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The Last One A.S. Kelly Publication date: July 25th 2022 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Anya O’Donnell, and I’d like to declare myself guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Guilty of what, you ask? Well, for starters, I’m guilty of lying to everyone for years; of pretending when I should have been showing them all who I really was, what I really wanted. I’m guilty of pushing away the only person who wanted to stay, convinced that, one day, he’d have left, anyway. I told him we were a mistake. I told him I was better off without him. I told him that I didn’t love him. And now I miss him. I miss his cups of tea and his stupid cheese crackers. I miss his clothes, strewn about the house. I miss the way he would watch me sleep. I miss his arms, holding me tightly each night, making me feel at home. But now we’re both alone. And I’m scared. I’m scared that he believed everything I told him; that he has no intention of comi

Publication Date:  October 13, 2015 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA Suspense Publisher:  Delacorte Press Length:  370 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis LITTLE SECRETS.  Staying out of trouble isn’t possible for Julep Dupree. She has managed not to get kicked out of her private school, even though everyone knows she’s responsible for taking down a human-trafficking mob boss—and getting St. Agatha’s golden-boy Tyler killed in the process. Running cons holds her guilty conscience at bay, but unfortunately, someone wants Julep to pay for her mistakes . . . with her life.  BIG LIES. Against her better judgment, Julep takes a shady case that requires her to infiltrate a secretive organization that her long-gone mother and the enigmatic blue fairy may be connected to. Her b

  Publication Date:  May 14, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Romantic Comedy Publisher:  Gallery Books  Length:  429 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan

Publication Date:  February 22, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   M/M Romance/ LGBTQ Publisher:  Self-published Length:  379 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis A party game. A dare. A single kiss. That’s all it took to flip my world upside down. I’ve always classified myself as straight, and as far as I can tell, so has he. I didn’t think one kiss would change that, but I was so wrong. Now, I can’t stop thinking about him. In all the ways I shouldn’t. My best friend. Aspen. His taste is branded in my memory, his touch seared in my skin. And I want more. This simmering attraction I feel only grows with passing time. Which is why I start tossing out new dares. Riskier ones that toe lines we never thought we’d cross. I’m gambling with our friendship, knowing it could ruin us. But there’s so much more at stake here. Like my heart. Review

  Publication Date:  June 28, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasty Narrators:  Chloe Cannon/Emma Galvin Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  9 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her investigation, Esther’s tenacious best friend, Ronnie, is determined to find Esther and bring her home. When schoolfriend Lewis tells Ronnie that he saw Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak to the police? And who else is lying about how much they know about what has happened to Esther? Punctuated by a Greek chorus, which gives voice to the remaining children of the small, dying town, this novel explores the tie

Publication Date:  January 18, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fiction, YA  Narrators:  Mhairi Morrison ,  Tim Campbell Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:  9 hours 35 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if

Keeping My Girl Angela Snyder (Keeping What’s Mine, #2) Publication date: July 19th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Nico Vitale The girl I fell in love with was ripped from my arms, never to be heard from again. She was sold to the cruelest man on the planet, Constantine Carbone — my family’s number one enemy. Over the years, I haven’t stopped looking for Selina. And then one fateful night, I finally find her. In a move that will undoubtedly bring war upon my family, I save Selina, killing Constantine’s son in the process. I soon come to realize that Selina is nothing like the girl I once fell in love with, but none of that matters. She’s mine. She’s always been mine. And when her past comes back to haunt her, threatening to steal her away from me again, I vow to do whatever it takes to keep her safe. This time I’m not letting her go. Author’s note: Keeping My Girl is Nico Vitale’s story, and although it is a standalone, it would be better enjoyed after r

  Publication Date:  June 28, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasty Narrators:  Chloe Cannon/Emma Galvin Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  9 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The suburbs, right now . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. The city, back then . . . Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a recko

  Publication Date:  October 21, 2014 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Biography, Justice, law Publisher:  One World  Length:   342 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Just Mercy   is at once an

Publication Date:  October 14, 2014 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA Suspense Publisher:  Delacorte Press Length:  354 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Julep Dupree tells lies. A lot of them. She’s a con artist, a master of disguise, and a sophomore at Chicago’s swanky St. Agatha High, where her father, an old-school grifter with a weakness for the ponies, sends her to so she can learn to mingle with the upper crust. For extra spending money Julep doesn’t rely on her dad—she runs petty scams for her classmates while dodging the dean of students and maintaining an A+ (okay, A-) average. But when she comes home one day to a ransacked apartment and her father gone, Julep’s carefully laid plans for an expenses-paid golden ticket to Yale start to unravel. Even with help from

Publication Date:  October 6, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA Suspense Publisher:  Sourcebooks Fire  Length:  287  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Mira needs to get home for the holidays. Badly. But when an incoming blizzard results in a canceled connecting flight, it looks like she might get stuck at the airport indefinitely. And then Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight, offers her a ride. Harper and her three friends can drop Mira off on their way home. But as they set off, Mira realizes fellow travelers are all total strangers. And every one of them is hiding something. Soon, roads go from slippery to terrifying. People's belongings are mysteriously disappearing. Someone in the car is clearly l

Damaged Doll Jennifer Bene (The Beth Series, #2) Publication date: July 12th 2022 Genres: Adult, Gothic, Romance, Suspense The long-awaited sequel to Breaking Beth is finally here! “I’m too broken for love.” After everything Beth has been through, all she wants is to feel normal. To be normal. But the weight of her past won’t let her go easily. “Wanting her is wrong.” All Jake wants is to be a hero. To save as many as he can from the monsters of this world. But when the monsters come for Beth Doherty… he isn’t thinking like a hero. Ripping her out of her life was bad enough. Wanting her is worse. But resisting her might just be impossible. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: She felt like she was underwater. Floating in emptiness, with no ground to stretch her toes out for, and no air to swim toward. It was endless… but not in a peaceful way. Someone had told her once that drowning was peaceful, that the brain gave a sense of euphoria as the lungs filled up with w

  Publication Date:  May 10, 2022 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Ghost Thriller Publisher:  Flatiron Books  Length:  375  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketch

  Publication Date:  March 17, 2016 Format:  Kindle Genre:    LGBTQ, Romance Publisher:  Independently published Length:  347  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Joss Perrault left Sky, Colorado after high school with no intention of ever returning, but all that changes when she inherits Atramentum. Burned out on public accounting after too many sixteen-hour days, the allure of operating a small, independent bookstore is too tempting to resist, and Joss decides to walk away from the career she spent the last decade building to move back to the resort town high in the Rockies. Cupid strikes as she’s moving into her new place outside Sky and, contrary to popular belief, Cupid has four legs and a tail, hits like a linebacker, and answers to the name George. Befor

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Thriller Narrators:  Hillary Huber/Josephine Hoang Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  11 hours 38 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Set in the upscale DC private school scene, where silence can easily be bought, Aggie Blum Thompson's  All the Dirty Secrets  asks how far you would go to protect your status and your family, and if some secrets should ever be revealed. One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only one of them never came back out of the ocean. The tragedy haunted Liza Gold for years. Now, she's a recently divorced working mom struggling to connect w