Beth Cato
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A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods, #1)
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2023
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A House Between Sea and Sky
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2025
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The Clockwork Dagger (Clockwork Dagger, #1)
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2014
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A Feast for Starving Stone (Chefs of the Five Gods #2)
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The Clockwork Crown (Clockwork Dagger, #2)
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2015
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Breath of Earth (Blood of Earth, #1)
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2016
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Call of Fire (Blood of Earth, #2)
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2017
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Roar of Sky (Blood of Earth #3)
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2018
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Wings of Sorrow and Bone (Clockwork Dagger, #2.5)
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2015
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The Deepest Poison (Clockwork Dagger, #0.5)
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2015
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A dark, gritty character study of the late 20th century with a tale that begins with two Missouri kids--a one-eyed boy who fashions himself a pirate and a hyperintelligent beekeeper girl. When the boy saves the town's rich girl from abduction and is ...more | |
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This book, first published in 1796, provides fascinating insights into travel throughout Scandinavia during this period. Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) describes the beauty of Sweden in Norway with zeal, recording the fares for ferries and t ...more | |
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This is a small promotional hardcover book put out by Norway's Jarlsberg cheese in 1986. I found it at my local library used book sale. The cookbook is... basic, to say the least. The vast majority of the recipes are along the lines of using their ch ...more | |
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I read this book for an upcoming library book club. The concept was interesting: Nora Seed tries to kill herself but ends up in a sort of not-dead limbo that looks like a giant library. The librarian is her fondly-recalled school librarian. Nora is g ...more | |
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Translated from the German, this book talks about the evolution of delights such as chocolate, beer, and tobacco. Though the book frames itself as addressing the full phenomena, it feels very incomplete as it strongly focuses on England, Germany, Fra ...more | |
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“He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.”
― The Clockwork Crown
― The Clockwork Crown
“Ignorance didn’t feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it.”
― Breath of Earth
― Breath of Earth
“Holiness may be found by being in the mere presence of books, without evening parting the pages.”
― The Clockwork Crown
― The Clockwork Crown
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1st Quarter 2025 - Fantasy #2
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong (336 pp)
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt by Chelsea Iversen (320 pp)
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge by Beth Cato (406 pp)
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (638 pp)
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (1085 pp)
The Estate by Sarah Jost (416 pp)
If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu (139 pp)
Ascendant by Michael R. Miller (554 pp)
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Who's Your Author?: Steampunk - Recommendations | 11 | 32 | Oct 08, 2014 06:58AM | |
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The Sword and Laser: Questions for Beth Cato | 5 | 75 | Jun 11, 2015 11:01AM | |
Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2015 Locus Award Winners Announced | 7 | 75 | Jun 27, 2015 03:58PM | |
Who's Your Author?: Spell It Supernatural June 2015 | 31 | 28 | Jul 01, 2015 02:33PM | |
Nothing But Readi...: Team Hagen | 200 | 273 | Aug 20, 2015 10:00AM | |
Sci-fi and Heroic...: "Wings of Sorrow and Bone" by Beth Cato | 4 | 9 | Apr 11, 2016 06:39AM | |
Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2015 Nebula Award short story & novella nominees | 11 | 51 | Apr 22, 2016 01:39AM | |
Romance Readers R...: Mai's Reading List | 155 | 131 | Oct 21, 2016 12:22AM |
“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
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“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
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“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.”
― A Red Herring Without Mustard
― A Red Herring Without Mustard

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