![]() ![]() ![]() He had deep wrinkles carved into his face, like the cracked hardwood floor he insisted I sit on cross-legged and shoeless. You know how they say people look like their dogs? I think therapists look like their offices, and a therapist’s office can tell you a lot. Oddly enough, it started with her office. “It’s not terrific that you’re lonely,” she clarifies, shattering the caramel between her teeth. “I don’t know if I’d consider it terrific.” ![]() She pops the candy into her mouth, smiling. Hazel pauses from unwrapping her caramel hard candy to offer her full attention. But still, it’s going to be strange admitting this out loud for the first time. Hazel (she’s heard it all by now), and nothing matters anymore anyway. I’M ABOUT TO TELL MY therapist something that I’ve never told anyone before. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But in this state she’s fragile-like TNT. She’s strong, fierce, and can take care of herself. ![]() Now, she has left her promiscuous lifestyle behind her and made a better name for herself. Magnolia, first seen in the Mount Trilogy, had a hard childhood and was forced to survive the only way she could. When Moses returns to win Magnolia back, she doesn’t realize just how much her life is about to change.Ĭreole Kingpin is the fast-paced, entertaining start to the Magnolia Duet full of mystery, murder, and mayhem, and I couldn’t put it down. Magnolia’s heart was broken fifteen years earlier when the man she loved walked away and never looked back. This ghost is ready for whatever you got.Īfter all, there’s only one way I want this to end-’til death do us part. And knowing her, she’s completely up to the task.īut I’m a man on a mission, and I’ve got everything riding on this. We’ve already got fifteen of those between us.Īs it stands, she’ll want to kill me as soon as she lays eyes on me. ![]() That’s exactly what I am, but I can’t stay away from Magnolia Marie Maison for one more day, let alone another year. The thing about ghosts is they’re supposed to stay dead. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Meghan March goes back to New Orleans and the world of Lachlan Mount with a dangerous and bold new anti-hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Graham family series explores the lives of three siblings, Georgia, her twin brother Rome, and older sister Celia. For Georgia, though, letting go could mean getting burned. When the girl next door meets Britain's bad boy, sparks will fly. His agent wants him to star in a travel show with one of her other clients whose star is on the rise. In order to get his career back on track, he needs to restore his reputation. The situation sends him into a downward spiral of drinking and partying. 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Inside Sophie Habboo and Jamie Laing's wedding rehearsal as bride-to-be stuns in white dress at lavish venue in Spain ![]() ![]() ![]() The shocking blowback arrived in the Hammett Award-winning The Nearest Exit when the Department of Tourism was almost completely wiped out as the result of an even more insidious plot. ![]() In the bestseller The Tourist, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highest reaches of the American intelligence community, including his own Department of Tourism-the most clandestine department in the Company. The Washington Post With An American Spy, Steinhauer delivers a searing international thriller that will settle once and for all who is pulling the strings and who is being played. Book Synopsis Olen Steinhauers Milo Weaver novels are must-reads for lovers of the genre. ![]() ![]() We’re not going to give any spoilers, but let’s just say that we DID NOT guess NS: Speaking of Out of the Ashes, we were lucky enough to pick an early copy up. In all that time, I never got Sam out of my head, and I knew that the only thing standing in my way of finishing the story was my own fears that I wouldn’t be very good at writing for adults. In 2020, after I turned in a final draft of my YA novel That Weekend, I decided to use my extra time at home during the pandemic lockdown to focus on finally finishing a draft of Out of the Ashes. ![]() I kept coming back to the idea, but I just never had time to dedicate to the story because I was contracted to write more YA novels. ![]() KT: I started the first draft of Out of the Ashes eight years ago, after I sold my YA novel The Darkest Corners. What made you decide to delve into adultĬrime fiction with your newest novel Out of the Ashes? ![]() NS: You’ve historically written YA thrillers. ![]() ![]() Reading them, I also recall my father writing them. I have memories of these poems beyond the events they contain. The poems about his painful childhood and my idyllic one are mixed together, their ragged notebook edges entangled. Whenever I reach inside and pull out a poem at random, my father’s past and presence fill the room. I feel the tension in my arms when I lift the suitcase I feel the weight of my father’s devotion. I have hauled these poems to Colorado, back to Idaho, then to Oregon. They removed stacks of poems and placed the suitcase back on the scale it until it was the exactly correct amount. My parents are frugal people I was leaving by plane, so they made sure it did not exceed the weight limit allowed for a free checked bag. I estimate there are over 4,000 in that suitcase, but he’s written many more. ![]() Fifty pounds of poems, to be exact, most of them handwritten on loose-leaf paper, the only existing copies. A few years ago, at my request, my father gave me a suitcase full of poems. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lydia knows there is more to it, that her friendship with a courtly older man who has become her favorite customer at the small bookstore she runs is a secret key, and that she and her son are marked for death. Lydia’s husband, Sebastián, is among the dead he was a fearless journalist whose coverage of the local cartel, Los Jardineros, is the reason los sicarios were sent, as the sign fastened to his dead chest makes clear. She knows they must escape, fast and far. The only survivors are Lydia, a young mother, and her 8-year-old son, Luca. In a pleasant Acapulco neighborhood, gunmen slaughter 16 people at a family barbecue, from a grandmother to the girl whose quinceañera they are celebrating. border-and a testimony to the courage it takes to do it.Ĭummins ( The Crooked Branch, 2013, etc.) opens this propulsive novel with a massacre. This terrifying and tender novel is a blunt answer to the question of why immigrants from Latin America cross the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. Jennifer Egan’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. ![]() ![]() (NOT to be used for introductions, please!) ![]() ![]() Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism (TPGA): On The Edge of Gone’s main character isĭenise, a Dutch autistic teen girl trying to survive what very well may be theĮnd of the world. Reads “On The Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis.”] ![]() ![]() [image description: Book Cover: Teen girl with herīack to the camera, in front of an urban landscape Today we’re interviewing autistic author Corinne Duyvis about her new science fiction novel On The Edge of Gone, in which a biracial, autistic, cat-loving teen girl is forced to fight for the accommodations she needs during a post-comet strike apocalypse - and if she’s going to make it on one of the spaceships that may be humanity’s only hopes for survival. ![]() TPGA is observing Autism Acceptance Month by featuring accounts from autistic people about the differences accommodations (or lack thereof) make in their lives. ![]() |