![]() I feel completely out of balance if I’m not exercising both my right and left brain. She is the only person standing between a desperate conman and a secret from Pearl’s past.įirst, what prompted you to make the big leap from a career in banking to writing short stories and novels? Jill’s past with Garrett becomes the least of her worries when she learns that their lives are in danger. ![]() Jill insists on staying at Pearl’s amidst a string of break-ins that have sleepy Adams Grove wide awake and locking its doors. When Jill returns to settle her grandmother’s estate, she’s greeted by a Clydesdale-sized guardian dog who doesn’t seem to be earning his stripes (although he drools on them pretty well), and Garrett Malloy, the ex-fiancé she left behind a year ago. ![]() In SWEET TEA AND SECRETS, Adams Grove is mourning the loss of Pearl Clemmons, known for her award-winning chocolate pecan pie and the best unsolicited advice in the county. ![]() They now live in a log-sided home on a working goat farm with their two labs and more “kids” than they can count, where Naigle spends her time writing the kind of stories she likes to read. A self-professed writer of “love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense,” Nancy Naigle is one of this year’s elite-an International Thriller Writers 2011 Debut Author.Īfter a successful career spent on the cutting edge of technology in the banking industry, Naigle and her husband of 15 years moved inland to the quiet of Southampton County. ![]()
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Cedar is threatened by one such group when it starts to round up pregnant women for the “protection” of their unborn children. ![]() Meanwhile, the United States government has undermined citizens’ rights to bodily autonomy, and radical religious groups try to seize control over human reproduction. ![]() ![]() In the novel’s pre-apocalyptic America, human evolution has reversed, meaning that the species has begun to biologically regress into an infertile state. Told by Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a pregnant Native American woman in her mid-twenties living in Minneapolis, the story consists of her reflections as she waits to give birth. Future Home of the Living God is a 2017 speculative fiction novel by American author Louise Erdrich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a gritty and gorgeous debut - a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit. They are joined by Venus, Juanito and Daniel, all with their own devastating stories to tell, each determined to survive. When Angel falls in love with him, the two decide to set up the House of Xtravaganza, the first ever all-Latino house on the dance circuit. Just seventeen years old and burnt by her traumatic past, she wants to create a family for those without. Nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem dance scene. ![]() 'Cassaras’s propulsive and profound first novel, finding one’s home in the world – particularly in a subculture plagued by fear and intolerance from society – comes with tragedy as well as extraordinary personal freedom.' EsquireĪ gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning The story shows how it ravaged those who were infected and how the negativity surrounding sexuality was juxtaposed to the narrative of the day. It is also an unexpected love story.' Graham Norton, Top Five Reads of 2018 The House of Impossible Beauties couldn’t exist in this time period without looking at the AIDS crisis. 'Cassara has written a heartbreaking tale of gay men struggling to survive in a world of clubbing and drugs. ![]() NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed ![]() ![]() That Jordan’s suspicions are so easily allayed strains credulity, especially since the reader is almost immediately aware that Anneliese is the Huntress in disguise. ![]() However, Anneliese manages to quell Jordan’s suspicions by confessing part of the truth: that Ruth is not really her daughter but a war orphan. Jordan soon grows suspicious of Dan’s new bride: A candid shot captures Anneliese’s furtive “cruel” glance-and there’s that swastika charm hidden in her wedding bouquet. Meanwhile, Jordan, an aspiring photographer living in Boston with her widowed antiques-dealer father, Dan, welcomes a new stepmother, Austrian refugee Anneliese, and her 4-year-old daughter, Ruth. ![]() Lorelei’s mother, blandished by Tony, reveals that her daughter immigrated to Boston. The same set of circumstances that led Ian to enter a marriage of convenience with Nina, a Siberian former bomber pilot, has also given both common cause: to chase down Lorelei Vogt, a Nazi known as the Huntress, who, by her lakeside lair in Poland, trapped and killed refugees, many of them children. In postwar Europe, Ian, a British war correspondent with a vendetta, and his American sidekick, Tony, have set up a shoestring operation to catch the war criminals who seem to be not just slipping, but swarming through the cracks. Nazi hunters team up with a former bomber pilot to bring a killer known as the Huntress to justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is good thing to have It's About Time! 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On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. ![]() ![]() He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” - The New York Times From Tana French, author of The Witch Elm, a New York Times bestselling novel that “proves anew that is one of the most talented crime writers alive” ( The Washington Post). ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel reflects Huxley’s concerns about the rapid advancements in technology and science and the potential consequences of their use in controlling society. ![]() The novel was written in 1932, during a time when the world was recovering from the economic and political turmoil of World War I and the Great Depression. 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What Evan doesn’t expect is to get stuck in this apartment. ![]() Love Under Quarantine starts with Evan staying at his friend Jake’s apartment for a while due to some bad press. I love Kylie’s writing, but this is the first book I’ve read by Carlan. Meanwhile, it's clear Affleck and de Armas also share the same outlook on important current issues. Love Under Quarantine is a stand-alone romance co-written by Kylie Scott and Audrey Carlan. Affleck's kids were seen carrying the hilarious cutout while they were hanging out with de Armas, in photos obtained by The Daily Mail. ![]() Earlier this month, a giant cardboard cutout of de Armas was photographed on the front lawn of Affleck's Los Angeles home, showing the Knives Out star smiling wide and lying down with her feet up in the air. De Armas' relationship with Affleck's kids has now progressed to the point where they're able to share inside jokes and poke fun at all the paparazzi attention the couple has generated. ![]() ![]() ![]() With The Brightest Star in the Sky, she delivers another satisfying story charming in its wit and surprising in its depth. Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible. Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes Chapter One Mum flung open the sitting-room door and announced, 'Morning, Anna, time for your tablets.' She tried to march briskly, like nurses shed seen on hospital dramas, but there was so much furniture in the room that instead she had to wrestle her way toward me. ![]() Keyes's universal themes and appealing characters have made her an international phenomenon, and are sure to conquer a wider American audience. The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives.īut what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose? There's Matt and Maeve, the newlyweds struggling to overcome the first obstacle in their storybook romance Lydia, the brassy but vulnerable cabbie Katie, the just-turned-forty PR executive searching for a more gratifying life and the eldest resident, Jemima, currently playing hostess to her son Fionn, who is in town to star as the hunky gardener in a hot new television show. Her new novel will delight fans of Candace Bushnell's darkly comic sensibility and Sophie Kinsella's fast-paced action. Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. ![]() ![]() She is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the English-speaking world. Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and stories that deal with real-life issues have captivated readers around the globe. ![]() |