Title: We Jace you a Clary Xmas
Series: The Mortal Instruments | The Dark Artifices
Author: Cassandra Clare
Publication date: December 2020
Published by: Cassandra Clare
Genre: YA, urban fantasy
Source: Newsletter freebie
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Synopsis: "A Holiday Compendium of Clace Extras"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Awake
Jace's first meeting with Clary in City of Bones, from Isabelle's point of view
2. When Midnight Comes
Jace's view of his first kiss with Clary
3. Because It Is Bitter
The scene that takes place during pages 170-174 of City of Ashes, in the chapter The Seelie Court, here from Jace’s point of view. Boy, is Jace bitter here.
4. Jace POV Manor Scene
Over the years, many people have asked for this — Jace’s point of view of the “hot and heavy” scene in THIS GUILTY BLOOD, Chapter Nine of City of Glass. I’ve taken a few liberties here — the scene goes on a few moments past what happens in the printed version of CoG — but then so did the original draft!
5. The Act of Falling
Jace’s perspective on the alleyway kiss in City of Fallen Angels
6. Our Waking Souls
Jace and Clary connect during a trip to Faerie, takes place during Lord of Shadows
7. A Long Conversation
Jace and Clary marriage proposal, take one.
8. A Love That Never Tires
Jace and Clary marriage proposal, take two.
Title: Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Author: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
Genre: Adult, nonfiction, science
Publication date: October 2017
Published by: Workman Publishing Company
Source: Borrowed ebook from library
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Synopsis: Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose. When consuming mail-order tapeworms was a latter-day fad diet. Or when snake oil salesmen peddled strychnine (used in rat poison) as an aphrodisiac in the '60s. Seamlessly combining macabre humor with hard science and compelling storytelling, Quackery is a visually rich and information-packed exploration of history's most outlandish cures, experiments, and scams.A humorous book that delves into some of the wacky but true ways that humans have looked to cure their ills. Leeches, mercury, strychnine, and lobotomies are a few of the topics that explore the lengths society has gone in the search for health.
Title: Dirt the Vacu-bot Missed
Series: Space Janitor | Tales of a Former Space Janitor | Recycled World | Colonial Explorer Corps
Author: Julia Huni
Genre: Adult, nonfiction, sci-fi
Publication date: February 2022
Published by: Julia Huni
Source: Backed on Kickstarter - Ebook reward
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Synopsis: A look at the story behind the Space Janitor books. Only for Kickstarter backers.
Title: Chain of Iron
Series: The Last Hours #2
Previous book in this series: Chain of Gold
Prequel short stories: The Penultimate Hours
Other series in the Shadowhunter Chronicles: The Infernal Devices | The Mortal Instruments | The Dark Artifices
Author: Cassandra Clare
Genre: YA, urban fantasy, historical
Publication date: March 2021
Published by: Margaret K. McElderry
Source: Purchased hardcover
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Synopsis: Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend, Lucie Herondale, and James’s charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade.But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia’s reputation. James is in love with the mysterious Grace Blackthorn, whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. Cortana burns Cordelia’s hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace.Together with the Merry Thieves, Cordelia, James, and Lucie must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous streets. All the while, each is keeping a shocking secret: Lucie, that she plans to raise Jesse from the dead; Cordelia, that she has sworn a dangerous oath of loyalty to a mysterious power; and James, that he is being drawn further each night into the dark web of his grandfather, the arch-demon Belial. And that he himself may be the killer they seek.
Title: The Scourge Between Stars
Author: Ness Brown
Genre: Adult, sci-fi, horror
Publication date: April 4th 2023
Published by: Tor Nightfire
Source: Borrowed from library
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Synopsis: As acting captain of the starship Calypso , Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet.Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn's crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread throughout the ship’s Wards, a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in grim, bloody fashion.Jacklyn and her team must hunt down the ship’s unknown intruder if they have any hope of making it back to their solar system alive.
Title: Abandoned World
Series: Recycled World #0.5
Author: Julia Huni
Genre: YA, sci-fi, dystopian
Publication date: September 2019
Published by: IPH Media
Source: Ebook freebie from author
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Synopsis: When you have it all, you've got a lot to lose.
Zane Torres, seventeen-year-old VidTube star, has a perfect life: a wildly popular video channel, a super hot video-star girlfriend, and a black belt in awesome. His fans don’t know he lives with an alcoholic step-dad, a narcissistic step-brother, and Type I diabetes. Zane doesn't want them to know. ‘Pitiful’ doesn’t gain followers.Exocorp has been evacuating the polluted planet for decades and there are only a few years to go. But company executives and the top levels of the government leave the planet early, abandoning Zane and thousands of others to die, suffocating in the bad air. How will Zane find a place with clean air, food, and the insulin he needs to stay alive?
Title: Deep Black Sea
Series: Deep Black Sea #1
Author: David M. Salkin
Genre: Adult, horror
Publication date: June 2014
Published by: Permuted Press
Source: Borrowed ebook from library
Find it on GoodreadsSynopsis: A crew of seven aboard a specially designed research submarine sit three miles down in the dark world beneath the sea. When they bring aboard the bacteria that enables certain animals to survive in the seven-hundred degree poisonous water of the black smoker, they have no idea that one of the researchers plans on using them as his test subjects.
Title: Bot Duct Skeleton
Series: Space Janitor #0.8
Previous novellas in this series: Orbital Operations (#0.5) | A Mess Of Gravity (#0.6) | Christmas On Kaku (#0.7)
Author: Julia Huni
Genre: Adult, sci-fi, cozy mystery
Publication date: October 2020
Published by: IPH Media
Source: Ebook freebie from author
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Synopsis: A Space Janitor Halloween short story.
Title: Fear Hall: The Conclusion
Series: Fear Street: Fear Hall #2 | Fear Street #47
Previous book in this series: Fear Hall: The Beginning
Author: R.L. Stine
Genre: YA, mystery thriller, horror
Publication date: August 1997
Published by: Archway Paperback
Source: Purchased paperback
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Synopsis: Having fled her dorm room, college freshman Hope hides out in an abandoned sorority house on campus where she discovers that the evil she is trying to escape has become a part of her.
Title: Lying in the Deep
Author: Diana Urban
Genre: YA, mystery thriller
Publication date: May 2nd 2023
Published by: Razorbill
Source: eARC for review from publisher via Netgalley
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Synopsis: A juicy mystery of jealousy, love, and betrayal set on a Semester at Sea-inspired cruise ship, with a diverse cast of delightfully suspicious characters who’ll leave you guessing with every jaw-dropping twist.After being jilted by her ex-boyfriend and best friend, Jade couldn't be more ready to embark on the adventure of a lifetime—11 countries in 4 months, all from the luxurious Campus on Board ship—and to wedge an entire globe between her and the people who broke her heart.But when Jade discovers the backstabbing couple are also setting sail, her obsession with them grows and festers, leading to a shocking murder. And as their friends begin to drop like flies, Jade and her new crush must race to clear her name and find the killer they’re trapped at sea with... before anyone else winds up in body bags.
