{"title":"Book of the Month","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"1121\" data-start=\"885\"\u003eBrowse our complete Book of the Month collection, including current and past featured titles. This curated selection highlights some of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and romance books—perfect for readers searching for their next great read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1305\" data-start=\"1123\"\u003eEach book is carefully chosen based on storytelling, reader appeal, and overall impact, making this collection a trusted source for monthly book recommendations and must-read novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-curious-kind-of-magic","title":"A Curious Kind of Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eHowl's Moving Castle meets Little Thieves in this cozy fantasy about the teenage owner of a (mostly fake) magical curiosity shop and a girl cursed to turn everything she touches into magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryone in Ardmuir knows that Willow Stokes is a charlatan, including Willow herself. Her father's shoppe hasn't sold anything magical in decades, and it's only hanging on by the skin of the fake dragon's teeth Willow sells as charms, along with \"enchanted\" ostrich eggs, taxidermied chimeras, and talismans made of fools' gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil outlander Brianna Hargrave appears and turns Willow's fakes into exactly what they're purported to be. But try as Willow might to enlist Bri's help, she wants nothing to do with Willow and her curiosities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause Brianna is harboring a secret of her own: everything she touches turns to magic, and the consequences have chased her all the way to Ardmuir. All she wants to do is find a particular missing grimoire, which contains a spell that can finally put an end to her curse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesperate to keep her father's shoppe, Willow proposes a bargain that could save them both. Together with the frustratingly handsome printer's assistant, the girls will uncover a plot that goes far deeper than either could have imagined. But when Willow is forced to participate in an ambitious collector's quest for the rarest magical object in the world - a quest that risks almost-certain death - she learns that not all treasure is for sale, and that true magic is closer than she ever could have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGet the e-book at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/117398\/9781250359896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmos, Valour, and Vows","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773948133455,"sku":"9781250359889","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/9218\/7215\/files\/5245665685.jpg?v=1762689906"},{"product_id":"local-heavens","title":"Local Heavens","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eNew York City, 2075. Filipino American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he's struck by the city's contradictions--shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhen Nick meets alluring, new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby's frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren't all they seem--and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever. \u003cem\u003eHe\u003c\/em\u003e's the reason they don't. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAs Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite--and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city's most vulnerable--he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love or truth? Heart or soul?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eA brilliant re-imagining of Fitzgerald's classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, \u003cem\u003eLocal Heavens\u003c\/em\u003e examines the guardrails of morality . . . and the price of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/117398\/9781964721545\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuy the ebook at bookshop.org.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmos, Valour, and Vows","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773971071055,"sku":"9781964721552","price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/9218\/7215\/files\/5231978443.jpg?v=1762302199"},{"product_id":"the-death-i-gave-him","title":"The Death I Gave Him","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback edition of 2023's \"Compellingly readable and unreservedly commendable\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e) queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Twenty-First Century Hamlet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death, and a dying wish: \u003ci\u003eAvenge me..\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the lab on lockdown, Hayden is trapped with four other people--his uncle Charles, lab technician Gabriel Rasmussen, research intern Felicia Xia and their head of security, Felicia's father Paul--one of whom must be the killer. His only sure ally is the lab's resident artificial intelligence, Horatio, who has been his dear friend and companion since its creation. With his world collapsing, Hayden must navigate the building's secrets, uncover his father's lies, and push the boundaries of sanity in the pursuit of revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/117398\/9798212890892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBuy the CD-audio at Bookshop.org.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmos, Valour, and Vows","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43773985292367,"sku":"9781837860012","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/9218\/7215\/files\/5268261920.jpg?v=1762302320"},{"product_id":"the-sun-blessed-prince","title":"The Sun Blessed Prince","description":"\u003cp\u003eA battle-weary prince meets a reluctant assassin. But could their bond end their war?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSEPARATED BY WAR, UNITED BY FATE...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrince Elician is a Giver. He can heal any wound and bring the dead back to life. 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Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleamingfull moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Río as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he’s ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny’s heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Río’s captivity—and his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcage is no place for a merman to survive. 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