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Release Date:  September 18, 2018 Publisher:  Sourcebooks Landmark Format:  ebook Pages:  448 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  How do you stop a murder that’s already happened? The Hardcastle family is hosting a masquerade at their home, and their daughter Evelyn Hardcastle will die. She will die everyday until Aiden Bishop is able identify her killer and break the cycle.  But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up each day in a different body as one of the guests. Aiden’s only escape is to solve Evelyn Hardcastle’s murder and conquer the shadows of an enemy he struggles to even comprehend. But nothing and no one are quite what they seem.  Review: This book is the most unique book I've read since the Time Travelers Wife. Aiden Bishop is trapped in a loop trying to figure out who killed Evelyn Hardcastle. Only he isn't the only one trying to sol...

Release Date:  February 6, 2018 Publisher:  Thomas Nelson Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 4 minutes Narrator:  Rachel Hollis Genre:  Personal Growth Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don't have a clue? If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you:  That's a lie . As the founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis developed an immense online community by sharing tips for better living while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own life. Now, in this challenging and inspiring new book, Rachel exposes the 20 lies and misconceptions that too often hold us back from living joyfully and productively, lies we've told ourselves so often we don't even hear them anymore. With painful honesty and fearless humor, Rachel unpacks and examines the falsehoods that once left her feeling overwhelmed a...

Release Date:  January 17, 2017 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:  369 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can —He will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and...

Release Date:  December 22, 2014 Publisher:  Little Black Cat Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 16 minutes Narrator:  Angela Dawe Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Grad student and cocktail waitress Evelyn Merkholtz has plenty to deal with. Too much to deal with. So, when her runaway best friend calls with a mysterious and urgent request to join her in Scotland, she is secretly more than happy to drop everything and oblige. She's faced with an ancient curse, an adorably hunky villager, and a super hot (but possibly murderous), Highland warrior from the 18th century - and realizes that getting burned at the stake is a really bad way to get out of writing her thesis. Review: I had high hopes for this book but it left me wanting.  It felt like a 2nd rate version of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. The chemistry between Evelyn and the Scottish hottie was barely there, in fact I couldn't figure out who he ...

Release Date:  September 12, 2017 Publisher:  Random House Studios Format:  Audio Length:  15 hours 28 minutes Narrator:  Toni Morrison Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. Review: I've tried to read this book once before and struggled with the dense prose. I decided to try the audio version of this book to see if it helped but I still struggled to focus and stay involved with ...

Release Date:  August 7, 2012 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 40 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/ Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Turned into a vampire against her will, 28-year-old Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicago's vampire underground, where she learned there was more to supernaturals than met the eye - and more supernaturals than the public ever imagined. And not all the secrets she learned were for sharing - among humans or inhumans. Now Merit is on the hunt, charging across the stark American Midwest, tailing a rogue supernatural intent on stealing an ancient artifact that could unleash catastrophic evil on the world. But Merit is also the prey. An enemy of Chicagoland is hunting her, and he'll stop at nothing to get the book for himself. No mercy allowed. No rules apply. No lives spared. The race is on. Review: This is not a stand a...

Release Date:  November 2, 2011 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 18 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/ Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and Merit the vampire can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn, or the calm before the storm. With the city itself in turmoil over paranormals and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times have never been more precarious for the vampires. If only they could lay low for a bit... Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. The mayor insists it's nothing to worry about, but Merit knows a panic is coming. She'll have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind this, and stop them before it's too late for both the vampires and humans. Review: Nothing can be calm for long in the city of Chicago and while Merit is still reeling f...

Release Date:  August 22, 2018 Publisher:  Thomas & Mercer Format:  ebook Pages:  300 pages Genre:   True Crime Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  There’s only so long you can run for your life. Eva Driscoll is used to chasing down bad guys, but now the bad guys are chasing her. She knows they won’t stop until she’s dead. After her brother is killed in a faked suicide, Driscoll teams up with ex-soldier Rees Colback, the one person who can help her find answers. Together they’re determined to uncover why members of his Special Forces squad are dying in mysterious circumstances. But with every agency in the country in hot pursuit, their only choice is to flee. The clock is ticking. They can’t run forever. It’s time to make a choice: kill or be killed… Review: I believe this is the first in a series about Eva Driscoll.  Eva is a CIA operative who gets called in to take people down....

Release Date:  August 28, 2015 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 59 minutes Narrator:  Iggy Toma Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Sometimes, life requires a partner. Ed Maurer has bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semi-pro football career. He hates his soul-killing office job, but he loves volunteering at a local community center. The only fly in his ointment is the dance instructor, Laurie Parker, who can't seem to stay out of his way. Laurie was once one of the most celebrated ballet dancers in the world, but now he volunteers at Halcyon Center to avoid his society mother's machinations. It would be a perfect escape, except for the oaf of a football player cutting him glares from across the room. When Laurie has a ballroom dancing emergency and Ed stands in as his partner, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. Da...

Release Date:  May 13, 2011 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 25 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Holloway Genre:  Romance/Fantasy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals - and they're camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan, are tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else. Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn't help that she can't tell who's on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who's...

Release Date:  July 14, 2017 Publisher:  Blackstone Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Steven Weber Genre:  Crime/history Buy:   Kindle  Synopsis:  A heinous history of America: Six short stories exploring the dark heart of US history, true-crime master Harold Schechter reveals six sensational but nearly forgotten acts of carnage and bloodlust that shocked the nation. From a diabolical Kansas family down the road from Laura Ingalls Wilder to an Elvis-inspired “rebel” to the country’s first mass shooter, these chilling criminals dominated the headlines—and nightmares—of their day. Review: Each is a short book or hour or so audio.  I listened to the stories as each of the kindle versions come with audio.  So if you are a kindle unlimited member you will be able to read or listen to each of these for free. Each book is dark and fact filled story about several little known sensational acts of violen...

Release Date:  April 17, 2017 Publisher:  MLR Press Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 42 minutes Narrator:  Joel Leslie Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  On his way home from a meeting of the North American werewolf council, Armand La Marche is stopped in his limousine by a boy who is hurt by an unknown assailant who murdered his friend. After decades of searching, Armand has found his mate. There is one problem, someone is trying to kill Sean. Sean Quinn's friend Leroy was gutted trying to protect him. He runs for help and stops the first car he sees. Armand LaMarche is head Alpha of the North American werewolf council and was in his limousine on his way home to his Manhattan brownstone. When the wounded boy stops his car, Armand recognizes two things:the boy is part wolf, an Omega with a great gift, and he's Armand's mate. Now all Armand has to do is claim his mate and keep him safe from the murderer....