MOCKING JAY by Suzanne Collins - The big news around here today is the release of the final book in Collins’s amazing Hunger Games trilogy! This series is gripping, leads to compulsive reading, and causes angst when each book is done and one must wait for the next to come out. Though classified as a [...]
Wow, where has the time gone?! This summer has been incredibly busy! I know this is my first post in about a month, and I apologize for the lapse. But here’s some great new titles from this week and last to get us back into the swing of things (click on an image for more [...]
The New Dead - a Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden.
Like with many anthologies, this collection had some that hit it out of the park and some that were less successful. There were definitely enough good ones to make it worth reading, though I did find myself a bit “zombie’d-out” after a while (I [...]
Summer’s officially here and the new books are heating up! This week’s releases include (click on an image to learn more about a title or to request a book):
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
When I was about a third of the way through this book, someone suggested to me that it was basically a retelling of Thelma and Louise. So then for the rest of the book I couldn’t get that comparison out of my head. And while I did find it reminiscent [...]
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter. In Coulter’s 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller, FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany’s Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately [...]
Books releasing this week (click on a cover to learn more about a title or to request a book):
Mothers & Other Liars by Amy Bourret
This was an advanced copy I picked up at a conference, and I am definitely recommending it for our collection when it comes out in August. It’s full of love, loss, and tough decisions. The story is of a woman and her nine year old daughter, who she found [...]
61 Hours by Lee Child - Jack Reacher is back in his element - Smalltown, U.S.A. - in Child’s 14th thriller to feature the roving ex-military cop. When a tour bus on which he bummed a ride skids off the road and crashes, Reacher finds himself in Bolton, South Dakota, a tiny burg with big [...]
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