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[Welcome to Inkspoken Books!](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/sVpYIqAwlrRJtE3k8j98/)

Hello new friends! Here's what we are all about here at Inkspoken Books! I'm your host, @amanda.the.bookish!

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[The Library is Looking So Fine Tonight - Link Roundup\\
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Hello my loves! It's been a hot second, but I'm back with a link roundup for my library reveal! I'll add some pictures alongside the links (some of which are affiliate - your girl has to eat, after all 😊)\\
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I'm reading: an arc Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst - I've read two chapters over the past few weeks because my reading slows SO MUCH when I'm working 65+ hour weeks at the ranch. BUT I'm loving it!\\
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On the sound system: Rose Betts' "You Never Looked Back"\\
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What I'm dreaming of: A hot fudge sundae with cashews and a g&t\\
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Okay! Here's a link roundup with any discounts or freebies laid out for you (I don't gatekeep) \\
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💛 This is the newest addition to my library, a burnt orange barrel chair graciously sent to me by Wayfair for their Tried & True program: https://creatorlink.shop/3RksoAI\\
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💛The shelves are the Billy shelves from Ikea, and the color I used to paint them is Sherwin Williams Fairfax Brown \\* However I would not suggest painting the white shelves from Ikea - they now add a paint-resistant coating that even with sanding/ planing I could not get the paint to adhere properly!\\
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💛The Switchcovers and Outlet covers I got from Etsy, from a seller (StillwaterMNCNC) who graciously gave me 15% off (and they're PERFECT) \\
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💛 The paint is Storms in Paris in Matte Ceramic Interior from Tonester Paints\\
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💛 The star mirrors are from Amazon and at time of purchase were $9.99! They have not budged from the first day I stuck them to the ceiling in a very specific pattern 🤩\\
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Are there any other links you'd like? Let me know in the comments and I'll get them for you! Happy Saturday 💛💛](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/fdJg2fvmDIDKnvRwYHTG/)

[The Library is Looking so Fine - Link Roundup](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/fdJg2fvmDIDKnvRwYHTG/)

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[🕯️the library is looking so fine tonight - pt 2\\
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Hello my friends! Thank you for joining me on another library reveal tour! This one is going to have the details, the dogs, and of course, the books! I've decided to do an additional round-up post later of all the things I bought or received for my library so you can purchase them too if you're looking to change things up in your own spaces, but they'll also be included here for your convenience!\\
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I definitely should have counted how many boxes of books I brought up to the house, as these stacks can't really be understood in their depth and breadth and sheer... **weight**. Here's a few more photos that might help you get a better idea of just how many books my collection has amassed:\\
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It took me two+ days to get the books shelved (i have timelapse proof, which I'll post here eventually or you can head to https://www.instagram.com/p/DYP3Q-JpbjE/ to see part one of the adventures.\\
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Of course my famous rainbow shelves have returned! I love the cheerful rainbow, don't you??\\
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All right, on to the _details!_ I've got some incredible window clings from Geek Orthodox - LOOK at this one of Narsil 🤩\\
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I am so lucky to be a part of the Wayfair Creator Program, which provided me with these rechargeable lights:\\
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The stepstool is an antique but here's one that's eerily similar from Wayfair as well: Library StepStool\\
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The desk and table are both antiques I was gifted by my inlaws, (but this gives YOU the perfect excuse to go antiquing/thrifting this summer) + the rug was a gift from my aunt 💛\\
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Here's a final photo! I hope you enjoyed this little tour with me! Did I miss anything that YOU would add to YOUR dream library??\\
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[The Library is Looking SO Fine tonight - pt 2](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/ykaoenuEyhrISdmjZ8K4/)

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[🕯️ the library is looking so fine tonight - pt. 1](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/5oqkJQBa1cG1ZERiCqP1/)

🤫 the library is looking so fine tonight 🕯️

I’ll do an official reveal post soon but I was just enchanted by how this space came together! I’ve been working on this room for months and it’s so lovely 🥰

📚What is your favorite part? I’ll reveal mine tomorrow 🥰

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[Hello, friends and dreamers! I've been a bit quiet here because I'm in the middle of moving to a new house where I get to have a LIBRARY room and I'm STOKED. Please enjoy a little preview and let me know what YOU would choose/ have chosen for your library details! Inspoken Insiders ($5 a month tier) get ready for a video reveal soon!!\\
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[Inkspoken Books Library Mood Board](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/KUxJJzD7flVVLN8YlDHB/)

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Hello readers and dreamers! It's time to announce the book club read for March! We voted and the winner was ...\\
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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett!\\
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Feel free to read along the timeline I've outlined above (about 9 chapters per week) if you wish, or read ahead if you wish! I'll have a chat room open in Discord for read reacts and theories based on these divisions so hopefully nobody gets spoiled!\\
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Thanks everyone! I can't wait to read this with you all 🐾](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/3c93CBJi2C9VwB8aDYVy/)

[March Book Club Pick Annoucement!](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/3c93CBJi2C9VwB8aDYVy/)

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[Inkspoken Books\\
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Hello Friends and Insiders! We are gearing up to choose our March Book Club Read, please vote! If you have a book you'd love to submit, please comment below :)](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/LjEgIaGYrYYnuvYcgcXW/)

[March Book Club - What should we read?](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/LjEgIaGYrYYnuvYcgcXW/)

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[Who wants to win a bound manuscript of Adalyn Grace's The Wretched Divine (out Sept 22nd 2026) ??!!\\
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Happy Valentine's Day my loves! I wanted to do something special for my Friends and Insiders, and I have just the thing: special bound manuscripts (not the exact one pictured above, that one's mine 😉) of The Wretched Divine by Adalyn Grace!\\
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➡️💘 Comment on this post to enter! Extra entries are available for each comment or like of any other post here on Inkspoken Books! ⬅️💘\\
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I'll **randomly draw the winners on 2/20** and reach out via email if you've won. Good luck!\\
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Aurelie Chantelune was born to serve. Raised as a knight in a kingdom ravaged by demons, she's spent her life honing her blade, driven by the memory of the monsters who tore her family apart and by the knowledge that she's one of the few who can stop them.\\
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If Aurelie can claim her first kill, she'll inherit a legacy passed down through the Chantelune a soulbond with Yuriel, an angel whose power is vital to her kingdom's survival. But when those she loves begin turning into the very monsters she's sworn to destroy, Aurelie is forced to seek help from the last place she ever imagined. Desperate, she forges a second and far more dangerous bond with Severin, a demon she can hardly trust, but who claims to know how to end the war for good.\\
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With their lives and fates entwined, Aurelie, Yuriel, and Severin must team up to hunt down a cure capable of turning demons back into humans. But the more they learn about one another and the deeper their relationships grow, the more Aurelie begins to question the war and her place in it. With both of her bonded on opposing sides, she'll have to make a continue to stand with the angels, or risk everything by trusting a demon.\\
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_Open to all “Inkspoken Books” Bindery members - any tier (including free “Follower” members) – comment to enter_\\
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_Thank you to Kist Reads for the GA format and idea!_](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/sAXueeX3C58mGk58FnwA/)

[💕Valentine's Day Giveaway - Bound Manuscript of The Wretched Divine](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/sAXueeX3C58mGk58FnwA/)

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[2026 Bindery Project Update 🎉](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/qIKRcAXeDFhUvILYryyx/)

Project Updates and New Equipment

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[Inkspoken Books\\
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[Inkspoken Books Book Club: Alchemy of Secrets](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/xHbspbpUIlb09gPHLGCt/)

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[Inkspoken Books\\
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Hello my loves! As we start to reckon with the conclusion of the year, we also get to dream about how much better 2026 is going to be - especially here on my Bindery! It's taken me a bit to get going, but I'm working on the research for my first longform video (which I'll introduce soon!) as well as bolstering other Bindery content.\\
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It's time to announce our Book Club! 🎉 We'll be doing one book a month to start (so no matter how fast you read, you can join us!)\\
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Once we decide on a title (vote below!), I'll create a graphic breaking down when we'll be reading each chapter! For your best experience, you can join the Discord server linked above, though there's no pressure to do so. I'll film reactionary/ rant videos each month to go over what we've read, and anyone along on the journey can interact there.\\
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That's totally okay! If you find that you have already read the book we pick for book club, feel free to wait for the next read, or reread! You can be our wise guide on the story's journey.\\
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_What happens at the end of the read?_\\
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We'll chat on Discord each month and then wrap it all up there at the conclusion of the read! Bring along your hot takes and we'll have some fun!\\
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My current plan is to do some kind of live event at the conclusion of our read, and I'll bring my Sommelier / Bartender skills along for the ride, pairing a wine and creating a custom mocktail/ cocktail curated for my Inkspoken Insiders that you can make for the (digital) party!\\
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The live event might be an Instagram live, but I'm exploring other ideas as well. If you don't finish the book, or don't want to take part, that's okay! (only Insiders will have access to the Live)\\
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[Introducing the Inkspoken Books Book Club!](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/PuGv4ZZsP02rlWRyON2S/)

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[Exclusive Must Love Books @Bookstr "Un-Cut" Video](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/y3DduD6qsT3IbADj9qAv/)

A few weeks ago I did a video for Bookstr's "Must Love Books" project. I was so thrilled to get to work with them again, after being one of their Bookstagrammers of the Week back in January. The interview you'll see over on their Instagram is cut to about 3 minutes for brevity, but the original was closer to 6 so I thought, why waste the effort?

Here's the 'un-cut' video (I did trim the silences a bit, which is why I have the '' around un-cut. I hope you like it! Here's the questions they asked me in order (paraphrased a bit for you):

1) Why do you read?
2) What’s your favorite reading spot?
3) If you could have your memory erased and read one book all over again, which would it be and why?
4) What’s the book that had you fall in love with reading?
5) What is your favorite genre and what book would you recommend?

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[Inkspoken Books\\
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Q: How are you spending your first day of December? \\
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Happy December, my darlings! I've had a lazy day trying to recover from the holiday (and of course doing about a million dishes). I updated my bullet journal with all the details from the books I read last month, which was a RECORD for me. I've never managed to get through so many books in one month, it definitely helps that two of them were graphic novels I finished in one evening. \\
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A Fate So Cold - 4⭐\\
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I Love You S'more - 3.5⭐\\
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A Drop of Corruption - 4⭐\\
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Everything She Does Is Magic - 3.5⭐\\
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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - 5⭐\\
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An Academy for Liars - 3.5⭐\\
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Savage Blooms - 3⭐\\
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Gay the Pray Away - NR\\
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The Things Gods Break - 3⭐\\
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping - 4.5⭐\\
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Until the World Falls Down - DNF @ 10%\\
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Suitor Armor Vol. 2 - 3⭐\\
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Quicksilver - 3⭐\\
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Amelia, If Only - 4⭐\\
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Of Swamp & Sea, Vol. 1 - 4⭐\\
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Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore -4⭐\\
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - 4⭐\\
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[November Reading Round-Up](https://amandathebookish.binderybooks.com/item/HfgRkSGSj2B5nMIPjBzO/)

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In an anime-inspired world ruled by a hard magic system based loosely off of karma / Indian philosophy, three teens encounter magnificent beasts, unforgiving magic, and epic battles. A wholly original YA fantasy trilogy with intricate worldbuilding; perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson’s work and shounen anime like Naruto.\\
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Title: Innamorata\\
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Author: Ava Reid \| @avasreid\\
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Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.\\
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Title: Agnes Aubert's Mysical Cat Shelter\\
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Author: Heather Fawcett\\
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Synopsis: Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life—and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a much-needed cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for lost cats.\\
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But after she is forced to move the cat shelter, Agnes learns that her new landlord is using her charity as a front—for an internationally renowned and thoroughly disreputable magic shop. Owned by the _dis_ organized—not to mention self-absorbed, irritating, but also decidedly handsome—Havelock Renard, magician and failed Dark Lord, the shop draws magical clientele from around the world... \[read more\]\\
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Synopsis- In the treacherous waters surrounding Kirkrell, sailors hunting magic whales live in fear of the finfolk—bloodthirsty sea fae who sink ships and curse bloodlines. Nineteen-year-old Annie, as heir to the city’s preeminent whaling company, is determined to carry on her parents’ life’s work. But she keeps a secret from everyone: she’s cursed to transform into a monster, with scales spreading up her arms and claws growing from her fingertips. \[read more\]\\
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Hello my loves! Many of you know that October is my reset month, after 18 straight weeks with 4 total days off and on my feet for 10-14 hours a day, and as we didn't do any travelling this go around, I really got to dig into my TBR for October. Some books were exactly what I was hoping for (see: The Everlasting!!!) and some fell a little short for me this time. Without futher ado...\\
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Here’s my wrap-up for October:\\
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The Good Vampire’s Guide to Blood and Boyfriends 3⭐\\
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Cinder House 4.5⭐\\
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A Land So Wide 3⭐\\
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The Ruling Class 3 .5⭐\\
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Cursed Cocktails 4.5 ⭐\\
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Wild Reverence 5⭐\\
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Dating and Dragons 3⭐\\
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That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon 2.5 ⭐\\
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The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells 3.5 ⭐\\
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Brigands & Breadknives 4.5⭐\\
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Piranesi 4⭐\\
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Beasts of Carnaval 2.5⭐\\
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Soulgazer 4⭐\\
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[Hello my darlings! It's been another whole week and the beginning of November is here, which means my bookish challenge #thebookishdreamers has begun over on Instagram! Feel free to check it out (there's a link to my profile above) \\
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And, here's the roundup of all my Instagram posts from this past week; have you read any of these? Are any of them on your TBR?\\
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Title: A Sorceress Comes to Call\\
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Synopsis: Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend—unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers...\\
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Titles: Songlight & Torchfire\\
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Author: Moira Buffini \| @moirabuffini\\
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Publisher: EpicReads \| @epicreads\\
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Release Dates: September 2024, October 28th 2025 (tomorrow!!)\\
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Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight. She buries that secret deep inside. In Brightland, those with songlight are called Unhumans and are abhorred. Rye is the only other person Elsa has known with songlight, and their shared bond has brought them together.\\
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The first two books in an incredible new dystopian fantasy series, featuring star-crossed lovers, friendship against all odds, and the power of hope and resistance.\\
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Title: The Library of Lost Girls\\
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Author: Kristen Pipps \\
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Gwen Donovan adores her beautiful and rebellious older sister, Izzy. But the Izzy who returns from the Delphi School for Girls is not the sister who left for the finishing school. Now she is Isolde: dull and complacent and—most shocking—eager to marry.\\
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Gwen is determined to discover what happened to Izzy at Delphi, and the only solution she can conceive of is to cheat her way into the mysterious school. If she can see for herself what they did, maybe she can get her Izzy back.\\
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WEDNESDAY\\
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O ▪ One Dark Window\\
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C ▪ Carving Shadows into Gold\\
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T ▪ Two Twisted Crowns\\
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O ▪ Oathbound\\
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B ▪ Blood Over Bright Haven\\
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E ▪ The Executioners Three\\
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R ▪ Ruthless Vows\\
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I’ve read all of these except I’m halfway through Oathbound - it got returned to the library before I was ready and the wait time is INSANE.\\
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Title: Blood of the Old Kings + Blood for the Undying Throne\\
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Author: Sung-il Kim \| @Sungilkim4078\\
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Necromancy, decolonization, and fresh portrayals of classic fantasy elements collide in this first installment of a sweeping epic trilogy, introducing us to a tyrannical Empire powered by the corpses of dead sorcerers and the three brave individuals forging a new future. The intrepid trio contains a steel-eyed swordswoman with a dragon’s fang weapon, a spirited sorcerer fleeing a fate worse than death, and a lionhearted civilian finding only more questions in his desperate search for answers surrounding a friend’s murder. \\
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Introducing the witches three - magical and mysterious both on and off #bookstagram 🔮\\
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Happy Halloween my loves!\\
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Title: The Isle in the Silver Sea\\
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Author: Tasha Suri\\
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Synopsis: In a Britain fuelled by stories, the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over, the same tale retold over hundreds of lifetimes.\\
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Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen's court. When the two women begin to fall for each other, how can they surrender to their desires, when to give in is to destroy each other?\\
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As they seek a way to break the cycle, a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs. To survive, the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given to them.\\
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Happy November! Here is the challenge, feel free to join on every prompt, or one, or anything in between!\\
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[Poll:\\
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Instagram Post Roundup! I thought you'd like to see everything I posted last week; with links and everything! Enjoy my darlings. 🍂💛😁\\
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Title - When We Were Monsters\\
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Author - Jennifer Niven \| @jenniferniven\\
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Publisher - Knopf Books for Young Readers \| @getunderlined\\
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Release Date - September 2nd 2025\\
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At an elite boarding school, 8 students are selected for an exclusive program, but only one will walk away with a lifechanging opportunity to realize their creative dreams.\\
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Effy is piecing together a story about the tragic betrayal that led to her mother’s death. Arlo hopes to publish a novel—but he’s also trying to start a new chapter with Effy after he broke her heart and ghosted 3 years earlier. Everyone has a compelling reason to be there—they all want a big break—but only the most ambitious will prevail as the students are eliminated one by one.\\
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Title: Katabasis\\
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Author: R.F. Kuang\\
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Publisher: Harper Voyager\\
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Release Date: August 26th 2025\\
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Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.\\
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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.\\
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Title: You’ve Found Oliver\\
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Author: Dustin Thao\\
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Publisher: Penguin Teen\\
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Release Date: September 30th 2025\\
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It’s been a year since Oliver's best friend, Sam, died. Even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response, he can’t stop texting Sam’s number, especially as the anniversary of his death approaches.\\
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Then one day he accidentally hits the call button, and someone picks up.\\
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Title: Air Awakens - 10th Anniversary Edition\\
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Author: Elise Kova\\
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Publisher: Silver Wing Press\\
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Release Date: SE - October 15th 2025 (Original edition published in 2015)\\
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Vhalla Yarl was just a library apprentice, until she saved the crown prince with magic that wasn’t supposed to exist. Now the Empire wants her power, sorcerers want to claim her, and the crown prince - the most dangerous man alive - is magically bonded to her.\\
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Accepting her magic means risking everything she’s ever known. Resisting it could cost her the power to protect the people she loves. And as war looms, Vhalla is forced to choose between her freedom, her heart… or her life.\\
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Title: The Listeners\\
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Author: Maggie Stiefvater\\
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Publisher: Hodderscape (Fairyloot Edition)\\
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Release Date: June 3rd 2025\\
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Synopsis: January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.\\
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Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.\\
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Title: Don’t Forget to Breathe\\
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Authors: Sara Waxelbaum + Brianna R. Shrum\\
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Publisher: Epic Reads\\
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Release Date: October 21st 2025\\
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Genre: YA Sapphic Romance\\
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Zoe’s always had a plan. Ballet has been her past, present, and future for so long that she’s never even considered otherwise. It’s been the escape she’s always needed. \\
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Hanna’s rarely stayed in a place longer than a year. The greatest consistency she has is her piano playing, and her dad diving back into his Jewish faith every time her mom leaves on assignment. So when her senior year begins with yet another move to a new school, she’s not planning on putting down roots—she’s learned that hard way how that ends.\\
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Title - When They Burned the Butterfly\\
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Author - Wen-yi Lee\\
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Publisher - Tor Books\\
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Genre - Historical Sapphic Fantasy \\
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Release Date - October 21st 2025\\
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Synopsis - A fierce, glamorous sapphic fantasy reimagining the secret societies of postcolonial Singapore, for fans of Jade City, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the feverish intensity of RF Kuang’s Poppy War trilogy. \\
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Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world. Here, gangsters are the last conduits of the gods their ancestors brought with them, and the back alleys where they fight are the last place where magic has not been assimilated and legislated away.\\
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Title: The NightBlood Prince\\
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Author: Molly X. Chang\\
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Publisher: Random House (Fairyloot Edition)\\
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Release Date: July 1st 2025\\
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Synopsis: Torn from her family as a child and raised in the palace to one day marry the Crown Prince of the most powerful empire in the land, Fei has only ever known loneliness. When the opportunity arises to seize her own destiny for the first time in her life, Fei sets out to hunt a legendary tiger, knowing it might cost her everything. What she doesn’t expect is to fall under the mercy of Yexue, the beautiful runaway prince from a rival kingdom. Blessed by the night, harboring a dangerous magic, and capable of commanding an army of deadly vampires, Yexue could be the key to Fei gaining more than just her freedom.\\
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Hello my loves! We've got some really cool things cooking up over here, and I need your help! Vote in the poll about what topic I should start researching! I have multiple scholarly papers, books, tabs open on my desktop, you know the drill. I just need to know, what makes you the most excited. :)\\
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No matter what, I'm glad you're here!\\
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Stay tuned for an exclusive giveaway that will go live right here next week! \\
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