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Slow Burner by Laura Lippman – Forgiving a Gaslighting, Cheating Partner Again?

Liz Kelsey is a high-school teacher, married to her partner Phil Kelsey, who is a venture capitalist for nearly twenty-five years. Nearly eighteen months before, Liz caught Phil in an emotional affair with a woman much younger than him, as he tried to use his power at work to give her career opportunities. After therapy and working on herself, she is convinced that their marriage is healthy, until she catches him trying to reconnect with that same woman again. Is there anything she can do to end that extramarital affair, especially when she can’t even confront him because she had promised not to check his phone?

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Cruel Winter With You by Ali Hazelwood – Christmas Just Got Better!

Jamie is forced to meet Marc at his place on a Christmas eve, and it is not going to be easy for her because she broke his heart earlier, so how could she face him? But thanks to a snowstorm, they are stuck with each other for the rest of the day, which leads to them opening up about how they feel. Ali Hazelwood gives us a warm Christmas-themed rom-com novella.

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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious Part-2) by Maureen Johnson – Is The Mystery Finally Solved?

In The Vanishing Stair, Stevie Bell reunites with her friends at Ellingham, he boyfriend and she break the awkwardness and their romance grows further, but she is still as anxious as she was earlier, still having to take medicines for anxiety when she needs. With the dark reality of one classmate who had died and one other classmate who went missing still looming in the air, she is still thinking about crime, like a determined detective would. Who is responsible for the Ellingham murders and who killed her classmate?

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Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – A Strong Feminist Fiction Short Story

In this short story, Zikora, an African American woman is a lawyer in Washington DC, in a relationship with the perfect man – Kwame. When she gets pregnant, her life unexpectedly falls apart. As she survives all those difficulties with nothing but the support of her mother and her female cousin in Nigeria, she comes to realize how unjust life is for women and unlearns internalized misogyny.

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The Woman in The Cabin by Becca Day – An Unputdownable Psychological Thriller

Mary is stuck in a marriage with an abusive, controlling man, Cal. The problem is that she cannot leave him because they live in a remote place with no contact with the outside world, and she does not even know whom to go to or how to leave. And that’s when she discovers something chilling about his past and something important happens in her life. Nothing is really what it seems like.

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Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson – Part 2 of AGGGTM Series

In part 2 of “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder”, Pip has given up working on solving cases after all the pain it caused her and her family last time, so she runs a podcast with her boyfriend’s support. But a friend’s brother goes missing and out of empathy and consideration, Pip starts playing detective again. As she starts digging, more and more questions arise.

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The Answer Is No by Fredrik Backman – A Humour-Filled Novella that Feels Like a Friendly Hug

Lucas is a man who is happy alone – he does some computer job for a living, and enjoys his free time with video games, wine, and pad thai. There is no room for other people in his apartment, in his life, or in his mind. Until the appearance of a frying pan changes it all, and he is now forced to engage in conversations with others. A humourous short read from the author of “A Man Called Ove”.

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – A Must-Read for All!

In this book, Hawking covers highly complicated concepts in physics such as the theory of relativity, wave-particle duality in quantum physics, and many more such highly scientific theories in simple terms, so that most readers would be able to understand at least the essence of these. Yes, this is Hawking’s attempt to take science to the general population, for those who are not professionals or academics in the field of physics. This book definitely makes the average reader curious.

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Then She was Gone by Lisa Jewell

An emotionally layered psychological thriller that mixes grief, memory, and unanswered questions about how a young girl went missing. The story unfolds gradually, focusing on how the past continues to shape the present in unsettling ways, especially for the mother who cannot think of anything except for her missing daughter. There is no purpose or anything interesting in her life until she meets a man her own age, who she starts dating, and to her surprise, his daughter looks very similar to her own.

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