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  Venice Peach

  Jessamyn Violet

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  Welcome to the Dark Carnival of Futurism… 
  Narrated by the author, this is a giant melting pot of madness to match the time. 
  One dark, windy supermoon night in the near future, a woman's ill-timed tarot question rips open a portal between dimensions, unleashing cosmic chaos. 
  Step right up to Venice Peach, a flamboyantly freakish circus on the gritty Venice Beach boardwalk, where bizarre talents and mind-bending spectacles are just the beginning. Get lost in a funhouse maze of reality-shattering events and untamed, sex-fueled showdowns. 
  Featuring a cast of gonzo characters tee-tottering on the slippery slope of ambition, only to be thrown wildly off-course by creepy canal creatures, zombie seagulls, and a robot president—this is a fast, raunchy ride with enough twists to leave you twisted. 
  No glitches, no guts, no glory. 
  "An unflinching psychedelic adventure with a human heart."   -Razorcake 
  "Super-talented writer Violet has a gift for seeing the magic in her home haunt of Venice, CA and realizing it through fantastical tales... A wild journey into a world of robot presidents, where 'art meets lust.' Just read it."  -Music Connection Magazine

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  Once Upon a Lie

  Rebecca Taylor

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  Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She’s worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at eighteen when an assailant pushed her from the third-story landing of her parents’ gold coast mansion. But lately, Mia is losing control and feels she’s being watched wherever she goes. She is taking more and more of her prescription drugs to quiet the rising panic and anxiety. But when her husband, Alexander, comes home to find her face down on their living room floor, she’s at risk of losing her girls. 
  Alexander Strauss, neuropsychologist and professor at Columbia University, can no longer trust his wife. Her behavior and moods have grown evermore erratic. She takes plenty of medication but doesn’t make any progress. She has become a danger to herself, and their children. It is believed that Mia will never be able to remember, but Alexander has other ideas. Based on her recent brain images, Alexander is confident Mia’s continued amnesia is psychological. She doesn’t want to remember. He gives her an ultimatum, either she gets real help, or he’ll leave her and take the girls. 
  Desperate to save her marriage and keep her family, Mia signs up for a therapy she’s never tried—an experimental treatment that hypothesizes psilocybin may help traumatized patients process and recover their forgotten lives. But as Mia makes progress and her history begins to take shape, it becomes apparent that those closest to Mia never want her to remember what happened that night. 
  And they’ll do whatever it takes to stop the truth from being uncovered.

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  The Trade

  Karen Woods

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  Life is tough. Women are tougher. 
  When Gina Turner’s husband, Scott, is sent down for a ten-year stretch, her world falls apart. It’s not just that she misses her husband, but the fact that the Proceeds of Crime team are gunning for all the couple had: her home, her lifestyle, her safety could all be snatched from under her. 
  But she’s not alone. Her friends Lola and Jess have seen their partners get slammed in jail too. Gina has an idea that could save all of them, but it means no more turning a blind eye – instead it’s an eye for an eye… 
  While the women find out if they’ve got what it takes to navigate the Manchester underworld, Scott Turner must face up to the fact his biggest rival has landed in the same jail as him and to survive, both men may need to make a pact. 
  For husband and wife, on the inside and out, it’s time to work out who they can trust – enemies, lovers, friends…or no-one? 
  This novel is a riveting exploration of trust and survival, set against the backdrop of a ruthless legal system and a dangerous underworld. The story is filled with suspense, as Gina and her friends are forced to make decisions that will forever change their lives and their families. 
  For fans of Emma Tallon (Runaway Girl), Jacqui Rose (The Good Wife), Heather Atkinson (Savage Sisters), Kerry Kaya (Revenge), and Dreda Say Mitchell (Blood Secrets). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  My Darling Valentine

  Pelaam Pelaam

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  Brock is on a routine delivery flight when he receives a Valentine's Day message from a man who looks more like a fairytale merman than another human. But there's something instantly compelling about him.
  The Company sends him and his three friends, committed couple Tolly and Emrys, and their sentient mechanical Broad to investigate the disappearance of Company men from the space station the Company is building. Instead they find a new world within a metal shell and that the Company is already there, subjugating its people. 
  Brock's valentine is Dyami, a prince who is a prisoner along with the rest of his family. The Company agents are Trenton and Annabelle, and the missing men are being used to mine diamonds. 
  Trenton offers to allow Brock and Dyami to be together but betrays his word, sending Brock and Emrys to the mines. He keeps Tolly, who was recognized as part of a eugenics experiment to create humans with enhanced abilities. 
  Brock and Emrys must race against time, not only to free themselves but reach Tolly before Trenton and Annabelle can destroy him completely.

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  Lowcountry on My Mind

  Ashley Farley

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  "An element of suspense along with the right amount of romantic sparks." 
   
   
   
  Childhood friends reunite in an explosive tale of family dysfunction and romance gone wrong. 
   
   
   
  Amelia has been plotting to escape her abusive husband for years. When her mama's untimely death provides an unexpected opportunity, she hops on the next bus to the South Carolina Lowcountry. Her husband will eventually come for her. But she's prepared. Her freedom has given her the confidence to face her uncertain future. She settles in at her family's oceanfront estate to await her destiny. But a visit from Amelia's past presents danger in a different form. 
   
   
   
  After a string of disastrous blind dates, Max falls for the first guy who expresses an interest in her. As the weeks wear on, her attraction to Ron wanes. But he's living in her apartment. And he won't be so easy to get rid of. Jump on board for a wild ride of adventure with the continuation of the bestselling Palmetto Island Series.

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  Great Gatsby The: Original 1925...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Great Jazz Age Novel 
  The 1925 Original Version 
  The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social stigmas, patriarchal norms, and the deleterious effects of unencumbered wealth in capitalistic society, set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. At its heart, it’s a cautionary tale, a revealing look into the darker side to the American Dream. 
  “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament”—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men...”

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