
Spells for Forgetting
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Adrienne Young
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here
A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads
Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.
August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all.
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Critic reviews
“With magic, murder, and prose that reads like music, Spells for Forgetting weaves together an immersive tale on the Pacific Coast island of Saoirse, where love and pain both stick to the too.”―Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of The Husbands
“A thrilling, rich mystery with exquisite twists, Adrienne Young’s adult debut will trick you, bewitch you, and leave you begging for more.”―Stephanie Garber, author of the Caraval series
“Tense, lyrical, and wholly romantic, Spells for Forgetting is as immersive a story as you could ask for. I could feel the salt on my skin, I could smell the smoke, and every page felt like a tentative step into a mist concealing all of Saoirse’s darkest secrets.”―Ruth Emmie Lang, Ohioana Book Award finalist
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Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it’s this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman - the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago - and in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. He should be dead, but here he is alive, and left in the woods with no memory of the time he’d been missing.
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well knit
- By Sarah on 12-16-19
By: Shea Ernshaw
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Legends of the North Cascades
- By: Jonathan Evison
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has begun to unravel. Gripped by PTSD, he finds himself losing his home, his wife, his direction. Most days, his love for his seven-year-old daughter, Bella, is the only thing keeping him going. When tragedy strikes, Dave makes a dramatic decision: the two of them will flee their damaged lives, heading off the grid to live in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.
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Beautiful
- By Chris on 02-21-22
By: Jonathan Evison
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Starling House
- A Reese's Book Club Pick
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's a determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago. All she left behind were dark rumors—and her home. Everyone agrees that it’s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway.
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A great spooky atmosphere captured well in audio
- By downtown on 10-09-23
By: Alix E. Harrow
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A History of Wild Places
- A Novel
- By: Shea Ernshaw
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Gibson Frazier, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James.
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A wild ride
- By Amanda Smith on 12-12-21
By: Shea Ernshaw
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Weyward
- A Novel
- By: Emilia Hart
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.
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Awful, Problematic Story
- By Anonymous User on 04-23-23
By: Emilia Hart
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The Wild Hunt
- By: Emma Seckel
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is determined to forget the sorrows of the past and start fresh. Fellow islander Iain MacTavish, a RAF veteran with his eyes on the sky and his head in the past, is also in desperate need of a new beginning. A young widower, Iain struggles to return to the normal life he knew before the war. But this October is anything but normal. This October, the sluagh are restless.
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one of my favorite books ever
- By Cait on 11-02-24
By: Emma Seckel
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- By: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- By Summer on 11-11-19
By: Alix E. Harrow
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Wild Is the Witch
- By: Rachel Griffin
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Iris concocts the perfect curse for Pike: one that will turn him into a witch. But just as she’s about to dispel it, a bird swoops down and steals the curse before flying away. If the bird dies, the curse will be unleashed—and the bird is a powerful amplifier, and unleashing the curse would turn not just Pike, but everyone in the region, into a witch. New witches have no idea how to control their magic and the consequences would be dire.
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So good!
- By Sarah Jones on 08-08-22
By: Rachel Griffin
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The Luminaries
- By: Susan Dennard
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you. Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night. Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal.
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A beautifully Written YA Novel.
- By Mrs Mandy Reads on 01-31-24
By: Susan Dennard
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A Wilderness of Stars
- By: Shea Ernshaw
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Vega has lived in the valley her whole life—forbidden by her mother to leave the safety of its borders because of the unknown threats waiting for her in the wilds beyond. But when Vega sees an omen in the sky—one she cannot ignore—she is forced to leave the protective boundaries of the valley for the first time. Yet the outside world is much more terrifying than Vega could have ever imagined. People are gravely sick—they lose their eyesight and their hearing, just before they lose their lives.
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Amazing love story with a twist.
- By Anonymous User on 08-18-24
By: Shea Ernshaw
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The King's Witch
- A Novel
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents’ country estate, where she has learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. She is happy to stay at home when King James of Scotland succeeds to the throne. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism sees witchcraft in many of the old customs - punishable by death.
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I’ve read hundreds of historical fiction books....
- By K&T on 08-03-18
By: Tracy Borman
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The Age of Witches
- A Novel
- By: Louisa Morgan
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves by whatever means necessary. This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She'll need to claim her own power to save herself - and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all.
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The voice in the sample is misleading.
- By Amy Wobarg on 05-13-20
By: Louisa Morgan
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The Keeper of Lost Things
- A Novel
- By: Ruth Hogan
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects - the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind - and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners.
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Charming story with great narration
- By June J on 09-29-17
By: Ruth Hogan
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- CrimsonRoseReads
- 10-09-22
Oh My Gosh!! So Freaking Good!!
I love Adrienne Young’s writing and this, her first adult novel, is just beyond amazing! You’ll experience all the feels in this atmospheric, second-chance, witchy whodunnit and all the narrators give exceptional performances!!
A perfect autumnal listen/read!
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- Fresca242
- 10-27-22
they tell us what really happened!
not much witchy magic, but i liked the story and i loved ch 57! go for it!
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- Lleessaa08
- 12-05-22
Good story but too slow.
I agree with many of the other reviewers. It is a good story but it could have been edited down a bit. Emery's moments in particular. I started to speed up the narration to get through it. I say have patience!
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- Melissa Richard
- 01-27-23
Loved every minute
This is the first book I have listened to that wasn’t a self help book. I loved every minute of it. The story was narrated so beautifully, it was so vivid I could almost see it. I highly recommend this book.
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- Jessica Cervantes
- 11-30-22
Hauntingly Beautiful
My husband and I absolutely devoured this book! Mystery, suspense, a touch of magic, a touch of love, and a whole lotta atmospheric eerie settings; Adrienne Young really brought the island and all it’s inhabitants to life. It’s definitely a slower paced book but it didn’t bother us any, we were so enraptured with finding out what really happened on the night of the fire and had so much fun trying to figure it out as pieces of the puzzle were revealed. We were thinking and talking about August, Emery, and the secrets of Saoirse Island for days after listening to this book.
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- Lori Chakhtoura
- 02-17-23
Mystical
Wonderfully narrated and a mystical story that transported you to the island. Each character had their own story to tell. Even the island herself
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-23
Couldn’t stop listening
Beautiful visuals, and captivating story! It was a perfect book to accompany my morning coffee!
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- Nicole Miller
- 05-17-23
Slow burn, but great read
Took me a minute to get invested, but once I did I couldn’t stop listening. Great mystery and suspense.
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- lawson84
- 11-23-22
Deceiving
The story was very good until the ending. After everything that was going on, the ending felt anticlimactic.
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- M.M.
- 08-12-23
Entertaining and thoughtful
I wasn’t expecting the end- really enjoyed this one. I listened in literally less than 24 hours while home sick. So glad I had the time to not draw this one out over days and days.
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