If you relate to any of these you should probably grab a copy 😉🦭🌊💘

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Being single is like playing the lottery. Most of the time all you‘re left with from that trip to the convenience store is a bag of chips and a six-pack. But then there‘s always the chance. There‘s always the chance, however slim, that with one piece of paper you could win it all.

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For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate…. Now it‘s up to her great-niece to catch the killer.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation. Being single is like playing the lottery. There‘s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.

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Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she‘ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale “The Selkie Wife.”

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A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim‘s point of view. From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson‘s critically acclaimed film American Fiction.

New members in USA can use code LITSY to get this book for $4 at checkout 🥳

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College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second-chance romance, the highly anticipated companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect.

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Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.

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An action-packed reimagining of Huckleberry Finn 🎣⛺️📚, a queer retelling of the classic folktale “The Selkie Wife” 🌊🧜‍♀️💘, a magical realism novel on the trials of dating and what it means to find love 💌🌴❤️‍🔥, an enemies to lovers about college exes who break all of their own rules 🏈🌶️✈️, a wickedly funny vacation-Gothic about scary family dynamics 👻🍷🇮🇹, and a murder mystery that about a decades-old prophecy come true 🕵️‍♀️🔮💰

Do not despair. Endings—they are beginnings too.

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You will not know who your enemies are, nor will they reveal themselves as you expect. You will not know whom to trust, but you must trust regardless. Do you understand?

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They can‘t forgive me. Everyone who can forgive me is dead.

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What sentence would pierce him while leaving her intact? She had built her life so carefully around him. To say something, to do something, to feel something, would be to self-destruct.

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Everyone who was there, or pretends they were there, says the same thing: the tabloids got it wrong. But they didn‘t, not really.

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I knew then that I couldn‘t speak if I wanted to. I couldn‘t say anything and couldn‘t tell if I ever had before.

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There were some things that you could not tell your friends. She knew that truths, once spoken, had the power to strip her of the life she had so carefully built, so smugly shared.

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I‘d lived enough life, almost died enough times to know when a good thing came along, a thing you didn‘t know could fill you right up, which only when it filled you let you know there‘d been a hole in you before.

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In her experience, people were often like onions. The more layers you peeled back, the more they stunk.

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This marriage, it‘s going to be a problem. She is going to be a problem.

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Everything they‘d learned to sit, stand, lean, lie, and rely on, bottomed out from under them as if the earth had quaked and taken all it could into cracks which widened into chasms.

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What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world‘s eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a “witness” to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve—events known to the public as “Scarlet Christmas”—though Charlie knows she was much more than that.

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The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

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A stylish, uncommonly clever novel about the things we want and the things we think we want, Piglet is both an examination of women‘s often complicated relationship with food and a celebration of the messes life sometimes makes for us.

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When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller. With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets The Ones in Kira Peikoff‘s Baby X.

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During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

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A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.

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The Clinic should be bumped up your TBR if...

🥶 you take ice baths ... for FUN
🍽️ you‘re the most adventurous eater you know
🃏 you‘ve been told you have a stellar poker face
🔎 you need to see things to believe them
🚙 you would 100% roadtrip up the Pacific coast
🐈 your cat is mean but you love her anyways
🤫 you have a celebrity relative

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You should come and get Come and Get It if...

? you drive on auto-pilot to Target when you're stressed
? you can't help but eavesdrop on other conversations
? you consider yourself a future-oriented person
? you sometimes have the urge to drop your life & move to a small town
? you're wearing collegiate apparel as you read this
? you have experience as a camp counsellor or RA
? Selena Gomez's song "Come & Get It" is stuck in your head

The House of Resort should join your home library if...

🏘️ you browse Zillow in your free time
🇮🇹 you added Italy to your bucket list after watching White Lotus
🎨 you wouldn't dream of painting antique wooden furniture white
🔦 if you hear weird sounds in the night, you go exploring...
💰 you can't resist a good bargain
🕺 you would attend a party in the Catacombs of Paris
🔨 you fancy yourself a DIY-master (you tiled your own backsplash)

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde better be on your shelves if...

🎹 you‘ve been attracted to a piano (you read that right)
🎶 you might like jazz but you‘re not sure...
⏳ you've always felt like you were born in the wrong time
☂️ you won't walk under a ladder or open an umbrella inside
👴🏽 you are drawn to old souls (it's on your Hinge bio)
💐 as Miley says, you can buy yourself flowers
🪑 you prefer thrifting antiques over buying brand-new

“It was bizarre, feeling grateful for having done the right thing, all to walk home, stand in a large kitchen, and consider how nice it would have been not to.”

- Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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Valley Verified should definitely be in your Feb box if...

🐍 you think Python is a snake and Ruby is a jewel
👗 you can wear both a mini-skirt and a Patagonia vest
🤳 your New Years resolution involved less screentime
🛍️ you aspire to the opposite of a capsule wardrobe
🥤 you would 100% try the Hailey Bieber Erewhon smoothie
🗞️ you grew up with Seventeen & Teen Vogue
🎲 you have a group of friends to play Catan with

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The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden set against the backdrop of an idyllic Sicilian town about an unspeakable horror that will chill you to your bones.

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The Tainted Cup might be calling your name if...

🏆 you break escape room records on the regular
🪴 you are capable of actually keeping houseplants alive
📐 you value hierarchy, order and duty
🧠 you have a photographic memory
🕵️‍♀️ your dream party is a murder mystery dinner
⚖️ your favourite branch is judicial
📺 you were devastated when “Sherlock” ended

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From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth. Perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham and Tarryn Fisher!

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When a fashion writer dives headfirst into the cutthroat Silicon Valley tech world, her future threatens to unravel in this addictive novel by Kyla Zhao, author of The Fraud Squad.

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A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett.

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From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

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In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem. 💜💐🎶

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“The Good Guy, my favourite myth.”

- Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare

“Her voice sounded like the stars. Like a language it knew from another world and another time. It spread through the sky like scattered glass. She sang of her village far away in another land. Of her longing for home. The djinn watched the words linger in the air. She is different, thought the djinn. She is a different human.”

- The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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“Like Orwell‘s 1984 and Atwood‘s The Handmaid‘s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah‘s book presents a dystopian vision so upsetting and illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we‘re capable of doing…So raw and tragic and primal is Chain-Gang All-Stars that despite its futuristic elements, it has the patina of some timeworn epic…Shockingly intimate and moving.”

– Washington Post

“From the first line, Brody‘s novel had its hands around my throat. While Rabbit Hole has the pace and intrigue of a thriller, and brutal and evocative prose, what makes it stand out is its narrator, Brody‘s refusal to soften her edges or portray her as anything less than a young woman savaged by grief.”

– Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl

“Lana Ferguson‘s The Fake Mate is the perfect introduction to the wild world of the omegaverse…Whether you‘re new to the omegaverse or a longtime fan, the scorching The Fake Mate will thrill those in search of a book that turns the heat all the way up.”
– BookPage

“This is a propulsive read that tackles myriad attitudes toward sex work, from condemnation to celebration, through a distinctly feminist lens. Accompanying the partying with perceptive social commentary, Saintclare refuses to romanticize the gritty details of sugaring-inviting the reader into a whirlwind of champagne, sex, and money that is at times claustrophobic, scary, and toxic.“
– Kirkus Reviews

“Haunting and healing, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, with its shades of The House of Spirits and Rebecca, is one of the best books I‘ve read this year…Khan‘s gorgeous writing lays bare what it means to love, grieve, haunt and, ultimately, let go.”
– Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Other Birds and Garden Spells

“Where You End is haunting, suspenseful and beautifully written—a modern-day gothic that explores the peculiar bond between twin sisters and the twisted power of cults; the mysteries of memory and the ineluctable pull of the past. It unnerves and beguiles in ways reminiscent of Donna Tartt‘s The Secret History and David Lynch‘s “Twin Peaks”—but it‘s a true original.”
– Margaret Talbot, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Entertainer

Our Jan ‘24 picks!! We have our ‘23 Member's Choice 🏆 (Chain-Gang All-Stars!), an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work (Sugar, Baby 🍭), a page-turning mystery that‘s as addictive as a late-night Reddit binge (Rabbit Hole 🐇🕳️), a steamy paranormal romantic comedy (The Fake Mate 🌶️), “a dark and heady dream of a book” (Alix E. Harrow) (The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years 👻), and an intensely creepy tale of intrigue (Where You End 👯)!

“The books called to me, and instead, I turned them so I could see their spines. I‘d long believed that a person‘s books can tell you everything there is to know about them.”

- The Fiction Writer

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From the USA Today-bestselling author of Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor‘s The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier and finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession, marital secrets, and stolen manuscripts.

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