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The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski5/13/2023 “Suspenseful, compulsively readable… Extremely fun to read. But when a twisted plot is revealed, with dangerous consequences, their steady foundation begins to crumble, leaving only one certainty: after this year’s block party, Ivy Woods Drive will never be the same.įrom award-winning author Tara Laskowski, The Mother Next Door is an atmospheric novel of domestic suspense in which the strive for perfection ends in murder… They’ll do anything to protect their families. until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood’s dark past-and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it.Īs secrets seep out and the threats intensify, the Ivy Five must sort the loyal from the disloyal, the good from the bad. This year’s block party should be the best yet. When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. An influential group of neighborhood moms-known as the Ivy Five-plans the event for months.Įxcept the Ivy Five has been four for a long time. The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul-de-sac Ivy Woods Drive. Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here “A witty, wicked thriller packed with hidden agendas, juicy secrets, and pitch-perfect satire of the suburban dream.” “A polished and entertaining homage to Big Little Lies and Desperate Housewives… The denouement is bonkers, but satisfying.” Tara Laskowskis debut suspense novel, One Night Gone, won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award and the Anthony Award.
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A touch of malice book 15/13/2023 I'm not sure about you, but I don't really mind smut scenes in books. What did we get instead? Hades LITERALLY only shows up when there's a smut scene, excluding that one weird-ass "training" scene, which felt more like a fever dream than anything else. It was infuriating to read this book knowing how much he could have added to the plot as well as Persephone's growth in her powers as a goddess. This book, on the other hand? I'm pretty sure Hades undergoes character regression, rather than character growth/development. Meanwhile, in the second book, he started to withdraw a bit from the plot as more emphasis was placed on Persephone's growth (but also because the two were constantly at odds with each other). In the first book, he was a dark and morally ambiguous character, with an obvious soft spot for Persephone, but was a pretty intgeral part of the plot. I also happen to loathe those kinds of books.įor starters, there's Hades himself. Other times, books are terrible, but when you read them, you get the feeling that it actually could have been much better, and that there was potential in the plot and characters that ultimately went to waste.Ī Touch of Malice is exactly that kind of book. Just plain bad, and completely irredeemable.
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Frostfire by Amanda Hocking5/13/2023 Bryn loved him once, but now he's kidnapping Kanin children - stealing them from hidden placements within human families. But her plans are put on hold when fallen hero Konstantin starts acting dangerously. Read more will stand in her way, not even a forbidden romance with her boss, Ridley Dresden. She has just one goal to get ahead: to join the elite guard protecting the Kanin royal family. Bryn's almost-human community distrusts people, and those from other tribes are almost as suspect. But as a half-blood, winning respect is a huge challenge. Will she give up her dream to follow her heart? Bryn Aven is determined to gain status amongst the Kanin, the most powerful of the hidden tribes. Frostfire by Amanda Hocking is the stunning first installment in a tale of love, betrayal and the need to belong, the Kanin Chronicles. Hocking returns to the world of her internationally bestselling Trylle books with this thrilling book one in a new series. Description for Frostfire: The Kanin Chronicles: Book One (Kanin Chronicles 1) Paperback.
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Aru Shah and her friends are sent on a mission to rescue two targets, one of whom is about to utter a prophecy that cannot reach the ears of villainous the Sleeper.Īru has just made a wish on the tree of wishes, but she can't remember what it was. War between the devas and the demons is imminent, and the Otherworld is on high alert. If she doesn't find the arrow by the next full moon, she'll be kicked out of the Otherworld. If that weren't bad enough, somehow Aru gets framed as the thief. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? Whilst her classmates are jetting off to exotic locales, she'll be at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother works. Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school.
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The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay5/13/2023 For many schizophrenics, however, the paranoia that an external force such as a machine really is controlling their mind constitutes a hallmark of isolation from consensus reality, and the case notes of contemporary clinical psychiatry hum with the brainwashingīeams of covert radio transmitters, surveillance systems and microchip devices. For those of us outside the crackpot fringes of conspiracy subculture, there's only a tang of uncertainty. Those movies, websites, television series or novels that most successfully employ this cliché do so by exploiting the friction between our dismissive assurance on the one hand that it's probably only a fiction, and a latent anxiety on the other that some evil agent just might have the technology to scramble our thoughts without our consent. Nowadays it doesn't take a nutter to entertain the notion that governments or aliens may be manipulating our minds.
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The life of vivek oji5/13/2023 It's always impressive to see a writer transform between novels in this way, but Vivek Oji would be impressive regardless. Where Freshwater refuses traditional storytelling, Vivek Oji adopts the form - though never the spirit - of traditional crime fiction, seeming to glory in the genre's conventions before slyly subverting them. Where Freshwater roams between countries and regions, Vivek Oji remains firmly planted in southern Nigeria. Where Freshwater is headlong, Vivek Oji is restrained. The two novels are strikingly dissimilar. So is their follow-up, The Death of Vivek Oji - but for completely different reasons. Abandoning structure is a risky choice, but Emezi pulls it off: Freshwater is a tough book to look up from. Their propulsive writing blasts through the familiar plot beats of literary fiction. In Freshwater, Emezi prioritizes voice above all else. The writer and video artist Akwaeke Emezi, who was born in Nigeria and lives in New Orleans, burst into the literary world with their 2018 debut Freshwater, which mixes Igbo ontology, perspective-shifting narration, and fearless, swaggering prose to bring a coming-of-age tale radically alive.
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Broken lawson5/13/2023 Of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor, the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball, is present throughout.Ī treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most. She tackles such timelessly debated questions as ‘How do dogs know they have penises?’ We see how her vacuum cleaner almost set her house on fire, how she was attacked by three bears, and why she can never go back to the post office. In Broken, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. Hilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken (in the best possible way) is about living, surviving, and thriving with anxiety.Īs Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes Jenny Lawson’s most personal book yet. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. In Broken, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that were not alone and making us laugh while doing it.
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The Embattled Road by J.M. Madden5/12/2023 He's served his country faithfully, if not without antagonism, for many years. Gunnery Sergeant John Palmer is furious at the hand he's been dealt. That doesn't mean he wants to be a pitied by every female he comes in contact with. Chad's left with one less leg and a mountain of recriminations. A young marine under his command is killed by a land mine. Sergeant Chad Lowell knew when he went to war that it would come with a price. Until his fiancée decides she has to move on with her life and that of her unborn child by another man. When the rescue helicopter crashes into his convoy in Iraq, Marine First Sergeant Duncan Wilde struggles with the loss of men, his career, and the use of his body. In the harrowing prequel to the Lost and Found series, three embattled marines must deal with their devastating physical and emotional injuries in a world that seems to have turned against them.
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Blood Omen by Sheena Jolie5/12/2023 Sent on a mission to get a powerful talisman to the City Master of the Boston Bloodclan, Remi ends up with an unexpected complication: Celyn, a beautiful fae college student who was in the right place at the wrong time.Ĭelyn was instantly attracted to the sexy vampire when they met by chance at a pub. Remi has been doing the same job for the last two thousand years: specialist courier of valuable magical objects and sensitive information. Set in the Infinite Arcana Universe, BLOOD OMEN is a fascinating peek into the wider world of the Beacon Hill Sorcerer by SJ Himes.
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Paul mcgrath autobiography5/12/2023 Soon after he was born, his father fled the scene, leaving his fearful mother to confide in her only option-putting Paul up for adoption. Paul McGrath was born on the 4th of December, 1959 to an Irish mother and a Nigerian father. Paul McGrath turned and put a big arm round me saying, "Well mate".Īnd that’s how the night started. He and my father both turned and looked at me, a smile cracking on my dad's face knowing I was feeling the equivalent of shell shock. McGrath was part of an elite hard men contingent such as Bryan Robson, Steve Bruce, and Norman Whitside. A player who was typical of footballers back then, who played hard on the field and played hard off it a game galaxies away from the standard nowadays containing metro-sexual males like Cristiano Ronaldo. Not only a “God” for Aston Villa, but for my beloved Manchester United and Republic of Ireland. I looked into the big brown eyes of one of the greatest players to grace the game. |