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  Name of Book: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me Author: Django Wexler ISBN:  9780356519005 Publisher: Orbit Part of a Series: Sequel to How to Become Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord David duology) Type of book: Fantasy, humor, earth girl stuck in fantasy novel, relationships, love, another world, battles, war, friendships  Year it was published: 2025 Summary: The hilarious sequel to How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler! Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that binds her in this hilariously bloody conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology. Davi has left the horde behind her, hoping to find a peaceful solution to keep the Kingdom from being destroyed this time. But her plan to guide the Kingdom to peaceful prosperity is thwarted when she finds her usual love interest, Prince Johann, already married and the bloodthirsty Duke Aster running the government. Johann's new husband is everything Davi is n...

    Name of Book: Happy People Don't Live here Author: Amber Sparks ISBN: 9781324094395 Publisher: W.W. Norton Type of book: Relationships, connections, contemporary times, 2020s, mother/daughter relationship, Minnesota, ghosts, mysteries, secrets  Year it was published: 2025 Summary: In Amber Sparks’ highly anticipated debut novel, a reclusive mother and her saturnine daughter move into a haunted building brimming with eccentrics—and secrets. Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments—a former sanitorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: a professional mermaid, a handyperson moonlighting as a medium, and an awkward professor of medieval studies. For the determinedly private Alice, Pine Lake seems the perfect place to hide herself and her daughter—until the day Fern finds a dead body in the dumpster. Intent on solving this mystery, and dodging warnings from her increas...