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Hazelthorn

“Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn’t know how to scream." Author: CG Drews Evander’s past sticks in him like broken shards: half formed and half seen memories of unthinkable violence. A young blond boy, a playmate, a shovel, so much blood and viscera spilling out. And now, forever an invalid, Evander is nearly grown, secreted away in his room turned prison in the Hazelthorn estate, hidden by his billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall. He is also hidden from Hall’s beautiful, deadly grandson – Laurie – the playmate who took adventure and transformed it into attempted murder. Laurie, [...]

2026-10-05T19:35:25-07:00October 5th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Cartographers, The

“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.” Author: Peng Shepherd To us, maps may just be a means to an end, a way to navigate from point A to point B. But what are maps, actually? They are visual storytellers, magical doors that go beyond mere navigation to reveal the heart and beauty of a place, even its secrets. This is how Nell Young felt her whole life, learning from her esteemed father, Dr. Daniel Young, who is a legend in the field of cartography and high-up in the map-lovers academic paradise, the New York [...]

Oasis

"The desert . . . . it’ll devour you whole if you display any sign of weakness." Author: Katya De Becerra While I was reading Oasis, Trav and I were housebound by the Snowcrete, so a book set in a lovely hot desert with supernatural overtones sounded like the perfect way to break the ice and free me to adventure, if only in my mind. It starts, as these things inevitably do, with a band of young friends, freshly graduated from high school and looking for their last hurrah before going off to separate colleges. Alif is our main character. Her [...]

2026-04-09T17:50:16-07:00April 9th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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