![]() ![]() Just the Nicest Couple She's Not SorryĮleven years after the disappearances of new mom Shelby Tebow, doula Meredith Dickey, and Meredith's six-year-old daughter, Delilah, shook their tranquil Chicago suburb, troubling questions linger about just what happened to them in this daringly plotted, emotionally eviscerating psychological thriller from bestseller Kubica (The Other Mrs.). Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica: The Good Girl Pretty Baby Don't You Cry Every Last Lie When the Lights Go Out The Other Mrs. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find…ĭon't miss Mary Kubica's twisty new thriller, Just the Nicest Couple! ![]() Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. People don't just disappear without a trace… ![]() In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried. ![]() "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." -Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark ![]()
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![]() All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe and Now You’re One of Us by Asa Nonami look to be a bit dark, twisted and fun. The rest of my Bookworld order arrived ahead of schedule – two Japanese fiction books I’ve had on my wish list for ages. Thank you – this looks to be a book with a few tangled relationships. ![]() ![]() It was a copy of The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers. The next day, there was a surprise parcel from The Reading Room and Allen and Unwin. Who knows, I might just give it a go for the review… This book has appeared on many shortlists and seems to be inspiring a craze for big sunglasses and scarves. The lovely folk at The Reading Room sent me a copy of Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple. I’m still tangled up! I did receive a few parcels over the last week as well as buying some new books! I also shopped, baked and ate a bit in between deciding to reconfigure my home network. The first week of my break meant I read a little bit (but not as much as I’d expected, sadly). ![]() ![]() ![]() In Colleen Hoover’s standalone novel Hopeless, Sky meets a guy named Dean Holder, who can make Sky feel things she’s never felt before. Will Will fight in order to prove to Layken that their love is eternal, or must they give in to heartache? In Point of Retreat, which is the second novel in Colleen’s Slammed series, Layken and Will may have used their love to overcome the hardships early on in their relationship, but now a secret from Will’s past has been revealed that leaves the couple questioning everything they knew about one another. They soon realize that the only way they can express themselves is through their poetry. After a successful first date, a shocking revelation causes their relationship to falter. In the midst of her helping her family with the pain of loss and grief, she meets a striking 21 year-old fellow poet named Will whose mere presence leaves her flustered. Layken is an 18 year-old girl who has just lost her father unexpectedly. If You Like Colleen Hoover Books, You’ll Love…Ĭolleen Hoover Synopses: Slammed is Colleen’s debut novel and the first in its series. Note: Never Never was written with Tarryn Fisher. ![]() ![]() “You really are a backwoods rube, aren’t you.”Īnd how. Koertig gave Telly a withering look as he took a final drag – right down to the brown filter – and stubbed out the butt. I’ve never heard of a town called ‘Tedford.’”Īssembler…no parents. ![]() It’s an easy trip and my assembler used to like to vacation among the hobgoblins in Telford. “At the very least you should know that Faerie lies just across the Nymph Channel from the Pluribus Union. “The woman who assembled me used to like to vacation in Faerie. The names are so close, I couldn’t help but wonder.” “Well, because my first name is Tedford – that’s where ‘Teddy’ comes from. “Telford? Why in the world would that interest you?” “I…I wanted to ask you about your name – your middle name.” What were the odds of him and this freaky pluriban sharing a name as odd and distinctive as that? He needed an answer. Manfred Koertig’s middle name being “Telford.” Telly found it all too strange and coincidental. ![]() ![]() “So, talk.”Ī question had been gnawing at his for days… this business of Dr. “Well… thanks, I guess.”Īnother plume of blue smoke headed toward the ceiling. ![]() Discourse with you is a pleasant respite from my interchanges with most of Falzon’s collection of troglodytes.” Koertig savored his cigarette, one deliberate drag after another. “But I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, she is not really a girl at all. ![]() The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. My most recent drivers license.records my first name simply as Cal. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who's to say a sci-fi romance about a virgin making her way through an alien jungle with Riddick from Pitch Black can't be good? ![]() ![]() ***Planet X contains the first two chapters of Kindred 19, Uncharted, as a BONUS*** Yet, on a world filled with ravenous telepathic beasts and cannibalistic natives…Krisa discovers that the gorgeous and mysterious Teague may be the most dangerous animal of all. When the ship crashes onto an uncharted jungle planet, Krisa has no choice but to trust the menacing convict with both her virginity and her life. Even so, her heart jumps at the sound of his deep, gravely voice. In the cargo hold, she stumbles across Teague-so fierce a prisoner he’s blindfolded and chained to a wall. Resigned to her destiny, Krisa boards the starship that will take her to another planet and her loveless marriage. His tortured past has turned him into a ruthless killer-an unthinkable fate to the innocent, sheltered Krisa. He is also Feral, a proud and savage people known for their indomitable wills to survive and their fiercely possessive natures. ![]() Kurt Teague is a prisoner-a galactic criminal wanted for multiple murders. Though she secretly longs for just one adventure all on her own, she knows the reality of her life-she is destined to be the wife of the elderly and pompous Lord Radisson. Krisa Elyison is a bride-to-be-bought and paid for by a stuffy aristocrat. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are wonderful pieces of heaven that makes me feel like my soul is getting snuggled.”ĭarren blinked, he had never heard his pastries described quite like that before. “He does feed me, but these,” she pointed to the case. Meryn looked back at her squire a sheepish look on her face, she turned back to him. ![]() He covered the bowl with a damp towel and placed it on the warm stove so the bread would rise. “I’m pretty sure that your squire feeds you Meryn, why do you look so desperate?” Darren wiped his hands and set the bread dough he had been working on to one side. Beside her an equally enraptured little girl licked her lips in anticipation.ĭarren looked up, the tall squire behind them winked and smiled. ![]() Inception begins in the timeframe between books 5 (My Brother’s Keeper) and 6 (My Guardian).ĭarren Williams covered his mouth with his hand to cover a smile as the tiny woman in front of him practically smashed her face against the glass case staring at the shelves of desserts inside. Unedited Excerpt- Under full copyright Alanea Alder 2020 Wander through the years while following one of Lycaonia’s most dedicated unit warriors and discover how the Vanguard came to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nineteen-year-old, Ai-ming has left Beijing after being part of the events in Tiananmen Square. They only have book 17 of numerous volumes and Marie’s mother tells her it’s a story copied out by a ‘refined calligrapher’.Īt the end of the same year, Marie’s mother takes a young woman into their home. Passed down through their family, it tells the story of Da-Wei and May Fourth. She lives in Vancouver, working as a university professor in mathematics, but the story that concerns her now is that of her father and, in particular, events during the creation of The People’s Republic of China and the uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989.Īfter Marie’s father dies, her mother introduces her to the Book of Records. ![]() The narrator who speaks these words has several names – her Chinese name, Jiang Li-ling her English name, Marie Jiang, and Girl, her father’s nickname for her because the Chinese word for daughter and girl is the same. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life.ĭo Not Say We Have Nothing has one of the most arresting openings I’ve read in a while. In a single year, my father left us twice. ![]() |