5/23/2023 0 Comments Ginny myers sain![]() ![]() ![]() DARK AND SHALLOW LIES is part coming of age, part romance, part paranormal, and a lot of mystery. Though it is not the type of mystery novels (cozy mysteries) I typically read, I found DARK AND SHALLOW LIES by Ginny Myers Sain to be very entertaining and enjoyable. What she uncovers will forever change her life. Grey has returned to her hometown from Little Rock in hopes of discovering what happened to Elora. Elora, Grey’s twin flame and very best friend, has been missing since March. Now it appears their number may be decreased again. At the age of four, their number decreased to eight when Ember and Orli were abducted and found floating in the pond on Keller Island. ![]() These ten children share a remarkable bond and are collectively known as the Summer Children. She grew up with the nine other children who were born in La Cachette, Louisiana that same summer. Grey was born in the psychic capital of the world seventeen summers ago. "Great Mystery with a Paranormal Flair" Dark and Shallow Lies ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Royal holiday jasmine![]() ![]() Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.As someone who serves as the main channel of communication between the Head of State and the Government, I doubt Malcolm would have the time to give Vivian a tour of the grounds, or to go horse riding with her.However, the romance between Vivian and Malcolm seemed pretty unrealistic.The main character is treated well by the staff at Sandringham, something which the Duchess of Cornwall's facialist Deborah Mitchell previously confirmed to be true when discussing her role with Insider. ![]() The novel does a great job at shedding light on what it would be like to spend Christmas with the royal family as someone who is not in the inner circle.However, Vivian soon finds herself falling for the Queen's private secretary, Malcolm Hudson."Royal Holiday" by Jasmine Guillory follows Vivian Forest (inspired by Ragland), a social worker from California who gets to spend Christmas at the Queen's Sandringham Estate because her daughter is a stylist for one of the family members. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a rising star in the romance genre (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.I read the new holiday romance novel based on Meghan Markle's mother Doria Ragland, and it was actually better than I expected.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Book the glass hotel![]() Her best friend drives the hotel boat her brother, Paul – aspiring composer, recovering addict – sweeps the floors. Mixing cocktails in the hotel bar is directionless Vincent, a young woman marking time in her remote hometown, a stifling place with one road and “two dead ends”. ![]() This is a tale of Ponzi schemes, not pestilence.Įmily St John Mandel. Mandel has not penned a ticking-clock prequel rather, her new novel is a portrait of everyday obliviousness, the machinery of late neoliberalism juddering along with characteristic inequity. The “Georgia Flu” is lurking, but we will never learn if it is days, months, or a year away. Ī handful of quietly placed clues suggest that The Glass Hotel exists in the same universe as Station Eleven, in a time before the outbreak. How better to while away a stint in lockdown than by bending our waking terrors into the most comforting and redemptive of shapes – the narrative arc. ![]() But as we face Covid-19, the strange, masochistic allure of havoc-lit has catapulted Mandel’s post-pandemic tale of itinerant Shakespearean actors back into bestseller territory. That book was always going to cast a shadow over its successor – such is the curse of a career-defining blockbuster. ![]() F ew readers will come to Emily St John Mandel’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, unaware of her fourth, 2014’s Station Eleven, which imagined a world ravaged by a hyper-lethal form of swine flu. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The little friend book review![]() ![]() Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet-unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson-sets out to unmask his killer. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. ![]() The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard.
![]() ![]() ![]() Despite numerous opportunities to draw connections between the chapters, each could have been a stand alone blog post - they don't read as anything following an overarching idea. (Even if it could have been, Duhigg didn't make it one.) What exactly did Duhigg want me to take away from this book? I'm left unsure. "Smarter faster better" is not, in and of itself, a theme. At the end of reading this book, I'm actually a bit confused about what it was about: instead of having one cohesive theme, each story read like little bits of mini advice that didn't connect to a larger picture. ![]() 'The Power of Habit' had an active influence on my life and changed how I approach trying to achieve my goals, so I expected great things from 'Smarter Faster Better' as well.Īlas, it failed to deliver. After reading Duhigg's first book - 'The Power of Habit' - and loving it, I raced to read this one as soon as I got my hands on an advance reader's copy through NetGalley. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Herbie brennan faerie wars series![]() ![]() ‘What are you going to do if you go home?’ ‘Pyrgus doesn’t want me to go home?’ Henry said, surprised, then realised how stupid that sounded and managed to say something more stupid still: ‘My mother would kill me.’ He looked at Blue in the vain hope of her understanding and added, ‘If I didn’t come home.’īlue ignored it. ‘You don’t want to go home, I don’t want you to go home, Pyrgus doesn’t want you to go home, so why not stay?’ She reached out and took his hand, so that they were walking together by the water’s edge. ‘Oh, Henry, I wish you wouldn’t do that,’ Blue said mildly. If there was ever a perfect setting for a romantic moment, this was it and he knew, beyond doubt, he was about to blow it. Night stocks had begun to release their scent and there was torchlight reflected on the river. They were walking in the gardens of the Purple Palace and Blue looked absolutely gorgeous. ![]() He knew he was plunging into one of his wretched waffles where he repeated what people said and cranked up his village idiot expression, but he didn’t seem to be able to do anything about it. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A head full of ghosts hardcover![]() ![]() ![]() When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.įifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. ![]() With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. ![]() WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELĪ chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. The fourth title in our Graveyard Editions imprint! ![]() ![]() Children, especially girls, are brought up under strict gendered and religious codes. The novel is set in an idyllic village in Borno State, where Christians and Muslims coexist. In this story, Boko Haram is the antagonist, the evil and death- dealing force, the destroyer of dreams and communities. Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree is the writer’s attempt to humanize the stolen girls and put a face to the countless victims of the worst terrorist violence in Nigeria. ![]() Apart from journalistic and historical writings on insurgency in Nigeria, Nwaubani’s novel is one of few literary works to project the voices of Boko Haram’s female abductees on the national and global stage. ![]() As a fictional story based on real accounts of survivors, the author exposes the trauma of female captivity in strikingly lucid vignettes. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s new book, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree is the coming of age and captivity story of a teenage girl enslaved in Boko Haram’s infamous Sambisa forest. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Track jason reynolds![]() ![]() Dynamic Lockard ensures aural consistency for the team, including Coach’s unique energy. While Reynolds keeps the spotlight firmly focused on his latest track star, he also manages to provide loyal readers with welcome glimpses into the lives of his previous headliners. Lu happens to be albino, the miracle child to his parents who are, shockingly, pregnant with a sibling no one ever dreamed would be possible. Meet “Lucky Lu,” “Lookie Lu,” “Lu the Lightning Bolt,” who’s co-captain of the middle school Defenders track team. ![]() The final title in two-time National Book Award-nominated Jason Reynolds’ popular Track tetralogy ( Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu) is the third of the series voiced by the author’s childhood friend and anointed collaborator Guy Lockard. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Miranda beverly whittemore![]() Sara loves chatting all things books, the joy of reading, the craft of writing, and connecting readers to their favorite authors…or introducing them to their new favorites! She has interviewed over 100 mystery and thriller authors-from celebs to debuts-and created the “Mystery and Thriller Mavens” Facebook Group, a free, online book group where readers can watch and participate in interviews, enter giveaways, and dish about their latest books. She’s a life-long passionate reader and mystery-lover. ![]() Sara DiVello is a yoga teacher by day, mystery writer by night. ![]() A recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet, June, Set Me Free, and The Effects of Light. ![]() |