![]() ![]() Neither is he a cop, though he’s quicker on the scene than the island’s homicide investigator-“I didn’t know we had a homicide guy,” Bruce allows, since murder is rare in these parts. Enter bookstore owner Bruce Cable, friend, drinking buddy, and sometime editor and adviser of Kerr and other members of Camino Island’s literary crowd, including “an ex-con who’d served time in a federal pen for sins that were still vague.” Cable is perhaps Grisham’s least sympathetic hero he drinks night and day, sleeps around, and has few apparent scruples. ![]() But then, so would others whom Kerr has written about, including money launderers and-well, let’s just say other entrepreneurs who wouldn’t like their activities to be described in any detail. In the wake of a ravaging hurricane, one of them turns up dead-a nice, affable fellow named Nelson Kerr, a former trial lawyer who “ratted out a client, a defense contractor who was illegally selling high-tech military stuff to the Iranians and North Koreans.” It’s not hard to understand that the client might want Kerr dead. ![]() A tempest is bearing down, and murder most foul is afoot in Grisham’s latest whodunit.Ĭall it a metamystery: Grisham, prolific producer of courtroom thrillers, moves the action to a Florida resort island populated by mystery writers. ![]()
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![]() A professional artist since she graduated from The Art Center College of Design in California, Linda Holt Ayriss also holds a BFA from Pacific Lutheran University, WA. Marie and Roland also collaborated on B is for Beaver: An Oregon Alphabet, published in 2003. Roland is the author of many award-winning books for children including Thunder Cave, Sasquatch, Jaguar, Zach's Lie, and The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, which won the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award. ![]() Intriguing facts coupled with beautiful, original artwork make E is for Evergreen an exciting journey.Marie and Roland Smith grew up in Oregon and live on a small farm south of Portland. Readers young and old will be delighted to discover the wonders of Washington State, from its natural beauty (Mount Rainier and evergreen forests), to its famous residents (Jimi Hendrix and Big Foot) and familiar skyline (Seattle's Space Needle). ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Single-parent families |v Juvenile fiction. |a As their mother's manic-depression grows worse, eleven-year-old Esther and her sister Ruth visit various churches hoping to find their father, a preacher named Ezekiel who left them seven years before in 1966. |a A finders-keepers place / |c Ann Haywood Leal. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right. Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start…until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first-her front door is red instead of its usual green, there’s a pre-school where the garden store should be. Order Now: Amazon Kindle | Amazon Hardcover | iBooksĮmily Henry’s stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler’s Wife, and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we’ve left untaken.Related Posts: Read my interview with Emily | See more YA recommendations | Time Travel | 2016 YA Book Trends.With a depth and singularity that makes this novel stand above the rest. ![]() Beautifully complex and wonderfully imaginative ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s your writing process like? Do you have a typical “writing day”? Writing gave me an escape and I’m incredibly lucky that it turned into an actual real life job. ![]() I was frustrated with my life at the time. I write mainly bisexual characters as it gives me a chance to explore and explain what it is to be bi (for me) and crush some of those annoying stereotypes. What or who (or both) has influenced you most as a writer? That’s like asking me to choose between my children. ![]() Out of all your books, which one are you most proud of? ![]() It’s rough and ready and, believe it or not, grittier than anything I’ve written before. I’m working on an MC romance at the moment that will likely be a prequel to a longer series. Around Christmas, you might find some lighter, sweeter stuff from me, but I write the books I like to read, and I live for the pain □ I write angsty, hurt/comfort books most of the time. Tell us a little bit about your writing style. My first book was published in 2013 and I’ve been on this crazy train ever since. I’m a British romance author and cover artist. For this week’s Author Spotlight, I’m joined by the fabulous Garrett Leigh to talk crushing annoying stereotypes, living for angsty hurt comfort, and character arcs!įirst things first, please introduce yourself! ![]() ![]() However, the story itself is somewhat flat, with no real crisis and little plot development. Throw in some cute moments from daughter Charlotte and it's an affirming read about family. As a hot contemporary romance, Rachel Gibson hits the right notes. After being so ceremoniously dumped by Michael, Natalie only wants total commitment, whilst Blake knows no other way but no-strings-attached. The last thing Blake Junger, Natalie's new neighbour, wants is the responsibility of a mother and her child, but Charlotte wants to make friends and Blake can't help but appraise her mother. ![]() ![]() With Michael now imprisoned, Natalie and daughter Charlotte are their own dream team and perfectly capable without a man. But Michael had been keeping secrets and walked out on Natalie to start life with a new girlfriend, with fraud charges hanging over his head. When they finally conceived their first child, after years of fertility issues, it was supposed to cement their relationship even further. High school sweethearts turned husband and wife, Natalie and Michael Cooper, were Truly, Idaho's power couple. ![]() RACHEL GIBSON What I Love About You (2014) ![]() ![]() ![]() Let that not be the case for the young people of Massachusetts, home to Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, and Dorchester Heights.Īmidst those yearning crowds on the streets of Hong Kong are today’s versions of Patrick Henry, John Adams, and Sam Adams, each of whom brought intelligence, oratory, and bravery to such improbable heights as to stimulate a revolution against a global tyrant. ![]() Young Americans, so poorly and so negatively taught about our own nation’s struggle for freedom, will likely fail to see the parallels at work today on the other side of the world. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE - SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST Thousands, nay millions, of Hong Kong citizens have been filling the streets and parks of Hong Kong in admirable resistance to yet another thug-like attempt to stifle their already limited and very much endangered liberties. While you’re at it, curse the corporate cowards of America, who in mad pursuit of their C-suite bonuses, make themselves the immoral lackeys of murderers and tyrants. And curse the totalitarian thugs of China. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Latinas/os shape the process of identity construction. Martinez-Vazquez lays the broader analytical foundation for how the religious experiences of non-Christian U.S. Furthermore, since Latina/o religious experience in the United States up until now has largely assumed Christianity as the de facto religion, Latina/o y Musulman brings a whole new angle to studies in this area. Latina/o Muslims and how it becomes the foundation for the re-construction of their U.S. This book explores the process of conversion of U.S. ![]() Latina/o Muslims construct their identity is not only interesting in itself but also of interest for how they challenge traditional understandings of U.S. As a minority within a minority, the ways in which U.S. It is therefore no surprise that the Latina/o Muslim population is one of the fastest growing communities in the United States. Latinas/os are the fastest growing ""minoritized"" ethnic group in the United States and Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Midnight Club premiered on Netflix on October 7, 2022. ![]() The series stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the eight Midnight Club members, alongside Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan as older adults working at or living near the hospice in addition to their main characters, cast members also portray the ones featured in the "Midnight Club" tales. Although mostly based on the 1994 novel The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike, the series also adapts short stories from "27" other Pike books, featured in the "Midnight Club" tales themselves. The series is set in a hospice and follows eight terminally ill young adults who form "the Midnight Club", meeting up each night to tell each other scary tales it features an overarching story while also frequently depicting those tales on-screen. The Midnight Club is an American horror mystery-thriller streaming television series created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, with Flanagan serving as showrunner, lead writer and executive producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() TL DR: TJ Klune has such a knack for writing books that are cosy and feel like warm hugs while also being able to shatter your feelings, and this book delivered all of that in spades! I had some long and loud laughs but it also tore at my feelings and had me ugly crying for… a good chunk of that ending. ![]() Note: The quotes below are taken from an advanced/unfinished copy and are subject to change in the final version. When the Manager, a curious and powerful being, arrives at the tea shop and gives Wallace one week to cross over, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in seven days.īy turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, this absorbing tale of grief and hope is told with TJ Klune’s signature warmth, humor, and extraordinary empathy. With Hugo’s help he finally starts to learn about all the things he missed in life. Hugo is the tea shop’s owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over.īut Wallace isn’t ready to abandon the life he barely lived. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Light Fantasy ![]() |