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Title:   Breakwater Bay: A Novel by Shelley Noble Publisher: William Morrow Format: Paperback Pages: 384 pages Genre: adoption, fiction Synopsis:  Preservationist Meri Hollis loves her latest project, restoring one of Newport’s forgotten Gilded Age mansions. And with summer approaching, she’ll be able to spend more time with her Gran on the Rhode Island shore. She has a great job, a loving family and she’s pretty sure her boyfriend is going to propose on her thirtieth birthday. But everything Meri believes about family, happiness, truth, and love is shattered when her family’s darkest secret is exposed.  Thirty years before, Meri’s neighbor and friend, Alden Corrigan, took his father’s dinghy out to fish. In a sudden storm, he rushed to help a woman stranded on the breakwater. She was just a girl . . . a very pregnant girl who disappeared soon after they reached safety—but not before she left behind a very special gift. Now that the truth it out, life will...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Open to a random page: Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! My Teaser is from  Breakwater Bay: A Novel by Shelley Noble " There was a terrible silence while Everett Simmons stared at Meri and she stared back at him. He glanced down at the photo then back to her, then again to the photo." 

Title:   The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Format: E-book Pages: 416 pages Genre: Horror I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for a fair review.  Synopsis:  Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter -a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by  New York Times  bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith. In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Ke...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Open to a random page: Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! My Teaser is from  The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith " It was someone I knew. Someone I'd been close to. It had to be. What other reason for the theatrics? Why else would he choose to reveal the name to me and not another vampire?"

Title:   The Deadening: Book Three in the Sisters of Spirits Trilogy by Yvonne Heidt Publisher: Bold Stroke Books Format: e-book Pages: 264 pages Genre: LGBT, Supernatural, Romance I received an advanced e-galley of this book through netgalley from the publisher in exchange for a fair review - this book has just been published.  Synopsis: Shade Stewart is a member of the Sisters of Spirits paranormal investigative group and a self-proclaimed necromancer. Renowned for leaving a trail of broken hearts, she walks between darkness and the light, searching to ease the emptiness in her spirit with women and whatever else might ease the pain. After an explosion leaves her in a coma, Shade is trapped in a place between this reality and her nightmares, fighting for her life and her soul. Raven Sanchez, a fiery generational witch, is the newest member of SOS. Instantly attracted to Shade and the power she possesses, Raven pursues her, ignoring the darkness that surround...

Title:   The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Format: E-book Pages: 320 Genre: Mystery, Nordic crime I received this book as an advanced e-copy through netgalley.com from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. Synopsis:  In a forest in Denmark, a ranger discovers the fresh corpse of an unidentified woman. A large scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. After four days, Louise Rick--the new commander of the Missing Persons Department--is still without answers. But when she releases a photo to the media, an older woman phones to say that she recognizes the woman as Lisemette, a child she once cared for in the state mental institution many years ago. Lisemette, like the other children in the institution, was abandoned by her family and branded a "forgotten girl." But Louise soon discovers something more disturbing: Lisemette had a twin, and both girls were issue...

Title:   What Foster Parents Need to Know: Keeping a Journal, Handling Allegations, Adoption Subsidies, and More by James A. Kenny Publisher: Brigittine Press Format: paperback Pages: 64 pages Genre: Foster Parenting Synopsis:  Caring for children damaged by abuse and delay is a tough and often thankless job. What Foster Parents Need to Know is a no-nonsense book by professionals and foster parents about how to navigate the system, deal with problem behavior, and be effective. (3) Review: This is a useful little book filled with a lot of good information. While some of it is redundant, its information that can never be told or talked about too many times. I highly recommend this new little gem if you are considering fostering a child. Information on keeping a journal to help advocate for your foster child, and help fight any allegations, knowing your rights as a foster parent, tips on discipline, and subsidies available for you and your foster child are all tal...

Title :  The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition by Stephen King Publisher: Anchor Format: Kindle Pages: 1213 Genre: Horror Synopsis:  This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. The Stand:  The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new char...