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Release Date:  May 8, 2018 Publisher:  Tiny Fox Press Format:  ebook Pages:  294 pages Genre:   YA/Substance Abuse Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback   Synopsis: Eli had everything until one party took it all away... ...until an overdose at a party takes it all away. After nearly dying in the ER, Eli agrees to go to LakeShore Recovery Center, an inpatient substance abuse treatment program where he’ll spend the next 28 days. It's there that Eli meets Libby, the sharp-edged artist, whose freshly tattooed scars mirror the emotional scars Eli tries his best to ignore. Eli soon learns that if he's to have any chance at a future, he'll first have to confront his past. Review:  In the midst of the United States opiate epidemic this is a timely read. Eli has everything, goes to a private school, is captain of the lacrosse team, has a beautiful girlfriend but he also has a heroin addiction. Eli doesn't believe he has a problem he th...

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Release Date: December 16, 1999 Publisher:  New World Library Format:  Audio Length:  1 hours 26 minutes Narrator:  Deepak Chopra Genre: new age spirituality Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Looking for a practical guide to the fulfillment of your dreams? Based on natural laws which govern all of creation, this audio shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In  The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success , Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into 7 simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life. Review: Quick read which is a good thing since this is one. you may want or need to read over and over. Deepak Chopra gives you 7 things that he refers to as laws that if you practice will help you live a more fulfilling life. Letting go of ego and realizing that you have infinite potential.  Through meditati...

Release Date:  March 26, 2019 Publisher:  Park Row Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback   Synopsis: Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people—though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she’s invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend—her grandmother Zelda—who died under mysterious circumstances years earlier. When Martha discovers a clue within the book that her grandmother may still be alive, she becomes determined to discover the truth. As she delves deeper into Zelda’s past, she unwittingly reveals a family secret that will change her life forever. Review:  I really loved this book. Martha Storm lost herself somewhere along the path of...

Release Date:  March 12, 2019 Publisher:  Mulholland Books Format:  ebook Pages:  320 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Even as her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, FBI Agent Elsa Myers can't ignore a call for help. A teenage girl has disappeared from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads obscures the fact that she did not go willingly. As the hours tick by, the hunt for the girl deepens into a search for a man--who may have been killing for years. Elsa's carefully compartmentalized world begins to collapse around her. She can find missing people, but she knows too well how it feels to be lost. Everything she has buried--her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother's death--threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences. Review:  This is the first book in the serie...

Release Date:  August 9, 2018 Publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Format:  ebook Pages: 306 pages Genre:   YA Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis: For Mary Sofia, The Penultimate writing competition is more than a chance at a free college education; she wants to show her younger siblings that they can all rise above their violent family history. For Raiden, the pressure to succeed comes from within, although he knows that family traditions play a part in his determination. For Camara, writing fiction is almost compulsive, but her own dark secret may be the best story she can ever tell. For Michael, swimming and writing fit his introverted personality perfectly, but meeting a smart and beautiful girl at The Penultimate makes stepping outside of his comfort zone easy. All four will compete against each other along with 96 other high school juniors for the chance of a lifetime: a full scholarship to a prestigious private college. S...

Release Date:  May 20, 2014 Publisher:  Hatchette Audio Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 48 minutes Narrator:  John Lee Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland. The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough - an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside - for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to the public as a museum. He and his wife, daughter, and son will move from the luxury of the big house to a dank, small caretaker's cottage. The upheaval strains the already tenuous threads that bind the family and, when a tragic accident befalls them, long-simmering resentments and unanswered yearnings surface. As each character is given a turn to speak, their voices tell a complicated, fascinating story about wha...

Release Date:  June 13, 2017 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours Narrator:  Madeleine Maby Genre:  Fiction/Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis:  When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this “intriguingly dark, twisty” ( Kirkus Reviews ) debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and bo...

Release Date:  March 12, 2019 Publisher:  Grove Press Format:  ebook Pages:  256 pages Genre:   Fiction Buy:  Kindle | Hardcover   Synopsis: The Club  is a blistering, timely, and gripping novel set at Cambridge University, centering around an all-male dining club for the most privileged and wealthy young men at Cambridge and following an outsider who exposes the dark secrets of this group, the Pitt Club. As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptible. A visit from Hans’s ailing English aunt Alex, who comes to stay for an entire summer, has a profound effect on the young Hans, all the more so when she invites him to come to university at Cambridge, where she teaches art history. Alex will ensure his application to St. John’s College is accepted, but in return he must help her investigate an elite university club of young aristocrats a...

Release Date:  March 12, 2019 Publisher:  Loveswept Format:  ebook Pages:  336 pages Genre:   Romance Buy:  Kindle   Synopsis: When life gives you curves, you gotta learn how to rock them. Successful businesswoman Avery Barrows likes her dips and curves, but she’s sick of the haters telling her that she should be ashamed of her body instead of embracing it. Determined to send them a big f*** you, Avery resolves to cut loose during a girls’ trip, hightailing her quick-mouthed, plus-sized self to New Orleans. So, what’s a smart woman with a little extra gotta do to get laid in this town? Not much if you ask Declan McGinn, the lead singer of BlackSmith. Tall, dark, and tattooed, with a body made for sin, Declan prefers his women as curvy as his guitars. Avery’s sharp tongue and keen mind makes him want her even more. As they burn up the sheets, Avery and Declan realize this is no one-night (or even one-week) stand. But for all of her bluster,...

Release Date:  February 6, 2018 Publisher:  Recorded books Format:  Audio Length:  16 hours 10 minutes Narrator:  Edoardo Ballerini Genre: Biographical  Literary Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  My Struggle: Book 1  introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues—death, love, art, fear—and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived,  My Struggle  is an essential work of contemporary literature. Review: There has been a lot said about the title of this book since it translates to Min Kamp which turns many people away but after reading the firs...

Release Date:  February 6, 2018 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre: Mystery/thriller, police procedural Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Casey Duncan is about to face her toughest job as police detective in Rockton yet. When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. She certainly didn’t expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss. But the very last thing she expected was for the council to drop a dangerous criminal into their midst without a plan to keep him imprisoned, and to keep others safe. Of course Oliver Brady claims he's being set up. But the longer Brady stays...

Release Date:  March 26, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 16 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction, romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  A devastating hurricane brings insurance investigator Ashley Walker back to Provincetown, the last place she wants to be. Not only must she deal with the dangerous consequences of the natural disaster, she has to fight her soul-shattering need for the woman she left behind. While Reese Conlon and Tory King deal with the challenges of a community in turmoil, a new threat emerges that proves to be even more deadly than the ravaging storm. A silent killer stalks the night, drawing ever closer to the one woman he believes to be his. Soon, no woman is safe, including Tory. Review: Allie has been playing the field so much in these books I was wondering if she would ever have a time to shine but in comes Ashley Walker.  As we fin...

Release Date:  April 23, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 38 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction, romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The lives of two women and the community that shelters them shatter in a single night of violence. Ex-gang member Mica Butler is running from a past that just may kill her if she's ever caught. Paramedic and ordained priest Flynn Edwards struggles to recover her faith in herself and find absolution for her greatest failure. Sheriff Reese Conlon fights to embrace the joy of new life while a dark threat bears down on her partner, Doctor Tory King.In one explosive night, the destines of all involved change forever as a man with nothing to lose threatens to take anyone in his path with him to the grave. Review: I'm really sad that this is the last book in this series and it just didn't live up to the others. Mica is a gang mem...

Release Date:  February 26, 2019 Publisher:  Mulholland Books Format:  ebook Pages:  320 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thriller/police procedural Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and his Russian grandparents. He has two legacies from his absent father, Mo: his weird name and his brown skin. Crisp has always been the odd kid out, but a fundamentally  good  kid, with a bright future. But one impulsive decision triggers a horrible domino effect—an arrest, no reason  not  to accompany his richer, whiter friend Glynnie on a visit to her weed dealer, and a trip onto his father's old home turf where he'll face certain choices he's always striven to avoid. As Detective Lex Cole tries to unravel the clues from Crisp's night out, they both find that what you don't know about your past can still come back to haunt you. R...