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The Night We Lost Him

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  • Post published:November 5, 2024
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Dave’s incredibly popular “The Last Thing He Told Me” was about a husband/wife situation. In “The Night We Lost Him,” she examines the relationship between a father and his children.…

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Middletide

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  • Post published:August 29, 2024
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When a young, beautiful doctor is found hanging from a tree on Elijah’s remote land, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. The evidence is overwhelming and closely mimics…

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Read more about the article The Ambassador’s Daughter

The Ambassador’s Daughter

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  • Post published:August 29, 2024
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Twenty-year-old Margo Rosenthal has accompanied her father to Paris for the Peace Conference at the end of World War I in 1919 and isn’t happy about being there until she…

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Read more about the article The Chalk Man

The Chalk Man

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  • Post published:August 29, 2024
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In 1986, Eddie and his 12-year-old buddies used chalk to create secret messages to each other. But then Eddie finds a dead body in the forest and there’s a chalk…

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Read more about the article True Love Experiment

True Love Experiment

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  • Post published:August 29, 2024
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Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is a best-selling romance author who realizes she hasn’t been living what she’s been writing about. She’s in a romantic slump that is giving her writer’s block.…

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Read more about the article Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits

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  • Post published:August 7, 2024
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This book sums up where the show stopped. Of course, the book is better than the show, but it’s a close comparison. I understand a lot moreI’ve had this book…

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Read more about the article First Lie Wins

First Lie Wins

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  • Post published:August 7, 2024
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This was a recent Reese’s Book Club pick and is a fun thriller about secret identities. The book opens with Evie Porter, who seems to have it all: the perfect…

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Read more about the article The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time

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  • Post published:August 7, 2024
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This book was fantastic but so hard to explain. It’s a time travel romance, a spy thriller, and a workplace comedy. An unnamed civil servant is offered a vague job…

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Read more about the article Everyone Here Is Lying

Everyone Here Is Lying

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  • Post published:July 2, 2024
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This is an addicting thriller about a missing girl in a safe, affluent neighborhood. When neighbors start poking around to find out who took the missing 9-year-old, the parents realize…

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Read more about the article The House That Horror Built

The House That Horror Built

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  • Post published:July 2, 2024
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Harry Adams is a single mom looking for a job during COVID and is ecstatic when she’s offered a job cleaning the mansion of recluse horror director Javier Castillo. His…

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