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Release Date:   March 1, 2016 Publisher:   Simon & Schuster Format:   ebook Pages:   320 pages Genre:   Mystery Buy:   Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio (Audible)   Review:  In case you were wondering, I didn’t do it. I didn’t have anything to do with Frank’s death. I don’t have an alibi, so you’ll have to take my word for it... Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time. She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive’s eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy―and dangerous―alliance is born. It’s  almost  impossible to live off the grid today, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, ...

Release Date: March 1, 2016 Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: ebook Pages: 248 pages Genre: Adoption Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis: International adoptions have decreased dramatically in the last decade, despite robust evidence of the tremendous benefits that early placement in adoptive families can confer upon children who are not able to remain with birth families. Topics include: the effects of institutionalization on children's developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socio-emotional functioning; the challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines; the strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness; and the methods in which adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which those children can flourish. Review: Rebecca Compton is a mother and psychologist who on her jou...

Release Date:   February 23, 2016 Publisher:   Random House Publishing Format:   ebook Pages:   254 pages Genre:   Romance Buy:   Kindle  Synopsis: Cursed to live forever with neither wife nor child, Ronan Sutherland has watched all he cherishes turn to dust—more than once. For hundreds of years, he's been trapped behind the mists of Loch Ness, hoping to identify the one woman who is prophesied to break the spell. Now, at last, the fates have aligned, and he's being sent into the future to fetch her. After a single glimpse, Ronan knows he's been waiting all his life for this passionate woman. Unlike her time-traveling sisters, Mairi Sinclair is perfectly content to remain in the present. As a hospital nurse in Edinburgh, she cherishes the opportunity to put her gift of healing powers to good use. But everything changes the morning a mysterious wolf darts in front of her car. Touching the wounded creature's tawny coat, a tingle surges through h...

Release Date: March 1, 2016 Publisher: Sourcebooks Format: ebook Pages: 400 pages Genre:   Teens/YA Buy:   Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis:  Jaycee is about to accomplish what her older brother Jake couldn't: live past graduation. Jaycee is dealing with her brother's death the only way she can – by re-creating Jake's daredevil stunts. The ones that got him killed. She's not crazy, okay? She just doesn't have a whole lot of respect for staying alive. Jaycee doesn't expect to have help on her insane quest to remember Jake. But she's joined by a group of unlikely friends – all with their own reasons for completing the dares and their own brand of dysfunction: the uptight, ex-best friend, the heartbroken poet, the slacker with Peter Pan syndrome, and... Mik. He doesn't talk, but somehow still challenges Jayce to do the unthinkable-reveal the parts of herself that she buried with her brother. Review: I couldn't put this book down.  I ...

Release Date: November 2, 2015 Publisher: Smith Publicity Format: ebook (kindle) Pages: 322 pages Genre: fiction Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Philip Rockcastle discovers that an unimaginable crime paved the way for him to become a priest. Now pastor of a neighborhood church, is he doing what he was meant to do or is his life a mistake? He feels responsible when his counseling efforts drive a mentally troubled parishioner to seek validation for fantasies by making a bogus confession to a murder. Troubled, he visits Tara, a divorced mother of two young boys. The visit is innocent. He is not in love with her. He tells himself that frequently. When a mysterious young girl finally tells him her name, Philip is too shocked to believe, too hopeful to discredit. The young girl and Philip's niece scheme to catch the actual murderer, but he catches them. For once in his life, Philip has no time to reflect. He must act. Review:  Not a fa...

Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd Format: E-book (kindle) Pages: 360 pages Genre: Aromatherapy, Health Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: This is an A-Z guide to 60 essential oils that also brings together the combination of flower remedies, gemstones essences, and other vibrational elements that can be incorporated for enhanced healing practice. The beginning chapters outline the history of essential oils and how to use them as well as other elements that can be used in combination with the oils to enhance your practices. These include flower essences, gemstone essences, holy water, divine messengers, chakras, zodiac, planets, numbers, and animals. From there, 60 essential oils are detailed. For each essential oil she includes Name of Oil; Key Phrase; Botanical Name; Note; Common Method of Extraction; Parts Used; Fragrance; Affirmation; Color; Complementary Flower Essences; Complementary Stones; Chakra(s); About the Plant; Che...

Release Date: November 16, 2015 Publisher: Riptide Publishing Format: ebook (kindle) Pages: 278 pages Genre: LGBT/ Sci Fi/ Fantasy/Dystopian Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  In the last surviving cities of a ruined world, the concept of “woman” has been forgotten to history. Those unfortunate enough to lack a Y chromosome live as second-class citizens in a world dominated by mascs. Ember is Y negative. He is scorned, bullied, abused by every masc he encounters, at work and at the gym. Not even his Y negative roommate cuts him any slack. He wants so desperately to be accepted as a masc that he’d rather buy black market testosterone than food. Something’s gotta give—he needs a change in his life, but has no idea how to find it. Jess is a masc with a passion for studying the recovery of their devastated world. His boyfriend is pressuring him for more commitment, and his father expects him to take over the family business. He can’t wait to get awa...

Release Date: February 12, 2016 Publisher: Bookouture Format: Kindle Pages: 359 pages Genre: Mystery Buy:  Kindle Synopsis: Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park,  Detective Erika Foster  is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London. What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding? As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika. The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own p...

Release Date: January 12, 2016 Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases  Format: ebook (kindle) Pages: 72 pages Genre: Mystery/Romance Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio ( Audible) Synopsis: Live or die. Her or Moretti. The time is now. The worst has happened: her mark is on the run. But  Special Agent Lara Grant  has no clues. No destination. Just fear for those she loves and bone-deep belief that he's coming straight for her. But she knows Moretti …just as he knows her. And when the final clue clicks into place, the hunt is on. Lara will do  anything  it takes to catch this evil man who has caused the deaths of countless innocent people. With emotions on a knife edge, Lara is running on instinct, on the desperation of unconditional love. With adrenaline pumping, this is it for Lara…flight is not an option; all she can do is fight  to the end … Part 8 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from  New York Times...

Release Date: February 23, 2016 Publisher: Ballantine Books Format: E-book Pages: 368 pages Genre:   Thriller, Suspence  Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  | Paperback  |  Audio (Audible) Synopsis:  Some secrets never die. They're just locked away. Alex Dale is lost. Destructive habits have cost her a marriage and a journalism career. All she has left is her routine: a morning run until her body aches, then a few hours of forgettable work before the past grabs hold and drags her down. Every day is treading water, every night is drowning. Until Alex discovers Amy Stevenson. Amy Stevenson, who was just another girl from a nearby town until the day she was found after a merciless assault. Amy Stevenson, who has been in a coma for fifteen years, forgotten by the world. Who, unbeknownst to her doctors, remains locked inside her body, conscious but paralyzed, reliving the past. Soon Alex's routine includes visiting hours at the hospital, then ...

Release Date: January 12, 2016 Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases Format: e-book (Kindle) Pages: 74 pages Genre: Mystery/ Romance Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio (Audible) Synopsis:  Keep your friends close. Your enemies closer. And your colleagues? Trust has never been easy for  Special Agent Lara Grant . Life taught her a hard lesson as a child, one she's never forgotten. But now, when the betrayal is so close to home, Lara is pushed to the very limit. As the players finally move into position, it's time to go all in, or go home. It doesn't matter that fear is shaking her very core, it doesn't matter that everything she has…her team, her new family…is on the line. What  does  matter is that there has always been one truth about Lara Grant: when her back's against the wall, she comes out guns blazing. And at last her target is in her sights… Part 7 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from  New York Times...

Release Date: January 12, 2016 Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases Format: e-book (kindle) Pages: 78 pages Genre: Mystery/ Romance Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio (Audible) Synopsis:  A sinister surprise is lying in wait… With her trusted team all focused on getting justice, Special Agent Lara Grant is relieved to finally see some progress, even if their investigation has now turned to delving into some gruesome events from over twenty years ago. An exhumation is necessary to unravel all the knots of this case, but Lara is surprised by how close their quarry is… In fact, he's just one step ahead, almost teasing them by how near he is… Part 6 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from  New York Times  bestselling author Carla Cassidy and authors Tyler Anne Snell, Carol Ericson and Gail Barrett. Review:  Now the team knows who they are looking for but finding them is something entirely different.  It still...

Release Date: January 12, 2016 Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases Format: e-book (kindle) Pages: 77 pages Genre: Mystery/ Romance Buy:   Kindle  |  Audible Synopsis: A mission that will turn this case on its head… With a sting set for a downtown bar,  Special Agent Lara Grant  and her team are on high alert to snare the most dangerous man in Manhattan. No one tears their team apart and gets away with it! Their aim: to get the perp's DNA from his shot glass… Mission accomplished, but each step forward in the case takes them two steps back into Lara's past—this time, to the years before her undercover assignment, and a family torn apart by a brutal murder. But Lara knows she can focus only on the present. Because when the DNA results come through, they shock the team and rock the very foundations of the case… Part 5 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from  New York Times  bestselling author Carla Cassidy...