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ARC AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Lone Wolf (An Orphan X book #9) by Gregg Hurwitz

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  Publication Date:  February 13, 2024 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller  Narrator:  Scott Block  Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   13 Hours 13 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis This is how  a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them.  This is how  a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated.  This is how  children change...and then change the world.  When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect.  But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He want

ARC BOOK REVIEW: The Fury by Alex Michaelides

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  Publication Date:  January 16, 2024 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Mystery Publisher:  Celadon Books Length:   295 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped the

ARC BOOK REVIEW: The Women by Kristin Hannah

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Publication Date:  February 6, 2024 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   historical fiction Publisher:  St Martins Press Length:   480 Pages Buy:  Kindle  | Audio Synopsis Women can be heroes.  When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destructio

AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: This Is the How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

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Publication Date:  January 17, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   LGBTQ+  Narrator: Gabra Zackman Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   11 Hours 07 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis This is how  a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them.  This is how  a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated.  This is how  children change...and then change the world.  When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect.  But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to brin