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The third book in the perfectly cosy and spicy Moonbeam Hollow series!

'Gave me ALL the warm, pumpkin-spiced feelings. ☕️✨... The setting was EVERYTHING. ☕️... Steamy, magical and completely enchanting... the perfect autumn read. ♀️❤️' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Welcome to the Harvest Moon Café, where the pumpkin spice lattes are sprinkled with cinnamon and just a dash of magic. And love always finds a way of c...

Art is an evolutionary practice - it must always begin erred and ugly, and it must always, get better.Devotion traces that evolution: from my unsteady, amateurish hand, to a still amateur one - but with five years of dedication. Each poem marks a step in my strife— not toward perfection, but toward empathy and enlightenment. My work encompasses all deliberations of falling behind, romance, evil and humanity.

The second novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts is the beguiling tale of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole. Duniya is a single mother, raising twins while working as a nurse in a Mogadiscio hospital. Her self-sufficient world is rocked when her rebellious daughter brings home a mysterious foundling infant. And when Duniya accepts a ride to work from a wealthy, romantically interested family friend, her whole life is t...

Aurora Firedrake returns in the spellbinding sequel to The Last of the Firedrakes.The seven kingdoms of Avalonia are crumbling and evil is spreading across the land like a plague. Queen Morgana is close to finding a way to open the Book of Abraxas and it’s only a matter of time until she uses the power trapped inside its pages to enslave the entire world.With Avalonia growing more dangerous by the day, Aurora must travel through war-torn l...

From Farah Heron, the critically acclaimed author of adult rom-com Accidentally Engaged**,** comes a story about a goody-two-shoes teen who concocts a brilliant plan to fake-date the local bad boy to rebel against her mom.Meera Noorani has spent her whole life playing it safe.Raised by her single mom, she’s had to—especially in love. After all, it has been proven, generation after generation, that all Noorani women are cursed to ha...

She never felt like she belonged…until magic pulled her into a world where she finally might.Sixteen-year-old Aurora wishes she were anyone else. Mistreated by her adopted family and bullied at school, she dreams of a life where she truly matters. But when she’s pulled through an ancient tapestry into the magical world of Avalonia, she discovers a world of magic and destiny beyond anything she imagined.Avalonia is a land of powerful mages, immortal fae, and...

A teen tries to save her quickly gentrifying neighborhood—and make her cynical partner in festival-planning believe in love—in this “sweet, feel-good” (School Library Journal, starred review) opposites-attract romance perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Sandhya Menon.Sana Merali is a certified hopeless romantic.It’s inevitable when she literally lives on Love Street, a cute side-street full of mom-and-pop shops and cozy apartments. With her floris...

Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using ...

'God created woman from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it' Traditional Somali ProverbEbla lives a nomadic life in rural Somalia; an orphaned teenager raised within the strictures of patriarchy. But when her grandfather tries to force her into marriage with a much older man, she flees to Mogadishu, in search of freedom, dignity and self-possession. There, she slips into a spiral of dependence, poverty and violence, fighting to retain her iden...

The joy of Christmas and the thrill of falling in love collide in this gorgeous novel from the highly praised author of Accidentally Engaged.There are two things that Ruby Dhanji loves with her whole entire heart: Christmas and anything to do with the UK.For Ruby the holidays means joy and warm memories with her late mother. And now she's on the verge of realizing the dream she and her mom always had: moving to England and opening a cozy inn. The...

A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Tax...