![]() ![]() Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.Įver since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other-except, perhaps, this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid’s garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. ![]() Sophie Beckett never dreamed she’d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball-or that “Prince Charming” would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Benedict Bridgerton, in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ![]()
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![]() On the whole though, I did enjoy it, and look forward to the second book.įavorite Quote from Pines: “For every perfect little town, there’s something ugly underneath. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the internationally bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. ![]() It is a fast-paced read - although at one point one of his escape attempts seemed to go on and on and on….a little too explicit about bending his leg this way, and pushing off, and…. So that’s the premise of the first in the series. Although people seem nice, everything is a little “off”. Ethan can’t reach either his wife or the Agency. The Sheriff’s office is no help, and seems to have anger issues. Fearing for his safety, he leaves the hospital without ID, Cell Phone or money. Just entering town he is hit by a mack truck, ends up in the hospital, and awakes to find the medical staff very secretive. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. Synopsis Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town. ![]() The Last Town is preceded by Pines (2012) and Wayward (2013). When Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke is sent to Wayward Pines to locate two missing agents, nothing is as it seems. The Last Town is the concluding book in the Wayward Pines trilogy published in 2014 and written by American Author Blake Crouch. Pines by Blake Crouch is the first in a trilogy about the town of Wayward Pines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The twelve stories in “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” are set in Nigeria, America, and a few fantastical realities recurring motifs include the Biafra War, and various configurations of Nigerian and Nigerian American families. ![]() She unflinchingly depicts the painful courses of correction her characters experience, while showing us that sometimes, albeit at tremendous costs, the fires find a way to burn on. Arimah renders each character with unceasing compassion, sparkling diction, and a wit that endures through even the direst of situations. Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, neighbors, friends, lovers, enemies love, jealousy, grief, tenderness, resentment, admiration, disappointment, understanding, self-loathing. In the last story of her debut collection “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky,” Lesley Nneke Arimah writes: “Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.” Arimah’s stories are full of such girls at every stage of life, who possess every type of fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lois Phillips Hudson, The Bones of Plenty*.Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life as we knew it*.Kevin Brookmeier, A Brief History of the Dead*. ![]() Judith Merkle Riley, A Vision of Light*.Naomi Hirahara, Summer of the Big Bachi.As for the third rule about tagging people, I choose to tag no one, but if someone reads this post and wants to join in-you're more than welcome! Here goes nothin'. I have few 2008 debut novels in the list, so I won't overload the boldface. Before I start typing up my gargantuan list, I'm going to get the other two rules of the meme out of the way. ![]() I sat up last night going through my book journal and making a list of all the new-to-me authors I'd read in 2008. Now.I've read about 180 books this past year, and I'm always on the search for new authors. I really don't think he had any idea what he was setting me up for! Here are the rules:ġ) List the authors that were new to you this year, regardless of year of publication.Ģ) Boldface those which were debuts (first novel published in 2008).ģ) Tag as few or as many others as you’d like. I've been tagged for a reading meme by my friend Archie out on the Australian desert. ![]() ![]() I loved the balance Zafón struck between reality and the supernatural it definitely kept me on my toes. That question wasn’t truly answered, even in the final pages, though its answer was alluded to. The atmosphere of this novel was so creepy that I often couldn’t tell if there was a supernatural element to it or if the eeriness was due exclusively to the lush, dark setting. At its core, Martín’s story is one of intriguing mystery and gothic horror. But when his writing career takes an unexpected trajectory, he finds himself making a deal with the devil and mirroring the tragic history of another. Thanks to his mentor, Pedro Vidal, Martín is given his chance. In this book we meet David Martín, an orphan who yearns to be a writer. ![]() “Poetry is written with tears, novels with blood, and history with invisible ink.” ![]() I’ve also been reliably informed by TS and Petrik that all of the questions I found left frustratingly open at the end of this book will indeed be answered later in the series, which does nothing but add to my excitement. And I truly believe that The Angel’s Game just scratched the surface I can feel in my bones that there’s far more to come. I had no idea that it was a preamble, setting up for an even bigger story. ![]() ![]() The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Lucia Graves)įor close to a decade I’ve thought that The Shadow of the Wind was one of the most brilliant novels I had ever read. ![]() ![]() Cara Reinard deftly combines twisted family dynamics, escalating tension, and suspicious characters to make The Den a juicy, binge-worthy thriller. ![]() “Think your family has drama? Wait until you meet the Foxes, who have enough skeletons in their closet to fill a cemetery. With his life hanging in the balance, the Fox children learn of their father’s recently revised will and find their own lives in danger-but which one is behind the mayhem? And which ones will survive to inherit the family dynasty? Twists and clever reveals abound in The Den -and Reinard keeps us guessing to the very end!” -Wendy Walker, national bestselling author of Don’t Look For Me “ Succession meets The Guest List when the patriarch of a dysfunctional family has a sudden heart attack and stroke. “Cara Reinard hooks you from the start with breathtaking and heart-pounding scenes bound tight, where fleeting passion and nightmarish memories take centerstage.” -Chris Miller, Best Thriller Books ![]() Readers won’t soon forget this deep dive into twisted family dynamics.” - Publishers Weekly “The explosive plot, told through alternating narrators with wildly divergent viewpoints, creates a tense, Machiavellian atmosphere. ![]() ![]() A heartburning family tell-all just in time to gladden your Thanksgiving.” - Kirkus Reviews Sarah and Martin Ellsworth are awakened to a parent’s worse nightmare: a middle-of-the-night call from their teenage son Finn. “Reinard juggles suspects, motives, and family skeletons with such dexterity that it’s hard to imagine any of the Fox clan actually being innocent. Sweet Water by Cara Reinard is a family drama that takes the reader down a path so twisted that you will not know what to expect. ![]() ![]() ![]() As if life wasn't complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Or does she? They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought here for a reason. Kylie's never felt normal, but surely she doesn't belong here with a bunch of paranormal freaks either. ![]() Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls-a camp for troubled teens, and within hours of arriving, it becomes painfully clear that her fellow campers aren't just "troubled." Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, witches and fairies train side by side-learning to harness their powers, control their magic and live in the normal world. One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Welcome to Shadow Falls camp, nestled deep in the woods of a town called Fallen. Hunter! Born at Midnight will steal your heart and haunt your dreams. ![]() Don't miss this spectacular new young adult fantasy series from C.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with the midnight hour approaching, will Chuck and Kate’s relationship turn out to be real or fake? And when just-for-show kisses stir up forgotten feelings, things get even more complicated. The more they try to pull apart, the more the Universe seems to push them back together, shortening the road to the altar. ![]() See More But with the holidays looming over them, they can no longer keep pretending.Ĭhuck and Kate head home for Christmas, determined to tell the truth-and end up accidentally engaged instead. With parents who are best friends and business partners, it’s not easy for Chuck and Kate to announce they’ve split up. But after she broke his heart four months ago, leaving him, it became all just pretense for the sake of their entwined families. There are two types of relationships: fake and real.Ĭhuck and Kate’s used to be real, oh-so-real. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ransom of Red Chief, a book for laughs, and the Lindbergh kidnapping have differences and similarities. Ransom of Red Chief Comparison to Lindbergh The Ransom of Red Chief is a book where a kidnapping goes ironically wrong. Hauptmann pushed the idea that he was innocent but later died in an electrical chair in prison. ![]() September 1934, a gold certificate showed up at a gas station worker named Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an illegal immigrant from Germany. For two years, police watched for serial numbers from the ransom money, providing a list of numbers to banks and stores. Condon, Lindbergh’s mediator, later said he talked to the kidnapper. ![]() In the autopsy, it showed that his head was bashed open.ĭr. ![]() A corpse of the Lindbergh baby was identified 2 months later. The ransom note had misspellings such as the “child was in gute care,” which foreshadowed that an immigrant did the kidnapping. About 12 ransom notes were sent to Charles Lindbergh, the father of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, asking for 50,000 dollars in money and even more. This was later referred to as “The Trial of the Century,” as the kidnapping shocked the world. The nurse of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr checked Charles Jr at 10 pm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. ![]() It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. ![]() The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author ( The New York Times ) ![]() |