Episode 62: Preorders!

Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World By Todd Doughty, Josie Portillo (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Todd Doughty, Josie Portillo (Illustrator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143136569
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Published: Penguin Life - October 12th, 2021

One of The Washington Post’s Best Feel-Good Books the Year • A jolt of joy in a difficult world! Perfect for any age, this charming collection is a daily devotional of delight, designed to provide a thought-provoking break in a busy day, inspiring readers to look for and celebrate the good things that surround us.
 


I Don't Want to Read This Book By Max Greenfield, Mike Lowery (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Max Greenfield, Mike Lowery (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780593326060
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - November 9th, 2021

From actor Max Greenfield (from television’s New Girl) comes a hilarious picture book for every child who thinks they don't like to read books (and all the kids—and grownups—who do).


The Book with No Pictures By B. J. Novak Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780803741713
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Published: Rocky Pond Books - September 30th, 2014

A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian—a perfect gift for any special occasion!


The Witch's Heart By Genevieve Gornichec Cover Image
$26.00
Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9780593099940
Published: Ace - February 9th, 2021

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive national bestselling debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.
 


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Circe By Madeline Miller Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316556323
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 14th, 2020

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).


Norse Mythology By Neil Gaiman Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393356182
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 6th, 2018

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the modern masters of fantasy writing,” (Huffington Post) a dazzling, witty telling of the Norse myths.

"A lively, funny, and very human rendition of Thor the thunder god, his father Odin, and the dark-hearted trickster Loki (plus countless other gods and monsters)." — Petra Mayer, NPR


A House at the Bottom of a Lake By Josh Malerman Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593237779
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Published: Del Rey - January 19th, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a haunting tale of love and mystery, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart.


Bird Box: A Novel By Josh Malerman Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062259660
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Published: Ecco - February 10th, 2015

Now a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, and Rosa Salazar!


Pearl By Josh Malerman Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780593237830
Published: Del Rey - October 12th, 2021

From Josh Malerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, comes the legend of Pearl, a strange new monster unlike any other in horror (previously published as On This, the Day of the Pig).


Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas By Josh Malerman Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780593237809
Published: Del Rey - May 18th, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a chilling story that revolves around a mysterious small town, revealing its sinister secrets one by one.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Must-read horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)


The Every By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781952119361
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Published: McSweeney's Publishing - October 5th, 2021

This title is available exclusively through independent bookstores and the book’s independent, nonprofit publisher, McSweeney’s. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous–and, oddly enough, most beloved–monopoly ever known: the Every.


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The Circle By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780345807298
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Published: Vintage - April 22nd, 2014

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).


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Sundial By Catriona Ward Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250812681
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Published: Tor Nightfire - March 1st, 2022

“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King

A Bram Stoker and Thriller Writer Awards finalist LibraryReads Top 10 PickA GoodReads Choice Award Finalist for Best Horror Starred review from Publishers Weekly!


The Last House on Needless Street By Catriona Ward Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250812629
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Published: Tor Nightfire - September 28th, 2021

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!
A World Fantasy Award Finalist!
An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!


A Portrait of Walt Disney World: 50 Years of The Most Magical Place on Earth (Disney Editions Deluxe) By Kevin Kern, Tim O'Day, Steven Vagnini, Fabiola Garza (Illustrator), Bob Chapek (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Kevin Kern, Tim O'Day, Steven Vagnini, Fabiola Garza (Illustrator), Bob Chapek (Foreword by)
$60.00
ISBN: 9781368052849
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Published: Disney Editions - September 28th, 2021

Walt Disney World honors its fiftieth anniversary with "The World's Most Magical Celebration," an incredible 18-month event that begins October 1, 2021. As part of the festivities, this must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Florida resort, through vibrant voices and rare Disney theme park concept art, photographs, and ephemera.


The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story By Sonia Hartl Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781645673149
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Published: Page Street Kids - September 14th, 2021

Getting over Your Vampire Ex is as Easy as Killing Him and Stealing His Girlfriend


House of Hollow By Krystal Sutherland Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593110348
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - April 6th, 2021

A New York Times Bestseller!
An Instant Indie Bestseller!

A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.


Still Life By Sarah Winman Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593330753
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - November 2nd, 2021

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
 
A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick

A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.


Tin Man: A Novel By Sarah Winman Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735218765
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 9th, 2019

"My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I've read in years."—A Cup of Jo
 


Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America By Kathleen Belew Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780674237698
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Published: Harvard University Press - May 7th, 2019

A Guardian Best Book of the Year

"A gripping study of white power... Explosive."
--New York Times

"Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right."
--Terry Gross, Fresh Air

The white power movement in America wants a revolution.


White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland By Dick Lehr Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780358359906
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Published: Mariner Books - November 30th, 2021

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.

In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town&rsqu


The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails By David Wondrich (Editor in Chief), Noah Rothbaum Cover Image
By David Wondrich (Editor in Chief), Noah Rothbaum
$65.00
ISBN: 9780199311132
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - November 4th, 2021

Anthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of serious scholarly inquiry. The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails is the first major reference work to cover the subject from a global perspective, and provides an authoritative, enlig


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Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan By Liz Michalski Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593185636
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Published: Dutton - May 3rd, 2022

A Book of The Month Club pick 

In this beautiful dive into the world of J. M. Barrie’s classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be—to save her daughter’s life. . . .


An Unkindness of Magicians (Unseen World, The #1) By Kat Howard Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781481451208
Availability: Backordered
Published: Gallery / Saga Press - June 5th, 2018

“A remarkable writer.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods

An Alex Award Winner

There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.

In New York City, magic controls everything.


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To Paradise: A Novel By Hanya Yanagihara Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780385547932
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Published: Doubleday - January 11th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.


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A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780804172707
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Published: Anchor - January 26th, 2016

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.


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All of You Every Single One: A Novel By Beatrice Hitchman Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781419756931
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - January 4th, 2022

From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family

Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One is an atmospheric, original, and deeply moving novel about family, freedom, and how true love might survive impossible odds.


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The Chosen and the Beautiful By Nghi Vo Cover Image
By Nghi Vo
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250784780
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Published: Tordotcom - June 1st, 2021

An Instant National Bestseller!
An Indie Next Pick!


A Most Anticipated in 2021 Pick for Oprah Magazine | USA Today | Buzzfeed | Greatist | BookPage | PopSugar | Bustle | The Nerd Daily | Goodreads | Literary Hub | Ms. Magazine | Library Journal | Culturess | Book Riot | Parade Magazine | Kirkus | The Week | Book Bub | OverDrive | The Portalist | Publishers Weekly


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Spear By Nicola Griffith Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250819321
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Published: Tordotcom - April 19th, 2022

"A pleasure to follow [and] a lovely flexing of Griffith’s strengths in short form." The New York Times Book Review

“Spectacular—I've been waiting years for this book to exist.” —Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New Translation


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I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel By Casey McQuiston Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250244451
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Published: Wednesday Books - May 3rd, 2022

*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need...


One Last Stop By Casey McQuiston Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250244499
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - June 1st, 2021

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*


From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...


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Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology #1) By Dana Schwartz Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250774156
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Published: Wednesday Books - January 18th, 2022

*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*

*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*A REESE'S YA BOOK CLUB PICK*


Book of Night By Holly Black Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250812193
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Published: Tor Books - May 3rd, 2022

"A delicious, dark, adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con." - New York Times bestselling author, Alix E. Harrow


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How to Sell a Haunted House By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593201268
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Published: Berkley - January 17th, 2023

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times

"Ingenious."-The Washington Post

New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
 


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Horrorstor: A Novel By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781594745263
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Published: Quirk Books - September 23rd, 2014

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore.


My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781594749766
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Published: Quirk Books - July 11th, 2017

Soon to be a major motion picture.

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying
Vampires
, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.


The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781683692515
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Published: Quirk Books - May 25th, 2021

“This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl


Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781594749810
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Published: Quirk Books - September 19th, 2017

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.
 


The Final Girl Support Group By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593201237
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Published: Berkley - July 13th, 2021

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today


Maddie and Mabel By Kari Allen, Nevin Mays (Editor), Tatjana Mai-Wyss (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kari Allen, Nevin Mays (Editor), Tatjana Mai-Wyss (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781638940029
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Published: Kind World Publishing - March 22nd, 2022

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection


Sharpe's Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 By Bernard Cornwell Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062563262
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Published: Harper - December 7th, 2021

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.

SHARPE IS BACK.

Outsider.

Hero.

Rogue.

And the one man you want on your side.

Sharpe's Assassin is the brand-new novel in the bestselling historical series that has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.



Violeta [English Edition]: A Novel By Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle (Translated by) Cover Image
By Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle (Translated by)
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593496206
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Published: Ballantine Books - January 25th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.

“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People


Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel By Elizabeth George Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593296844
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Published: Viking - January 11th, 2022

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
 
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.


Goliath: A Novel By Tochi Onyebuchi Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250782953
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Published: Tordotcom - January 25th, 2022

A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick!

A Best Book of the Year for Time | NPR | The Guardian | Gizmodo| Portalist | New York Public Library

A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist


Riot Baby By Tochi Onyebuchi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250214751
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Published: Tordotcom - January 21st, 2020

Winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award
Winner of an 2021 ALA Alex Award
Winner of the 2020 New England Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Ignyte Award
Winner of the 2021 AABMC Literary Award

A 2021 Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Best Outstanding Work of Literary Fiction
A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist


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From Bad to Cursed (The Witches of Thistle Grove #2) By Lana Harper Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593336083
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Published: Berkley - May 17th, 2022

Opposites attract in this wickedly charming rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch.


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Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove #1) By Lana Harper Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593336069
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Published: Berkley - October 5th, 2021

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper.