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Release Date:  May 31, 2016 Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Format:  Kindle Pages:  592 pages Genre:  Mystery, Fiction, Thriller Buy:   Kindle  |  Hardcover  | Audio Synopsis:  On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family.  With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the crash and the backstories of the passengers and crew members--including a Wall Street titan and his wife, a Texan-born party boy just in from London, a young woman questioning her path in life, and a career pilot--the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel,...

Release Date:  May 24 2016 Publisher:  Ballantine Books Format:  Kindle Pages:  624 pages Genre:  fiction, scifi, fantasy, horror Buy:   Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis: The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. Review: I was so excited when I saw that th...

Title:   438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin Publisher: Atria Format: ebook was received from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review Pages: 288 pages Genre: non-fiction Synopsis:  On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea. The storm picked up and blasted him west. When he washed ashore on January 29, 2014, he had arrived in the Marshall Islands, 9,000 miles away—equivalent to traveling from New York to Moscow round trip. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. He considered suicide on multiple occasions—in...

The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers is a haunting tale by a first time author.  After convincing Lulu to let him in the house, Lulu and Merry's father murders their mother, stabs Merry and tries to kill himself the day before Lulu's 11th birthday.  Lulu had run to get help and had escaped the attacks but blames herself for everything that happened.  Merry and her father survive but the repercussions of this horrific act haunt the girls throughout their lives.  Known as the murderers daughters, no one in the family wants to take care of them so they are shuffled from an orphanage to a foster home.  Lulu tries to escape her past burying herself in school and work while still trying to take care of her sister. Merry believes her father needs family and finds herself as his only link to the outside trapped between his neediness and her sisters denial that he exists.   This book is powerful.  I finished it in two days.  I couldn...