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Tale of an Anxious Heart Elsa Jacobs Publication date: June 14th 2023 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense Tale of an Anxious Heart follows the heart-wrenching journey of Marianne, a young woman plagued by anxiety, as she takes a hitchhiker on her way to her beach house. Despite her reservations, she can’t help but feel drawn to his dark and mysterious persona. However, with each encounter, she begins to realize the man isn’t the person she thought he was. As they continue on their journey, Marianne’s anxiety worsens, and she struggles to control it. James becomes a trigger for her panic attacks, yet she can’t seem to let him go. Her anxious heart is torn between her love for him and the need to protect herself from the danger he brings. Their relationship becomes increasingly complicated, and the line between love and hate blurs. And when they start to find peace, their world is turned upside down. As they run for their lives, Marianne and James are pushed to their...

  Publication Date:  May 30, 2023 Format:  E-book Genre:   Fantasy/Action Adventure Publisher:  Ballantine Books Length:   279 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher’s aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an imposs...

Publication Date:  June 6, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Comedy  Narrators:  Tom Papa Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   7 hours 10 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work best in books. And Tom Papa, whose loyal audiences are packed with “date night” couples of all ages, has perfected the form. In  We're All In This Together , Papa’s thirty-seven short essays tackle these universal American topics, among others: –Love for Your First Car (“To Buy or Lease”) –The Truth about Personal Hygiene (“How You Know When It’s Time to Go”) –Date Nights (“Will You Go Out with Me?”) –Unfamiliar Hotel Rooms (“Why Nothing Works”) –Pets (“Cats–Ancient Menace”...

Publication Date:  March 14, 2023 Format:  E-book Genre:   Thriller/Mystery  Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:   376 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others...

Publication Date:  June 6, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror  Narrators:  Andre Santana Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   5 hours 28 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbri...

Publication Date:  May 9, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller  Narrators:  JayAaseng Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   11 hours 50 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been undercover in a deadly motorcycle gang for five years. With his co...

Publication Date:  July 5, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Cozy Mystery Narrators:  Ian Moore Publisher:  Farrago Length:   7 hours 43 min Buy:  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really, that’s the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver when its famous restaurant is downgraded from three Michelin stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock, and the leading goat cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurization tanks. Or does he? Valérie d’Orçay, who staying at the B&B while house-hunting in the area, isn’t convinced that it’s a suicide. Despite his misgivings, Richard is drawn into Valérie’s investigation, and finds...