Journal — books

Sarah Hodges
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Margins of Mystery: Winter Reading for the Intellectually Adventurous

The following selections represent a deliberate departure from the familiar: novels that blur the boundaries between historical fact and spectral imagination, scholarly pursuits and mystical revelations. They invite readers into intellectual terrains where knowledge is not a destination, but a perpetual, transformative journey.

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Our Spring into Summer Book Recs for May

The trees are practically dripping with new life, luring you into tales full of lush mysteries and shadowy sylvan magic. We've curated five entrancing spring/summer reads to spirit you away to enchanted forests, bewitched small towns, and the heart of nature's most seductively sinister secrets. Embrace atmospheric tales like The Wood Wife, When the Moon Was Ours, and These Fleeting Shadows. Consider this your trail map into the season's strange adventures...just mind where those winding paths may lead! Click here to browse our full list of darkly whimsical, fae-touched summer book recommendations.

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Spring into your next read with April's Book Recommendations

We've curated 5 titles for our April recommendations.  Each story is dark tale full of mystery and surprises.  Prepare to get utterly lost in these transportive, vaguely unsettling springtime tales tinged with mystery.

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Beyond Valentine's: Darkly Romantic Reads for February

For those who crave passion tinged with darkness, February demands stories that haunt as profoundly as they beguile. Let us tempt you with forbidden romances, ambitious obsessions, and supernatural seductions from the shadows. Surrender to the pull of these intoxicating tales, rich with Gothic mystery and academic intrigue. But be warned - such affairs of the heart come at a perilous price.

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