![]() ![]() Her husband breaks the vows he promised her, her neighbors aren't the sweet family next door and her perfect life seems more like the perfect lie. When suspicious things start to unravel, Serena begins to lose control over the perfection she thrives off of. Sure, she sets herself to extremely high standards and is obsessed with perfection-which triggers a darkness of her own-but she's managed to keep it under control. She even has a private practice with her best friend, Parker Sully, who is easy on the eyes and kinder on the soul. She's helped hundreds of people complete their families, which means all that more to her considering the lengths she went through for her own child. A handsome husband, a beautiful daughter, a gated home, and a rewarding career as a physician, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. What happens when our dreams and reality begin to blur together? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Eadlyn doesn't expect anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story.but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Now find out what happens after happily ever after in this fourth captivating novel, perfect for fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent, Lauren Oliver's Delirium, or Renée Ahdieh's The Wrath & the Dawn.Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. A new era dawns in the world of Kiera Cass’s 1 New York Times bestselling Selection series America and Maxon’s fairy-tale romance enchanted readers from the very first page of The Selection. ![]() A new era dawns in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection seriesAmerica and Maxon's fairy-tale romance enchanted readers from the very first page of The Selection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The action occurs in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where the narrator, a gallery assistant, bought an apartment with her inheritance. So I took another Nembutal, watched Presumed Innocent, then took a few Lunestas.” At this point, the reader’s own GABA receptors and endorphins are cross-firing along with the pill-popping narrator’s. I felt tired, heavy, but not exactly sleepy. ![]() Her witty lines entertain throughout her fourth book: “I ate some melatonin and Benadryl and drooled a little,” the narrator states. First-time Ottessa Moshfegh readers will marvel at her ability to write such a saturnine story in such a droll manner. Like a hummingbird hovering in cold weather during a self-induced torpor, the protagonist of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a 20-something Ivy League, orphaned cutie, intentionally hibernates for one year in a drug-induced “sleep diet,” hoping her soul wounds heal and trusting that the world will be a better place when she awakens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katsu followed that book up in March 2020 with another historical horror novel, The Deep, which weaves together the tragic fates of both the Titanic and its lesser-known sister ship the Britannic The Deep also earned rave reviews ( Library Journal called it “a riveting, seductively menacing tale”). The Hunger won both praise and awards (in the suspense, horror, and western genres), and made numerous “best of the year” lists. Her first novel, The Taker (2011), gave birth to a series (the Immortals Trilogy), but her real breakthrough came in 2018 with The Hunger, a reimagining of the doomed Donner Party as the victims of supernatural forces. Alma Katsu found success as a writer after a long career as an intelligence analyst. ![]() ![]() The book advances the idea that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake. This centers on the exploitation of national crises (disasters or upheavals) to establish controversial and questionable policies, while citizens are too distracted (emotionally and physically) to engage and develop an adequate response, and resist effectively. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of " shock therapy". ![]() ![]() ![]() The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story itself is haunting and beautifully written and has been compared to works by Gillian Flynn and Ruth Ware. However, many readers have speculated that Claire may be a representation of Amber’s own conscience. The ending of the book is left somewhat open-ended, as it’s unclear whether Claire is actually real or just another figment of Amber’s imagination. As her family, friends, and doctors try to piece together what happened in the days leading up to her accident, they all must come to terms with the fact that sometimes people-even those closest to us-don’t always tell the truth. In “Sometimes I Lie,” we are taken on a journey through the mind of Amber Reynolds. ![]() What if we’re not telling the truth even to ourselves? Is it really possible to know what’s true? ![]() It’s an interesting idea for a book and makes you think about the truthfulness of our memories. The premise of the book is that the narrator, Amber, tells three different versions of her own life story – one where she is cancer-free, one where her older sister died instead of her, and one where she is paralyzed – to try and figure out which one is true. There’s a book called “Sometimes I lie” that has been gaining a lot of popularity recently. ![]() ![]() Touching down everywhere from Athens, Paris, Cairo, and 1040 Fifth Avenue, “Finding Jackie” returns Jackie’s story to its original context as a serialized drama unfurling alongside the Civil Rights movement, women’s liberation, and the Vietnam War. ![]() In “Finding Jackie,” author Oline Eaton pieces the story back together, rediscovering Jackie as an adventurer, a wanderer, a woman and an idea in whom many Americans and people around the globe deeply, fiercely wanted to believe. Treated like a national soap opera and transmitted through newspapers, magazines, images, and TV during the 1960s and 1970s, Jackie’s story became wired into America’s emotional grid. But, in the decades since, that Jackie has been almost entirely erased. ![]() There were so many stories, so many pictures: Jackie living abroad, Jackie climbing ruins, Jackie cruising the oceans, Jackie wandering Europe braless and with bare feet. She traveled relentlessly and dated widely before her marriage to a shipping magnate scandalized the world in 1968. Traumatized and exposed after her husband’s murder, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. A paragon of femininity, fashion, American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first modern First Lady. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of that, it gave me slight thriller feels. Except in this book we have no idea who the cat is. ![]() The plot gave me a cat and mouse game vibe. It was experiencing a story I love all over again with a lot of oh yeah that happened and wait I forgot THAT happened and a bit of oh SH*T THAT HAPPENED. I had to reread Storm and Fury before reading this book because I remembered absolutely nothing from the first book other than there was something blossoming between Trinity and Zayne.Īnyhoot, I don’t like to reread books, but I’m so glad that I did. As anger builds and feelings spiral out of control, it becomes clear that rage may be the ruin of them all. But as deaths pile up and they uncover a sinister plot involving the local high school and endangering someone dear to Zayne, Trin realizes she is being led…herded…played for some unknown end. Forbidden to be with each other, Zayne and Trinity fight their feelings and turn to unusual sources for help-the demon Roth and his cohorts. The Harbinger is coming…but who or what is it? All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can’t win the race against time as dark forces gather.Īs tensions rise, they must stay close together and patrol the DC streets at night, seeking signs of the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with no seeming rhyme or reason. ![]() There are no spoilers of Rage and Ruin in this review!Ī half human, half angel and her bonded gargoyle protector must work with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Miranda, seeing Maria from the height of her fourteen years suddenly joining with their father to laugh at her, made an instant decision and laughed with them at herself" (Old Mortality, Part Two, pg. Miranda has a moment of epiphany when she understands that she can choose to behave like a grown-up. As the story jumps through Miranda's life, her perceptions and feelings change, and the tone of the story goes along with Miranda's development. The collected novels are 'Old Mortality,' 'Noon Wine' and the eponymous 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider. ![]() To Miranda's perception, she is still waiting for the chance to experience life for herself. Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels ( ISBN 0-15-170755-3) is a volume of three short novels by American author Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1939. In "Old Mortality," Miranda feels like the wonderful experiences of others are explained to her, so that she can almost understand why the old people remember the past so fondly. "Old Mortality" and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" are seen primarily through Miranda's third-person point of view, which sometimes shifts to first-person stream-of consciousness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Max’s brothers slowly become curious, particularly when Max begins to use his words to create stories. “Hungry” has a bite taken out of it, and “Park” is surrounded by trees. The illustrations are just great in this book, with the words coming to life and taking shape to show their meanings. He struggles with what he should collect before finally deciding he will collect words! Max cuts words out of magazines and writes them on slips of paper. So, Max decides to start his own collection. In this story, Max’s brothers have huge, wonderful collections of coins and stamps, from which they certainly aren’t willing to share with Max. ![]() ![]() While Max’s Words by Katie Banks is not actually a “new” book (it was published in 2006), it is “new to me” and I’m so glad I found it! It’s no secret: I love to discover a great new children’s book. ![]() |