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Release Date: March 1, 2017 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Format: Kindle Pages: 400 pages Genre: YA , sci fi/ fantasy Buy: Kindle | Hardcover   Synopsis:  In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price... When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training. In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha-one who can wield elemental magic. But dark forces are approaching quickly, and in the face of danger, Tea will have to overcome her obstacles...and make a powerful choice. Review: I really wasn't sure what to expect from this book but I was drawn in imme...

Release Date: January 21, 2015 Publisher: Angela Hunt Communications Inc Format: Audible Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Narrator: Becky Doughty Buy: Audio | Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis: Megan and Dave Wingfield want nothing more than to be parents--to welcome a child of their own. When they aren't able to conceive after two years of trying, they decide to adopt and find that journey is also fraught with mishaps and the potential for broken hearts. Can Megan learn to trust God with the desires of her heart? Review:  The narrator was a bit distracting - her pacing was a bit strange and her voice, though she tried to change it for each character seemed almost robotic and lacking in emotion. I felt like I was listening to Hal from 2001 a space Odyssey read a book.  I think I would recommend reading this on kindle or paperback instead of listening to the audio since the narration is so distracting. Since I am not a very religious person and was not raised in th...

Release Date: April 4, 2017 Publisher: Workman Publishing Group Format: Kindle Pages: 232 pages Genre: yoga - Health - Mind - Body Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: It’s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It’s a book for readers already doing yoga, looking to refresh their practice or find new ways to stay motivated. It’s a how-to book: Here are easy-to-follow directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home, all photographed in full color. It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. Review: Jessamyn is an inspiration to everyone who doesn't look like the typical yogi.  Yoga is for everyone but in most studios you find the same smaller framed women and not many women of color. Jessamyn shows that you don't have to be skinny or white to find your peace on the mat.  Yoga is about YOUR e...

Release Date: January 31, 2017 Publisher: MacMillan Audio Format: Audible Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Narrator: Rebecca Soler Genre: YA Buy: Audible | Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis:  Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful - and cruel - father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year Scarlett's long dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval's mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she ...

Release Date: March 7, 2017 Publisher: Crown Publishing Format : Kindle Pages: 288 pages Genre: Mystery Buy: kindle | Hardcover  Synopsis:  After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away. Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not b...

Release date: May 10, 2006 Publisher: Hay House Format: Audible Length: 45 Minutes Narrator: Louise Hay Buy: Audio Synopsis: On this audio program, best-selling author and lecturer, Louise L. Hay, helps you overcome fears through the positive strength of mediation and affirmations. By listening, you can change your negative thought patterns into healthy, positive ones. Louise's meditation visualizes a world where it's safe to grow and love each other without fear. She stresses the importance of loving your inner child, and her vision of the world as a secure, loving place will help give you the confidence and power to make your own contribution to a productive and caring society. Review: There are two meditation in this audio book.  The first is a beautiful guided meditation to help heal your inner child and let go of fear.  It is a way to imagine a better world and a more peaceful planet. Great way to relax and let go of stress. Combined with long slow d...

Release Date: May 16, 2013 Publisher: Hachette Audio Format: Audible Length: 15 hours 54 minutes Narrator: Robert Glenister Genre: Mystery Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known t...

Release Date: March 14, 2017 Publisher: Penguin Group Format: Kindle Pages: 368 pages Genre: Crime / Mystery Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis: They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train through the northern Rocky Mountains and, with little local interest, put into a dead file. But she was not alone. When Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime force stumble upon the case, they discover a horror far greater than anyone expected—a string of murders on the High Line, all of them young women drifters whom no one would notice. But someone has noticed now. Through the bleak midwinter and a frontier land of forbidding geography, Stevens and Windermere follow a frustratingly light trail of clues—and where it ends, even they will ...

Release Date: April 4, 2017 Publisher: Chronicle Books Format: Kindle Pages: 336 pages Genre: LGBT YA Buy: Hardcover Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Delilah Green wouldn't have chosen to do her last year of school this way, but she figures it's working fine. While her dad goes on a trip to fix his broken heart after her mom left him for another man, Del manages the family cafe. Easy, she thinks. But what about homework? Or the nasty posse of mean girls making her life hell? Or her best friend who won't stop guilt-tripping her? Or her other best friend who might go to jail for love if Del doesn't do something? But really, who cares about any of that when all Del can think about is beautiful Rosa who dances every night across the street. . . . Until one day Rosa comes in the cafe door. And if Rosa starts thinking about Del, too, then how in the name of caramel milkshakes will Del get the rest of it together? Review: Originally published in Australia as The F...

Release Date: February 20, 2017 Publisher: Canelo Format: Kindle Pages: 363 pages Genre: Mystery / Thriller Buy: Kindle  Synopsis: Saul Marshall  is on the run.  As a wave of seemingly random assassinations engulfs California, Marshall finds himself drawn into a situation spiraling out of control. He soon discovers some of the webs’ most secure protocols have been compromised by a rogue team of former Chinese agents. When Marshall realizes what they plan, the stakes are raised… And that’s before the Secretary of State gets involved. Can Marshall unravel the deceit and tricks before it’s too late? Can he stop the carnage, or will he become part of it? One thing is for certain: either way his enemies will never forget. Review: Richard Davis got it right from the start on this one.  This book immediately hooked me from the beginning this book is a race to the finish.  Filled with political intrigue and cyber security Never Forget takes you down t...