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Now You Access #thighgapMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Don?t read with the lights on?this is My Dark Library.A collection of novellas curated by Sadie ?Mother Horror? Hartmann to represent her favorite themes, tropes, and subgenres in horror fiction today.BOOK TWO: #thighgap by Chandler Morrison ?Los Angeles fashion model Helen Troy wasn?t always skinny. Drastic weight loss has given her everything?money, confidence, attention, respect. Being thin has legitimized her, and starvation has become an addiction.Following an encounter with a seemingly ?perfect? rival model who destabilizes Helen?s shaky self-confidence and shatters her fragile illusion of control, she?s sent into a tragic tailspin that will take her to the lowest depths of hell. Nightmarish versions of herself begin materializing in mirrors, and her tried-and-true coping mechanisms stop working. Reality comes apart at the seams as Helen?s disease manifests in increasingly self-destructive fashions, forcing her to ask herself?What does perfection look like, and how much would .Book Details :Author : Chandler Morrison

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Now You Access Bend Her (The Transformation Trilogy, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Lisane:My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight.But I wasn?t accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek?or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage?We?d been running away from the Deathless . . .And now I was here.Wherever here was.Tied up, in the dark, on the ground, with a bag around my head.The very thing my father had been afraid of for me for my whole life?and the reason I lived in a gilded cage, only getting to leave the palace when I had throne-sworn mages by my side?had apparently happened.I had been kidnapped.Rhaim:Every mage gets one clear vision on the eve of their Ascension into their full powers, right before they get the brand of their mage-mark: you see the thing that will cause your absolute demise.Some men see snowy peaks or waterfalls, others bucking horses, and some lucky few see themselves with old and wrinkled hands, .Book Details :Author : Cassie Alexander

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Now You Access Nowhere BoyMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed?s struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he?s starting to lose hope.Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can?t seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed?s lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny. .Book Details :Author : Katherine Marsh

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Now You Access The Turn of the KeyMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :When she stumbles across the ad, she?s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss?a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten?by the luxurious ?smart? home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn?t know is that she?s stepping into a nightmare?one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn?t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn?t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her .Book Details :Author : Ruth Ware

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Now You Access You Could Make This Place BeautifulMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman?s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she?s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother?s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman?s .Book Details :Author : Maggie Smith

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Now You Access The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A journey to the kingdom of dragons, a star-crossed love, and a cursed pearl with the power to mend the world or break it...Princess Shiori made a deathbed promise to return the dragon's pearl to its rightful owner, but keeping that promise is more dangerous than she ever imagined.She must journey to the kingdom of dragons, navigate political intrigue among humans and dragons alike, fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it, all while cultivating the appearance of a perfect princess to dissuade those who would see her burned at the stake for the magic that runs in her blood.The pearl itself is no ordinary cargo; it thrums with malevolent power, jumping to Shiori's aid one minute, and betraying her the next?threatening to shatter her family and sever the thread of fate that binds her to her true love, Takkan. It will take every ounce of strength Shiori can muster to defend the life and the love she's fought so hard to win. .Book Details :Author : Elizabeth Lim

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Now You Access Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the InternetMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet?revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off.For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism.By tracing how the internet has changed what we want and how we go about getting it, Lorenz unearths how social platforms? power users radically altered our expectations of content, connection, purchasing, and power. Lorenz documents how moms who started blogging .Book Details :Author : Taylor Lorenz

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Now You Access The Plinko BounceMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes.Then, in the summer of 2020, he?s assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia?Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian Bullins, is a cunning felon with a long history of violence, and he confesses to the police. He even admits his guilt to Andy. But a simple typographical error and a shocking discovery begin to complicate the state?s case, making it possible Bullins might escape punishment.Duty-bound to give his client a thorough defense, Andy?despite his misgivings?agrees to fight for a not-guilty verdict, a decision that will ultimately force him to make profound, life-and-death choices, both inside and?outside?the courtroom.With its unforgettable .Book Details :Author : Martin Clark

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Now You Access Hazardous SpiritsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Hazardous Spirits brilliantly captures a young woman?s world unsettled by mediums and spirits, revealing the devastating secrets that ghosts from the past can tell when given the voice to do so.In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she?s always expected?until her husband Robert upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.As the couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement?an underground, occult society of ritual and magic that emerged following the mass deaths of the Spanish Flu and First World War?Evelyn?s carefully composed world begins to unravel. And when long-held secrets from her past threaten to come to the surface, presenting her with the prospect of losing all she holds dear, Evelyn finds herself unable to avoid the question: is the man she loves a fraud, a madman or?most frighteningly?is he telling the truth?Cloaked in a moody, beguiling backdrop of twentieth-century Scotland, .Book Details :Author : Anbara Salam

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Now You Access Midnight Sun (The Twilight Saga, #5)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? .Book Details :Author : Stephenie Meyer

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Now You Access Throne of Power (Throne Duet, #1)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :When powers clash... In the mafia world, women don?t reign.I?m the exception of that rule.I didn?t choose this life, it chose me.I have a legacy to protect, a power to snatch, and no one will stop me.If an arranged marriage is what it?ll take to lead, then so be it.What I don?t count on is that my chosen husband is a ghost from my past.Kyle Hunter.He was once my guard, my protector. Now, he?s after my kingdom.The road to the throne is paved with thorns, blood, and casualties.To win, I?ll risk it all. My heart included.This book is part of a duet and is not standalone. .Book Details :Author : Rina Kent

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Now You Access Midnight PearlsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :"ONCE UPON A TIME"IS TIMELESSIn a quiet fishing village seventeen years ago, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long about where she came from ? or notice her silver hair, usually pale skin, and wide, dark blue eyes.Pearl grows from a mysterious child into an unusual young woman, not always welcomed in the village. As all the other girls her age find husbands, she has only one friend to ease her loneliness. One very special, secret companion: Prince James.But their friendship is shaken when trouble erupts in the kingdom ? a conspiracy against the royal family combines with an evil enchantment from beneath the sea. Now, just when Pearl and James need each other most, bewitching magic and hints about Pearl's past threaten to tear them apart...forever. .Book Details :Author : Debbie Vigui�

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