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Welcome to Archaeolibrarian, Stories Worth Unearthing.

We're so glad you're here. This is our little corner of the internet where a lifelong love of reading gets to run wild through honest reviews, blog tours, and the occasional bookish rabbit hole. We dig through every kind of story, from quiet historical fiction to sweeping fantasy, to bring the good ones up into the light.

We truly believe there's a perfect book out there for every reader, and we'd love to help you find yours. New content goes up regularly, so do pop back often to see what we've been reading lately.

We also have a store over on Bookshop.org, and it's one of our favourite things about running this blog. Every book we've reviewed or featured on tour lives there (whenever it's available on the site), so you can go straight from reading about a book to actually getting your hands on it — while supporting your favourite local independent bookstore at the same time. It really is a win all round!

Blitz & Giveaway: Love and Other Cures for the Recently Undead by H.J. Ramsay

CeCe Campbell wakes on the asphalt of a mall parking lot with two missing years and a body that no longer feels like her own. Infected with the Kill Virus on her 18th birthday, she’s among the first to be cured. Rehabilitation teaches CeCe how to walk, how to speak, how to exist in a world rebuilding itself, but it cannot return what she lost. Her mother is dead. Her brother is missing. And the last memory before the dark is a bite she cannot escape.

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Oct 6

Excerpt & Giveaway: All That Remains by Samantha Grosser

England 1998. Eva and Ben live a secluded life in the shadow of choices they made years before. But when an unexpected letter brings bad news, it shatters their peace, reawakening painful memories of an earlier time. England 1939. Lady Eva is young, beautiful, and heir to a fortune. But she chafes against the constraints of her upbringing, and a reckless streak sometimes leads her into trouble. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, she is grounded at the family home at Silv

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Sep 15

Excerpt, Review, & Giveaway: Uprising (The Fitzjohn Duology #1) by J.E. Rizzo

England, 1381 AD: Blanche Fitzjohn is an outcast in her small coastal village. Not only is she the illegitimate daughter of John of Gaunt, the man responsible for her neighbors’ over-taxation, but she possesses strange abilities: hearing sound from miles away and smelling people’s emotions.

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Sep 4

Excerpt & Giveaway: The Last Summerville by Annabelle Lewis

Twenty-two-year-old Georgia Parker already carries more regret than most people twice her age. Practically an orphan, she’s reeling from the death of her grandmother, Mimi—the one person who made her feel safe from the chaos of her mother’s world. Alone in Carson City, Nevada, Georgia is determined to start over, to stand on her own. Yet Mimi’s final words echo in her mind: Take risks. Trust people again. Be brave.

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Sep 3

Excerpt & Giveaway: Reign of Silver & Stardust (Stardust Trilogy #1) by Diana A. Hicks

My twin sister was murdered. To find her killer, I had to die. CATALINAI was never supposed to survive. As the mortal spare to an immortal sister, I lived in the shadows until Ry was murdered by a weapon that shouldn't exist. Now, justice is all I want. To find her killer, I must take her place in the Queen’s Immortal Army and become the very monster everyone fears. But becoming a weapon means losing my humanity… and losing the one man I can't resist.

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Aug 27

Excerpt & Giveaway: Worse Than Any Bullet (Fidelia Mysteries #2) by Felicia Watson

When she laid her hitman father to rest, PI Lucia Scafetti thought she’d finally escaped her family’s criminal clutches. Ten years later, her estranged mom blows into Philly for a short visit and within days a friend’s dad is brutally murdered and Lucia is being menaced by her cousin and his fellow mafiosi. After her mother disappears, everyone: foes, friends, and free agents, descends upon Lucia in search of the thumb-drive her mom stole from a Caribbean drug lord. Lucia lea

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Aug 25

Excerpt & #Giveaway: A Strange & Terrible Wonder by Nichole Louise

Eleanor Dare, daughter of Roanoke’s Governor John White, has no choice but to accompany her overly ambitious husband Ananias and her idealist, yet inexperienced father to England’s new colony. Manteo of Croatoan wants nothing more than to cast off his association with the English and return home. Haunted by memories of an unexplainable event, he sets out to find the truth about what was brought to Roanoke by the English two years before as a weapon against the Spanish.

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Aug 19

Excerpt & #Giveaway: The Art of Keeping Dangerous Books (The Apothecary’s Secret #1) by R.J. Blain

Bookshop owner by day, restorer of rare and dangerous books by night, Kita James is thrilled to acquire a new poisonous book from the Victorian era. From the swirling patterns on the cover to its unusual leather binding, IN SEARCH OF LIFE is truly a unique find. However, testing of the vibrant tome reveals its darker nature: the leather is that of a human along with an extinct animal from the ice age. To further complicate matters, a new radioactive element is discovered lurk

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Aug 14

Excerpt & #Giveaway: Obscura Nights by Warren Wynn

Seventeen-year-old Farris Aldan didn’t join the Sentinels to save the world. He joined to escape insanity. In Obscura City, contracting the whisperis means shedding your skin and becoming a monster. As a newly trained Sentinel, Farris hunts the infected, hoping vengeance will silence the guilt over his best friend Calla’s death.

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Aug 6

Excerpt & #Giveaway: Bad Decisions & Back Roads (Southern Veterinary #2) by Zoe Forward

I used to be the rebellious girl from the wrong side of the fenceline. He was the local hellraiser nobody could tame. While our families carried on a feud older than indoor plumbing, we fell for each other.

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Aug 3

Excerpt & #Giveaway: Reaper's Quest (Curse of the Royal Reaper #1) by Debra A Kristi

Raven Gunn blamed herself and the cheat she used on her last job for her team’s assignment to the cursed reaping. Her father even packed the tool responsible for the cheat in her travel bag, silently suggesting the need, while reminding her not to trust her designated coreaper, Chace Badden. A hundred years of accumulated reapings, a prohibited reaper-tool, her born rival tasked as her partner… What could go wrong? She definitely wouldn’t allow Chace’s good looks to compromis

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Jul 14