Amr's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 08 May 2025 09:38:31 -0700 60 Amr's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)]]> 213243908 A hopeless romantic meets a jaded radio host in this cozy, Sleepless in Seattle-inspired love story from beloved author B.K. Borison.

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he's fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore's romance hotline, that's a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life-or lack thereof—she begins to question if she's as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending... even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.]]> 448 B.K. Borison 0593641191 Amr 0 4.05 2025 First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
author: B.K. Borison
name: Amr
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> City Spies (City Spies, 1) 148582729
Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency.

Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they're not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can't.

Before she knows what she's doing, Sara is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school's computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain…all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team.

No one said saving the world was easy…]]> 433 James Ponti Amr 0 4.67 2020 City Spies (City Spies, 1)
author: James Ponti
name: Amr
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/07
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]]> Beach Read 71870510
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They're polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.]]> 505 Emily Henry Amr 3 english, novels, 2025 3.98 2020 Beach Read
author: Emily Henry
name: Amr
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/05/07
date added: 2025/05/07
shelves: english, novels, 2025
review:
I gave it way too many chances for it to end up being just fine!
]]> Done and Dusted 222533206
For the first time in her life, Clementine “Emmy� Ryder has no idea what she’s doing. She’s accomplished everything on her to-do list. She left her small hometown of Meadowlark, Wyoming; went to college; and made a career for herself by doing her favorite riding horses. But after an accident makes it impossible for her to get back into the saddle, she has no choice but to return to the hometown she always wanted to escape.

Luke Brooks is Meadowlark’s most notorious bad boy, bar owner, and bachelor. He’s also the unofficial fifth member of the Ryder family. As Emmy’s older brother’s best friend, Luke spent most of his childhood antagonizing her. It’s been years since he’s seen her, but when she walks into his bar and back into his life, he can’t take his eyes off her. Despite his better judgment, he wants to do a whole lot more than just look at her.

Emmy’s got too much on her mind to think about romance. And Luke knows he should stay away from his best friend’s younger sister. But what if Luke is just what Emmy needs to get her spark back? Or will they both go up in flames?]]> 416 Lyla Sage 2290416304 Amr 1 english, novels, 2025, series 3.95 2023 Done and Dusted
author: Lyla Sage
name: Amr
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2025/05/06
date added: 2025/05/06
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]]> Passion Project 221229859 ]]> 396 London Sperry 375177520X Amr 0 to-read 3.88 2025 Passion Project
author: London Sperry
name: Amr
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerful (Saga Powerless, #1.5)]]> 215362064
Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they would always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn—an Ordinary—has been selected for the Purging Trials, which means almost certain death.

Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself. After attempting to steal, she's rescued by a mysterious man from the market. Mak's shadowy past and secretive power set him apart from the other low-level Elites of Loot. And as the pair team up to see their loved ones before the Trials, the quest tests their loyalty, their love, and their lives.]]> 288 Lauren Roberts 607384882X Amr 3 english, novels, 2025, series <i>“See you in the sky!�</i> 4.04 2024 Powerful (Saga Powerless, #1.5)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: Amr
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/05/03
date added: 2025/05/03
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:
“See you in the sky!�
]]> <![CDATA[Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)]]> 204514529 512 Lauren Roberts Amr 0 to-read 4.01 2024 Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: Amr
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, 1)]]> 219328996 He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites.

The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity.

Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be overly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can in order to stay alive and out of trouble. Easier said than done.

When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilyas princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites� powers—the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is—completely Ordinary.]]> 948 Lauren Roberts 1420520849 Amr 5 english, novels, 2025, series 4.00 2023 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, 1)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: Amr
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/02
date added: 2025/05/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 208653657 Small Town Guy meets City Girl � Wenn du die große Liebe triffst und euch Welten trennen ...

Als Alexis Montgomery, die Tochter einer legendären Arztfamilie, bei einer Reifenpanne auf Daniel Grant trifft und mit ihm eine Nacht verbringt, sind zwei Dinge Zwischen Alexis und Daniel besteht eine unerklärliche Anziehung � und niemals kann aus ihnen ein echtes Paar werden, weil sie beide Welten trennen. Daniel kommt vom Land, ist 28 und damit zehn Jahre jünger als Alexis, und alles, was ihr Leben ausmacht, ist ihm völlig fremd. Denn Alexis muss in die Fußstapfen ihrer Eltern treten, die das renommierte Royame Hospital in Minneapolis leiten.  Sie beschließen, sich exklusiv zu daten � aber ohne Gefühle, ohne feste Beziehung.  Doch allein schon beim Gedanken, Daniel eines Tages aufzugeben, droht Alexis' Herz zu brechen ...]]> 437 Abby Jimenez Amr 0 4.11 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
author: Abby Jimenez
name: Amr
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/30
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]]> The Song of Achilles 58535786
Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,� is everything Patroclus is not—strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess—and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their tentative connection gives way to a steadfast friendship. As they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something far deeper—despite the displeasure of Achilles� mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.

Fate is never far from the heels of Achilles. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.

Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.]]> 685 Madeline Miller Amr 0 to-read 3.90 2011 The Song of Achilles
author: Madeline Miller
name: Amr
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Isabel and the Rogue (A Luna Sisters Novel, 2)]]> 212492118 472 Liana De la Rosa Amr 0 to-read 0.0 2024 Isabel and the Rogue (A Luna Sisters Novel, 2)
author: Liana De la Rosa
name: Amr
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> The Fox Wife 227800494 Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .

Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow.

Her death is clouded by rumours of foxes, believed to lure people into peril by transforming into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now.

Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all, she's a mother seeking vengeance. Hunting a murderer, the trail will take her from northern China to Japan, with Bao following doggedly behind.

And as their paths draw ever closer together, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.

The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about old loves and second chances, the depth of maternal bonds, and ancient folktales that may very well be true.]]> 496 Yangsze Choo 1529429773 Amr 0 to-read 3.62 2024 The Fox Wife
author: Yangsze Choo
name: Amr
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> The Only One Left 148495137 Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother's happy life

It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer--I want to tell you everything.

"It wasn't me," Lenora said
But she's the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there's more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor's departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth--and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 621 Riley Sager Amr 0 to-read 4.32 2023 The Only One Left
author: Riley Sager
name: Amr
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Fight club 934608 fight clubs, ces lieux où de jeunes américains biens nés se battent à mains nues jusqu'à l'épuisement. Peut-être pour donner un sens à leur vie. Peut-être parce que dans ce chaos consumériste qui sert de monde, "la douleur est la vérité, l'unique vérité". Mais pour Durden, il faut aller beaucoup plus loin...

Trois ans après sa parution aux États-Unis, voici enfin traduit l'incroyable premier roman de Chuck Palahniuk qui a donné lieu au film très controversé Fight Club, réalisé par David Fincher, avec Brad Pitt, Edward Norton et Helena Bonham Carter. Le livre est bien plus dérangeant, plus cynique, plus déjanté que le film. Il y a du Bret Easton Ellis d'American Psycho et quelque chose de pire dans ce récit de l'impasse, dans cette dénonciation ultime d'un monde perdu faute de révolution. Plus qu'un livre, c'est une expérience. Et déjà un titre culte qui a reçu le prix de la Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association en 1996.--Bruno Ménard

]]> 291 Chuck Palahniuk 2070422402 Amr 3 english, novels, 2025, series 'The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.'

'I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve. Let the chips fall where they may.'
]]> 4.12 1996 Fight club
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Amr
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/28
date added: 2025/04/30
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'The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.'

'I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve. Let the chips fall where they may.'

]]> Anxious People 58258767
Viewing an apartment normally doesn’t turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As the pressure mounts, the eight strangers slowly begin opening up to one another and reveal long-hidden truths.

As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the tension mounts and even deeper secrets are slowly revealed. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people.]]> 540 Fredrik Backman Amr 0 4.24 2019 Anxious People
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Amr
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/29
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]]> Apple Crush (Peapod Farm, #2) 56166336 Jen and Andy are back in the sequel to Stepping Stones , New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley's middle-grade graphic novel about family, friendship, and change!

Jen is just getting used to her life on Peapod Farm with her brand-new step-sisters, Andy and Reese. But when a new school year starts, there are even more changes in store for her. Jen has to navigate new friends and new challenges--but at least she'll have Andy with her, right? As school begins, she finds that her step-sister seems way more interested in crushes and boys than hanging out with her, while Jen wants to know when the world decided boys and girls couldn't be just friends anymore.

New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley revisits her own childhood, continuing Jen's story in a standout sequel to Stepping Stones that captures everything awesome (and scary) about growing up.]]> 213 Lucy Knisley 198489689X Amr 2 4.30 2022 Apple Crush (Peapod Farm, #2)
author: Lucy Knisley
name: Amr
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm, #1)]]> 42424403 Jen is used to not getting what she wants. So suddenly moving to the country and getting new stepsisters shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

Jen did not want to leave the city. She did not want to move to a farm with her mom and her mom's new boyfriend, Walter. She did not want to leave her friends and her dad.

Most of all, Jen did not want to get new "sisters," Andy and Reese.

If learning new chores on Peapod Farm wasn't hard enough, then having to deal with perfect-at-everything Andy might be the last straw for Jen. Besides cleaning the chicken coop, trying to keep up with the customers at the local farmers' market, and missing her old life, Jen has to deal with her own insecurities about this new family . . . and where she fits in.]]> 224 Lucy Knisley Amr 3 4.02 2020 Stepping Stones (Peapod Farm, #1)
author: Lucy Knisley
name: Amr
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/26
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels, series
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]]> <![CDATA[The Creative Act: A Way of Being]]> 62090812 From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment." --Anne Lamott

"I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." --Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output, it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.]]> 418 Rick Rubin 0593653424 Amr 4
Exhibit A:


]]> 4.27 2023 The Creative Act: A Way of Being
author: Rick Rubin
name: Amr
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/26
shelves: english, personal-development, 2025
review:
Very Insightful!

Exhibit A:



]]> Ready or Not 154462768
Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but far from her midwestern, traditional family who never really understood her. While her job is only dream- adjacent , she’s hoping her passion and hard work will soon help her land a more glamorous role. And sure, her most recent romantic history has consisted of not one but two disappointing men named Derek. At least she always knows what to expect…until she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night stand.

The unplanned pregnancy cracks open all the relationships in her life. Eve's loyal friendship with Willa is feeling off , right when she needs her most. And it’s Willa’s steadfast older brother, Shep, who steps up to help. He has always been friendly, but now he’s checking in, ordering her surprise lunches, listening to all her complaints, and is� suddenly kinda hot? Then there’s the baby's father, who is supportive but conflicted. Before long, Eve is rethinking everything she thought she knew about herself and her world.

Over the course of nine months, as Eve struggles to figure out the next right step in her expanding reality, she begins to realize that family and love, in all forms, can sneak up on you when you least expect it.]]> 400 Cara Bastone 0593595718 Amr 4 english, novels, 2025 3.96 2024 Ready or Not
author: Cara Bastone
name: Amr
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/26
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]]> Here After 215774072 500 Amy Lin Amr 4
'He hugs me and I cry darkness into the shoulder of his jacket.']]> 3.80 2024 Here After
author: Amy Lin
name: Amr
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/08
date added: 2025/04/26
shelves: english, 2025, thoughts, biography
review:
Beautiful and raw expression of grief..

'He hugs me and I cry darkness into the shoulder of his jacket.'
]]> <![CDATA[God of Malice (Legacy of Gods, #1)]]> 210003093 I didn’t ask for it.
Didn’t even see it coming.
But the moment I do, it’s too late.
Killian Carson is a predator wrapped in sophisticated charm.
He’s cold-blooded, manipulative, and savage.
The worst part is that no one sees his devil side.
I do.
And that will cost me everything.
I run, but the thing about monsters?
They always chase.

This book is not a conventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note before reading. ]]> 576 Rina Kent 1464232016 Amr 0 to-read 4.22 2022 God of Malice (Legacy of Gods, #1)
author: Rina Kent
name: Amr
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 45305101 1959 Alexandre Dumas Amr 0 to-read 4.29 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Amr
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1846
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Firelight Apprentice: A Graphic Novel]]> 199531768 The bestselling author-illustrator of Garlic and the Vampire, Bree Paulsen, brings her fantastical storytelling and warm, sparkling artwork to this story that celebrates the bond between sisters.

In a city powered by magic and still recovering from a bloody war, Ada is concerned about her younger sister Safi’s developing powers. She understands that Safi could learn how to control her magic under the apprenticeship of a king's magician. But with the memories of war still fresh, Ada is conflicted by this prospect—despite her knowing that she can’t keep Safi safely at home with the threat of deadly, power-thieving liches prowling the kingdom.

When a traveling group of magicians comes to the city to perform, they immediately recognize Safi’s talents and offer to take her on as an apprentice. Safi is thrilled about her new adventure—even if that means leaving behind Ada and their sickly father. And Ada is right to worry about her sister, for there may be monsters hiding behind friendly faces…]]> 224 Bree Paulsen 006326658X Amr 3 english, graphic-novels, 2025 3.97 2024 The Firelight Apprentice: A Graphic Novel
author: Bree Paulsen
name: Amr
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/26
date added: 2025/04/25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Neighbor Favor: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print: Black Voices)]]> 146584810
Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for Black excellence. She dreams of becoming a children's books editor, but she's been frustratingly stuck in the nonfiction division for years without a promotion in sight. Lily finds escapism in her correspondences with her favorite fantasy author, and what begins as two lonely people connecting over email turns into a tentative friendship and possibly something else Lily won't let herself entertain—until he ghosts her without a word.

Months later, Lily is still crushed, but she's determined to get a hold of her life, starting with finding a date to her sister's wedding. And the perfect person to help her is Nick Brown, her charming, attractive new neighbor, who she feels drawn to for reasons she can't explain. But little does she know, Nick is an author—her favorite fantasy author.

Nick, who has his reasons for using a pen name and pushing people away, soon realizes that the beautiful, quiet girl from down the hall is the same Lily he fell in love with over email months ago. Unwilling to complicate things even more between them, he agrees to set her up with someone else, though this simple favor between two neighbors is anything but—not when he can't get her off his mind…]]> 515 Kristina Forest Amr 4 english, novels, 2025 3.37 2023 The Neighbor Favor: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print: Black Voices)
author: Kristina Forest
name: Amr
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/25
date added: 2025/04/25
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]]> الحياة لن تتحسن -الفيل 61151338 30 محمد جمال Amr 2 2025, short-stories, series 2.67 الحياة لن تتحسن -الفيل
author: محمد جمال
name: Amr
average rating: 2.67
book published:
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/04/25
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]]> شريفة - الفيل 61151294 ‎للإرشا� النفسي. في كل حلقة، نستمع إلى قصة شاب أو فتاة عربية مع الاضطرابات
‎النفسية� ثم يأتي دور المختص الذي يقدم الشرح والتحليل والمساعدة، قدر الإمكان.]]> 22 أسامة محمد Amr 2 short-stories, 2025, series 2.33 شريفة - الفيل
author: أسامة محمد
name: Amr
average rating: 2.33
book published:
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/04/25
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]]> The Girl from the Sea 54776523 From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.

Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl.

Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore.

But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they're each trying to hide will find its way to the surface...whether Morgan is ready or not.]]> 256 Molly Knox Ostertag 1338540580 Amr 2 english, 2025, graphic-novels 4.13 2021 The Girl from the Sea
author: Molly Knox Ostertag
name: Amr
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/25
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels
review:

]]> We Used to Live Here 224039356 The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.

As soon as the family enters their home, strange and inexplicable things start happening, including their toddler going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?]]> 384 Marcus Kliewer 1804995584 Amr 4 english, novels, 2025 3.60 2024 We Used to Live Here
author: Marcus Kliewer
name: Amr
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/24
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: english, novels, 2025
review:

]]> Collide (Off the Ice, #1) 211921417
Als Summer Preston erfährt, dass sie ihre Forschungsarbeit für die Aufnahme ins renommierte Masterprogramm der Dalton University über Eishockey schreiben soll, kann das nur ein schlechter Scherz sein - ausgerechnet über den Sport, den sie abgrundtief hasst! Doch wenn sie ihren Traum, Sportpsychologin zu werden, nicht augenblicklich an den Nagel hängen will, hat sie keine andere Wahl. Dass dann auch noch Aiden Crawford von seinem Coach dazu verdonnert wird, sie bei ihrem Projekt zu unterstützen, macht die Sache nicht besser: Der selbstbewusste und viel zu attraktive Captain des Eishockeyteams und die Perfektionistin geraten bei jeder Begegnung aneinander! Aber schon bald fühlt es sich so gar nicht mehr nach einer Strafe an, Zeit mit Aiden zu verbringen ...]]> 497 Bal Khabra 3736323786 Amr 0 to-read 3.71 2023 Collide (Off the Ice, #1)
author: Bal Khabra
name: Amr
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/24
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> What We Broke 195939805 Before and After.
When I met Leonardo Ricci, he was determined I would only be a fling, while I was certain he was my forever.
Seven years later, we're the perfect couple. Happy, married, and in love-in sickness and health, till death do us part.
At least until the unthinkable happens.
Now we can't look at each other. We don't sleep in the same bed. We can't even be in the same room. The loss is too great and the pain runs too deep.
But this man is the love of my life. I convinced him once, and I would be damned if I couldn't do it again. I would be damned if I couldn't fix what we broke.]]> 276 Marley Valentine 0645895016 Amr 1 english, 2025, didnt-like 3.56 2023 What We Broke
author: Marley Valentine
name: Amr
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/22
date added: 2025/04/22
shelves: english, 2025, didnt-like
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]]> Life & Limb (PASS, #2) 53208911
Former military turned security operative, Dimas Mazur, has worked for PASS security, his brother’s company, since he returned stateside after a disabling injury. The job keeps him busy, but when a homeless veteran he knows runs into trouble with the law, he doesn’t hesitate to jump in. The strong-headed counselor at the shelter where his friend stayed is an unexpected bonus.

Until she puts herself square in the sights of the man he’s trying to take down.]]> 400 Freya Barker 1988733510 Amr 0 4.50 2020 Life & Limb (PASS, #2)
author: Freya Barker
name: Amr
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/22
shelves: currently-reading, english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> The Sleeper and the Spindle 24579603
You may think you know this story. There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarfs; a castle, shrouded in thorns; and a princess, cursed by a witch, so rumor has it, to sleep forever.

But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and turns and glints and shines. A queen might just prove herself a hero, if a princess needs rescuing. . . .]]> 89 Neil Gaiman 0062398261 Amr 2 english, 2025, short-stories 3.93 2013 The Sleeper and the Spindle
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Amr
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/22
date added: 2025/04/22
shelves: english, 2025, short-stories
review:

]]> Broken 22907043
Charles is getting over the death of his first love from cancer. He promised Danny he wouldn't stay broken forever but has had a hard time following through. Could the guy he sees feeding stray kittens near his apartment every night be the one to heal his broken heart? Could he be the one to break down Job's walls? Find out if these two men will be Broken forever or if perhaps love can heal them.]]> 34 Kathleen Hayes 1466155779 Amr 1 didnt-like, english 3.57 2011 Broken
author: Kathleen Hayes
name: Amr
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2011
rating: 1
read at: 2013/09/07
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: didnt-like, english
review:

]]> The Diamond Maker 45814635 30 H.G. Wells 1097356582 Amr 2 short-stories, 2024 2.75 1894 The Diamond Maker
author: H.G. Wells
name: Amr
average rating: 2.75
book published: 1894
rating: 2
read at: 2024/01/03
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories, 2024
review:

]]> <![CDATA[An Angel in My Teacup (Supernatural Sweethearts #3)]]> 201088243
When Justinian the angel arrives from Paris to visit a witch in small-town Florida, he hardly knows why he’s there. Sure, they met—once—but is that enough of a reason to drop in and ask her to help him find the meaning of life?

Lizzy’s barely scraping by reading fortunes in her tiny tea shop, and after a crush gone disastrously wrong, her heart is as fragile as a porcelain teacup—until an angel shows up on her doorstep, and love begins to brew like fragrant tea leaves…]]> 39 Kate Moseman Amr 1 english, didnt-like, 2024 3.06 2023 An Angel in My Teacup (Supernatural Sweethearts #3)
author: Kate Moseman
name: Amr
average rating: 3.06
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2024/05/10
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, didnt-like, 2024
review:

]]> Twisted Love (Twisted #1) 179263866 405 Ana Huang 2755670355 Amr 1 didnt-like, english, 2024 <b> <i>DNF'ed!</i> </b> 3.65 2021 Twisted Love (Twisted #1)
author: Ana Huang
name: Amr
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2024/06/23
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: didnt-like, english, 2024
review:
DNF'ed!
]]> <![CDATA[‫الحك� العطائية (المكتبة الصوفية الصغيرة)� (Arabic Edition)]]> 45724395
متى أوحَشَكَ مِن خَلْقهِ، فاعلم أنه يريد أن يفتح لك باب الأُنس به.

رُبما أعطاكَ فمَنَعكَ، ورُبما مَنَعكَ فأعطاكَ.

ما أحبَبتَ شيئًا إلا كُنتَ له عَبدًا، وهو لا يُحبُّ أن تكون لغَيرهِ عَبدًا.

هذا الكتاب واحد مع صغر حجمه وبساطة لغته إلا أنه من أهم كتب الصوفية وأكثرها شعبية لدي القراء.

ابن عطاء الله السكندري فقيه مالكي وأحد أعلام الصوفية (658هـ / 1260م - 709هـ / 1309م). لقب بـ"قطب العارفين" و"ترجمان الواصلين" و"مرشد السالكين". كان رجلاً صالحًا عالمًا يتكلم على كرسي ويحضر ميعاده خلق كثير، وكان لوعظه تأثير في ال&]]> 269 أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري Amr 4 religion, 2024 4.01 1305 ‫الحكم العطائية (المكتبة الصوفية الصغيرة)‬ (Arabic Edition)
author: أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري
name: Amr
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1305
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/01
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: religion, 2024
review:

]]> Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) 28961493
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war � and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.]]> 521 Tahereh Mafi Amr 0 finish-later 3.45 2011 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: Amr
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: finish-later
review:

]]> <![CDATA[And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer]]> 32756689 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here offers an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him—even as they must find a way to let go.

“Isn’t that the best of all life’s ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it.�

Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa’s work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden.

As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it was like to fall in love with his wife, what it was like to lose her. She’s as real to him now as the first day he met her, but he dreads the day when he won’t remember her.

Sometimes Grandpa sits on the bench next to Ted, Noah’s father—Ted who never liked math, prefers writing and playing guitar, and has waited his entire life for his father to have time for him, to accept him. But in their love of Noah, they have found a common bond.

Grandpa, Grandma, Ted, and Noah all meet here, in this peculiar space that is growing dimmer and more confusing all the time. And here is where they will learn to say goodbye, the scent of hyacinths in the air, nothing to fear. This little book with a big message is certain to be treasured for generations to come.]]> 109 Fredrik Backman 141049683X Amr 5 2025, novels, english Beautiful Tears.. 4.38 2015 And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Amr
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: 2025, novels, english
review:
Beautiful Tears..
]]> خلف جدار النوم 8889610 159 H.P. Lovecraft Amr 1 didnt-like 3.50 خلف جدار النوم
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Amr
average rating: 3.50
book published:
rating: 1
read at: 2023/09/19
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: didnt-like
review:

]]> Alex + Ada #5 19496153 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 3 4.21 2014 Alex + Ada #5
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2018/03/23
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
review:

]]> The Stolen Body 45555726 36 H.G. Wells 1090179146 Amr 3 short-stories 3.00 1897 The Stolen Body
author: H.G. Wells
name: Amr
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1897
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/19
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Case of the Perfect Maid: A Short Story]]> 12934264 100 Agatha Christie 0062129708 Amr 3 3.14 1942 The Case of the Perfect Maid: A Short Story
author: Agatha Christie
name: Amr
average rating: 3.14
book published: 1942
rating: 3
read at: 2022/05/28
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, short-stories, series
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]]> The Signalman: A Ghost Story 26830682
His misgivings turn out to be justified, for the signalman who lives there has a secret, a ghostly visitor who has twice warned him of impending disaster, and now appears again, foretelling a coming catastrophe that neither man can predict or understand.

This volume also contains Dickens' comic gem 'The Boy at Mugby', a rollicking satire on customer service which rings as true today as it did in the author's own time.]]> 75 Charles Dickens 1781255911 Amr 2 short-stories 3.62 1866 The Signalman: A Ghost Story
author: Charles Dickens
name: Amr
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1866
rating: 2
read at: 2023/08/18
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories
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]]> ادارة الوقت 8288713 ايان فليمنج Amr 2 personal-development 3.37 ادارة الوقت
author: ايان فليمنج
name: Amr
average rating: 3.37
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2013/01/01
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: personal-development
review:

]]> المفاتيح العشرة للنجاح 2029495 خمس خطوات لصنع الدافع الذي يحقق لك النجاح .
الطريقة العملية للتنويم الذاتي و صنع اعتقاد قوي.
أربع أنواع للخوف و كيف تواجهها .
الوصفة العملية للوصول للتوقعات الإبجابية.
القوة الرهيبة للإنضباط و الإلتزام و الصبر.
الطريقة العملية للتنويم بالإسترخاء .

لتحميل هذا الكتاب من هذا الرابط :

]]> 171 إبراهيم الفقي Amr 5 personal-development 3.98 2007 المفاتيح العشرة للنجاح
author: إبراهيم الفقي
name: Amr
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2013/01/01
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: personal-development
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]]> العائد من بابل 33798335 توقَّف على بُعد خطوات من عرش إبليس ثم انحنى له احترامًا وهو يقول له:
- سيدي المُبجّل العظيم.. لقد انتشر خبر موت عدوك آدم بين البشر, وقد سادت بينهم حالة من الحزن عليه..
جلجلت ضحكات إبليس في جميع أرجاء الأرض.. حتى إن البشر البعيدين عنه بمئات الألوف من الأميال أقسموا أنهم قد سمعوا ضحكاته..
ثم توقَّف عن قهقهته, وهو يصيح في جذل:
- أخيرًا.. مات آدم, وترك بنيه وحدهم..]]> 186 أحمد ناصر 9774885082 Amr 2 novels 3.47 2017 العائد من بابل
author: أحمد ناصر
name: Amr
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2017
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/12
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: novels
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]]> حول طبيعة الإنسان 39689551 30 علي الوردي Ali Al-Wardi Amr 3 scientific
!. فسّر لي أشيـاء كثيرةً ما كنت ُ لأفكِّر بها أو أجلس وحيـدًا لأتأملها أمثـالها

-رغم اختلافي مع بعض النقاط التي ذكرها -والذي هو شئٌ طبيعي كما نوَّه هو في كتابه
!إلا أنه أظهر شمولًا وعبقرية فلسفية لا تكفي الكلمات في وصفها]]> 3.91 حول طبيعة الإنسان
author: علي الوردي Ali Al-Wardi
name: Amr
average rating: 3.91
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2018/04/04
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: scientific
review:
.. في النصـف الأول منه ؛ شعرت ُ وكأنما وُجدت ْ القراءة لتفحص هذا العلم والتفكُّر الفلسفي

!. فسّر لي أشيـاء كثيرةً ما كنت ُ لأفكِّر بها أو أجلس وحيـدًا لأتأملها أمثـالها

-رغم اختلافي مع بعض النقاط التي ذكرها -والذي هو شئٌ طبيعي كما نوَّه هو في كتابه
!إلا أنه أظهر شمولًا وعبقرية فلسفية لا تكفي الكلمات في وصفها
]]> القناع 23217316 9 Anton Chekhov Amr 2 short-stories 3.28 القناع
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Amr
average rating: 3.28
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2020/10/22
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[حكايات فرغلي المستكاوي "حكايتي مع عبعزيز"]]> 39880096 121 حسن الجندي Amr 2 didnt-like 3.76 2013 حكايات فرغلي المستكاوي "حكايتي مع عبعزيز"
author: حسن الجندي
name: Amr
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/08
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: didnt-like
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]]> الأنف 30064321 33 Nikolai Gogol Amr 1 didnt-like 3.21 1836 الأنف
author: Nikolai Gogol
name: Amr
average rating: 3.21
book published: 1836
rating: 1
read at: 2018/04/02
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: didnt-like
review:

]]> رسالة إلى جاري العالم 31225839 Anton Chekhov Amr 3 short-stories 3.30 رسالة إلى جاري العالم
author: Anton Chekhov
name: Amr
average rating: 3.30
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2021/03/22
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Le Pendentif, an Easy French Story]]> 19047947
Le pendentif (the pendant) is an easy to read and entertaining little French story for beginners! An ideal way of expanding your vocabulary.
It tells the story of a man who discovers an old pendant on the beach... Whose pendant is it...?

You will be able to understand the story even if you have been learning French for only a few months.

To understand the story, you don't need any you will find a useful glossary under each paragraph.

At the end of the book, all new words are summed up in an alphabetical glossary to help you finding words again you may have forgotten.]]> 187 Sylvie Lainé 2954458909 Amr 2 francais 4.09 2013 Le Pendentif, an Easy French Story
author: Sylvie Lainé
name: Amr
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2018/03/18
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: francais
review:

]]> حظك اليوم 5822364 اثنتا عشرة طريقة للموت
ولعنة تطاردك في كل صوب
تمر بالأطوار المعتادة: في البداية أنت لا تعرف ... بعد
هذا أنت لا تلاحظ ... ثم تلاحظ فلا تصدق ... ثم تصدق
فلا تعرف ما ينبغى عمله


يقول الغربيون أنك لا يمكن أن تكون حذراً اكثر من اللازم, وهذه القصص تطبيق عملي صادق لصحة هذه المقولة]]> 95 أحمد خالد توفيق Amr 2 short-stories 3.63 2008 حظك اليوم
author: أحمد خالد توفيق
name: Amr
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at: 2018/05/30
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[الطاقة البشرية والطريق إلى القمة]]> 9049918 94 إبراهيم الفقي Amr 2 personal-development 3.50 2009 الطاقة البشرية والطريق إلى القمة
author: إبراهيم الفقي
name: Amr
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2013/01/01
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: personal-development
review:

]]> The Night Librarian 54968985 Short fantasy story. 20 Jane Jago Amr 3 english, short-stories 'In the end, nothing was left but a voice. A voice that whispered "Farewell". '

Cute Fantasy :)]]> 2.14 The Night Librarian
author: Jane Jago
name: Amr
average rating: 2.14
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2020/08/16
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, short-stories
review:
'In the end, nothing was left but a voice. A voice that whispered "Farewell". '

Cute Fantasy :)
]]> De lifter (Dutch Edition) 34802219 15 Roald Dahl 9460238556 Amr 2 english, short-stories 3.20 1977 De lifter (Dutch Edition)
author: Roald Dahl
name: Amr
average rating: 3.20
book published: 1977
rating: 2
read at: 2019/06/13
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)]]> 54500048 The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled mystery.

Pip is not a detective anymore.

With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?]]> 528 Holly Jackson 0593340485 Amr 0 to-read 4.30 2020 Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
author: Holly Jackson
name: Amr
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Deal of a Lifetime 36297706 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path.

It all begins with a father telling a story to his son on Christmas Eve. But this isn’t your typical Christmas story. The father admits to his son that he’s taken a life but he won’t say whose—not yet.

One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it seems to make the adults happy, so she keeps doing it.

As the man tells his son about this plucky little girl, he slowly reveals more about while he may be a successful businessman, idolized by the media and his peers, he knows he failed as a parent. Overwhelmed by the responsibility of fatherhood, he took the easy way out and left his wife and little boy twenty years ago to pursue professional success. Now he is left wondering if it’s too late to forge a relationship with his son, who seems to be his opposite in every way—prizing happiness over money, surrounded by loving friends in a cozy town where he feels right at home.

Face to face with the idea that something is missing, the man is given the unexpected chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son. And so, he seeks him out and tells him this story�

Written with Fredrik Backman’s signature humor, compassion, and “knack for weaving tales that are believable and fanciful� (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our only legacy is how we share that gift with those we love.]]> 100 Fredrik Backman Amr 4 english, 2025, novels 3.74 2017 The Deal of a Lifetime
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Amr
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/21
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, 2025, novels
review:
How can Fredrik Backman do this every time? Loved it!
]]> <![CDATA[The House (Mason Falls Mysteries)]]> 36819190 thing--really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the house than there seems?

-- "Journal"]]> 108 Raelyn Drake 1541517687 Amr 2 english, novels, 2025, series 2.57 The House (Mason Falls Mysteries)
author: Raelyn Drake
name: Amr
average rating: 2.57
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/21
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> The Gift 65138929 It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke.

She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade.

Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?


The Gift is a gripping Christmas-themed thriller inspired by the classic O. Henry tale, The Gift of the Magi.]]> 53 Freida McFadden Amr 1 english, 2025, short-stories 3.37 2022 The Gift
author: Freida McFadden
name: Amr
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/21
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: english, 2025, short-stories
review:
One of the stupidest FMCs ever!
]]> <![CDATA[One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)]]> 58340706
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.

But nothing comes for free, especially magic.

When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason.

Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.]]> 399 Rachel Gillig 0316312487 Amr 0 4.25 2022 One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
author: Rachel Gillig
name: Amr
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series, currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)]]> 61897968 A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in this chemistry-filled romance from the author of The Cheat Sheet and When in Rome.

Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match—someone who complements her happy, quiet life running the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. But finding her dream man may be harder than Annie imagined. Everyone knows everyone in her hometown, and the dating prospects are getting fewer by the day. After she overhears her latest date say she is “so unbelievably boring,� Annie starts to think the problem might be her. Is it too late to become flirtatious and fun like the leading ladies in her favorite romance movies? Maybe she only needs a little practice . . . and Annie has the perfect person in mind to be her tutor: Will Griffin.

Will—the sexy, tattooed, and absolutely gorgeous bodyguard—is temporarily back in Rome, providing security for Amelia Rose as excitement builds for her upcoming marriage to Noah Walker, Annie’s brother. He has one personal objective while on the job: stay away from Annie Walker and any other possible attachments to this sleepy town. But no sooner than he gets settled, Will finds himself tasked with helping Annie find the love of her life by becoming the next leading lady of Rome, Kentucky. Will wants no part in changing the sweet and lovely Annie. He knows for a fact that some stuffy, straitlaced guy won’t make her happy, but he doesn’t have the heart to say no.

Amid steamy practice dates and strictly “educational� tutoring lessons, Annie discovers there are more layers to Will’s usual stoic attitude. As the lines of their friendship become dangerously blurred, Annie reconsiders her dream guy. Maybe her love life doesn’t need to be perfect—it just needs to be real.]]> 335 Sarah Adams 0593500806 Amr 5 english, novels, 2025, series 4.00 2023 Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)
author: Sarah Adams
name: Amr
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/20
date added: 2025/04/20
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale]]> 209221576 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jon Klassen delivers a deliciously macabre treat for folktale fans.

In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both? Steeped in shadows and threaded with subtle wit � with rich, monochromatic artwork and an illuminating author’s note � The Skull is as empowering as it is mysterious and foreboding.]]> 115 Jon Klassen 152952590X Amr 1 english, 2025, graphic-novels 3.38 2023 The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
author: Jon Klassen
name: Amr
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2023
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/17
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels
review:

]]> The Murder at the Vicarage 6341805 416 Agatha Christie 0708904769 Amr 3 english, novels, series, 2025 3.88 1930 The Murder at the Vicarage
author: Agatha Christie
name: Amr
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1930
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/17
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: english, novels, series, 2025
review:

]]> Same Time Next Summer 62562931 Do take long walks on the sand.
Do put an umbrella in every cocktail.
Do NOT run into your first love.

Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?

Yet being back at this beach, hearing notes from Wyatt’s guitar float across the night air from next door as if no time has passed—Sam’s memories come flooding back: the feel of Wyatt’s skin on hers, their nights in the treehouse, and the truth behind their split. Sam remembers who she used to be, and as Wyatt reenters her life their connection is as undeniable as it always was. She will have to make a choice.]]> 320 Annabel Monaghan 059354496X Amr 0 to-read 3.70 2023 Same Time Next Summer
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Amr
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Summer Romance 198562224 Benefits of a summer romance: It’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken.

Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn’t worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember.

No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware—overalls count, right?—she meets someone. Or rather, her dog claims a man for her...by peeing on him. Ethan smiles at Ali like her pants are just right—like he likes what he sees. He looks at her like she’s a younger, braver version of herself. The last thing newly single mom Ali needs is to make her life messier, but there’s no harm in a little summer romance. Is there?]]> 368 Annabel Monaghan 0593714091 Amr 0 to-read 4.20 2024 Summer Romance
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Amr
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Three Blind Mice and Other Stories]]> 17915812 A blinding snowstorm--and a homicidal maniac--traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in turn, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases the inimitable Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as "the champion deceiver of our time." (The New York Times)


Includes the stories

Three Blind Mice
Strange Jest
The Tape-Measure Murder
The Case of the Perfect Maid
The Case of the Caretaker
The Third Floor Flat
The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
The Love Detectives]]> 294 Agatha Christie 161173777X Amr 3 novels, series 3.63 1950 Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
author: Agatha Christie
name: Amr
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1950
rating: 3
read at: 2021/09/27
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: novels, series
review:

]]> Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2) 60123631 Or at least I was...until her.

****
LOGAN

I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.

She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can't share.

One day, I hope she trusts me enough to share.

It isn't until my job puts her at risk that I realize just how fierce she is, but it doesn't stop me from doing all I can to protect her. I should walk away to protect her better, but I can't. Instead, I'm forced to find other ways to keep her safe.

I just hope it's enough.

Though she is fierce, she's still fragile...

Right?

**Graphic
**Adult language
**Very small moral compass
**Read at your own risk, because I'm not forcing you to warp your mind. ;)]]> 216 S.T. Abby Amr 3 2025, english, novels, series 4.14 2016 Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
author: S.T. Abby
name: Amr
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/17
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: 2025, english, novels, series
review:

]]> Nora Goes Off Script 63314751
"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script ." � Shelf Awareness

Named one of the Best Beach Reads of Summer 2022 by The Washington Post � USA Today � Cosmopolitan � Southern Living � Country Living � Business Insider � Buzzfeed � Book Riot � The Augusta Chronicle

Romance channel screenwriter Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. But when her too-good-to-work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash, writing the best script of her life. When it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film at her home with former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, cast as her ex-husband, Nora’s life will never be the same.

After shooting wraps, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He’ll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for a week. She could use the money, but it’s the need in his eyes that makes her say yes. Seven it’s the blink of an eye or an eternity depending on how you look at it. Enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart.]]> 304 Annabel Monaghan 0593420055 Amr 4 english, novels, 2025 4.04 2022 Nora Goes Off Script
author: Annabel Monaghan
name: Amr
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/17
date added: 2025/04/17
shelves: english, novels, 2025
review:

]]> The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1) 60116745 Left too little.
I had nothing to lose...until him.

**

~Lana~

I didn't expect him.
I didn't want to fall in love.
But I can't let him go.

Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.
He's brilliant.
He's a hero.
He locks away the sick and depraved.
But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.

Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead.
They should have made sure I stayed dead.

Now I'm taking from them.
One name at a time.

I've trained for too long.
I've been patient.
I can't stop now.

Revenge is best served cold...

They never see me coming, until I paint their walls red.

Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. He doesn't know how twisted that town really is.

He just knows people are dying.
He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.

No one suspects a dead girl.
And Logan doesn't suspect the girl in his bed.

They're looking for a monster.
Not a girl who loves red.
Not a girl in love.

I'm a faceless nightmare.

At least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened.

But in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

**Graphic
**Adult language
**Some triggers could be too much for the easily disturbed reader
**Sexual content
**Fucked up moral compass; read at your own risk.]]> 242 S.T. Abby Amr 4 english, novels, 2025, series 4.05 2016 The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
author: S.T. Abby
name: Amr
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/16
date added: 2025/04/16
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1)]]> 61280442 Two best friends fake date to reach their holiday happily ever after in this first romantic comedy in the Lovelight series.

A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams.

In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, Stella enters a contest with Instagram-famous influencer Evelyn St. James. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, Stella might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. There’s just one problem. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on her application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. Only…there is no boyfriend.

Enter best friend Luka Peters. He just stopped by for some hot chocolate and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process. But fake dating his best friend might be the best Christmas present he’s ever received.]]> 416 B.K. Borison Amr 3 english, novels, 2025, series "I'm gonna hold her hands when she needs it, tuck her close when she needs that too. I'm gonna love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways. My heart has been moving steadily in that direction.."]]> 3.94 2021 Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1)
author: B.K. Borison
name: Amr
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/16
date added: 2025/04/16
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:
"I'm gonna hold her hands when she needs it, tuck her close when she needs that too. I'm gonna love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways. My heart has been moving steadily in that direction.."
]]> One-Star Romance 201245798 A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy from Laura Hankin.

Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got engaged. Still, unexpected chemistry has Natalie cautiously optimistic about being maid of honor to Rob’s best man.

Until, minutes before the ceremony, Nat learns that Rob wrote a one-star review of her new novel, which has them both reeling: Nat from imposter syndrome, and Rob over the reason he needed to write it.

When the reception ends, these two opposites hope they’ll never meet again. But, as they slip from their twenties into their thirties, they’re forced together whenever their fast-track best friends celebrate another milestone. Through housewarmings and christenings, life-changing triumphs and failures, Natalie and Rob grapple with their own choices—and how your harshest critic can become your perfectly imperfect match.

After all, even the truest love stories sometimes need a bit of rewriting.]]> 400 Laura Hankin 0593438213 Amr 2 novels, english, 2025 ]]> 3.65 2024 One-Star Romance
author: Laura Hankin
name: Amr
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/15
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves: novels, english, 2025
review:
A step up from the FMC's one-star romance, I guess.

]]> Eternally Hers 216561804
I detest Fate.

All vampires crave more than the rich taste of blood is their beloved, but I’m betrayed. I’m left hopeful and hopeless. Against all attempts, my heart has been poisoned against me. My belief is gone. A lie has been weaved for far too long and I fell into the web like so many others before me.

I must ease the ache of time. No longer will I yearn for a fairytale. This torture comes to a stop. To find love, I follow tradition instead. A matching ceremony.

And she changes all I know.
She stops the ache. Time is frozen. My ability to breathe is robbed and held in her clutches. My blood sings for her.

How is she not my beloved?
No other will have my heart, but magic finds a way to obliterate it. A war steals everything from me. I’m left holding my newborn daughter as we fall into darkness. I will never be made a fool again. In life. In death. I write my own fate.

My love, my faith, my choices�
Eternally, are Hers.]]> 104 January Rayne Amr 2 english, novels, 2025, series 2.00 Eternally Hers
author: January Rayne
name: Amr
average rating: 2.00
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/15
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> Love, Off the Record 199798132 The Hating Game meets Alex, Approximately in this smart, chemistry-filled teen rom-com about two rival journalism students competing for the same position on their university newspaper.

Wyn is going to beat Three even if it kills her—or, preferably, him. Being freshmen staffers on the university newspaper puts them at the bottom of the pecking order—until a rare reporter spot opens up. Wyn and Three are both determined to get the position, starting a game of sabotage that pushes them to do their worst, from stealing each other’s ideas to playing twisted mind games. No road is too low when it comes to winning.

As Wyn’s search for the perfect story leads her to an anonymous, campus-wide dating app, she hits it off with a mystery man she thinks might be the cute RA from her dorm. But Wyn is all too familiar with being rejected because of her weight, and she’s hesitant to reveal her identity, even as she grows closer with someone who might be the guy of her dreams.

When Three breaks a story that’s closer to home than he or Wyn expects, the two must put aside their differences to expose the truth—and face their real feelings for each other, which threaten everything Wyn has built with her anonymous match.]]> 416 Samantha Markum 1665955724 Amr 0 to-read 4.25 2024 Love, Off the Record
author: Samantha Markum
name: Amr
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/15
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Go Deeper (Working It In #2) 57175580 I can be a prick. I know this and I’ve been working on it since high school. No, really I have. Nothing could remind me of that little fact better than the girl I owed the biggest apology of my life. Only Willa had disappeared until the day I managed to get her fired from her job twelve years later. I could make things right for her; get her a position on my team at Hunter Railways. I just needed the help of my buddy and co-worker, Trevor since she wouldn’t talk to me. He was a good friend and he already knew I could be a little rough both in the bedroom and out and never minded it one bit. But maybe she doesn’t need another apology. Maybe she needs a man to make her smile the way Trevor does. Maybe if she knows how I feel, she’ll look at me that way too. Or maybe I should stop daydreaming and get back to work, because self-serving pricks don’t get happy endings…they get promoted.]]> 89 Alyssa Turner Amr 1 english, didnt-like, 2025 3.62 2021 Go Deeper (Working It In #2)
author: Alyssa Turner
name: Amr
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/14
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: english, didnt-like, 2025
review:

]]> Love Flushed 59797214 Annie I sell toilet paper for a living. It doesn't seem glamorous but S#!T HAPPENS is going places. We're the fastest growing eco-toilet paper subscription service around. We're amazing-and I should know, I'm my own best customer. After years of hard work, I have everything I need to take my business to the next level-well, everything except the paper. When my competition swoops in and offers my supplier a better deal, I'm left up a certain creek without a paddle. I must have done something truly crappy in a previous life because the only person willing to help is my ex-boyfriend, Lincoln 'Linc' Garrett. The man is arrogant, infuriating, and far too attractive for his own good. Thankfully, I flushed any lingering feelings for him the moment he dumped me all those years ago. So... how did I end up kissing him?
Linc Annie and I were hot and heavy in high school. We were the golden couple, ready to ride off into the sunset for our life together. Until my life went to poop and like the ass I am, I flushed everything good from it. Now she's back in town and stirring up all kinds of feelings I thought I'd purged. Feels like desire, happiness, and something that feels a whole lot like-NOPE! It's not happening. No way. No how. Or at least it wasn't. But when Annie's left with no choice but to accept my help, it seems as if my heart might have other ideas. Looks like s#!t really does happen...]]> 238 Evie Mitchell 1922561231 Amr 1 english, novels 3.42 2021 Love Flushed
author: Evie Mitchell
name: Amr
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/18
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: english, novels
review:

]]> The Handmaid's Tale 35502079 B0082BAJA0

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire � neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony, wit and astute perception.]]> 325 Margaret Atwood Amr 1 english, 2024, didnt-like It served no purpose whatsoever!]]> 4.25 1985 The Handmaid's Tale
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Amr
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1985
rating: 1
read at: 2024/05/20
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: english, 2024, didnt-like
review:
It served no purpose whatsoever!
]]> <![CDATA[The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)]]> 205064722 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food Detectives series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps recreate them...

Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at their Kamogawa Diner down a quiet street in Kyoto. They can help recreate meals from their customers� most treasured memories. Through ingenious investigations, these “food detectives� untangle flavors and pore through old shopping lists to remake unique dishes from the past.

From the swimmer who misses his father’s lunchbox to the model who longs for fried rice from her childhood, each customer leaves the diner forever changed—though not always in the ways they expect�

A beloved bestseller in Japan, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is a tender and healing novel that celebrates the power of community and delicious food.]]> 224 Hisashi Kashiwai 0593717791 Amr 1 english, novels, 2025, series 3.73 2014 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)
author: Hisashi Kashiwai
name: Amr
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/14
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Things We Cannot Say (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)]]> 44230877 661 Kelly Rimmer 143286498X Amr 2 english, novels, 2025 4.64 2019 The Things We Cannot Say (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
author: Kelly Rimmer
name: Amr
average rating: 4.64
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/14
date added: 2025/04/14
shelves: english, novels, 2025
review:

]]> Out of the Woods 222025085
But Sarah has begun to wonder... Who is she without her other half?

When she decides to take on a project of her own, a fundraising gala in memoriam of her late mother, Sarah wants nothing more than to prove to herself—and to everyone else—that she doesn’t need Caleb’s help to succeed. She’s still her mother’s daughter, after all. Independent and capable.

That is until the event fails and Caleb uninvitedly steps in to save the day.

The rift that follows unearths a decade of grievances between them and doubts begin to grow. Are they truly the same people they were when they got married at nineteen? Are they supposed to be?

In a desperate attempt to fix what they fear is near breaking, Sarah and Caleb make the spontaneous decision to join a grueling hiking trip intended to guide couples through rough patches.

What follows is a life-affirming comedy of errors as two nature-averse people fight their way out of the woods in order to find their way back to their roots.]]> 368 Hannah Bonam-Young 1835011454 Amr 5 english, novels, 2025, series
Some Quotes:

'But just like you turn to prayer when you’re most afraid—I turn to logic. To facts. To what I know to be true. Clearly, that’s not doing me any favors.
So, here’s what I know to be true that logic cannot confirm…� He flips the page, then taps at the top left corner of the journal with his forefinger.

“I can feel you when I’m alone. I can sense your presence like a second nature and can anticipate your random visits to the office based on some sort of intuition or connection between us. And, when you’re not near, you occupy every corner of my life. Half of my thoughts are about you. All of my dreams involve you. My hopes and fears and purpose revolve around you. I just want you to be at peace. That is all I have ever wanted from the first moment I saw you cry and had the privilege of being the arms you ran to. And, if your future peace means leaving, so be it.

But don’t think for a single second you could ever truly leave me. You can go as far as you need to, but you’ll always be a part of me. You will always be the second voice in my head. The force that surrounds me. The source I pull inspiration from. I am sorry if it’s too late. Sorry for myself that I’ll have to go on as half of a whole. And I hope that if you have to rewrite your life, you won’t erase my part in it, that you’ll let me stay a part of your story.� He looks up with tears in his eyes,
“Always yours,� he pauses awkwardly, “Caleb.�'
.
'Hope, in my experience, is a dangerous feeling, but I’ll choose to feel it anyways'
.
'If you give me the space to grow, I’ll plant myself next to you. Always.'
]]> 4.06 2025 Out of the Woods
author: Hannah Bonam-Young
name: Amr
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/12
date added: 2025/04/12
shelves: english, novels, 2025, series
review:
Beautiful romance with a great plot.

Some Quotes:

'But just like you turn to prayer when you’re most afraid—I turn to logic. To facts. To what I know to be true. Clearly, that’s not doing me any favors.
So, here’s what I know to be true that logic cannot confirm…� He flips the page, then taps at the top left corner of the journal with his forefinger.

“I can feel you when I’m alone. I can sense your presence like a second nature and can anticipate your random visits to the office based on some sort of intuition or connection between us. And, when you’re not near, you occupy every corner of my life. Half of my thoughts are about you. All of my dreams involve you. My hopes and fears and purpose revolve around you. I just want you to be at peace. That is all I have ever wanted from the first moment I saw you cry and had the privilege of being the arms you ran to. And, if your future peace means leaving, so be it.

But don’t think for a single second you could ever truly leave me. You can go as far as you need to, but you’ll always be a part of me. You will always be the second voice in my head. The force that surrounds me. The source I pull inspiration from. I am sorry if it’s too late. Sorry for myself that I’ll have to go on as half of a whole. And I hope that if you have to rewrite your life, you won’t erase my part in it, that you’ll let me stay a part of your story.� He looks up with tears in his eyes,
“Always yours,� he pauses awkwardly, “Caleb.�'
.
'Hope, in my experience, is a dangerous feeling, but I’ll choose to feel it anyways'
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'If you give me the space to grow, I’ll plant myself next to you. Always.'

]]> <![CDATA[Roughing the Kicker - Extrapunkte für die Liebe (Denver Mountain Lions #1)]]> 199765561 Er ist Profi-Footballspieler.
Er ist berühmt.
Ich bin nur das Mädchen von nebenan.
Und ich bin schon in ihn verliebt, seit ich 13 bin.
Aber das weiß er nicht.
Und das darf er auch nie wissen.
Doch werde ich meine Gefühle für ihn auch verbergen können, wenn ich bei ihm einziehe?

Jackson Fields. Denvers Star-Kicker. Mein bester Freund seit der 9. Klasse.

Als eine Verletzung ihn an die Seitenlinie verbannt, komme ich ins Spiel. Mit ihm zusammenzuleben wird einfach werden. Ich kann meine Gefühle lange genug verstecken, um mich um ihn zu kümmern. Ein Kinderspiel.

Aber er ist bei allem auf mich angewiesen. Jede Berührung und jede Bewegung von ihm bringt die Schmetterlinge in meinem Bauch zum Flattern. Ich darf mich nicht in ihn verlieben. Wir sind nur Freunde. Und er sieht auch nichts anderes in mir.

Aber wenn sich seine Lebensumstände ändern und er mich in einem neuen Licht sieht � werde ich dann bereit sein, alles zu riskieren, um herauszufinden, ob wir auch als Paar zusammenpassen? Oder wird es für immer unser Schicksal sein, nur Freunde zu bleiben?

Was soll eine Frau da nur tun?

Er war schon immer mein bester Freund. Denvers Star-Kicker. Könnte endlich unsere Zeit gekommen sein, wenn eine Verletzung uns schließlich zusammenführt]]> 284 Emily Silver Amr 1 2025, english, didnt-like 1.00 2022 Roughing the Kicker - Extrapunkte für die Liebe (Denver Mountain Lions #1)
author: Emily Silver
name: Amr
average rating: 1.00
book published: 2022
rating: 1
read at: 2025/04/09
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: 2025, english, didnt-like
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)]]> 198972204
Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.]]> 194 Alix E. Harrow Amr 3 english, 2025, series 3.50 2021 A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
author: Alix E. Harrow
name: Amr
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: english, 2025, series
review:

]]> O (Penguin Poets) 59770989 From a brilliant, absolutely essential voice whose poems feel like whole worlds (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred

Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying--from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's own duets, in which English and Arabic echo and contradict each other--O explores the limits of language, notions of home and exile, and stirring visions of motherhood, memory, and faith.]]> 112 Zeina Hashem Beck 0525508376 Amr 0 to-read 4.01 2022 O (Penguin Poets)
author: Zeina Hashem Beck
name: Amr
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: to-read
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]]> Squished: A Graphic Novel 62346779 From the Eisner-nominated duo behind the instant bestseller Allergic comes a fun new graphic novel about finding your own space� especially when you're in a family of nine!



Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl! Avery hatches a plan to finally get her own room, all while trying to get Max to sleep at night, navigating changes in her friendships, and working on an art entry for the fair. And when Avery finds out that her family might move across the country, things get even more complicated.

Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter have once again teamed up to tell a funny, heartfelt, and charming story of family, friendship, and growing up.]]> 256 Megan Wagner Lloyd 1338568957 Amr 3 english, 2025, graphic-novels 4.43 2023 Squished: A Graphic Novel
author: Megan Wagner Lloyd
name: Amr
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/08
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Beartown (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)]]> 34078010 At first, it seems like the team might have a shot at fulfilling the dreams of their entire town. But one night at a drunken celebration following a key win, something happens between Kevin and the general manager's daughter--and the next day everything seems to have changed. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. With so much riding on the success of the team, the line between loyalty and betrayal becomes difficult to discern. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear.
Fredrik Backman knows that we are forever shaped by the places we call home, and in this emotionally powerful, sweetly insightful story, he explores what can happen when we carry the heavy weight of other people's dreams on our shoulders.]]> 689 Fredrik Backman 1410498123 Amr 0 4.28 2016 Beartown (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Amr
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: currently-reading, english, novels, 2025, series
review:

]]> I Am Amazing! 61259718 From the authors and illustrator of 'I Am Smart', 'I Am Blessed', 'I Can Do Anything!' comes another story about the always-inspiring Ayaan!

Amazing Ayaan loves being a superhero - he helps a friend who has fallen on the playground, gives pushes on the swings, and offers a boost to those who need it at the rock wall.

But his fun is ruined when two of his friends tell him he doesn't seem like a superhero, and no one will take him seriously. But Ayaan doesn't completely lose his confidence. When he gets home from school, his Dad reminds him that anybody can be a superhero if you are helping others. And just like that, Ayaan dons his cape and mask.

Amazing Ayaan to the rescue!]]> 32 Alissa Holder 0593327330 Amr 3 english, graphic-novels, 2025 3.80 2022 I Am Amazing!
author: Alissa Holder
name: Amr
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, graphic-novels, 2025
review:

]]> All Cats Welcome 59363850 In this sweet and affirming picture book, two cats discover they don’t need to share a language to become friends.Leonard adores his human. “Stay! Let’s play!� he says when it’s time to leave for work. His human just hears “Meow.� Sometimes Leonard gets lonely. So does Mariposa, who is new in town. Maybe they could keep each other company? “Hello,� says Leonard. “Hola,� says Mariposa. While the friends don’t share a language, they do share adventures. And together they find a place where all cats—and their humans—are welcome.]]> 40 Susin Nielsen 1534476989 Amr 3 english, 2025, graphic-novels 4.00 All Cats Welcome
author: Susin Nielsen
name: Amr
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Road Not Taken (Illustrated)]]> 23392492 � A new table of contents has been included by the publisher.
� This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.
]]> 61 Robert Frost Amr 2 english, 2025, graphic-novels 4.28 1916 The Road Not Taken (Illustrated)
author: Robert Frost
name: Amr
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1916
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, 2025, graphic-novels
review:

]]> I Am Made of Mountains 122239072
From the volcanos of Haleakalā National Park in Hawai'i to waterfalls of Yosemite to the churning ocean at Acadia National Park in Maine, I Am Made of Mountains takes readers on a tour to honor America’s great outdoors. Sixteen parks are highlighted, and the story follows a different child visiting each park and exploring the natural wonders of each location.

The lyrical text paired with the expansive illustrations is an ode to the outdoors that will inspire nature lovers and National Park visitors of all ages.]]> 48 Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs 162354260X Amr 2 english, graphic-novels, 2025 3.50 2021 I Am Made of Mountains
author: Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs
name: Amr
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2021
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, graphic-novels, 2025
review:
The 2 stars are for the illustrations.
]]> <![CDATA[Garlic and the Witch (Garlic, #2)]]> 61316811 Bree Paulsen’s brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone companion to Garlic and the Vampire, serving up another tale of friendship, magic, and self-discovery. Give both books to readers who fell in love with Tidesong or Witch Boy!

Garlic loves spending time with Witch Agnes, Carrot, and her new friend, the Count, who has proven to be a delightful neighbor to the village of vegetable people rather than a scary vampire. But despite Agnes’s best attempts to home-brew a vegetarian blood substitute for Count, the ingredient she needs most can only be found at the Magic Market, far from the valley.

Before she knows it, with a broomstick in hand, Garlic is nervously preparing for a journey.

But Garlic is experiencing another change too—finger by finger, she appears to be turning human. Witch Agnes assures her that this is normal for her garden magic, but Garlic isn’t so sure that she’s ready for such a big change. After all, changes are scary…and what if she doesn’t want to be human after all?]]> 160 Bree Paulsen Amr 4 4.45 2022 Garlic and the Witch (Garlic, #2)
author: Bree Paulsen
name: Amr
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, graphic-novels, series, 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)]]> 43888874
� Enjoy a drunken night out.
� Ride a motorcycle.
� Go camping.
� Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
� Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
� And... do something bad.

But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.

Redford ‘Red� Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.

But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…]]> 387 Talia Hibbert Amr 0 to-read 3.88 2019 Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Amr
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute]]> 61356545
Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed. Social media followers eat up her takes on everything from UFOs to holiday overconsumption—yet, she’s still not cool enough for the popular kids� table. Which is why Brad abandoned her for the in-crowd years ago. (At least, that’s how Celine sees it.)

These days, there’s nothing between them other than petty insults and academic rivalry. So when Celine signs up for a survival course in the woods, she’s surprised to find Brad right beside her.

Forced to work as a team for the chance to win a grand prize, these two teens must trudge through not just mud and dirt but their messy past. And as this adventure brings them closer together, they begin to remember the good bits of their history. But has too much time passed . . . or just enough to spark a whole new kind of relationship?]]> 336 Talia Hibbert 0593482336 Amr 3 english, novels, 2025 3.75 2023 Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
author: Talia Hibbert
name: Amr
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, novels, 2025
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Garlic and the Vampire (Garlic, #1)]]> 59130007
Garlic feels as though she’s always doing something wrong. At least with her friend Carrot by her side and the kindly Witch Agnes encouraging her, Garlic is happy to just tend her garden, where it’s nice and safe.

But when her village of vegetable folk learns that a bloodthirsty vampire has moved into the nearby castle, they all agree that, in spite of her fear and self-doubt, Garlic is the obvious choice to confront him. And with everyone counting on her, Garlic reluctantly agrees to face the mysterious vampire, hoping she has what it takes.

After all, garlic drives away vampires…right?]]> 160 Bree Paulsen Amr 3 4.40 2021 Garlic and the Vampire (Garlic, #1)
author: Bree Paulsen
name: Amr
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/07
date added: 2025/04/07
shelves: english, series, graphic-novels, 2025
review:

]]> Alex + Ada #15 25473323 Conclusion. 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 2 4.23 2015 Alex + Ada #15
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2019/01/31
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
review:

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author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2018/12/05
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
review:

]]> Alex + Ada #12 23928272 Grave danger. 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 2 4.15 2015 Alex + Ada #12
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2018/07/16
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
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]]> Alex + Ada #9 22892470 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 2 4.22 2014 Alex + Ada #9
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2018/03/25
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
review:

]]> Alex + Ada #6 20872304 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 2 4.23 2014 Alex + Ada #6
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2018/03/25
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
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]]> Alex + Ada #3 18752467 32 Jonathan Luna Amr 2 4.10 2014 Alex + Ada #3
author: Jonathan Luna
name: Amr
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2018/03/23
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: graphic-novels, english, series
review:

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