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Emmin vaihtovuosi Australiassa ei ole alkanut kuin elokuvissa. Paluu maitojunalla koti-Suomeen ei silti tule kuuloonkaan. Australiasta on otettava kaikki irti!

Emmi päätyykin puolivahingossa surffileirille – ja hurahtaa laudan tuomaan vapauden tunteeseen. Aalloilla häntä opastaa lajin nuori lupaus Atlas. Emmi oppii sietämään kultapojua, kun Atlas näyttää hänelle Australian parhaat puolet. Hän saa huomata, että Australiassa voi olla ”down under” monella tapaa, ja löytää rohkeuden olla oma valoisa itsensä. Mutta mitä tapahtuu, kun kaikki kääntyy taas päälaelleen?]]> 301 Janette Back 9511527355 Sara 3 3.68
author: Janette Back
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average rating: 3.68
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]]> 247785403 The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here…

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood.

While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.]]> 512 Leigh Bardugo 1250884314 Sara 0 to-read 4.58 2026
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]]> 210223811 Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.]]> 559 R.F. Kuang Sara 0 currently-reading 3.69 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.69
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Kuusikymppinen laitosapulainen Janka Vitéz tietää hoitotyöstä enemmän kuin kukaan tajuaa. Kun teho-osastolla kuolee peräkkäin kaksi kaupungin merkkihenkilöä, Janka haistaa palaneen käryä. Luonnollisiksi kirjatut kuolemat herättävät myös sairaanhoitaja Danin epäilykset. Huolella peiteltyjen salaisuuksien nuuskiminen lähentää naisia mutta saattaa heidät samalla myös suureen vaaraan.

Kaikki ovat sokeita aloittaa uuden, pulssia nostattavan sairaaladekkarisarjan.]]> 431 Patricia G. Bertényi 952045859X Sara 3 2026, crime-thriller, finnish 3.51 2024
author: Patricia G. Bertényi
name: Sara
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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Rinnasta löytynyt kyhmy pakottaa Jankan totuttelemaan potilaan osaan. Touhukkaalle laitosapulaiselle muutos ei ole helppo, varsinkaan nyt kun hän on vihdoin päässyt jälleen hyödyntämään ammattitaitoaan rikostutkinnassa.

Kun Jankan kanssa samassa huoneessa kemoterapiassa istuva potilas kuolee selittämättömiin oireisiin, syöpäklinikka päätetään eristää. Ovet avataan vasta sitten, kun naisen kuolinsyy selviää. Heikosta voinnistaan huolimatta Janka alkaa ratkoa outoa tapausta. Miksi joku on halunnut jouduttaa sairaan naisen kuolemaa?]]> 333 Patricia G. Bertényi 9520477829 Sara 0 to-read 3.72 2026
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average rating: 3.72
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Teho-osastolle tuodaan Aurajoen jäältä löydetty pahoinpidelty nainen. On epävarmaa, herääkö hän enää kertomaan kokemastaan.

Janka ei pysty hillitsemään uteliaisuuttaan, kun poliisi ryhtyy tutkimaan tapausta epätavallisen innokkaasti. Tekijäksi epäillään lukuisia naisia surmannutta murhaajaa, jota poliisi kutsuu Näkymättömäksi mieheksi. Janka tajuaa, että ainoa pakoon päässyt uhri on hänen ystävänsä. Pian Janka vedetään mukaan tapauksen tutkintaan, mutta selviääkö totuus riittävän nopeasti?

Rikoksista pahin jatkaa Patricia G. Bertényin vangitsevaa Osasto C1 -sairaaladekkarisarjaa, jonka avausosa Kaikki ovat sokeita (2024) on saanut innostuneen vastaanoton.]]> 379 Patricia G. Bertényi 9520468145 Sara 0 to-read 4.00 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 4.00
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]]> 204538483 She's the only woman he wants...and the only one he can't have.

Asher Donovan is a living legend―the darling of the Premier League, the (arguably) greatest footballer in the world.

But his reckless antics and recent team transfer have caused much controversy, and when his feud with his rival-turned-teammate costs them a championship, they're forced to "bond" during off-season cross-training.

Surviving the summer shouldn't be hard…until Asher meets their new trainer. She's beautiful, talented, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't take his mind off her.

The only problem? She's his rival's sister―and completely off limits.

***

Scarlett DuBois is a former prima ballerina whose career was cut short by a tragic accident.

Now a teacher at a prestigious dance academy but still haunted by the ghosts of her past, the last thing she wants is to spend the summer cross-training Asher Donovan, of all people.

She swore she would never date a footballer, but when her brother leaves town for an emergency, she finds herself thrown into dangerously close proximity with the gorgeous, charming striker.

Training, she can deal with. But falling in love? That's out of the question―especially when he's the only person with the power to break her heart.]]> 594 Ana Huang Sara 0 to-read 3.76 2024
author: Ana Huang
name: Sara
average rating: 3.76
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]]> 242765263 The gripping true story of a serial con man whose lies condemned a man to death row, by award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Pamela Colloff

For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises he married nine women—some at the same time.

When Skalnik got caught, as he invariably did, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to him. Then he peddled those stories to prosecutors. In Pinellas County, Florida, he became a frequent witness for the state, thinking nothing of exaggerating men’s wrongdoing or implicating the innocent to help prosecutors win convictions. In return, the state rewarded him with his freedom, fueling his growing sense of invincibility. Soon he was not just committing fraud; he was preying on girls in their teens or barely into adolescence.

In 1985, Jim Dailey, a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran, was implicated in the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl and landed in the Pinellas County Jail with Skalnik. No forensic evidence or motive linked Dailey to the killing, but Skalnik’s account of his "confession" helped put Dailey on death row. Skalnik, meanwhile, walked free. More than three decades later, after another man took responsibility for the killing, Pamela Colloff, reporting for the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica, visited Skalnik and asked him if he would recant his testimony. He refused.

By then, Skalnik had caused untold damage to the women and girls he exploited, to the dozens of men he helped imprison, and to Jim Dailey, who went on to receive an execution date. In this mesmerizing debut, Pamela Colloff spins a dark tale of a remorseless and brilliant liar made lethal by a system more concerned with winning convictions than finding the truth.]]> 320 Pamela Colloff 0593230868 Sara 4 2026, non-fiction 4.15 2026
author: Pamela Colloff
name: Sara
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2026
rating: 4
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]]> 252167302 Kom ihåg: Ett sammanbrott är vägen till ett genombrott! – ur boken
Hon kallar sig Spacebaby och har tagit in på det glamorösa men mytomspunna Drömhotellet, där ytan är glassig men möglet sprider sig i fogarna och fotsvampen grasserar.

Som sällskap har hon sina tre bästa vänner. De är alla där för att bli kvitt sin besatthet av hjärtekrossaren JB. Men är Drömhotellet i själva verket en vårdanstalt?

Taika Mannilas debut är ett kärleksbrev till tjejer som vuxit upp online – och till alla som varit deprimerade eller ensidigt förälskade.]]> 267 Taika Mannila 9515265460 Sara 0 to-read 3.35
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.35
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Paul Copeland's sister was one of the missing teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a body is found, the well-buried secrets of the past threaten everything.

Could the victim be one of the missing teenagers? Could his sister be alive? Copeland has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his parents have been hiding ...]]> 404 Harlan Coben 0525950125 Sara 0 to-read 4.02 2007
author: Harlan Coben
name: Sara
average rating: 4.02
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rating: 0
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Percy, Annabeth, and Grover settle into Hecate’s seemingly endless mansion and start getting acquainted with the fussy, terrifying animals. The trio has been warned not to touch anything, but while Percy and Annabeth are out at school, Grover can’t resist drinking a strawberry-flavored potion in the laboratory. It turns him into a giant frenzied goat, and after he rampages through the house, damaging everything in sight, and passes out, Hecuba and Gale escape. Now the friends have to find Hecate’s pets and somehow restore the house, all before Hecate gets back on Saturday. It’s going to take luck, demigod wiles, and some old and new friends to hunt down the animals and set things right again.]]> 343 Rick Riordan 1368112382 Sara 0 currently-reading 4.08 2024
author: Rick Riordan
name: Sara
average rating: 4.08
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]]> 235993046 Follow the Rites...

Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake.

From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined.

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY:
Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY.

Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention—it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all—vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she's not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for.

Besides, it’s only three days’ work…

Three days, cooped up in a stranger’s house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness.

What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property—and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity.

Follow the Rites...

Follow the Rites...

Follow the Rites...

..--- / ..... / ---..]]> 295 Marcus Kliewer 1982198818 Sara 3 2026, crime-thriller 3.56 2026
author: Marcus Kliewer
name: Sara
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2026
rating: 3
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Ammattikiekkoilija Ilona loukkaantuu olympialaisissa, ja unelmien pelipaikka Pohjois-Amerikassa menee sivu suun. NHL-pelaaja Jonas palaa Suomeen kohujulkisuutta pakoon. Kun vanhat lapsuudenystävät kohtaavat, Jonas alkaa treenata Ilonaa kesän lopulla koittavaa uutta uramahdollisuutta varten.

Pian tunteet kuumenevat kaksikon välillä, ja ilmassa on muutakin kuin pelkkää treenihikeä. Mutta molemmilla on omat haavansa: tulinen Ilona on valmis uhraamaan kaiken unelmansa eteen, kun taas herkkä Jonas miettii, onko uhrannut jo liikaakin. Ammattikiekon kovassa maailmassa rakkaudesta joutuu jäähylle ja tunteet on taklattava kerralla kumoon.

Kuinka uskaltaa olla haavoittuvainen, kun jäällä on oltava kovin kaikista? Kesän lopussa koittavat naarasleijonan ja lätkäjätkän loppupelit, ja heidän on päätettävä, kenen rinnalla he pelaavat jatkossa.]]> 369 Marianne Suntio 9515266327 Sara 4 3.75
author: Marianne Suntio
name: Sara
average rating: 3.75
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date added: 2026/08/08
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Parikymppinen Viola Vennas on sotkenut asiansa ja särkenyt sydämensä. Hän pakenee Brysselin jetset-piireistä idylliseen ja kuolettavan tylsään Vehnälaaksoon nuolemaan haavojaan ja pysyttelemään kaukana uusista ongelmista.

Heti saapuessaan Viola kuitenkin törmää pahimmanlaatuiseen ongelmaan. Naapurissa asuva Luka Vuori on komea kuin synti, huoleton kuin kesäilta ja vaarallisen hyvä käsistään. Juuri kun Viola on vannonut, ettei koske enää yhteenkään kaksilahkeiseen.

Villinä viety aloittaa polttavan kuuman Villi sydän -sarjan, joka tuo supersuositun countryromanssigenren kotimaisiin maisemiin.]]> 300 Annukka Salama 9511539035 Sara 0 to-read 3.66 2026
author: Annukka Salama
name: Sara
average rating: 3.66
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Kuusi naista matkustaa juhlimaan polttariviikonloppua kuvankauniille, auringossa kylpevälle Kreikan saarelle. Kimmeltävä meri, viehättävät tavernat ja kapeat kujat virittävät heidät heti lomatunnelmiin, ja iltauinnin jälkeen on aika cocktaileille.

Reissun piti olla täydellinen pieni irtiotto arjesta. Naiset ovat kuitenkin keskenään kovin erilaisia, ja porukan sisällä kytee ristiriitoja ja kilpailuasetelmia. Kun salaisuudet ja todelliset kasvot naamioiden takaa alkavat paljastua, seurue tajuaa, etteivät he ehkä laskekaan päiviä häihin vaan hautajaisiin...]]> 431 Lucy Clarke 9511481339 Sara 0 to-read 3.60 2022
author: Lucy Clarke
name: Sara
average rating: 3.60
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Between the threat of a world-ending invasion from the Outside and unwelcome revelations about his own nature, Percival Endicott Whyborne is under a great deal of strain. His husband, Griffin Flaherty, wants to help—but how can he, when Whyborne won’t tell him what’s wrong?

When a man from Griffin’s past murders a sorcerer, the situation grows even more dire. Once a simple farmer from Griffin’s hometown of Fallow, the assassin now bears a terrifying magical corruption, one whose nature even Whyborne can’t explain.

To keep Griffin’s estranged mother safe, they must travel to a dying town in Kansas. But as drought withers the crops of Fallow, a sinister cult sinks its roots deep into the arid soil. And if the cult’s foul harvest isn’t stopped in time, Fallow will be only the first city to fall.

Fallow is the eighth book in the Whyborne & Griffin series, where magic, mystery, and m/m romance collide with Victorian era America.]]> 213 Jordan L. Hawk 1941230202 Sara 0 to-read 4.31 2016
author: Jordan L. Hawk
name: Sara
average rating: 4.31
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]]> 204832487 1) a murdered ghost bride who is very very pissed off (don’t blame her, I’d be pissed off too)
2) adopted by chinese hellhounds (I THOUGHT THEY WERE DOGS, OKAY)
3) wake up magically soul-bonded to the sexy demon slayer Zhen (While I agree he’s -expansive hand waving- HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!)
I do not need a fourth incident to make my life more interesting, please and thank you.
Spoiler alert: I get one anyway.

Magically bonded, insta husband just add ghost, speed marriage?, ghost matchmaking, ghosts deserve love too, Kris might have accidentally been feeding Chinese hellhounds, oops?, chosen family, Kris and Zhen actually communicate, buying hardcovers is a marriage proposal, just ask Kris, demon slayer on crutches can still fight, as the bad guys find out, whole story is just mindless violence and fluff, Zhen is a walking green flag, Chinese mythology, multicultural romance, ghostly shenanigans ensue, seeing ghosts isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Cover Artist: Katie Griffin]]> 224 Allie Brahms Sara 0 to-read 4.32 2023
author: Allie Brahms
name: Sara
average rating: 4.32
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Hurmaava sosiopaatti ja menestynyt hyvinvointivaikuttaja ajautuvat manipulointipeliin Tatiana Elfin Rebekka Nummi -sarjan toisessa osassa.

Sosiopaatiksi itsensä tunnistava Rebekka soluttautuu hyvinvointivaikuttajan Ellan lähipiiriin etsiessään keinoa lievittää pahimpia impulssejaan. Rebekka värvää konsultikseen kuuluisan profiloijan Henrin, joka ymmärtää harvinaisen hyvin pimeää mieltä. Ja myös Rebekkaa.

Rebekan toimista kiinnostuu myös rikostutkija Saku. Häntä kiehtoo nainen, joka on täysin erilainen kuin kukaan muu: pelottava ja hurmaava yhtä aikaa.

Suljetulla hyvinvointiretriitillä Rebekka huomaa olevansa keskellä manipulointipeliä. Jännitys tihenee tikittäväksi, kun Rebekka yrittää paljastaa hengenvaarallisia lankoja vetelevän mestarin. Rebekan on tehtävä valinta: antaako jonkun muun kuolla – vai ylittääkö raja, jolta ei ole paluuta.

Mestari jatkaa sarjaa, jonka avausosa Huijari (2025) nappasi muun muassa Vuoden esikoisdekkari -ehdokkuuden. Äänikirjojen kestosuosikiksi nousseen sarjan ydin on sen vetovoimaisessa päähenkilössä sekä piinaavan jännityksen, yllätyskäänteiden ja romantiikan liitossa, joka kantaa alusta loppuun.

Tilaa tämä psykologinen trilleri itsellesi jo tänään!

”Elf on luonut upean esikoisdekkarin, joka hämmentää, kammoksuttaa – ja välillä jopa naurattaa, Huijari on enemmän kuin trilleri – se on tutkimusmatka poikkeavaan mieleen.” – Ruumiin kulttuuri

”Poikkeuksellinen päähenkilö luo jännitettä ja antaa mahdollisuuksia. Elf tarttuu niihin hienosti.” – Savon Sanomat

”Nyt rytisee ja paukkuu.” – Keskisuomalainen

”Huijari on vuoden toistaiseksi paras esikoisdekkari.” – HS

Tatiana Elf on monipuolinen kirjailija ja käsikirjoittaja. Hän on erikoistunut
rikosdraamoihin ja kirjoittanut muun muassa Syke- ja Roba-televisiosarjoja sekä luonut sarjat Karkurit ja Keisari Aarnio. Helsinkiläinen Elf on koulutukseltaan psykologian ja sosiologian kandidaatti sekä filosofian maisteri. Hän on aiemmin kirjoittanut dialogiromaanin Erokeskusteluja (2023), äitinsä muistisairaudesta kertovan Äitinä omalle äidille (2024) sekä loistavan trilleriavauksen Huijari.]]> 301 Tatiana Elf 9523937898 Sara 4 2026, crime-thriller, finnish 3.88
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.88
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]]> 238226991 A spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface

In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 AM he jumped into the river.

In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead.

In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as “Indian Dave.” As the Brettlers set about investigating their son’s death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they’d always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac’s life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable—or unwilling—to bring the perpetrators to justice.

In a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Brettlers’ quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths behind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in which everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by dirty money and corruption. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.]]> 361 Patrick Radden Keefe 0385548532 Sara 0 to-read 4.28 2026
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name: Sara
average rating: 4.28
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Onko kitarakoteloa kantava kiinalaismies vain kitarakoteloa kantava kiinalaismies? Murhat ja mindfulness -dekkarisarjan kolmatta osaa värittää tutuksi käynyt synkkä ja sarkastinen huumori sekä mindfulness-meditaatiot, jotka antavat lukijallekin työkaluja mahdollisten murhaimpulssien parempaan hallintaan.

Välttyäkseen keski-iän kriisiltä mafian asianajaja Björn Diemel lähtee terapeuttinsa suosituksesta pyhiinvaellusmatkalle. Vaellusreitillä Björnin elämä on päättyä ennen aikojaan, sillä tuntematon pyhiinvaeltaja yrittää tappaa hänet.

Pieleen menneen tappoyrityksen jälkeen Björn on varuillaan kohdatessaan toisia pyhiinvaeltajia. Pian hän huomaa, että pohdinnat elämästä ja kuolemasta eivät jää vain ajatuksen tasolle.

Saksalainen kirjailija Karsten Dusse (s. 1973) on myös asianajaja ja lentäjä. Hänen Murhat ja mindfulness -sarjaansa on myyty yli 2,5 miljoonaa ja käännetty yli 20 kielelle. Kirjasarjaa suomentaa Anne Kilpi.

“Todella upea rikosromaani – myös mindfulness-vinkit ovat käyttökelpoisia!” – Deutschlandfunk Kultur Lesart]]> 333 Karsten Dusse 9523646397 Sara 4 2026, crime-thriller, funny 3.55 2021
author: Karsten Dusse
name: Sara
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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Kansainvälisestikin tunnettu ja arvostettu traumakirurgi Ari Leppäniemi jäi vuonna 2022 eläkkeelle Meilahden sairaalan päivystyskirurgian ylilääkärin virasta poikkeuksellisen työuran jälkeen. Hän ennätti toimia useita vuosia myös sota- ja humanitaarisen kirurgin tehtävissä mm. Nigeriassa, Keniassa ja Pakistanissa. Lisäksi hän johti suomalaisten uhrien evakuointilentoja Aasian tsunamin ja Malagan bussionnettomuuden yhteydessä.

Kokenut kirurgi on pitänyt päänsä kylmänä tilanteissa, joita me muut emme uskalla edes ajatella. Nyt hän kertoo koko tarinansa kaunistelematta mutta myös viihdyttävästi.]]> 288 Ari Leppäniemi 9511492543 Sara 0 to-read 3.68 2024
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]]> 220902221 Using a blend of cultural criticism, humor, and personal memoir akin to Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror or Grace Perry’s The 2000s Made Me Gay, Joelle Kidd writes about her evangelical adolescence through the lens of Christian pop culture of the early 2000s, giving readers a peek into this odd subculture and insight into how evangelicalism’s growing popularity around the turn of the millennium has shaped culture and politics — including today’s far right.

An empathetic, funny, and sharply critical collection of essays exploring the Christian pop culture of the 2000s and its influence on today’s politically powerful evangelicalism

In 1999, after three years of secular living in Eastern Europe, Joelle Kidd moved back to Canada and was enrolled in the strange world of an evangelical Christian school. In Jesusland, Joelle writes about the Christian pop culture that she was suddenly immersed in, from perky girl bands to modest styling tips, and draws connections between this evangelical subculture and the mainstream, a tense yet reciprocal relationship that both disavows the secular while employing its media markers. But none of this was just about catchy songs: every abstinence quiz in a teen magazine was laying the foundation for what would become a conservative Christian movement that threatens women’s healthcare, attacks queer and trans rights, and drives present-day political division.

Through nine incisive, honest, and emotional essays, Jesusland exposes the pop cultural machinations of evangelicalism, while giving voice to aughts-era Christian children and teens who are now adults looking back at their time measuring the length of their skirts, and asking each other if their celebrity crush was Christian enough. With care and generosity, Jesusland shows us how the conservative evangelical movement became the global power it is today by exploring the pop culture that both reflected and shaped an entire generation of young people.]]> 344 Joelle Kidd 1770417796 Sara 0 currently-reading 3.66 2025
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]]> 240144655 Primeiro vem o amor, depois vem o casamento e a seguir… Calma, o que é que vinha a seguir?

Luc e Oliver já passaram por tudo: namoro falso para salvar a carreira de Luc, namoro do tipo acho-que-isto-agora-é-a-sério quando tudo explodiu espetacularmente, uma (breve) separação por diferenças irreconciliáveis, uma reconciliação (definitiva) por causa de tudo o resto ser perfeitamente conciliável, um (quase) casamento, a mudança (finalmente) para a mesma casa e, em última análise, a celebração de anos de perfeita felicidade doméstica.

Mas à medida que todos os seus amigos — agora muito mais crescidos — começam a alcançar novos marcos de vida, a progredir nas carreiras e a ter filhos, Luc e Oliver decidem que é altura de abrir os seus corações e as suas vidas a algo novo: um pequeno, irrequieto e adorável feixe de alegria peluda chamado Spud.

E talvez agora que os corações e as vidas já estão abertos, haja espaço para mais alguém. Algo mais. Algo que pode exigir que eles encontrem dentro de si um pouco do que faz um pai.

Mais caótico. Mais comovente. Mais hilariante. Luc e Oliver estão de volta... e a família vai crescer!]]> 500 Alexis Hall 1728264294 Sara 3 2026, contemporary 4.29 2026
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And they can’t stand each other. 
 
Indie singer-songwriter Lark is the sunshine and glitter that burns through every cloud and clings to every crevice that Lachlan Kane tries to hide inside. The surly older brother of her best friend’s soulmate, Lachlan thinks she’s just a privileged princess, but Lark has plenty of secrets hiding in the shadows of her bright light. With her formidable family in a tailspin and her best friend’s happiness on the line, she’s willing to make a vow to the man she’s determined to hate, no matter how tempting the broody assassin might be. 

As Lachlan and Lark navigate the dark world that binds them together, it becomes impossible to discern their fake marriage from a real one. But it’s not just familiar dangers that haunt them. 
There’s another phantom lurking on their doorstep. 

And this one has come for blood.]]> 390 Brynne Weaver 0349441588 Sara 3 2026, contemporary 3.98 2024
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.98
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rating: 3
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]]> 23014080 - SS-eversti Josef Spacil kapteeni Schlemmerille toukokuussa 1945

Tämä kirja on tarina ahneudesta, himosta, valheista, kavalluksista, petollisuudesta ja murhaamisesta.

Saksalaiset SS-upseerit ahtoivat toisen maailmansodan viimeisinä päivinä junia ja autoja täyteen kultaa, rahaa ja koruja ja pakenivat Itävallan Alpeille. Liittoutuneiden tutkimukset toivat päivänvaloon vain lastuja tästä kultavuoresta. Mitä lopulle tapahtui, ja miten kohtalo kuljetti näitä miehiä?

Natsimiljonäärit nojaa julkaisemattomiin ja äskettäin salassapidosta vapautuneisiin alkuperäisdokumentteihin. Teos tarjoaa uusia näkökulmia SS-varkaiden mieliin ja menettelytapoihin. Mitä tapahtui niille valtaville rikkauksille, joita natsit ryöstivät miehitetystä Euroopasta?

Teos punoutuu muun muassa suurimpien rahankätkijöiden kuten SS-everstiluutnantti Adolf Eichmannin, SS-eversti Josef Spacilin ja SS-kapteeni Franz Konradin johtamiin salaisiin operaatioihin.

Heinrich Himmlerin johtama SS oli rikastunut muun muassa ryöstöretkillä miehitetyillä alueilla ja kauppaamalla juutalaisia. SS-eversti Kurt Becherin ja sionisti Rudolf Kastnerin välisissä kaupoissa Budapestissä tuhansia sieluja vaihdettiin kultaan, koruihin ja rahaan. Monet saksalaiset kantoivat näitä salaisuuksia toisen maailmansodan loppupäivinä, jotkut hautaansa saakka.]]> 374 Kenneth D. Alford 9512094932 Sara 0 to-read 3.47 2002
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When a new neighbor, Bitsy, moves in, Lulu suspects that something darker lurks behind the woman's constant smile. As her fixation on Bitsy deepens, Lulu is drawn into a web of unsettling truths that threaten to expose the cracks in her own life. The more she uncovers about Bitsy, the more she questions everything she thought she knew―and soon, others begin questioning her sanity. But is Lulu truly losing her mind? Or is she on the verge of discovering a reality too terrifying to accept?

In the vein of The Bell Jar and The Hours, The Mad Wife weaves domestic drama with psychological suspense, so poignant and immersive, you won't want to put it down.]]> 352 Meagan Church 1464236747 Sara 3 2026 3.83 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.83
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rating: 3
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]]> 55404546 Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever.

Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.]]> 369 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798657 Sara 0 to-read 4.01 2021
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]]> 241319605
Kun Björn Diemel tutustui mindfulnessiin, hänen elämänsä muuttui paremmaksi. Hän irtisanoutui stressaavasta työstään asianajotoimistossa ja perusti yrityksen. Hän alkoi viettää enemmän aikaa tyttärensä kanssa ja riiteli enää harvoin vaimonsa kanssa. Siinä sivussa hän otti rennoin mielin johdettavakseen kaksi mafiaklaania murhattuaan toisen pomon ja vangittuaan toisen päiväkodin kellariin. Hän ei kuitenkaan edelleenkään kykene nauttimaan elämästään, vaan menettää malttinsa jatkuvasti.

Kun Björn polttaa päreensä perheen yhteisellä lomamatkalla kohtalokkain seurauksin, vaimo patistaa hänet uudelleen terapeutti Joschka Breitnerin pakeille. Breitner oivaltaa heti, mistä kenkä puristaa: Björn on jättänyt sisäisen lapsensa liian pitkään huomiotta. Alkaa tapahtumarikas ajanjakso, jonka aikana Björn tutustuu sisäiseen lapseensa ja yrittää saada mielensä jälleen kasaan. Mutta mitä tehdä, jos ei enää halua murhata, vaikka ääni sisällä vaatii juuri sitä?

Dussen dekkareissa sykkii synkkä ja sarkastinen huumori, ja ne ohjaavat mindfulness-meditaatioihin, jotka antavat lukijallekin työkaluja mahdollisten murhaimpulssien parempaan hallintaan.

Karsten Dusse (s. 1973) on kirjailija ja lakimies. Hänen mustan huumorin läpäisemä Murhat ja mindfulness -sarjansa nousinopeasti Saksan suosituimpien dekkareiden joukkoon, samoin Suomessa. Kirjojenpohjalta tuotetu Netflix-sarja julkistettiin lokakuussa 2024.]]> 381 Karsten Dusse 9523645293 Sara 5 2026, crime-thriller, funny 3.38 2020
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]]> 58416952 At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.

AUDI. VIDE. TACE.

The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus – what they call Will – to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.]]> 640 James Islington 1982141190 Sara 0 to-read 4.56 2023
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Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.

Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.

Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.

How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, and divinely blessed to rule.

Death will silence me no longer.

This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.]]> 352 Saara El-Arifi 0593875648 Sara 0 to-read 3.89 2026
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]]> 235992675 Six Friends.
Five Parties.
Twenty Years…
How did we get So Old, So Young?

From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a novel of impending millennial middle age that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of two decades bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we can run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death.

For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds and testing what we thought we knew. From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, Grant Ginder’s resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the millennial generation, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.]]> 384 Grant Ginder 166805177X Sara 0 to-read 3.69 2026
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Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn't her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible.

As darkly funny as it is shocking and gripping, Yesteryear is an electrifying examination of tradition, fame, faith and the grand performance of womanhood, from a thrilling new talent in fiction.]]> 400 Caro Claire Burke Sara 3 2026 3.83 2026
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.83
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rating: 3
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Riemastuttava romaani nuoresta pitkäaikaistyöttömästä porilaisesta, joka löytää kutsumuksensa. Olkoonkin, että rikkaiden päästäminen päiviltä on intohimoksi moraalisesti jokseenkin arveluttava.

Ellalla on huono päivä. Todella huono päivä. Ihan kuin ei riittäisi, että rasittava työkkärin täti pistää hänet karenssiin, Ella sattuu myös todistamaan hetkeä, jona hänen ex-kihlattunsa astelee ulos maistraatista tuore vaimo käsipuolessaan. Vähemmästäkin sitä tuhlaa viimeiset eurot lottokuponkiin ja ylihintaiseen lohtusalmiakkiin.

Sitten tapahtuu jotain odottamatonta. Ella voittaa jättipotin. Sattuman kautta Ellalle kirkastuu, että hyväntekeväisyys voisi olla hänen juttunsa – ja mikä olisikaan parempi palvelus yhteiskunnalle kuin murhauttaa mahdollisimman monta moraalitonta ökyrikasta?]]> 480 Laura Sola 9520478124 Sara 0 to-read 3.63
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]]> 52380207 The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in this timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City at the dawn of WWII.

Amidst the whir of city life, a girl from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear amongst its most dangerous denizens.

But the ghosts from her past are always by her side—and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she loves most.

Can one woman ever sacrifice enough to save an entire community?

Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novel—a magical love story, a compelling chronicle of interracial tension, and an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga.]]> 352 Alaya Dawn Johnson 1250175348 Sara 0 to-read 3.32 2020
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In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.

In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.]]> 198 John Green 0525556575 Sara 4 2026, non-fiction 4.31 2025
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average rating: 4.31
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Jokainen kaipaa hyväksyntää, arvostusta ja nähdyksi tulemista, joita vain toinen ihminen voi meille antaa. Kaikkein eniten kaipaamme hyväksyvää katsetta omilta vanhemmiltamme, joiden läheisyydessä koemme itsemme vielä aikuisenakin paljaaksi ja haavoittuvaiseksi.

Kaikki vanhemmat tekevät virheitä, mutta suurin osa oppii niistä. Joskus taustalla voi kuitenkin olla päihdeongelmia, persoonallisuushäiriöitä tai muita tekijöitä, jotka vääristävät perhedynamiikkaa. Rajat ja vastuut hämärtyvät, vuorovaikutus jäykistyy ja lapsen kasvu vaarantuu. Traumat ja häpeä siirtyvät huomaamatta sukupolvelta toiselle.

Jokaisella on oikeus turvalliseen elämään ja ihmissuhteisiin, joissa tulee kohdatuksi omana itsenään. Joskus meidän on rakennettava turva toisaalle – ystävistä, tuttavista ja vertaisista – ja jätettävä perhe sen ulkopuolelle.

Sairas perhe – Kun vanhempi ei kasva aikuiseksi auttaa aikuisia lapsia käsittelemään niitä tunteita, joita etäisyys omaan perheeseen herättää. Yhdessä pohdimme, kuinka kohdata tunteita, joita ei ole aiemmin kohdattu. Harjoitusten avulla löydät piilotettuja puolia itsestäsi ja opit asettamaan rajoja jämäkästi ja turvallisesti suhteessa omiin perheenjäseniin.]]> 320 Katja Myllyviita 9523606166 Sara 4 2026, finnish, non-fiction 4.31 2025
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average rating: 4.31
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rating: 4
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]]> 50526540 An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizarre real-life cursed objects throughout history. Spanning decades and continents, subjects range from the opulent Hope Diamond to the humble Busby Stoop chair.

They're lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They're cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of misfortune, all they need...is you. As a culture, we can't seem to get enough of cursed objects. But never before have the true stories of these infamous real-life items been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume.

Entries include:

• Annabelle the Doll, a Raggedy Ann doll which inspired the acclaimed horror franchise The Conjuring
• The Tomb of Tutankhamen, the discovery of which kicked-started media hysteria over a rumored "Curse of the Pharaohs"
• The Ring of Silvianus, a Roman artifact believed to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
• The Hope Diamond, which was owned by kings and inspired the Heart of the Ocean in James Cameron's Titanic
• The Dybbuk Box, which was sold on eBay and inspired the horror film The Possession

Whether you believe in curses or not, the often tragic and always bizarre stories behind these objects will fascinate you. Many of them have intersected with some of the most notable events and people in history. But beyond Hollywood and beyond the hysteria, author J. W. Ocker suggests that cursed objects are simply objects which have been witness to great human tragedy, and thereafter operate as mechanisms for remembering and retelling those stories. Cursed Objects will be equally appealing to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale.]]> 272 J.W. Ocker 1683692365 Sara 0 to-read 3.72 2020
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]]> 55749283 Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidante to President Barack Obama -- and New York Times bestselling author of The World as It Is -- travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers.

In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spends time with is poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he comes to know see their movement snuffed out, and America itself reaches the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance.

Equal parts memoir and reporting, After the Fall is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Throughout, Rhodes comes to realize how much America’s fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape: through the excesses of our post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism, post-9/11 nationalism and militarism, mania for technology and social media, and the racism that shaped the backlash to the Obama presidency. At the same time, he learns from a diverse set of characters - from Obama to rebels to a rising generation of leaders - how looking squarely at where America has gone wrong only makes it more essential to fight for what America is supposed to be at home - for our own country, and the entire world.]]> 339 Ben Rhodes 1984856065 Sara 0 to-read 4.20 2021
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]]> 199372835  A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society. Anyone who wishes to destroy legitimate political and social power has a new weapon. It is the anarchist's dream, a force so shockingly effective that its destructive power seems limitless. Scientific proof is powerless in front of it; democratic validity is bulldozed by it; leaders are humiliated by it. What we used to call influence has become something violently toxic. Renée DiResta gives us a powerful original framing to explain how it now shapes public opinion through a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists. While they position themselves as trustworthy “Davids”, their reach, influence, and economics make them classic Goliaths, invisible rulers who create bespoke realities that control the destinies of millions of people, their work driven by a simple “if you make it trend, you make it true.” By revealing the machinery and the dynamics of the interplay between influencers, algorithms, and online crowds, DiResta vividly illustrates the way belief in the fundamental legitimacy of institutions that make society work is deliberately undermined.  This alternate system for shaping public opinion, unexamined until now, is rewriting the relationship between the people and their government in profoundly disturbing ways. From taking on and defeating California’s anti-vaxxers a decade ago to uncovering the ways that China and Russia target the American public and our elections, - and now herself a target of Congressmen Jim Jordan and hyper-partisans of the lunatic fringe – DiResta has not merely been an observer of the machinery promulgating the Big Lie and the unyielding culture wars. As analyst, investigator, and participant, she provides unprecedented insight into the way influencers shape the opinion and behavior of massive crowds, with the power to drive those crowds into battle – while bearing no responsibility for the consequences.]]> 425 Renee DiResta 1541703391 Sara 0 to-read 4.04
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Jordan was more than comfortable behind her bar at the team’s favorite watering hole. When her father threatens to sell the team, though, she’s forced to put her grievances aside and work with the man who likes everyone but her—: Coach Tate Ward.

But beneath his controlled exterior, Tate is funny, encouraging, and protective. He moves Jordan into his guest house, trusts her with his daughter, and fires the person who made her cry. He’s her boss, and a relationship would ruin both their careers, but Jordan still finds herself dreaming of a life with Tate. As the lines between them blur and Jordan encourages him to be selfish, Tate realizes what he wants . . . is her.]]> 464 Stephanie Archer Sara 0 to-read 4.09 2026
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Sotienvälisessä Englannissa seikkaileva mestarietsivä Maisie Dobbs selvittää kolmannen tapauksensa tavalla, jossa terävien hoksottimien lisäksi vaaditaan se kuuluisa naisen näkemys.

Sir Cecil Lawton pestaa etsivä Maisie Dobbsin selvittämään ensimmäisessä maailmansodassa kadonneen lentäjäpoikansa Ralphin kohtaloa. Ralphin äiti ei koskaan hyväksynyt poikansa kuolemaa, mikä ajoi hänet paitsi hulluuden partaalle myös spiritistisiin istuntoihin. Tutkimukset saattavat Maisien yhteen vanhan ystävän Priscillan kanssa, jonka kolme veljeä kuolivat sodassa. Yhdellä heistä paljastuu olleen yllättävä yhteys kadonneeseen. Pystyykö Maisie selvittämään tapauksen, jossa hän joutuu silmäkkäin omien, kaikkein kipeimpien muistojensa kanssa?]]> 394 Jacqueline Winspear 9520475893 Sara 3 3.78 2005
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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”Ensinnäkään, minä en ole väkivaltainen ihminen. Päinvastoin, en esimerkiksi ole koskaan eläissäni ollut mukana tappelussa. En myöskään tappanut ketään, ennen kuin olin 48-vuotias. Alallani se on melko myöhään. Toisaalta, seuraavalla viikolla pääsin jo melkein puoleen tusinaan. Ymmärrän, että tämä saattaa kuulostaa ikävältä. Mutta tarkoitin vain hyvää. Se oli seurausta tietoisesta elämänmuutoksesta, sellaisesta, jossa halusin saattaa työ- ja perhe-elämäni tasapainoon.”

Börn Diemel on lakimies, jonka vaimo pakottaa hänet osallistumaan mindfulness-seminaariin selvittääkseen avioliittoaan ja palauttaakseen työ- ja yksityiselämänsä tasapainon. Kurssi osoittautuu hedelmälliseksi ja Björn huomaa voivansa hyödyntää kaikkea oppimaansa työssään. Kun hänen asiakkaansa, häikäilemättömän rikollisliigan raaka ja väkivaltainen johtaja, menettää malttinsa ja joutuu pulaan, Björn yksinkertaisesti antaa hänen kuolla, kaikkien tietoisen läsnäolon sääntöjen mukaan. Kirjan on suomentanut Anne Kilpi.

Karsten Dusse (s. 1973) on kirjailija ja lakimies. Hänen mustan huumorin läpäisemä Murhat ja mindfulness -sarjansa nousi nopeasti Saksan suosituimpien dekkarien joukkoon ja sitä on käännetty yli 20 kielelle. Sarjaa on myyty yli 2,5 miljoonaa kappaletta.]]> 349 Karsten Dusse 9523645072 Sara 5 3.61 2019
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> 41769547 #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a compelling trilogy about three brothers bound by fate, blood, and a timeless enemy.

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone...

It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins--descendant of the town founders--has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Though he can never forget the beginning of the terror in the woods twenty-one years ago, the signs have never been this strong before. Cal will need the help of his best friends Fox and Gage, but surprisingly he must rely on a stranger as well.

Reporter Quinn Black came to Hawkins Hollow hoping to make its eerie happenings the subject of her new book. She too can see the evil the locals cannot, somehow connecting her to the town--and to Cal. As winter turns to spring, they will shed their inhibitions, surrendering to a desire that will grow and form the cornerstone of a group of men and women bound by the fight against what is to come from out of the darkness...]]> 328 Nora Roberts 1984804901 Sara 3 2026, low-steam 4.15 2007
author: Nora Roberts
name: Sara
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 216970860 From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other—and themselves—with disastrous consequences

When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress.

Sophie Gilbert, a staff writer at The Atlantic and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and “riot girl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker side of nostalgia, training her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. And what she recounts is harrowing, from the unattainable aesthetic of Victoria’s Secret ads and explicit music videos to a burgeoning internet culture vicious towards women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren’t. Gilbert tracks many of the period’s dominant themes back to the explosion of internet porn, tracing its widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness.

Gilbert paints a devastating picture of an era when a distinctly American confluence of excess, materialism, and power-worship collided with the culture’s reactionary, puritanical, and chauvinistic currents. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and how it continues to shape our world today.]]> 352 Sophie Gilbert 0593656296 Sara 4 2026, non-fiction 3.83 2025
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average rating: 3.83
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rating: 4
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]]> 43117174 #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' electrifying trilogy comes to an end, as three men and three women join forces--and hearts--to battle the ultimate evil.

Years ago, after their blood brother ritual, Gage, Fox, and Caleb each emerged from the woods with a piece of bloodstone. Now, it will become their weapon in the final fight against the demon they awakened. Winner take all...

Shared nightmares, visions of blood and fire, and random violence begin to plague the longtime friends and the women bound to them by fate. None of them can ignore the fact that, this year, the demon has grown stronger--feeding off of the terror it creates. But now, the three pieces of the bloodstone have been fused back together. If only they could figure out how to use it.

A gambling man like Gage has no trouble betting on his crew to find a way. And though he and Cybil share the gift of seeing the future, that's all they share. But Gage knows that a woman like Cybil--with her brains and strength and devastating beauty--can only bring him luck. Good or bad has yet to be determined--and could mean the difference between absolute destruction or an end to Hawkins Hollow's nightmare...]]> 314 Nora Roberts 1984804928 Sara 0 to-read 4.21 2008
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]]> 41769548 #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the thrilling trilogy of a town plagued by evil--and the three men and three women brought together by fate to fight it.

For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom--ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone...

Now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing. Already they are plagued by visions of death and destruction. But this year, they are better prepared, joined in their battle by three women who have come to The Hollow. Layla, Quinn, and Cybil are somehow connected to the demon, just as the men are connected to the force that trapped it.

Since that day at The Pagan Stone, town lawyer Fox has been able to see into others' minds, a talent he shares with Layla. He must earn her trust, because their link will help fight the darkness that threatens to engulf the town. But Layla is having trouble coming to terms with her newfound ability--and this intimate connection to Fox. She knows that once she opens her mind, she'll have no defenses against the desire that threatens to consume them both...]]> 316 Nora Roberts 198480491X Sara 0 to-read 4.15 2008
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]]> 222658358 #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating sports romance about a playboy hockey rookie and the disciplined softball pitcher completely immune to his charms.

Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie Corrigan is living the dream. He’s made it to the NHL, his best friend/teammate and fellow “orgasm donor” is his roomie—and the women of Boston love them both. Life is sweet. That is, until he meets Skylar Paige, division 1 softball pitcher, girl least likely to take anyone’s bull…and the one member of the opposite sex immune to his charms. Robbie might be dazzled by the badass pitcher, but Skylar pegs him as a filthy player and wants nothing to do with him.

When he discovers she’s carrying a serious torch for her brother’s best friend, Robbie knows he should just go back to clubbing and whipped cream bikini parties, but he can’t seem to leave Skylar to flounder on her romantic quest to land another man. Nor can he miss out on the opportunity to spend time with her and hopefully redeem himself. Before Robbie knows it, he’s agreed to be Skylar’s fake boyfriend/love coach at an upcoming family wilderness competition where her crush will be in attendance. What could go wrong?

Through a series of contests that require them to trust each other, Robbie and Skylar grow closer and closer until their fake relationship starts to feel like the realest thing they’ve ever known and the sizzling lessons in sensuality burn out of control.

But it’s all just pretend…right?]]> 336 Tessa Bailey 0063380838 Sara 0 to-read 3.74 2025
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]]> 241395352
Mika Myllylä on yksi Suomen kaikkien aikojen suurimmista hiihtäjistä. Olympiavoittaja Myllylän elämän nousut ja laskut muodostavat monitasoisen tarinan voittamisesta, kunnianhimoisesta tavoitteellisuudesta, sankaruudesta, epäonnistumisesta ja kärsimyksestä.

Langennut legenda – Mika Myllylä ei ole vain urheilukirja, vaan syvälle yhteiskuntaan kytkeytyvä tarina, jossa käsitellään myös äärimmäisyyksien hintaa, päihderiippuvuutta sekä koko elämänsä hiihdolle omistaneen poikkeusyksilön taistelua pimeyttä vastaan.

Teos paljastaa paljon uutta Myllylän kipupisteistä ja valinnoista. Se auttaa ymmärtämään, miksi häpeä ja riittämättömyyden tunne kalvoivat hänen herkkää persoonaansa jo ennen menestysvuosia – ja miksi hän turvautui dopingin käyttöön 1990-luvulla. Myllylä tunnettiin ääripäiden ihmisenä, joka sieti äärimmäistä tuskaa maailman ykköshiihtäjän titteliä tavoitellessaan mutta joka ei lopulta ollut valmis tähteyden tuomiin inhimillisiin haasteisiin ja paineisiin. Dopingkäry Lahden MM-kisoissa 2001 viilsi parantumattoman haavan Myllylän itsetuntoon, mutta todellisuudessa hänen päihderiippuvuutensa oli havaittu jo uran aikana. Edes uskoontulo ei pelastanut sankaria, joka kuoli kesällä 2011, vain 41-vuotiaana.

Mika Myllylä voitti olympiakullan mutta hävisi taistelun itsensä kanssa. Hän kuoli häpeään.

Marko Lempinen (s. 1974) on kokenut ja palkittu toimittaja-kirjailija. Hän on aiemmin kirjoittanut useita tietokirjoja, muun muassa menestysteoksen Läpi helvetin – Marko Jantusen tarina (Otava, 2016).]]> 421 Marko Lempinen 9520470247 Sara 4 2026, finnish, non-fiction 3.81
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“Hei, meil on tääl potilas, joka söi ittensä hengiltä.”
“Hä... älä ny viitti...”
“Joo. Tää on kotilomalla Kellokoskelta oleva skitsofreenikko. Päässy joulupöytään ja siinä vetäny niin paljo joulusafkaa, et se on tuol suussa ja nielussa niinku ois jollain puristimella painettu. Mahaki on iha pinkee. Ja rytmi on asystole.”
“Ootsä ny iha tosissas, älkää viittikö vedättää...”
“Joo, kyl tää iha näin on. Me vaan sitä, et ku täs ei oo lautumii nii soitettiin, et eihä me elvyttämään aleta? Ku ei me saada tota ilmatietä mitenkää auki, ku se on iha täys tota ruokaa.”

Voiko ihmiselle, jonka sisko on juuri syönyt itsensä hengiltä, toivottaa hyvää joulua? Miksi joku hyppää parvekkeelta ja toinen menee terapiaan? Kenellä oikeus elää, ja voiko olla oikeus kuolla?

Muun muassa näitä kysymyksiä on joutunut pohtimaan ensihoitaja Jarmo Turva. Tässä kirjassa hän kertoo tehtävistä, jotka ovat herättäneet erityisiä tunteita ja jääneet siksi mieleen. Oli kyseessä sitten joulupöytään kuollut nainen, eriskummalliseen onnettomuuteen joutunut autoilija tai itsemurhan tehnyt nuori tyttö, ensihoitajan pidettävä pää kylmänä. Vaikka sisällä kuohuisi.

Teos syntyi tarpeesta kertoa ensihoidon todellisuudesta, ja se on tarua ihmeellisempää. Astu ensihoitajan maihinnousukenkiin ja hämmästy.

Turva on tehnyt ensihoitotyötä 1980-luvulta lähtien. Hän on työskennellyt myös sairaalan päivystyksessä, hätäkeskuksessa, opettajana ja ammattilehden toimittajana. Lisäksi hän on kirjoittanut työryhmän mukana ensimmäiset painetut hälytyspäivystäjien ja ensihoitajien oppikirjat. Viimeiset kymmenen vuotta Turva on toiminut kenttäjohtajana.]]> Jarmo Turva 9524071037 Sara 3 2026, non-fiction, finnish 3.70
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]]> 242215875
Kun poliisi lopettaa rikostutkintoja tai jättää ne pölyttymään, uhreja karkotetaan maasta ja työnantajat pelottelevat todistajat hiljaisiksi, ovat ihmiskauppiaat saaneet jatkaa kannattavaa liiketoimintaansa. Poliitikot ovat katsoneet ilmiötä sormiensa läpi.

Modernin orjuuden on annettu juurtua Suomeen. Hätkähdyttävä kirja kertoo Suomeen muodostuneesta varjoyhteiskunnasta ja oikeusvaltion sokeista pisteistä. Se näyttää, miten lait ja viranomaiskäytännöt ovat mahdollistaneet ulkomaisen työvoiman systemaattisen riiston.

Meidän elintasoamme – edullisia lounaita, halpoja mustikoita, koulujen siisteyttä, kotien rakentamista – ylläpitää suuri joukko hyväksikäytettyjä ihmisiä.

Paavo Teittinen on palkittu tutkiva toimittaja Helsingin Sanomissa.]]> 394 Paavo Teittinen 9512434105 Sara 4 2026, non-fiction, finnish 4.70 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 4.70
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rating: 4
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]]> 50155421 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist.

Across the world today, from the Americas to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while populism and nationalism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum offers an unexpected explanation: that there is a deep and inherent appeal to authoritarianism, to strongmen, and, especially, to one-party rule--that is, to political systems that benefit true believers, or loyal soldiers, or simply the friends and distant cousins of the Leader, to the exclusion of everyone else.

People, she argues, are not just ideological; they are also practical, pragmatic, opportunistic. They worry about their families, their houses, their careers. Some political systems offer them possibilities, and others don't. In particular, the modern authoritarian parties that have arisen within democracies today offer the possibility of success to people who do not thrive in the meritocratic, democratic, or free-market competition that determines access to wealth and power.

Drawing on reporting in Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, and Brazil; using historical examples including Stalinist central Europe and Nazi Germany; and investigating related phenomena: the modern conspiracy theory, nostalgia for a golden past, political polarization, and meritocracy and its discontents, Anne Applebaum brilliantly illuminates the seduction of totalitarian thinking and the eternal appeal of the one-party state.]]> 224 Anne Applebaum 0771005857 Sara 3 2026, non-fiction 3.86 2020
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.86
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]]> 174713026 He's the hot, grumpy goalie I had a crush on in high school... and now I'm his live-in assistant.

After my ex crushed my dreams in the music industry, I’m done with getting my heart broken. Working as an assistant for an NHL player was supposed to be a breeze, but nothing about Jamie Streicher is easy. He’s an intimidatingly hot, grouchy jerk who can't stand me. The guy has a massive ego. Keeping things professional will be no problem, even when he demands I move in with him.


Beneath his surliness, though, Jamie’s surprisingly sweet and protective.

When Jamie learns how bad my ex was in bed, his competitive nature flares, and he encourages and spoils me in every way. The creative spark I used to feel about songwriting? It’s back, and I’m writing music again. Between wearing his jersey at games, rowdy parties with the team, and being brave on stage again, I’m falling for him.

He could break my heart, but it might be worth it.

Behind the Net is a grumpy-sunshine pro hockey romance with lots of spice and an HEA. It’s the first book in the Vancouver Storm series, and can be read as a standalone.

Tropes:

grumpy sunshine
slow burn
boy obsessed
pro hockey
forced proximity (boss vs assistant + roommates)
spice coaching]]> 424 Stephanie Archer Sara 0 to-read 3.68 2023
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Monet tiedustelupalvelut ovat käyttäneet peiteagentteja, mutta KGB meni pidemmälle kuin kukaan muu: se käytti vuosia vakoojien kielitaidon ja käytöstapojen kouluttamiseen ja lähetti heidät ulkomaille tehtäviin, jotka saattoivat kestää vuosikymmeniä. Näitä vakoojia kutsuttiin illegaaleiksi.

Venäjään erikoistunut brittijournalisti Shaun Walker kertoo asiantuntijahaastattelujen ja tekemiensä arkistolöytöjen avulla Walker kertoo koko vakoojaohjelman historian 1920-luvulta tähän päivään. Mukana on monia tunnettuja ja aiemmin tuntemattomia vakoojia, joista osaa hän on päässyt haastattelemaan kirjaa varten.

Soluttautumisen mestarit on ensimmäinen laaja tietokirja ja huikea tarina Neuvostoliiton ja Venäjän kylmäverisestä yrityksestä soluttautua länsimaisten yhteiskuntien rakenteisiin.]]> 505 Shaun Walker 9523762931 Sara 3 2026, non-fiction 3.82 2025
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> 222279220 He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge.

Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future.

Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.

With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection?

Filled with magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm ]]> 384 B.K. Borison 0063430401 Sara 0 to-read 3.94 2025
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Recently-turned-pro tennis player Austin Hardy has been out since high school and it's never been a big deal. That is, until he becomes the first openly gay man to compete in a Grand Slam. Suddenly, being gay is a huge deal, with headlines to prove it.

Unprepared for this new spotlight, Austin’s anxiety disorder hits a breaking point, and he trips and falls at practice. Right next to the very attractive, very talented, and probably straight Diego Cruz, ranked World #2.

The two players start a friendship off the court. But between their flirty banter, mixed signals, and brewing rivalry, Austin is thrown further off his game by Diego.

With the eyes of the world on Austin, the weight of history on his shoulders, and Diego across the net — he must decide if love means nothing or if love means everything as he battles for the trophy during an electric two weeks at the US Open.]]> 368 Edward Schmit 059395677X Sara 0 to-read 3.84 2026
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]]> 240027143 A stunning novel of romance and redemption set in the Spunes, OR world, filled with heartbreak and hope from "master of emotion" (Rachel Lynn Solomon) USA Today bestselling author Tarah DeWitt.

Bea always wanted to be a mom. But she never expected she’d have to lose her best friend to do it. Armed with nothing but her best friend’s eggs and a bucket list to complete, Bea’s world is a sea of changes.

When she needs a place to stay, her longtime friend Silas steps in to help. A firefighter grappling with the aftermath of an accident, Silas has his own challenges to work through that have left him cautious and vulnerable.

At first, they expect nothing. But as these two former sunshines knit together in a love that has been unfulfilled until now, a new beginning comes out of the ashes of the past—one that will lead to a love that can withstand all the slings and arrows, joys and triumphs, that life can throw.

Tarah DeWitt's novels

"Pure magic." - Elsie Silver

"[Filled with] melt-your-face off intimacy." - Jessica Joyce

"Aching and sexy." - Julie Soto]]> 336 Tarah DeWitt 1250329477 Sara 0 to-read 4.19 2026
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average rating: 4.19
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Gertie Bickerstaff writes happily-ever-afters for a living. . . . Or she did, until her own love life fell apart. Now her ex is thriving, her deadline is looming, and she can’t write a single word.

The last thing Gertie needs is more drama—like waking up to find a confused and rugged cowboy on her sofa. And not just any cowboy, but River Oakley, the villain from her unfinished novel. Somehow very real . . . and very shirtless.

River wants to go home. Gertie wants her life back. So they strike a deal: he’ll use his cunning ways to help her win back her ex, she’ll finish the novel, and, surely, he’ll return to whatever world he rode in from.

But as River Oakley proves to be so much more than just the bad guy, Gertie has to choose: the ending she thought she wanted . . . or the plot twist she never saw coming.]]> 368 Kirsty Greenwood 0593816153 Sara 0 to-read 3.88 2026
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]]> 242624490 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes the second book in the devilishly steamy Seasons of Carnage trilogy where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense—and where love is ripe for ruin.

It’s time to reap what you sow.

Cape Carnage is blooming with secrets, and they’re ready to harvest. But every time Nolan Rhodes digs one up, another grows in its place. Harper isn’t who he thought she was. Arthur might be more sinister than he first thought. And Sheriff Yates? The man is everywhere he turns. When true crime fanatics descend on the town looking for answers about the death of their leader, Nolan finds himself at the center of a search and rescue operation for missing people he knows are already dead. Cape Carnage teeters on the brink of chaos. And the harder Nolan tries to keep it together, the closer Harper comes to unraveling.

Harper Starling has risked everything to bury her trauma in Cape Carnage. But now that Nolan has unearthed her past, her whole life seems ready to break apart. And who can she trust? The enigmatic man she’s falling in love with? He came to kill her. The serial killer mentor she’s vowed to protect? He’s become an unpredictable menace. The woman in the mirror? She might be the most dangerous of all.

Loyalties are tested. Bonds are bent to a breaking point. And love? That might be the deadliest trap of all.

Harvest Season is a dark romance with mature themes. Please check content warnings at the beginning of the book.


Tropes
Small-town romance / Fish out of water / Grumpy/Grumpy / Forced proximity / He falls first / Touch her/him and die / Villain x Villain / Brat/brat tamer]]> 368 Brynne Weaver 1638932123 Sara 0 to-read 4.10 2026
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Time heals all wounds. Isn't that what they say? Monk doesn't believe that for a second. He wasn't simply betrayed when he and Verity split. He was devastated, with parts of him left behind in the ruins of all that was destroyed.

More than a decade after their disastrous breakup, Verity and Monk must work together on the set of an epic Harlem Renaissance biopic. With Monk, now a world-class musician, creating the score, and Verity, an award-winning screenwriter, penning the script, there's Oscar buzz before shooting even begins. This once-in-a-lifetime project could catapult them both to new heights, but can they can put the past behind them for the sake of the film…for the sake of something more?]]> 448 Kennedy Ryan 1538769654 Sara 0 to-read 4.47 2026
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]]> 240687665 If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?]]> 366 Annabel Monaghan 0593853970 Sara 0 to-read 4.28 2026
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]]> 240019684
Cam is whisked away to Elswick, Rhode Island, where former slacker Danny has taken over his uncle’s restaurant and turned it into a seaside hotspot. But while Danny has grown into a devoted boss and dog dad, his carpe diem life philosophy is still as fiery as ever. The hazy summer days start to blur between shifts at the restaurant, dips in the ocean, and a reignited passion for writing, all alongside Danny who makes her laugh like nobody else. Cam can't help but wonder —is it the salty waves that have her feeling so renewed, or is it the carefree friend she always overlooked? But summer can't last forever, and Cam's looming student debt reminds her at every turn that the frigid air of corporate office life is waiting.

As September approaches, Cam must decide between snuffing out the flames with Danny in order to keep her beloved friend group together and return to the corporate grind—or falling into his forbidden arms and setting her old life ablaze.]]> 352 Jenna Ramirez 1250410924 Sara 0 to-read 3.66 2026
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]]> 235992309 A heartwarming and hilarious gender-swapped reimagining of My Fair Lady follows two very different women who join forces to makeover a hustler and take down one of Atlanta’s most powerful and corrupt men.

Proud, single mom Holly Simmons and ambitious journalist Luisa Martín Moreno have nothing in common—until Atlanta’s most powerful man, Griggs Caldecott Johnson III, turns both their lives upside down. Griggs is threatening Holly’s future and her job as the events manager at the hoity-toity Dogwood Hills Country Club, while Luisa gets fired for trying to expose his scheme to defraud an immigrant family and snatch up their land for a luxury development.

Determined to fight back, the women team up—and hatch a plan to infiltrate Griggs’s inner circle. Their secret weapon? Elijah Denvil Sweet, a charming hustler with a knack for reinvention. With a makeover, some etiquette lessons, and a little help from an entirely too cute linguistics professor, Eli transforms into “Tripp,” the kind of Southern gentleman Griggs might just trust.

As Holly and Luisa set their plan in motion, they come to realize they have far more in common than they ever expected. Along the way, they find friendship, men to love, and ultimately their true selves—and discover that getting justice can be as juicy-sweet as a Georgia peach.

How to Fake a Southern Gentleman delivers a rollercoaster of laughs, heart, and triumph, blending sharp wit and deep emotion with a pitch-perfect sense of justice—leaving readers cheering for two women who refuse to be underestimated.]]> 336 Mayra Cuevas 1668098954 Sara 0 to-read 3.49
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]]> 231126909 It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is making a splash in London Society. The son of Jeanne de Valois de La Motte, infamous for stealing a priceless diamond necklace meant for Marie Antoinette, Nico hopes to restore his wronged mother's reputation, if only he can raise the funds. But he must operate with great secrecy, because the Bourbon dynasty murdered his mother, and he fears for his life.

At least, that's what he tells Titus Pilcrow. Titus was a simple shopkeeper, making and selling artists' paints, when he found himself suddenly married to an immensely wealthy woman who wanted to disinherit her nephew on her deathbed. As word spreads of his fortune, Titus finds himself a target of every scammer and beggar in London . . . including one Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte.

Nico is on his last legs, out of money, and on the run from some terrifying gangsters. When Titus offers Nico a space in his household, it's the perfect chance for him to exploit London's newest golden purse - until he falls in love with the man he needs to cheat. Still, Nico is sure they can have a happy ending together. If he can just find his way out of his own web of lies . . .
]]> 320 K.J. Charles 1250395917 Sara 0 to-read 4.02 2026
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]]> 238227070 A woman tests the limits of her so-called amicable divorce when she flies to Paris for the destination wedding of her former sister-in-law, only to butt heads with the deliciously gruff best man, in a poignant and romantic novel from Kate Clayborn.

Physician Layla Bailey has spent over a year telling herself she's moved on from a painful but amicable divorce from her college sweetheart. Staying friends with her ex seemed like the mature thing to do, but when Layla is invited to her former sister-in-law’s destination wedding in Paris—where Layla once spent her own romantic honeymoon—she knows her commitment to maturity might be her worst enemy…especially since her ex isn’t attending alone.

The only thing that could make the week more difficult is getting through it without the distraction of the wedding.... But when what Layla thought was a harmless conversation about the choices of her younger self leads to the bride getting cold feet, Layla finds herself facing down the groom’s mysterious, taciturn best man, Griffin, who will do anything to make sure this wedding happens.

Since she broke it, Griff demands she help him fix it. Going along with his plan to alleviate the engaged couple's doubts seems like Layla’s best chance at maintaining a good relationship with a family she once called her own. But as she learns more about the past heartbreak that’s driving Griff to help his friend, she gets closer and closer to confronting the true depth of her own pain…while finding herself more and more willing to risk it all again for Griff.]]> 464 Kate Clayborn 0593819373 Sara 0 to-read 3.63 2026
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]]> 231127064 Can fake dating lead to real love? In Kasie West's next sexy adult romcom two people must decide where the lie ends and the chemistry begins.

Sutton knows she needs therapy. After all, she’s managing her newly opened restaurant remotely while taking care of her ungrateful sick mother. Plus, her boyfriend of two years just dumped her over the phone. But does therapy with a handsome stranger, who she has to pretend to be engaged to, in order to help her friend’s struggling relationship count? Probably not. Then why did she just agree to go? Because she’s had a few too many drinks? Because this stranger, Elijah, is smug and annoying and really, really handsome? Because she feels guilty that she abandoned her best friend, Tara, after high school and this might just make up for it? Whatever the reason, she has committed to this unhinged plan.

What the hell is Sutton doing?

Helping Tara prove a point: a good therapist can tell the difference between real love and fake love. That’s what she’s doing. But as they attend their sessions, Sutton and Elijah only seem to be proving one thing—the lines between pretend desire and real desire are very blurry. This true connection forming between them is threatening to unravel everything Sutton thought she knew about family, friendship, and her own heart.]]> 352 Kasie West 1250349168 Sara 0 to-read 3.78 2026
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]]> 236117115 Things heat up on and off the court for two tennis rivals in this steamy debut gay sports romcom perfect for fans of TJ Alexander and Casey McQuiston.

American tennis star Leo Chambers is determined to win the US Open by 30, the age when many players feel retirement looming. He’s just a year away from that dreaded birthday, but he can’t find his focus—considering he hasn’t told anyone he’s gay, he’s clashing with his strict coach (who also happens to be his dad), and he still can’t figure out how to beat his longtime nemesis on tour, Gabe Montoya, who, well, hits different. Gabe is playing better than ever, and Leo can’t seem to escape him—and maybe he doesn’t want to escape him.

Leo’s other obstacle is Sascha Volkov, a Russian legend who has such a powerful influence on the tennis world, he would destroy Leo’s career if he found out that he’s gay.

No distractions, Leo reminds himself. But when Gabe makes a shocking announcement, Leo is thrown off his game—in more ways than one. Ready? Play.

Thirty Love is a must-read for fans of queer sports romances.]]> 336 Tom Vellner Sara 0 to-read 3.82 2026
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]]> 235672421 Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series.

Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.

Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time.

The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right?

Tropes:

Enemies to Lovers

Opposites Attract

Forced Proximity

Slow Burn]]> 384 Cat Sebastian 0063429586 Sara 0 to-read 4.01 2026
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]]> 236772706 Sometimes love sends you back to the drawing board.

After a traumatic accident threatens the foundations of their happy marriage, a couple tries to rebuild and find their way back to each other—and themselves—in this tender, slow-burn romance.

Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a life-altering accident, and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out hope that they can fix things, until she discovers Vin has signed a new lease. So she does what any soon-to-be-divorced Manhattanite would do: sign up for a figure-drawing class.

Between Roz’s determined attempts to improve her artistic skills and her adventures with her best friend, Raffi, she can almost ignore Vin’s impending move-out date and his footsteps in their previously unoccupied guest room. But it would all be a lot easier if Vin wasn’t Raffi’s older brother, and if she didn’t still find him incredibly, debilitatingly attractive and kind.

So kind, in fact, that Vin offers to let Roz draw him. What is she supposed to say? It’s probably better than her original plan of finding some random male model online, and she needs all the practice she can get. Plus, that’s sure to make a separation easier, right? Focus on every detail of your estranged spouse’s body while drawing him in the nude? But after the year they’ve spent avoiding each other, it feels good to see and be seen by one another again.

As Roz works to capture the wholeness of the person she fell in love with, will they both be able to draw upon the feelings they buried deep inside to finally heal together?]]> 352 Cara Bastone 059397767X Sara 0 to-read 3.77 2026
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]]> 236847870 The newest book from bestselling author and Kindle Unlimited sensation Catherine Walsh, in which an ambitious editor travels to Ireland to help the daughter of a fantasy author legend complete her father’s final book, only to fall in love with her in the process.

Ciara Sheridan’s father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish—and writer’s block.

Enter Sam Frank Sheridan fanboy and hotshot editor, sent from the New York publishing house direct to Ciara’s doorstep. Ciara was expecting a crusty old-timer, so the handsome young American is a surprise. And for his part, Sam was expecting Ciara to have written something by now. 

Ciara and Sam have two weeks of the hottest Irish summer on record to write this novel together and secure Frank’s legacy—but will their own love story be the plot twist neither of them see coming?]]> 352 Catherine Walsh Sara 0 to-read 3.71 2026
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]]> 231127254 A gripping speculative romance about one girl saving her first love's life by falling for the last person she ever should - his best friend.

Nieve Monroe is devastated after her boyfriend Carter dies saving her from drowning. Even worse she blames herself for his death… and so does his best friend, Max. He was there with them on that fateful day, and he’s never liked Nieve.

Unable to pull herself from her grief and wanting to hide from the accusation in his eyes, Nieve goes to stay with her grandmother, who has always had strange stories to tell of uncanny happenings, of magic and make believe. The next morning, Nieve wakes up on the first day of college, the year before.

This time she plans to make sure Carter never follows her into that river. She’ll do everything in her power to keep him safe, even if it means losing him in other ways. But the more distance she puts between her and Carter, the closer she gets to Max, drawn to him in ways she never expected.

But is she betraying Carter if the only way she can save him is to move on? And can she ever forget her past to embrace her future?

Kristin Dwyer’s In Time With You is a heartbreaking story of first love, loss, and one chance to change everything.]]> 384 Kristin Dwyer 1250355133 Sara 0 to-read 3.78 2026
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]]> 235631856 She’s a tennis superstar on the rise. He’s the bad boy champ who broke her heart. When they meet on the court, their competition is hot—but their chemistry is even hotter.

All of Penny Harrison’s hard work is finally paying off. At 21 years old, she’s a tennis icon in-the-making, with massive sponsorship deals and legendary status on the horizon, if she can just nail the upcoming Grand Slam in Paris. Until then, there’s no room for mistakes.
 
When she returns to the prestigious Outer Banks Tennis Club to train, though, she comes face to face with the biggest mistake she ever made: Alex Russell. With piercing blue eyes and irresistible charm, the bad boy tennis star is the only guy who ever broke Penny’s heart.
 
To keep her head in the game—and her mind off Alex—Penny leans on two of the club’s other rising stars. Jasmine Randazzo and Indiana Gaffney are both balancing exploding careers with their own off-the-court romances, and their drama might be enough to keep Penny distracted.
 
But as days tick down to Paris, Penny seems to always find herself across the court from Alex. She knows that winning it all means laser focus…so why can’t Penny stay away from the one guy who ruins everything?
 
Perfect for fans of Chloe Walsh and Bal Khabra, this juicy and action-filled tennis rom com is a match you won’t want to look away from.]]> 336 Jennifer Iacopelli 0316597872 Sara 0 to-read 3.52 2013
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]]> 236961124 THE ROMCOM OF THE YEAR HAS ARRIVED


He ticks every box…but is she ready to invest?

Enemies to lovers? Check!
Forced proximity? Check!
Men in finance? Check!

--
Journalist Hallie Woods has a new date the hottest guy on Wall Street and document every moment for the magazine she works for.

The only problem? Finance bros couldn’t be further from Hallie’s type.

But as Hallie reluctantly flirts her way through the Financial District, there's one annoyingly handsome 6’5, blue-eyed man who keeps getting in her way. . .

James Rossi is a typical finance bro on paper, but a hopeless romantic at heart. So, when he realizes the new regular at his favourite bar is flirting with his colleagues as fodder for an article, he decides to sabotage her plans.

Hallie and James clash at happy hour every week. But soon their dislike for each other turns into something unexpected, and Hallie questions whether she wants her personal life spread across the pages of a magazine.

Hallie might have found her man in finance, but she also has a choice to make. Will she publish the article, or risk her career and invest in true love?




Forced proximityEnemies to loversOpposites attractWorkplace romanceSteamy 🌶]]> 336 Sabrina Waldorf Sara 0 to-read 3.56
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]]> 233608853 #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with the latest novel in her beloved Chicago Stars series, featuring a romance between a star quarterback and one of the country’s most beautiful—and misunderstood—actresses.

After a mortifying—and very public—humiliation, Dancy Flynn is desperate to find sanctuary far from the crowd. But where can a washed-up sex symbol hide? How about making an unannounced appearance at the secluded lake house of the sweet, sensitive high school boyfriend she hasn’t seen in almost twenty years?

But Chicago Stars quarterback Clint Garrett is no longer the kid Dancy remembers. Now he’s a gridiron superhero, still holding a massive grudge against her for breaking his teenage heart. With no room in his life for either complexity or distractions, he banishes Dancy to a refurbished old railroad caboose tucked away in the woods…and out of his sight.

Except Dancy’s not good at staying invisible. Her efforts to rebuild her career clash with Clint’s desperation to regain his focus, all made more challenging by a rescue dog, a local woman in trouble, a meddling mother, an ex with an agenda…and the sizzle of rekindled emotions.

As Dancy attempts to get her life on track and Clint tries to get his groove back, can these two one-time lovers navigate their rocky pasts and complicated present to find themselves…and each other?

Tropes include:

second-chance romance
enemies to lovers
forced proximity
childhood sweethearts]]> 352 Susan Elizabeth Phillips 006324862X Sara 0 to-read 4.01 2026
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]]> 235699058 Adam and Jules have been married for twenty-five years when they discover a time machine in their shed - can it bring back their romantic spark? Or will it unravel everything? Written by a real-life couple who fell in love while writing their bestselling debut novel twenty-five years ago.

One couple. One past. A million tomorrows.

Meet Adam and Jules. Married for nearly twenty-five years and stuck in a rut, their future looks, well, boring.

Then Adam stumbles across a box of old mixtapes he and Jules made for each other when they were young and falling in love. He dusts off his vintage stereo, inserts one of the cassettes, presses play … and the unbelievable happens.

With the power to travel back in time, he and Jules can revisit pivotal moments in their pasts. Is this the key to getting their sparkle back? They embark on an epic hunt through the multiverse for their perfect love story. But as they visit the past and recapture the headiness of falling in love, they realize that traveling across time could be as dangerous as it is addictive, because the temptation to change just a few small things is irresistible. As the ripple effects spiral out of control, can they find a way back to their messy and imperfect, yet glorious, real life? Or will they lose each other forever?]]> 352 Josie Lloyd Sara 0 to-read 3.60 2026
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]]> 231126991
Charlotte “Charlie” Ashford has worked hard to become her own person. Tired of living in the shadow of her famous parents, she gladly left behind a life of glitz and glamour to pursue her true passion: becoming a counselor. However, when a viral video upends Charlie’s plans, she wonders if the real key to discovering herself is through her late father.

Grayson Keller has finally found his footing. He’s settled in one place, surrounded by family, and secure in his business. By his third summer as owner, Get Lost Lodge is showing a steady profit and seeing its fair share of repeat visitors. Whatever happens, Grayson is perfectly content with his quiet life and careful heart. That is, until he meets Charlie, who he can’t seem to get out of his head.

On the surface, Charlie and Grayson seem to have nothing in common more than a growing attraction that neither of them can fight. Trusting each other isn’t easy. They’ve both been hurt before, and they’re not looking for anything serious. The solution is easy: they’ll date, have some fun, and walk away unscathed. Right? Or, maybe this once, they can see past the hurt to what, or who, is on the other side waiting for them.]]> 336 Sophie Sullivan 1250875870 Sara 0 to-read 3.58
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]]> 238872971 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9798217181162.

She knows what her happily ever after looks like. And it’s not him.

Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It’s her family business, after all—for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles, Park women have peered into clients’ past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee…for everyone but Cassia.

For ten years, Cass has been searching for her fated, a man named Daniel Nam. But he’s still nowhere to be found.

And so, on the eve of her 40th birthday, Cass decides to do something for herself. She impulsively has a fling with Ellis. He’s twenty-eight, indecently handsome, and not destined to be the love of her life. But she’s surprised by their connection and their fling feels like something more—up to the moment he introduces her to his boss…Daniel Nam.

As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family secret is revealed that will make her question everything she’s ever known. Cassia will have to decide if she’ll follow her fate…or make her own.]]> 358 Maurene Goo Sara 0 to-read 3.94 2026
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]]> 231108837 “I love, love, love Lizzy Dent.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Sparks fly when an up-and-coming team principle and her new hot-shot driver—and former childhood crush—are forced to work together to save their careers and team in this deliciously winning Formula 1 romance.

Can they navigate the twists and turns of love without crashing and burning?

As one of the first female team principles in Formula 1, Chloe Coleman is determined to prove herself and transform her failing team from underdogs to champions. Nothing can ruin her strategy—except maybe the surprising new addition of a cocky, top-tier driver who’s lost his edge. And he just so happens to be her estranged childhood crush who still sends her heart racing.

Matt Warner needs a comeback. A former champion, he hasn’t won a race since the disastrous crash that landed his best friend and teammate in the hospital. If there’s a silver lining to this scandalous demotion, it’s his fierce and familiar new boss, Chloe. But as the competition heats up, so does an unexpected spark that turns dangerously and passionately hot. With the world watching and pressures of the season mounting, will their chemistry lead them to victory, or spin them out of control?]]> 368 Lizzy Dent Sara 0 to-read 3.46 2026
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]]> 235992407 In this new romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Letizia Lorini, a crime podcast host must solve a chilling serial killer case while navigating an unexpected romance with her mysterious next-door neighbor.

Scarlett Moore doesn’t do romance.

She’s made a name for herself narrating gritty crime fiction on a local podcast. But when her boss hands her the reins to the network’s romance show, Scarlett finds herself neck-deep in swoony love stories on top of her usual murder plots.

Then someone begins reenacting the chilling crimes she discusses on air, down to the last twisted detail.

Determined to protect her small town, Scarlett launches her own investigation. But the line between reality and fiction blurs even more when Rafael Gray—the brooding bad boy who disappeared five years ago—unexpectedly returns. Suddenly, her life reads like a romance novel filled with every trope she used to mock, with Rafael playing the dangerously irresistible lead.

He's perfect in every way...except last time, he broke her heart, and now he’s the prime suspect in the string of brutal murders.

Will this be the love story she never saw coming, or is it a killer kind of romance?]]> 464 Letizia Lorini 1668082357 Sara 0 to-read 3.80 2026
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]]> 223922841 #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can’t get out of his head.

Madden Donahue, the newest catcher for the Yankees, has been in love with Eve Mitchell since high school, but for some mysterious reason, the burlesque club owner always turns him down. That never stopped him from being her self-appointed protector. Case in point, now that Eve’s sister has left Eve with her two children indefinitely, Madden steps in with a proposition—marry him for the much needed health benefits.

Eve has secretly harbored feelings for Madden all along, but there’s one problem—her best friend Skylar called dibs on him when they were fourteen. Eve has always put their friendship above all else, and she’s not willing to risk losing Skylar over a man. Raised by the local strip club owner, Eve is woefully short on friends and treasures the ones she has. But with Skylar happily paired off, Eve finds herself accepting Madden’s proposal—on the condition that their marriage remains strictly private. She’s not about to let her unique profession and maligned reputation destroy Madden’s shiny new career.

Madden won’t let Eve get away that easily, though. What starts as a marriage of convenience soon ignites into something much hotter, and now it’s up to Madden to convince Eve that their connection is far more than a business arrangement. As the passion builds, can their fake marriage become the real deal?]]> 336 Tessa Bailey Sara 0 to-read 3.56 2026
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]]> 219542927 Seven authors enter the manor

Can they survive the story within?

When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they've been waiting for their chance to step into the author’s shoes for some time.

Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don’t, the manor will take one of them for itself.

You see, the Queen estate was built on the bones of Mortimer’s family, and like any true horror story, the house is still very, very hungry.

With the clever, locked-room thrills of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone with the ghostly horror of The Fall of the House of Usher, How to Survive a Horror Story is a bright, biting, thrill-ride that begs us to contemplate how the best horror stories come to be.]]> 368 Mallory Arnold 1464227403 Sara 0 to-read 3.62 2025
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]]> 40067
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect crime.

With his superb narrative skills, Erik Larson guides these parallel narratives toward a relentlessly suspenseful meeting on the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate. Thunderstruck presents a vibrant portrait of an era of séances, science, and fog, inhabited by inventors, magicians, and Scotland Yard detectives, all presided over by the amiable and fun-loving Edward VII as the world slid inevitably toward the first great war of the twentieth century. Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form.]]> 463 Erik Larson 1400080665 Sara 0 to-read 3.74 2006
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]]> 3456594 Librarian's note: This an alternate edition for: 9780451462008

Wizard Harry Dresden’s life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council’s war with the vampiric Red Court is easing up, no one’s tried to kill him lately, and his eager apprentice is starting to learn real magic. For once, the future looks fairly bright.

But the past casts one hell of a long shadow.

Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, calls in an old favor from Harry. Just one small favor he can’t refuse – one that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally and strain his skills and loyalties to their very limits.

And everything was going so well for once….]]> 545 Jim Butcher Sara 3 owned, 2018, fantasy 4.42 2008
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Poikkeuksellinen historiateos auttaa ymmärtämään myös nykypäivän informaatiosotaa.

Kekseliäs elämäkerta toisen maailmansodan mystisestä propagandisti Sefton Delmeristä pohtii vaikeita kysymyksiä informaatiosodan ja propagandan luonteesta niin toisen maailmansodan aikana kuin nyt.

Kesällä 1941 Iso-Britannia kamppaili Saksan voimakasta propagandakoneistoa vastaan. Hitlerin Saksa kaiutti liittoutuneiden pilkkaa ja julisti voittoaan radiopuheissa, joita välitettiin radioaaltoja pitkin suoraan vihollisten koteihin. Vain Der Chef -nimisen saksalaisen lähetyksissä kyseenalaistettiin natsioppi. Hänellä vaikutti olevan pääsy korkea-arvoisiin Saksan sotilassalaisuuksiin. Todellisuudessa Der Chef oli fiktiota, brittiläisen propagandisti Thomas Sefton Delmerin luoma hahmo ja ainutlaatuinen ase sodassa.

Peter Pomerantsev vertaa Delmeriltä saatuja oppeja taisteluunsa Putinin valheita vastaan. Tämä kirja onkin tarina Delmeristä sekä hänen modernista tutkijastaan, jotka yrittävät molemmat tahoillaan kääntää informaatiosodan suuntaa.]]> 392 Peter Pomerantsev 9528501737 Sara 5 2026, finnish, non-fiction 3.96 2024
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> 55211191 Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against time to find the link between a body with strange markings that has washed up on a frigid shore in Finland and two mysterious disappearances in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Witch Hunter.

Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach, and two famous Instagram influencers have gone missing at the same time.

The missing influencers and the murdered woman all have ties to a sinister cult. Jessica finds an eerie painting--of a lighthouse on a frigid island--as she investigates and under the picture is a gruesome poem detailing a murder. The nightmares about her dead mother have intensified and seem all too real, making Jessica wonder if the woman might be trying to tell her something about the killings. And as Jessica works frantically to solve her latest case, her terrifying past and the coven of witches that almost killed her shockingly reemerge and threaten to destroy her.]]> 448 Max Seeck 9520417893 Sara 0 to-read 3.69 2020
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]]> 144482440 Käärmeenlumooja aloittaa faunoideista kertovan trilogian, joka yhdistää yliluonnollisia aineksia ja leiskuvaa intohimoa poikkeuksellisen vetävällä otteella.

Oletko koskaan miettinyt miltä tuntuisi, jos puolet kyvyistäsi tulisi satunnaisesti valitulta eläimeltä? Unna on ketterä kuin orava. Hän putoaa aina jaloilleen, kiipeää puuhun vaikka takaperin ja heittää skeittilaudalla voltteja. Unna on luullut olevansa ainoa laatuaan, kunnes skeittaa itsensä salaperäisen Rufuksen jengiin. Synkänkomea poika ottaa Unnan suojelukseensa, mutta tuo yhteisöllisyyden lisäksi tämän elämään kasan hallitsemattomia riskejä. Toiset niistä ovat suloisia kuin suudelma, toiset tappavia kuin metsästäjän luoti.]]> 332 Annukka Salama 9510502650 Sara 0 to-read 3.84 2012
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 230422842 Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt . . . and the supernatural forces that bring them together.

Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming, was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parents’ antiques shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what she tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts who have always been her companions have recently gone silent.

But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store. Unluckily, it is absolutely crawling with more ghosts who are freezing her out. And Collins hates being ignored.

Brady Cooper is absolutely and totally fine. Seriously, there’s no secret reason why he decided to uproot his life and suddenly move to Sweetwater Peak. He just needed a change of pace. At least that’s what he tells himself. And everyone else.

When he agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers—constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one—or that she looked like that. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur, leaving both of them—and the ghosts who have been pushing them together—wondering whether their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.]]> 368 Lyla Sage 0593977777 Sara 0 to-read 3.64 2025
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Suomen kärkitrilleristeihin lukeutuva Max Seeck vakuuttaa uudella psykologisella jännitysromaanillaan, jossa rikoskirjailijan teokset muuttuvat karmivalla tavalla todeksi.

Hulppeasta merenrantatalosta löytyy kuollut nainen. Nainen on pukeutunut juhla-asuun ja hänen kasvonsa ovat vääntyneet irvokkaaseen hymyyn.

Rikosylikonstaapeli Jessica Niemi saa tapauksen tutkittavakseen, ja pian käy ilmi ettei juhlapukuinen nainen ole ainut uhri ja että lisää ruumiita on tiedossa. Joku nimittäin toteuttaa uskollisesti menestyskirjailijan romaanien äärimmäisen raakoja rikoksia.

Max Seeck kirjoittaa aikamme vetävintä jännitystä. Uskollinen lukija tuo rikoksen iholle ja todistaa jälleen kerran, että Seeckillä on ilmiömäinen kyky luoda huikeita cliffhangereita ja yllättää lukijansa yhä uudestaan.

Max Seeck (s. 1985) on helsinkiläinen myynnin ja markkinoinnin ammattilainen, jonka esikoisdekkarille Hammurabin enkelit myönnettiin Suomen Dekkariseuran Vuoden esikoisdekkari -kunniakirja. Seeckin romaanien käännösoikeuksia on myyty neljään maahan. Uskollinen lukija on hänen neljäs romaaninsa.]]> 391 Max Seeck 9520408142 Sara 3 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.46 2019
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name: Sara
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rating: 3
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Koukuttavien romanssien mestari Annukka Salama hengästyttää nyt lätkäkaukalossa! Oliver ja Niklas ovat jääkiekon superlupauksia – ja toistensa vihollisia junnumaajoukkueissa lahden molemmin puolin. Poikien joutuessa samaan joukkueeseen alkaa Suomi-Ruotsi maaottelu, jollaista ei ole ennen lätkässä nähty.

Oliver Järvinen singahtaa täydestä tuntemattomuudesta koeajalle maajoukkueeseen. Kaikki hänen hurjimmat unelmansa ovat toteutumassa, kunnes hänen elämäänsä luistelee Niklas Gauffin, ruotsinsuomalainen tähtikiekkoilija ja totaalinen kiusankappale. NHL-ykkösvaraukseksi povattu Niklas on vaihtanut Tre Kronor -pelipaidan yltään ja muuttanut Suomeen – ja kaiken huipuksi Oliverin huonekaveriksi lukion asuntolaan. Kohtalon heittäessä heidät samaan kaukaloon peli ja otteet kuumenevat sietämättömiksi. Nuorten yksityisasiat ovat suurennuslasin alla, kun media seuraa heidän kauttaan ennen NHL-varauksia, ja pojat joutuvat isojen valintojen eteen taistellessaan tulevaisuutensa puolesta.]]> 359 Annukka Salama 9510518212 Sara 5 2025, finnish, lgbtq, romance 3.98 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.98
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Rebekka ei ole vienyt kenenkään henkeä, mutta hän pystyy murtautumaan ystävänsä kotiin tai varastamaan auton tuntematta syyllisyyttä tai häpeää. Taltuttaakseen impulssejaan Rebekka käy terapiassa. Se on toiminut yllättävän hyvin, eikä hän ole tehnyt mitään kovin pahaa. Vielä.

Sitten Rebekka kohtaa Alexin. Mies herättää Rebekassa lämpimiä tunteita, joita hän ei kokenut edes mahdolliseksi tuntea. Alex on älykäs ja hauska, ja mikä parasta, hän ei pelkää Rebekkaa.

Mutta voiko manipuloiva ja arvaamaton sosiopaatti luoda aitoa yhteyttä toiseen ihmiseen? Onko väkivaltaisia impulsseja mahdollista hillitä? Ja mitä tapahtuu, kun Alexista paljastuukin jotain odottamatonta? Saako se Rebekan ylittämään rajan, jolta ei ole paluuta?

Tatiana Elfin Huijari aloittaa uuden trillerisarjan, jossa on poikkeuksellinen naispäähenkilö. Rebekka sekä hurmaa että pelottaa. Jos koukutut Freida McFaddenin ja Gillian Flynnin trillereistä, tämä kirja vie sinut taatusti mennessään ja saa janoamaan jatkoa.]]> 285 Tatiana Elf 9523936581 Sara 4 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.74 2025
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.74
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rating: 4
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]]> 216247552 An incendiary, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from award-winning investigative journalist Gardiner Harris

One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, early for a flight, sat down at an airport bar and started talking to the woman on the bar stool beside him. She was a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson, and her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris covered the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for The New York Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that conversation led to new federal laws and ultimately to No More Tears, a blistering exposé of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world.

Harris takes us light years away from the company’s image as the child-friendly “baby company” as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding baby powder’s link to cancer; the surprising dangers of Tylenol; a criminal campaign to sell dangerous anti-psychotics to children; a popular drug for cancer patients that increases the risk of tumor growth. Deceptive marketing efforts that accelerated opioid addictions rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. All told, Johnson & Johnson's products have helped cause drug crises that have contributed to the deaths of as many as two million people and counting.

Filled with shocking, infuriating, but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.]]> 464 Gardiner Harris 059322986X Sara 0 to-read 4.14 2025
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]]> 223736287 New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.

The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available—sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?

In Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?

Roach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a “superclean” xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell “hair nursery” in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.

Irrepressible and accessible, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.]]> 288 Mary Roach 1324050624 Sara 0 to-read 4.02 2025
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]]> 217927444 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and 80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem—the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson—Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma, stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was only one among many that dotted the area.

As Fraser's investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of western smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives, but also warped young minds, spawning a generation of serial killers.

A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.]]> 480 Caroline Fraser 0593657225 Sara 0 to-read 3.74 2025
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]]> 213870084 From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.

On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet was viewed over 10 million times. 

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. 

This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we’re undergoing a shift in the so-called ‘rules-based order,’ a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. 

This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.]]> 208 Omar El Akkad 0593804147 Sara 0 to-read 4.56 2025
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]]> 40532602 Kello käy. Voiko kukaan estää helvetin portteja aukeamasta?

Zagrebilaisesta kerrostalosta löytyy neljä teloitettua miestä. Surma-asunto on Britannian valtion omistuksessa, mutta kukaan ei tunnu tietävän mitään sen asukkaista.

Puolustusvoimain erityisasiantuntija Daniel Kuisma on juuri saanut vapauttavan tuomion sotarikosoikeudenkäynnissä, kun hänen luokseen ilmestyy odottamaton vieras. Daniel luulee jättäneensä vihdoin taakseen yli kahdenkymmen vuoden takaiset tapahtumat Balkanilla, mutta vieras kertoo hänelle jotain, mikä saa hänet hyppäämään empimättä Zagrebin-koneeseen. Vaarassa on kenties tuhansien ihmisten henki.

Haadeksen kutsu sukeltaa suoraan pahuuden pimeään ytimeen, josta kukaan ei palaa entisellään – jos ylipäätään palaa.]]> 400 Max Seeck 9520401547 Sara 3 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.68 2018
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> 53181090 There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them...

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered, and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor... well, that job is a revolving door--and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

When tragedy strikes in Hannah's first week on the job, The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined.]]> 432 C.K. McDonnell 1787633365 Sara 0 to-read 4.10 2021
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average rating: 4.10
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Kun Interpolin tutkija Annika Lehto kuulee tapauksesta, hän on heti valmis keskeyttämään sairauslomansa ja lähtemään Westerlundin perään. Mukaansa hän onnistuu saamaan Daniel Kuisman, puolustusvoimain asiantuntijan, jonka kanssa hän on aiemminkin ollut diplomaatin kintereillä. Käynnistyy tapahtumasarja jonka vaikutukset ulottuvat aina Pohjois-Norjasta San Franciscoon ja Haagiin. Mutta mitä pidemmälle Annikan ja Danielin tutkimukset etenevät, sitä selvemmäksi käy ettei mies jota he jäljittävät, ole harhautunut kaidalta polulta vastikään vaan että hänen sisällään asuu pahuus, jonka kanssa on parempi olla joutumatta kosketuksiin.]]> 350 Max Seeck 9513196410 Sara 4 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.78 2017
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name: Sara
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> 231299870 From No.1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes a wickedly delicious new series where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense - and where falling in love can be a killer.

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.

You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell, and I will still drag you out. Even the devil can't save you from me.

Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colourful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won't let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost - especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory. Troublesome tourists don't check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper's award-winning flowerbeds.

But Nolan Rhodes isn't your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he's saved the best for the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn't the monster he expected. And she won't go down without a fight.

When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she'll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage - including their fragile love.

Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade - and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.


Small-town romance
Fish out of water
Grumpy/grumpy
Forced proximity
He falls first
Touch her/him and die
Grovelling]]> 400 Brynne Weaver 1638932107 Sara 0 to-read 4.10 2025
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name: Sara
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Sitten Jesper tekee katoamistempun. Pian Jesperin ylellisestä kodista löytyy raa’asti murhattu, tunnistamaton nainen, ja Jesperistä tulee rikoksen pääepäilty.

Tapauksessa on tuttuja kaikuja, ja rikospoliisi Peter Lindgren ryhtyy tutkimaan murhaa kollegansa Hanne Lagerlind-Schönin kanssa. Heillä on yhteinen historia, mikä tuo oman hankalan lisänsä tutkintaan.]]> 507 Camilla Grebe 951240348X Sara 3 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.56 2015
author: Camilla Grebe
name: Sara
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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Gabe on kotimatkalla, kun hän kauhukseen huomaa edellä ajavan auton takaikkunassa oman viisivuotiaan tyttärensä kasvot. Se on viimeinen kerta kun hän näkee Izzyn. Kolme vuotta myöhemmin Gabe ajelee yhä ympäriinsä etsien, vaikka kukaan muu ei usko Izzyn olevan elossa. Samaan aikaan samoilla teillä liikkuu toinen auto, mutta ei etsien, vaan paeten. Mistä on kyse, ja keitä ovat Ne muut?]]> 443 C.J. Tudor 9510456497 Sara 4 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.65 2020
author: C.J. Tudor
name: Sara
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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Kroatia on Kuismalle tuttu paikka, sillä hän on osallistunut aikoinaan Jugoslavian sotaan rauhanturvaajana. Samassa sodassa on taistellut myös italialainen Antonio Franzo, joka joutuu Dubrovnikissa murhayrityksen kohteeksi. Pian hän saa tietää, että vaarassa ovat muutkin sodan aikana salaiseen operaatioon osallistuneet miehet, heidän joukossaan yksi suomalainen.

Max Seeckin esikoisteos on kansainvälisen tason tiheätunnelmainen trilleri, jota on mahdotonta laskea käsistään ennen kuin viimeinenkin sivu on luettu.]]> 416 Max Seeck Sara 4 2025, crime-thriller, finnish 3.63 2016
author: Max Seeck
name: Sara
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2025/10/06
date added: 2025/10/06
shelves: 2025, crime-thriller, finnish
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