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Publication Date:  August 9, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrators:  Jeannette McCurdy Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio  Length:  6 hours 50 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing he...

Publication Date:  November 25, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Child Abuse/psychology Narrators:  Helen Naylor Publisher:  Hatchett UK - Thread   Length:  10 hours 15 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis There was a time when I loved my mother. It’s shocking to imply that I stopped loving my mum because mothers always love their children and always do their best for them. Mothers are supposed to be good. But my mother wasn’t good. Ten years ago, Helen Naylor discovered her mother, Elinor, had been faking debilitating illnesses for 30 years. After Elinor’s self-induced death, Helen found her diaries, which Elinor wrote daily for more than 50 years. The diaries reveal not only the inner workings of Elinor’s twist...

Release Date: April 2, 2017 Publisher: Fiction with Meaning LLC Format: Kindle Pages: 504 pages Genre: Horror/Mystery/Thriller Buy: Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis: Seven year old Tony has two choices: to live or to die. Tony Bruno just wants to fit in, but the bullies at his school are cruel and relentless. At home, he leans on his mother Teresa for strength and comfort, but she’s no match for his father, Carmen. His father, a fighter and bully himself, hates Tony. He is embarrassed by the child for not fighting back and wishes that Tony was never born. Then as a teen, in one act of blind courage, Tony fights back shifting the balance of power with his peers. Even after Tony sets things straight with the neighborhood boys, his father continues to terrorize him. At school, Tony is now respected by his classmates. One day he stands up for a bullied kid named, Salvatore, and the boys become friends. One night, Salvatore commits a horrific crime and Tony suffers the cons...

Release Date:  April 9, 2016 Publisher:  Glass Apple Press Format:  Kindle Pages:  538 pages Genre:  Mystery, Fiction, Thriller Buy:   Kindle  |  Synopsis: A Girl’s Worst Nightmare is Her Mother ... Priscilla Martin. She’s the diva of Morning Glory Circle and a driving force in the quaint California town of Snapdragon. Overseer of garage sales and neighborhood Christmas decorations, she is widely admired. But few people know the real woman behind the perfectly coiffed hair and Opium perfume. Family is Forever. And Ever and Ever ... No one escapes Prissy’s watchful eye. No one that is, except her son, who committed suicide many years ago, and her daughter, Claire, who left home more than a decade past and hasn’t spoken to her since. But now, Priscilla’s daughter and son-in-law have fallen on hard times. Expecting their first child, the couple is forced to move back … And Prissy is there to welcome them home with open arms … and to reclaim...

Title:   The Farm by Tom Rob Smith Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing 368 pages Genre: Thriller I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:  If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she's not well , his father tells him.  She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things . She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls:  Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of ...