery in Paris. Except, thanks to a mistranslation, the bakery is not in Paris, and neither is Edie.The tiny town of Compiègne, complete with its local bakery on the Rue de Paris, holds many secrets...
  • Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels

    Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death...
  • The Sight by Jude Watson, Judy Blundell

    The Sight by Jude Watson, Judy Blundell

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A pair of supernatural mysteries from National Book Award winner Judy Blundell. Gracie has premonitions. They've haunted her since before her mother's death, and she can't get rid of them. She doesn't know how to deal with them and she doesn't want to--they've never led to anything good. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future--it just comes to her...
  • Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

    Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Ancient sorcerous barriers have been overthrown, freeing the sadistic Imperial Order to pillage the rest of the world. Far from the land he rules, his life and powers draining with each day, Richard Rahl must help a desperate people-and teach them the meaning of freedom...
  • Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

    Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    ...Until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading of the woman's will. Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a siazable estate--if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage...
  • Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton

    Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens...
  • The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore

    The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious and handsome Frenchman. Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” ( Daily Express , UK) of Santa Montefiore’s tender and powerful novel about passion, loss, and the healing power of love.It begins as Miranda and David Claybourne move into a country house with a once-beautiful garden...
  • Shatter by Elizabeth C. Mock

    Shatter by Elizabeth C. Mock

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    "Growing up during the chaos of the Nabosian War, Faela Durante and her entire generation never knew what it meant to live in a time of peace. Though the war ended years ago, the devastation has not. Every decision, no matter how seemingly insignificant, has a consequence and some consequences can never be predicted. But some are foretold...
  • Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair by Wendy Mass

    Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair by Wendy Mass

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    There are two sides to every story -- even fairy tales. A he said/she said series with a prince and princess twist.Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. She's been stolen from home by an evil witch, locked in an incredibly high tower, and doesn't even have a decent brush for her hair. Prince Benjamin is in a pretty uncomfortable situation himself...
  • Ageless Sea by M.R. Polish

    Ageless Sea by M.R. Polish

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The crash was no accident. Fate carried Brady and his airplane to the isolated island where Karis was banished to live alone. She feared the worst as she sifted through the wreckage, sure that no one could survive. But there he was, barely breathing yet still alive. The closer she got to him, the more her powers awakened. He was like a magnet she was drawn to...
  • The Library Game by Gigi Pandian

    The Library Game by Gigi Pandian

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In The Library Game, Tempest Raj and Secret Staircase Construction are renovating a classic detective fiction library that just got its first real-life mystery.Tempest Raj couldn’t be happier that the family business, Secret Staircase Construction, is finally getting the recognition it deserves...
  • All the Breaking Waves by Kerry Lonsdale

    All the Breaking Waves by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes a gripping tale of long-buried secrets, the strength of forgiveness, and the healing power of returning home for good. After a harrowing accident tore her family apart, Molly Brennan fled from the man she loved and the tragic mistake she made...
  • Cattitude by Edie Ramer

    Cattitude by Edie Ramer

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's all in the Cattitude... After Belle the cat switches bodies with a psychic on the run from a murderer, she wants her perfect cat body back instead of this furless human one. But she doesn't count on falling in love with her former owner. Or that a CEO and a beauty queen want to use up her nine lives. Now is her chance to prove anything a human can do, a cat can do better...
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