I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: March 28, 2023 Summary: Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy’s unique gifts and the childhood love that will complicate the fate of his community and country Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Pegasus Crime Published: September 6, 2022 Summary: A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. “Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.” Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife,…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and SimonBooksBuddies / Simon and Schuster / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Here in Avalon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 2, 2024 Summary: A New York City fairy tale about two sisters that fall under the spell of an underworld cabaret troupe that might be a…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Never Trust the Husband in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: You look so happy in your wedding photo, gazing at your perfect new husband, glass of champagne held high in a toast. You chose to ignore the warning signs, but he hid more than one secret from you. And…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites / Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Silence in Her Eyes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 16, 2024 Summary: This fresh take on classic psychological suspense centers on a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to…
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Thank you Zando Projects / Gillian Flynn Books / Netgalley, #partner for the advanced e-copy of One of the Good Guys in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gillian Flynn Books Published: January 9, 2024 Summary: If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Harper Published: January 10, 2023 Summary: Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as “Nordic noir at its best.” In the small mining town of Malmberget, north of the Arctic…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Doubleday Canada for the ALC and Penguin Random House Canada / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Coming to Find you in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada / Doubleday Canada Published: December 19, 2023 Summary: A heart-stopping psychological thriller about a woman running from the aftermath of a gruesome family tragedy–and also from the truth about her part in…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Northwoods in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 9, 2024 Summary: The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic in this unputdownable and thrilling debut that…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press/Netgalley, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Heiress in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 9, 2024 Summary: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Palace in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail, London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history—from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II—as seen through the doorways of the…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Washington Square Press Published: March 5, 2019 Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel. Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don’t expect life…
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