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"You know how people start to look a lot like their dogs? Well, professors start to look a lot like their subjects." Professor Anne Corey normally looks forward to starting the new academic year, but this year is different. She's been desperately trying to find a publisher for her book so she can keep her… Continue reading By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
He had vowed to her that he would carve out a different path from those materialistic industrialists and society folk, and he would keep that vow, even though she was gone. Clara Kelley is in America as a source of income to help her family in Ireland. Expecting to work in the textile mills or… Continue reading Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
BLURB A man has been stabbed. A woman is bloodstained. The nightmares from her teenage years have begun again for Olivia Field – just as she is preparing to marry. Ex-convict, Tina is terminally ill. Before she dies, the care of her younger, psychologically unwell brother, Wayne must be ensured. So Tina calls in a… Continue reading The Promise by Sally Jenkins
But here we are, day in, day out with our patients, their families; we see it all. Nurses are like hospital furniture. Everyone else constantly moves, the Ists get promoted, patients go home or die but we stay, steadfast, waiting to be sat on, leant on, perhaps kicked about a bit. Alice is a compassionate… Continue reading If You Knew Her by Emily Elgar
BLURB Rachel’s dead and she’s never coming back. Or is she? As she prepares for her wedding to Dominic, Catherine has never been happier or more excited about her future. But when she receives an anonymous package—a familiar snow globe with a very grisly addition—that happiness is abruptly threatened by secrets from her past. Her… Continue reading Forget Her Name by Jane Holland
Grandpa used to be the one to make demands of me. Now he’s almost completely gone. His brain is, anyway. His body’s as strong as the day he stormed the beach at Normandy. Maybe stronger. Gabe LoScuda is no ordinary 18-year-old. After his parents die in a car accident, he's the caretaker of his eighty-year-old grandfather… Continue reading No Sad Songs by Frank Morelli
BLURB The only thing worth killing for is family. Everyone said she had her father’s eyes. A killer’s eyes. Nadia knew that on the bitterly cold streets of Moscow, she could never escape her past – but in just a few days, she would finally be free. Bound to work for Kadinsky for five years, she has one… Continue reading 66 Metres (The Nadia Diving Thrillers #1) by J. F. Kirwan
"Please don’t recognize me, she silently prayed. Even now, nearly thirty years later, her gut clenched when she met new people, especially law enforcement. It was stupid. The odds of someone recognizing her now were slim but every time the panic was real." FBI Special Agent Jessica "Jess" Bishop has a secret which has held… Continue reading Forget Me Not (Detective Jess Bishop #1) by Kierney Scott
ABOUT THE BOOK What started out as a night of celebration for Aimee soon turned into a nightmare. Snatched by cruel, sadistic monsters - the worst creatures mankind has ever produced - she’s thrown into a metal container, among other victims too frightened to make a single sound. The game-keepers force everyone to play. They… Continue reading No Ordinary Girl by Cheryl Elaine
"When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the… Continue reading Two Girls Down (Alice Vega #1) by Louisa Luna
It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Forty-year-old air stewardess, Emily Forsyth, thought she had everything a woman could wish for: a glamorous, jet-set lifestyle, a designer wardrobe and a dishy pilot boyfriend. Until he breaks up with her... Catapulted into a mid-life crisis she wishes she’d had earlier, she decides to turn her… Continue reading The Start of Something Wonderful by Jane Lambert
Made to Break Your Heart is a family saga, set in a gossipy suburb, that explores the complexities of raising a child, holding a marriage together, and maintaining your sanity in the cutthroat world of Little League baseball. It’s 2008, and Nick Marhoffer is a stressed-out dad who finds himself flirting with thoughts of infidelity.… Continue reading Made to Break Your Heart by Richard Fellinger
My father created Mister Tender, and Mister Tender nearly killed me. How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be… Continue reading Mister Tender’s Girl by Carter Wilson
"He wonders if other people look at their partners at night, peacefully dozing, and imagine killing them...when he finally falls asleep, it's to the image of cutting her open and bathing his face with her blood." A serial killer is chopping up bodies and has a vendetta against sarcastic Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, highest ranking female… Continue reading Bloody Mary (Jack Daniels #2) by J.A. Konrath
"No one had ever been there when she needed them." 1917. Copper Camp of Butte, Montana. Growing up as an orphan and losing her twin sister to a murder at the age of 10, Kaly Shane had a lot of ghosts and a lot of secrets. Over the years she tried to live a decent… Continue reading Copper Sky by Milana Marsenich
ABOUT THE BOOK Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Romance, Series Release Date: February 2012 Pages: 311 Beginnings is a romantic thriller set in the criminal underworld of 1970s London. Eleanor Chapman is 16. She has no idea her father is employed in a world of organised crime until the day he is forced to go on the run, leaving… Continue reading Beginnings (Same Face Different Place #1) by Helen Christmas
"Always watch your step or you might land in something you can’t wipe off - Nanny James" Kansas at the end of the Civil War. It's her twentieth birthday and Cara Calvinia James is alone after the death of her family. Her wish is about to come true...to go to California and start a new… Continue reading Until Tomorrow by Jill Marie Landis
When ordering books for the new year it is hard to choose which booksellers to buy from and after some discussion with fellow bookaholics I was referred to Better World Books. Now, I'm not a stranger to Better World Books because the academic library I work in donates their books to them. Why didn't I… Continue reading A Shout Out to Better World Books: Making a Difference Around the World