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Library book: The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Walsh

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Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books Published: May 19, 2026 Pages: 362 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Review: Library book  Amazon Carrie and Johan marry on a beach in Thailand only months into their whirlwind romance. Carrie, a British surgical intern, knows she’s being impulsive but is too happy to care. Then, as the wedding festivities stretch into the night, a group of armed men suddenly swarm the beach, taking Johan away. She never sees him again. Twelve years later, Carrie is living in the English countryside with her husband, Robin, and their six-year-old twins, running a holiday cottage rental. One night, she stumbles across an online post in which she discovers that Johan escaped from Thailand years ago and has been living in Stockholm ever since. As the memories of their passionate relationship flood her, she becomes obsessed with discovering exactly what happened on their wedding day. But just when Carrie thinks she knows what she must do, a shocking twist explodes, tearing apart ...
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Kindle Unlimited: I Went to Prison for Him by: B.M. Hardin

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Publisher: Hardin Book Co. Published: 6/10/2026 Pages: 381 Genre: Woman Saga, Urban Fantasy Review: Kindle Unlimited    Amazon “I Went To Prison For The Love Of My Life. Now, I’m Home And He Has A Wife.” Harmony wasn’t just down for Quincy…she was his ride or die. When his world got dangerous, she stepped in. When his life was on the line…she took the fall. She went to prison for him. And now that she's back home...the man she gave her life for belongs to somebody else. But love like Harmony's doesn’t just fade. And betrayal like Quincy's doesn’t go unpunished. Harmony didn’t survive prison just to come home and play second place. And one thing about a good woman…she can never be replaced. Lies, mistresses, betrayal and strife. Who would you kill to become someone's wife?
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Free Little Library read: Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate

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Publisher: Amulet Books Published: March 8, 2016 Pages: 356 Genre: YA/ Realistic Fiction Review: Paperback Amazon Seven students. Seven (deadly) sins. One secret. Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. And like every high school, every student has something to hide—from Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage, to Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal. When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame. For the seven unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change.
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NetGalley: The Danger of Small Things by Caryl Lewis

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing and Atheneum Books for Young Readers Published: March 24, 2026 Pages: 272 Genre: YA/Dystopian Review: NetGalley and Publisher ARC Amazon Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It’s a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It’s a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth. But even if one fourteen‑year‑old knows that brushes weren’t invented for pollinating, can she really stoke a revolution?
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NetGalley: Checking you Out by Jennifer Chen

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Publisher: Wednesday Books Published: 6/23/2026 Pages: 320 Genre: YA Romance Review: NetGalley and Publisher ARC Amazon Lizzie Wei is a huge book nerd, and proud of it. And when she realizes there is a mysterious reader who has been checking out all of her favorite books from the library, she can’t help but get a crush on someone she’s never even met. Her friends make it their mission to find Lizzie’s long lost book soulmate and convinces her to leave notes for her crush. But what if the person Lizzie is looking for, isn’t at all what she expects? Dylan Lin loves reading, secretly anyway. Ever since a bullying incident at his last school, he’s hidden his love of fantasy novels, instead leaning into his jock persona. Now he's the tennis team captain, runs every day, and actively avoids reading. So, when he decides to start volunteering at a kitten nursery, and his super cute co-volunteer Lizzie asks if he likes reading, he says no. He never expects the look of complete and utter di...
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NetGalley: Devious Prey by Scott Reintgen

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Published: 5/31/2026 Pages: 304 Genre: Fantasy/Sci-fi Review: NetGalley and Publisher ARC Amazon When an airship’s windmaster dies mid-flight, the crew and its passengers are swept out to sea by a violent storm. They crash on a desolate island, but they’re not alone. A dragoness had been stashed in the hold. After escaping a damaged cage, it begins preying on the surviving travelers in the hopes of remaining free. The stranded group’s best chance of making it home alive is the young woman who smuggled the dragoness on board in the first place—and the mysterious teen boy who was led onto the ship in chains before takeoff. Both have secrets that could help them survive on the island…but those same secrets could deliver a death sentence if they ever make it home.
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NetGalley: One in Four by Lucinda Berry

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Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: 5/13/2025 Pages: 247 Genre: Mystery/Thriller Review: NetGalley and Publisher ARC Amazon Dr. Laurel Harlow can’t believe she’s agreed to do a reality TV show. But her years as a chemical dependency counselor and personal history with the show’s director make her the obvious choice. Treating a mansion full of former child stars on the road to recovery is the tallest order of her career—especially when one of them turns up dead while the cameras are still rolling. In a house full of narcissists vying for the spotlight, everyone’s hiding something…including Laurel. An investigation could expose a past she’d rather keep buried. But among the attention-starved patients, only one of them is a predator. And Laurel is skilled at spotting a predator when she sees one. As she hunts a killer in her present, the unsettling truths of Laurel’s past are forced into the light. But this time, she’ll face her demons head on. She’ll stop at nothing to expose a mu...
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