![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed my job, but a passion for books and stories had been missing for far too long. ![]() I spent fifteen years building a technology career in the retail, sports, media, and entertainment industries. I live in New York City, grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Moravian College. James is my given name, but most folks call me Jay. The suspicious deaths happening around town aren’t ending anytime soon. ![]() Too bad neither one of them knows what to do about the psychic’s latest premonition. Sheriff Montague wants to save him, but she receives the shock of her life as the past hurtles forward and complicates her future.īetween locating Nana D and solving the scandalous murder of another prominent Braxton citizen, Kellan and April’s worlds explode with more turmoil than they can handle. While trying to prove his innocence, Hampton digs himself a deeper hole that might lead to prison. Kellan’s brother Hampton learns essential life lessons the hard way after his father-in-law accuses him of embezzlement. What tragedy has befallen his beloved grandmother? When the patient turns up dead, and second body is discovered beneath the snowbanks, Kellan must face his worst fears. Nana D disappears after visiting a patient at Willow Trees, leaving behind a trail of confusion. Madam Zenya predicted the raging storm would change the course of Kellan’s life, but the famed seer never could’ve prepared him for all the collateral damage. I don’t normally feature cover reveals but for this, I couldn’t resist!Ī winter blizzard barrels toward Wharton County with a vengeance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing could have prepared her for the man she got to know. So she isn’t prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team’s season: a quiet, reclusive, shadow of the explosive, passionate man he’d once been. Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man that hadn’t known she’d existed. It didn’t take a week for twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she’d seen in the international soccer icon-why she’d ever had his posters on her wall, or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies. When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. “Trust me, I’ve wanted to punch you in the face a time or five.” Genres: Contemporary Romance, Sports Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() A great next pick for readers who loved Ghost by Jason Reynolds or The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. This book won the Pura Belpré Award for Children's Literature and the California Book Award, and it was named a best book of the year by Kirkus and the Chicago Public Library. Ernesto Cisneros, Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Efrén Divided, is back with a hilarious and heartfelt novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. ![]() Now more than ever, Efrén must channel his inner Soperboy to help take care of and try to reunite his family. His worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn’t return from work and is deported across the border to Tijuana, México. ![]() Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved.īut Efrén worries about his parents although he’s American-born, his parents are undocumented. I’m so thrilled to interview author, Ernesto Cisneros, about his debut must-read, Efrn Divided. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness.” - Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango StreetĮfrén Nava’s Amá is his Superwoman-or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Ernesto Cisneros’ MG Debut Efrn Divided is a Must-Read. “We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. ![]() A winner of the Pura Belpré Award, now in Spanish! ![]() ![]() "Penner brings history to vivid life in this atmospheric and evocative whodunnit." -Nita Prose, author of The Maid ![]() ![]() Written with intoxicating suspense and sultry prose, The London Séance Society is an entrancing tale that blurs the lines between truth and illusion, and reveals the grave risks women will take to avenge the ones they love. ![]() And as they team up with the powerful men of London's exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves. With shared determination, the women find companionship that perhaps borders on something more. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister's death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead.ġ873. ![]() ![]() While dominant medical historians argue that this. Ehrenreich and English ask: "How did one particular set of healers, who happened to be male, white, and middle class, manage to oust all the competing folk healers, midwives, and other practitioners who had dominated the American medical scene in the early 1800s?" (62). First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. These statements by the authors are based on the status quo at the time of WMN's original publication in the 1970s. Women have been forcibly relegated to nursing "which is in no way a substitute for the autonomous roles woman had enjoyed as midwives and general healers" (61). The United States has possibly the lowest percentage of female doctors among industrialized nations and midwifery is almost non-existent. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging secrets of their uses. ![]() In it, they trace a centuries-long tradition of women in medicine, writing, They were abortionists, nurses, and counselors. In the United States, "the male takeover of healing roles" started later than in Europe, "but ultimately went much further" (61). In 1975, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English published their study Witches, Midwives, Nurses: A History of Women Healers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We must have been a very noisy bunch, and I'm not sure how our parents put up with being cooped up with us in the car for those trips. In the summer, we usually took a trip, all of us piled in a car and heading out to Wisconsin or Michigan or, once, to Idaho. (In that book, the brothers even have the same names as my own brothers.) Our house was not only full of us Creeches, but also full of friends and visiting relatives. I was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up there with my noisy and rowdy family: my parents (Ann and Arvel), my sister (Sandy), and my three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom).įor a fictional view of what it was like growing up in my family, see Absolutely Normal Chaos. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that Josh Lanyon’s smart, sexy, sophisticated stories may prove hazardous to your heart. Max can forgive lies and deception, but a dangerous enemy may not stop until Swift is heading up his own dead poet’s society. Yet his instincts-and his heart-tell him his lover is being played. Max enjoys splitting an infinitive or two with his favorite nutty professor, but he’s not much for sonnets or Shakespeare. In an instant, the stable life Swift has built for himself hangs on finding the boy and convincing him to give himself up before Max figures out Swift’s involvement in the case. ![]() When one of his most talented students comes to him bruised and begging for help, Swift hands over the keys to his Orson Island cabin-only to find out that the boy’s father is dead and the police are suspicious. novel was an adventure unto itself, with surprises around every corner and the kind of fantastic character growth and emotional impact that you can expect from a Josh Lanyon book El at Just Love Romance Novels Reviews Um, I love Josh Lanyon. Even his relationship with the hot, handsome Wolfe Neck Police Chief Max Prescott is healthy. The only lines he does these days are Browning, Frost and Cummings. Lover of fine poetry and lousy choose-your-own-adventure novels, Professor Sebastian Swift was once the bad-boy darling of the literati. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Maar is once again advancing on Urtho's Keep, this time with a huge force spearheaded by magical constructs of his own-cruel birds of prey ready to perform any evil their creator may demand of them. He is the fulfillment of everything that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm-a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Maar. Courageous, bold, and crafty, Skan is everything a gryphon should be. ![]() Skandranon Rashkae is perhaps the finest specimen of his race, with gleaming ebony feathers, majestic wingspan, keen magesight and sharp intelligence. It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, and magic is still a wild and uncontrolled force. ![]() ![]() But Elaine cheers up once she finds herself seated next to Sam Peck. Right and which is the hit man hired by one of their ex-husbands . . .įeisty, fast-talking PR executive Elaine Zimmerman needs some persuading by her pals Jackie and Pat to climb aboard the luxury liner-and once she does, her luggage is misplaced and she’s forced to resort to the ship boutique’s tacky version of cruisewear. But the trip could be their last-unless they sort out which of the passengers is Mr. Three best friends are on a Caribbean cruise for their latest vacation together. Three divorced friends-and one killer-set out to sea in the New York Times–bestselling author’s hilarious and “unforgettable” cruise-ship murder mystery ( Booklist). ![]() ![]() I had never read a book from cover to cover and considered this a symptom of an inferior intellect. Prior to the summer before my freshman year in high school, I was convinced I was an idiot. The right books, of course, vary from person to person, but I truly believe that everyone could be a reader if only he or she could hit on that one story that speaks to them on a personal level. There are only people who haven’t yet found the right books. Let me share a theory with you: There is no such thing as a non-reader. He reawakened the innocent magic in my heart that had been buried under a landslide of self-doubt and self-consciousness. With his words, he showed me what was inside of me. He’s the man who restored my adolescent self-esteem by convincing me that I wasn’t stupid. He’s the writer who determined my career path. ![]() He’s the person who singlehandedly made me a reader. Granted, I totally disagree with him, but I respect his right to avoid my favorite author and acknowledge that his opinion is as valid as mine.Ĭalling King my favorite author isn’t going far enough. ![]() One of my favorite readers and horror friends actively dislikes King’s work, but he has well-articulated reasons for his stance. Not that one can’t dislike King and have legitimate reasons for doing so. ![]() I read an article the other day bashing the work of Stephen King. ![]() |