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Beauty and the Vampire, Book 1: A Dark Paranormal Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Vampire Trilogy)
Demelza Brown • 2022
<p>This vampire is worse than a beast.</p><p><br></p><p>For years the Earl of Blackbourne has suffered a thirst for blood and a desire for flesh. His victims have been many. But hope arrives in the form of a vain but beautiful debutante, whose servants could satiate his appetites while he attempts to undo his curse.</p><p><br></p><p>An oppressed indentured servant, Daliyah yearns only for her freedom. When she finds herself trapped at Castle Blackbourne, it's not just her freedom that's in peril. If she succumbs to the ravenous fangs of the Earl, her body will be his to take and her life his to drain.</p><p><br></p><p>If you like your fairy tales dark and steamy, enter the darkness of Beauty and the Vampire today. </p><p><br></p><p>Themes: Vampire Romance, Paranormal Romance, Dark Romance, Supernatural, Historical, Steamy, Adult</p>

The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Madeline Miller • 2012
A New York Times Bestseller<br/>“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House<br/>A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the bestselling author of Circe<br/>A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights—and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.<br/>“A captivating retelling of The Iliad and events leading up to it through the point of view of Patroclus: it’s a hard book to put down, and any classicist will be enthralled by her characterisation of the goddess Thetis, which carries the true savagery and chill of antiquity.” — Donna Tartt, The Times
Emma: Jane Austen
Jane Austen • 2016

Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid • 2021
A Best Book of the Year:<br/>The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage<br/><br/>Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize<br/><br/>An Instant New York Times Bestseller<br/><br/>A Reese's Book Club Pick<br/><br/>"The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly<br/><br/>"I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPR<br/><br/>A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.<br/><br/>Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.<br/><br/>But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.<br/><br/>With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
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The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia
Jane Austen • 2017
