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Dead and Gone Annie Anderson (Grave Talker #2) Publication date: February 23rd 2021 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy There are few things worse than being on the Arcane Bureau of Investigation’s naughty list. To keep myself out of hot water, I’ve made a deal with the devil—using my skills as a grave talker to help the ABI solve some very cold cases. But there is something mighty amiss in this task—especially when quite a few of these cases lead me right back to my home town of Haunted Peak and the secrets buried there. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: “Out less than a minute and already talking to spirits and punching ghosts. Way to go, Adler.” That smooth voice did not belong to my best friend, J. Oh, no. I wasn’t that lucky. The big hunk of man-meat Siobhan had been talking about was not my partner, but the death mage ABI agent who’d simultaneously saved my bacon and torched it. I swung my head to face Bishop La Roux, straightening my shoulders like I was going to have to

  Publication Date:  February 4, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Racism Narrator:  Layla F Saad Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing            Length:  5 hours 19 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the  Me and White Supremacy Workbook .  The updated and expanded  Me and White Supremacy  takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and furt

Skeletons Natalie Rodriguez Publication date: February 26th 2021 Genres: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult When was the last time you confronted the skeletons in your closest? Immediately following book one, “Elephant,” Matthew “Matty” Smith awakens from his coma and discovers that his worst nightmare is all true: his grandmother, Jamie, and Derek have gone missing and his mother murdered his father and grandfather years ago. With the hospital placing him on lockdown, including no visitation rights by his loved ones such as his best friend, Lisa, Matty finds himself deteriorating into a state of the abyss, consumed with the secrets of his family. Convinced that it was the ‘stranger’ who kidnapped his grandmother and friends, no one believes him. The hospital only believes that Matty is slipping into a toxic mental state, repeating the cycle of his family. Until one day, Lisa helps Matty escape the hospital. On the run from Dr. Brown, Officer Barry, and the town of La Cros

Publication Date:  April 3, 2012 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror Narrator:  Dan Butler Publisher:  Blackstone Audio         Length:  11 hours 49 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and shuffling closer ever so slowly.   Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkne

The Awakening Kaylee Johnston (A Guardian of Spirits Novel) Publication date: February 19th 2021 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Not everyone wants magic. In a world where humans hate witches, there’s no one who hates them more than Jameson Tyler – they are the reason his mother and little sister are dead. Then one morning, he wakes to find those he’s hated for his entire life are now his only hope to understanding his new identity, his new life…as a witch. Jameson has to get to the witch’s side of town – a place he’s never been and has loathed his entire life – and give up everything he’s ever known before the Witch Special Forces (WSF) captures him. On top of avoiding the WSF, when his new Headmistress attacks him, things get even more complicated. He must accept his new fate and life before being killed, letting the Magical Community fall into the wrong hands. Can Jameson put his hatred aside or will he let his prejudice destroy them all? Goodreads / Amazon — EXC

Publication Date:  May 2, 2018 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Shamanism Publisher:  Hierophant Publishing  Pages:  204 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis For generation after generation, Toltec shamans have passed down their wisdom through teaching stories. The purpose of these stories is to implant a seed of knowledge in the mind of the listener, where it can ultimately sprout and blossom into a new and better way of life. In  The Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life , Toltec shaman and master storyteller Don Jose Ruiz shares some of the most popular stories from his family's oral tradition and offers corresponding lessons that illustrate the larger ideas within each story. Ruiz begins by explaining that contrary to the stereotyp

  Publication Date:  November 12, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   Police Procedural  Narrator:  David Thorpe  Publisher:  Boldwood Books            Length:  9 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing - no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold. Fifty years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It’s a race against time and the weather – each time it snows another person dies.  As an exhausted and grizzled DI Barton and his team scrabble to put the pieces of the puzzle together, the kill

  Publication Date:  January 28, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Mystery Thriller Narrator:  Richard Armitage Publisher:  WF Howes Ltd          Length:  12 hours 40 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his w

  Publication Date:  September 3, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fantasy/Paranormal Narrator:  Reba Buhr Publisher:  Scholastic Audio            Length:  5 hours 5 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake.... Even more than usual.  She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob) is in Paris, where Cass’s parents are filming their show about the world’s most haunted cities. Sure, it’s fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there’s true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs.  When Cass awakens a frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-developing skills as a ghost hunter - and turn to friends both old and new to help her unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit

Publication Date:  September 15, 2020 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Gothic Fiction Publisher:  Graydon House  Pages:  352 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio  | Paperback Synopsis The dead won’t bother you if you don’t give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby’s gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery. When a series of macabre grave robberies begins to plague the city, Tabby i

Protecting Prince Jessica Frances (In Midsummer, #6) Publication date: February 5th 2021 Genres: Adult, LGBTQ+, Romance One movie star. One bodyguard. One seductive attraction. One deadly obsession. One chance to have it all. One shot to lose it all. Henry: Falling for your bodyguard is so cliché. I cringe at myself sometimes, but then I just have to look at him to understand. How can you not fall for a man like that? Heroic, smart, stubborn, funny, sexy … how could I ever have resisted? Bryan: Falling for your movie star client is incredibly cliché. I have heard of people in my position doing just that and used to scoff at them … but then I got placed as Henry Prince’s bodyguard. Unfortunately, his irresistible charm and undeniably sexy self has claimed me, heart and soul. I have no chance of getting out of this unscathed. Then just as things begin to get red hot, a stalker from the past escapes with the intent to destroy us both. I won’t let anything bad happen to Henry,

  Publication Date:  June 18, 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Ghost Thriller Publisher:  Atria Publisher Pages:  497 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only one searching. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman. Review:  I really lo

The Best Man Alex Kelly (From Connemara With Love #1) Publication date: November 12th 2020 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance I always turn up at just the wrong moment. I never know how to make the most of a situation; I don’t know the right thing to say, or when I should come or go. Let’s just say I have really shit timing. I’m not a smart guy. I don’t have great ideas. I’m practical, a hard worker; someone who lives for his family, and for the air that she breathes. It’s just a shame that the “she” in question never knew this. It’s a shame that I waited all these years to make my move. It’s useless to tell you, readers, that it was already too late; that I’d screwed everything up, once again. And, this time, my mistakes forced her to come home. Except she didn’t want to stay. And now she hates me – or maybe she doesn’t. I still haven’t worked out what’s going on between us, but like I said, I’m not the sharpest tool in the box. And even though this could be my last ch

Publication Date:  April 9, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   self help Narrator:  Russell Brand Publisher:  Macmillan Audio            Length:  3 hours 9 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped  describes the impact that a series of significant people have had on the author - from the wayward youths he tried to emulate growing up in Essex, through the first ex-junkie sage, to the people he turns to today to help him be a better father. It explores how we all - consciously and unconsciously - choose guides, mentors, and heroes throughout our lives and examines the new perspectives they can bring. Review:  Everyone can think back and remember that one teacher or clergy or person in their life that made a difference.  The one who taught you to

Publication Date:  October 20, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrator:  Matthew McConaughey Publisher:  Random House Audio             Length:  6 hours 42 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis I've been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.  Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, s

Stop Me Michelle Jester (Rue the Day Series, #1) Publication date: February 1st 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary After moving to a new city with her parents, Jeselle Parsons quickly found friends and a life full of money, power, and privilege. Even though her parents weren’t wealthy like the other kids’ parents, Jeselle felt lucky to be welcomed into the circle of friends, until she learned how costly that type of life could be. A life that would cost her everything. For fifteen years, Jeselle, with the help of her friend Dennis, worked to ensure nothing would stand in the way of her revenge on the people who played a part in ruining her life. All the years of planning, all the years of working, have all come down to this. Her enemies will learn that revenge has never been so cold. Goodreads / Amazon / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: “What the hell is she wearing?” Dennis said with horror. Jeselle looked up to see Rose and Karli approaching the table. Rose had on a fl

Publication Date:  February 2, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   War, Vietnam War, Mystery Narrator:  Kevin Stillwell Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  13 hours 58 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the wome