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Useless Etymology

Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds

by Jess Zafarris ...

"A burst of delight on every page!"Mignon Fogarty, host of the Grammar Girl podcastDid you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasuretrove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left-handed"?Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if 60% of ourwords are Latin-derived?Did Shakespeare really ... Read more

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"A burst of delight on every page!"Mignon Fogarty, host of the Grammar Girl podcastDid you know that an "astronaut" is literally a "star sailor," that a thesaurus is, in fact, a "treasuretrove" of words, and that someone who is "sinister" is actually just "left-handed"?Have you ever wondered why English isn't considered a Romance language if 60% of ourwords are Latin-derived?Did Shakespeare really
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn

by Jesse Q. Sutanto ...

A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy ... Read more

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A grandmother tells her granddaughter about her twisty, often surprising, journey to who she is now in this sweeping love story by USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.Izzy Chen is dreading her family’s annual Chinese New Year celebration, where they all come together at a Michelin-starred restaurant to flaunt their status and successes in hopes to one up each other. So when her seventy
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Murder at Gulls Nest

A Novel

by Jess Kidd ...

Series series Nora Breen Investigates
One of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Mysteries of 2025From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind ... Read more

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One of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Mysteries of 2025From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind
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Beautiful Ruins

A Novel

by Jess Walter ...

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard RussoThe acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.The story begins ... Read more

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“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard RussoThe acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.The story begins
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Things in Jars

A Novel

by Jess Kidd ...

In this “miraculous and thrilling” (Diane Setterfield, #1 New York Times bestselling author) gothic mystery for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Book of Speculation, Victorian London comes to life as an intrepid female sleuth wades through a murky world of collectors and criminals to recover a remarkable child.Bridie Devine—flame-haired, pipe-smoking detective extraordinaire—is confronted with ... Read more

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In this “miraculous and thrilling” (Diane Setterfield, #1 New York Times bestselling author) gothic mystery for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Book of Speculation, Victorian London comes to life as an intrepid female sleuth wades through a murky world of collectors and criminals to recover a remarkable child.Bridie Devine—flame-haired, pipe-smoking detective extraordinaire—is confronted with
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Tied Up

The Gay Dom Next Door

by Jesse Fuchs ...

Series Book 1 - His Neighbour's Secret
He was a completely normal neighbour on the outside. But inside? I was the only one who knew what went on in there. I've sat below this open window for years listening to the groans of the men he takes home each weekend.I couldn't help but play with myself as I listened. I enjoyed getting off before hitting the town with Adam. He was a little more adventurous than I was, and we usually went our ... Read more

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He was a completely normal neighbour on the outside. But inside? I was the only one who knew what went on in there. I've sat below this open window for years listening to the groans of the men he takes home each weekend.I couldn't help but play with myself as I listened. I enjoyed getting off before hitting the town with Adam. He was a little more adventurous than I was, and we usually went our
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So Far Gone

A Novel

by Jess Walter ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the ... ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the ...
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Gay Rebel

The Biker Next Door

by Jesse Fuchs ...

Series Book 1 - Gay Rebel
Mr. Cook has lived next door for about as long as I can remember. Covered in tattoos and the proud owner of a Harley Davidson, he’s never been well-liked around here by anyone but me. I never understood all of the hatred.Only days after my birthday, he approached me with word of a surprise birthday present. Curious, I followed him toward his house and onto his roaring bike...Please note: This book ... Read more

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Mr. Cook has lived next door for about as long as I can remember. Covered in tattoos and the proud owner of a Harley Davidson, he’s never been well-liked around here by anyone but me. I never understood all of the hatred.Only days after my birthday, he approached me with word of a surprise birthday present. Curious, I followed him toward his house and onto his roaring bike...Please note: This book
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The Night Ship

A Novel

by Jess Kidd ...

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of ... Read more

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Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of
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Words from Hell

Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

by Jess Zafarris ...

'A fiendishly good read!'Mignon Fogarty, Grammar GirlThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless ... Read more

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'A fiendishly good read!'Mignon Fogarty, Grammar GirlThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snippets of languages snatched from the wreckage of conquest and colonialism. It wreaks merciless
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Drome

by Jesse Lonergan ...

Eisner Award Winner“Drome is a miracle of a book.” –The Washington Post**“**One of the best books of the year.” —Booklist, starred review“Jesse Lonergan’s Drome is the front-runner for 2025 book of the year. A true must read.” **—**The Beat“Brilliant; thoughtful; inspiring but impossi... ... Read more

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Eisner Award Winner“Drome is a miracle of a book.” –The Washington Post**“**One of the best books of the year.” —Booklist, starred review“Jesse Lonergan’s Drome is the front-runner for 2025 book of the year. A true must read.” **—**The Beat“Brilliant; thoughtful; inspiring but impossi...
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Himself

A Novel

by Jess Kidd ...

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he ... Read more

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A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he
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