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Release Date:  August 4, 2020 Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 55 minutes Narrator:  Kate Marcin Genre:  Psychological Thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Emily and Elizabeth spent their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drank too much and disappeared for days. The identical twins were rescued by a family determined to be their saviors. But there are some horrors love can’t erase....  Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she’s surrounded by men who talk to themselves and women who pull out their eyebrows. As she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Emily’s death, she discovers shocking secrets and holes in her memory that force her to remember

Release Date:  November 5, 2019 Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3  minutes Narrator:  Susannah Cahalan & Christie Moreau Genre:  Psychology, history Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what  it  is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. Bu

Release Date:  April 8, 2014 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 30 minutes Narrator:  Jennifer Ikeda Genre:  Science Fiction Romance YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Twin sisters Moria and Ashyn were marked at birth to become the Keeper and the Seeker of Edgewood, beginning with their sixteenth birthday. Trained in fighting and in the secret rites of the spirits, they lead an annual trip into the Forest of the Dead. There, the veil between the living world and the beyond is thinnest, and the girls pay respect to the spirits who have passed. But this year, their trip goes dreadfully wrong. With all the heart-stopping romance and action that have made her a #1  New York Times  bestselling author, and set in an unforgettably rich and dangerous world, this first epic book in the Age of Legends trilogy will appeal to Kelley Armstrong's legions of fans around the world and win her many n

Publication Date:  April 15, 2020 Publisher:  Encephalon Format:  Audio  Narrator:  Adam Boyce Length:   12 hours 6 minutes Genre:  Spiritual healing, psychology Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Synopsis: Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo,  Dr. Joe Dispenza  shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse—or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs. Dr. Joe does more than simply explore the h

Foreplayer Kate Meader (Rookie Rebels #4) Publication date: December 29th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance The next Rookie Rebels novel Featuring Mia Wallace, Vadim Petrov’s sister! She’s all grown up and ready to play . . . She’s got game everywhere but the bedroom. Enter the player who knows exactly how to grade her curves . . . After a very public breakup and a viral post that declares him the villain, power forward Cal Foreman is taking a timeout from women and relationships to focus on hockey. When Chicago Rebels captain and old friend, Vadim Petrov, “volunteers” him to help train Vadim’s sister Mia, Cal figures he can do a favor for a pal and get ready for the season with his new team. But the imperious Russian would slice a skate blade through Cal’s internal organs if he knew what lessons Mia really wants. Yeah, not that kind of stickhandling. Hockey phenom and Olympics hopeful Mia Wallace needs help seducing the man of her dreams. That man is most definit

Rhyker’s Key M.C. Solaris (Orion’s Order, #2) Publication date: December 21st 2020 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Rhyker, tattooed bad boy and lethal jaguar shifter, falls for the sweet and caring healer, Keena. Except, she’s determined to keep him in the friend zone… good thing he’s a predator that enjoys the hunt. Together, can they heal their past and forge a future bonded with true love? SECOND BOOK IN THE ORION’S ORDER SERIES Orion’s Order returns in another addictive installment about their secret world of magic and mystery. A world where the most powerful words in the Universe are discovered in the fight against an ancient evil force. KEENA OLIVER I am haunted by my past mistakes. Mistakes that I have no idea how I even made. I am an educated mind and spirit healer after all. So how in the holy healer hell did I end up in a relationship where the male who I thought I loved… Yeah, it’s probably best not to rehash those nightmares. But if I don’t dare open up tha

Publication Date:  January 19, 2021 Publisher:  Del Rey Format:  ebook Pages:   208 Genre:  Magical Realism Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis: The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box.   At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary.   But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake.   The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.   Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house—all the while falling deeper in love?   Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned:   Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s home. Review:  Imagine what it would feel like as a teenager to fin

Blane C.M. Marin (The Chaos Chasers MC, #5) Publication date: TBA Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance BLANE She’s back home. My friend from a time that feels so distant is as beautiful and as kind as she was over five years ago, but her eyes now hold a confidence that didn’t use to shine there. Lana has returned as a fully independent woman sporting something hard that’s masking the pain that I know was etched in by her past. And fuck if she isn’t sexier than I ever remember her being. But after vanishing from my life without any sort of explanation or a goodbye, she’s come back home, and not for just a few nights of pleasure. She’s on a mission. One that has her diving into a world where danger lurks in its every corner. And even though I wish she wouldn’t keep her distance, I also know it might be for the best. Losing someone I care about again isn’t an option. But as more time passes, more worry creeps into my gut. And when Lana allows me to get close to her in a way t

Publication Date:  June 2, 2020 Publisher:  Blake Pierce Format:  Audio  Narrator:  Jane McDowell Length:   7 hours 57 minutes Genre:  Police Procedural, suspense, mystery Buy:   Kindle  |  Audio  |  Synopsis: A serial killer strikes every Halloween - the bodies of his victims resurfacing years later - and with Halloween only days away, it is up to FBI Special Agent Riley Paige to stop the killer before he strikes again. How has this killer gone undetected for so long? How many victims have there really been? And who will he target next? FBI Special Agent Riley Paige must fend off her own demons and her dysfunctional family life as she races against time to enter the mind of a diabolical killer days away from striking again - one who may even be more brilliant than her. Can she stop him in time? Review:  This series started out with a different narrator and I much prefer the

The Breakup Plan Elle Vaughn Publication date: December 15th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Elliot has just made the list of America’s hottest bachelors. A successful business mogul who has made a name for himself in Silicon Valley, Elliot’s life is just about perfect—that is until an incriminating photo of himself appears in a tabloid magazine. If anyone discovers who the other person in the photo is, his career would be ruined. Penny’s life has been anything but charmed. Struggling to make ends meet, she’s determined to make a better life for herself. Desperate to rescue her little brother from the same troubled life she had growing up, Penny will do whatever it takes to make sure he’s safe. Now that she’s starting an internship at a large corporation, she can only hope this is the start of something better. And that’s when an asshole named Elliot Faulkner makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: I think that if my family had died

Cemetery Songs Julie Gilbert Publication date: December 15th 2020 Genres: Young Adult Fiction Poignant and uplifting, Cemetery Songs is a compelling YA about a girl, a ghost, and the graveyard that sends them both on a journey of self-acceptance. When Polly Stone’s birthmother dies, she feels lost and adrift. How do you mourn someone you never knew? Even the dead, whose final thoughts Polly can hear, offer no advice. Instead Polly fails her classes, alienates her friends, gets fired from her summer job, and accidentally sets fire to the high school. At a loss, Polly’s parents ground her and insist she volunteer at the local archives. The dusty boxes are boring, but Polly is intrigued by her assignment: mapping an abandoned Black settlement on the edge of town. At the very least, it gives her time to examine her confused feelings for Billy Meyer, a former classmate who is also blackmailing her. Amid weedy tombstones, Polly and Billy encounter the charming ghost of Harrison C

Release Date:  November 27, 2020 Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 43  minutes Narrator:  Emily Rankin Genre:  Suspense thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  When I arrive unannounced at my husband’s studio in need of a shoulder to cry on after hearing that my best student, Alex, has died, I see a pair of wine glasses drying by the sink and my deepest fear is confirmed: my husband is having an affair. Most women would fall to their knees in tears and throw him out of the house–but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Instead, I go home and cook a healthy dinner for our children, walk the dog and unload the dishwasher without complaint. I will make him see that I’m still the woman he married; attractive, successful, the glue that holds our perfect family together. I need this marriage to work to protect a terrible secret of my own, something that would destroy every

Her Marine Next Door Aliyah Burke Published by: Entangled: Brazen Publication date: December 14th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance My next door neighbor Parker Jax is not my type. He’s covered in tats, rides a motorcycle, and his parties keep me up all night. The fact he’s sexy as sin doesn’t change the fact we are oil and water. I’m a quiet artist. He’s a rowdy marine. I’ve got a broken heart. I’m convinced he doesn’t have a heart at all. Thankfully, my bad-boy neighbor is on leave from the Marines for only thirty days. But then the jerk has to go and show me that he has a soft side beneath all those hard muscles. He actually leaves his own party to help me, and he didn’t even have to. Fantastic. Now I owe him. I’m not worried, though. What are the chances he’ll need me to do anything before the month is up? But when a woman shows up with a kid at her side, knocking on Parker’s door, it turns out those chances are pretty good… Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes &am

Release Date:  July 19, 2016 Publisher:  Highbridge Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 43  minutes Narrator:  Bahni Turpin  Genre:  Suspense thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the impending destruction of their community, each woman - fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves - must confront long-hidden scars. Review: When we think of the Caribbean we think of blue waters, sun and relaxation but for the peo

A Shattering Glimpse Nicole Putter Publication date: December 10th 2020 Genres: Adult, Romance, Thriller The dreams : For years, Claire Baxter has been haunted by ceaseless dreams of an FBI Agent. The dilemma : She has no idea who he is or if he even exists. The death : Right before she’s set to graduate from college, a dream reveals him dying in a brutal explosion. One touch and not-so-normal Portland girl, Claire Baxter, can get a glimpse of your nearby future. She considers nothing about her clairvoyance a gift, it’s a curse, to say the least. Her parents raised her with the rule that she is to keep the secret at all cost, leaving little room for relationships of any kind. As if the burden isn’t enough, FBI agent Byron Black becomes the phantom of a series of sinister dreams. The night before her final college exam, she has another dream, except in this one, he dies in a nuclear explosion. Does he exist? Will she find him? If so, can she save the countless lives affected