![]() ![]() The longer Elin stays, the more secrets she uncovers. ![]() But Detective Elin Warner soon learns the victim wasn’t a guest-she wasn’t meant to be on the island at all. A young woman is found dead below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. Once the playground of a serial killer, it’s rumored to be cursed. An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation-but the island itself, known locally as Reaper’s Rock, has a dark past. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club pick, here, Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway “The suspense inexorably builds to a stunning climax.” -David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Shadows They couldn’t wait to stay here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The more Hester learns about strong-minded, active Rebekah the more she comes to care for her. In an Eliza-Doolittle-style-twist, the doctor wants his sister, Rebekah Brock, to educate Hester and prove the working classes’ intelligence. When a chance encounter throws Hester into the path of a philanthropic doctor she grabs the opportunity to leave the slums. ![]() She’s lost her comfortable life in rural England and has moved to a disease-ridden part of the capital city, where she relies on the charity of her lecherous former gardener and his family. The death of her father, a vicar, has forced her to near-destitution. Hestor White has heard about the missing people but is focused on her own survival. The story begins in 1831 as men, women and children begin to disappear from London’s filthy, poverty-stricken backstreets. The Wicked Cometh is a riches to rags (and back again) story that makes me thoroughly glad to live in the twenty-first century. Laura Carlin’s debut novel combines history, mystery, gore and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't think I'll be able to surpass the total for 2014 (254). ![]() I'm not going for a specific amount of books read. My Reading Goals and Reading Plans for 2015 Pages read in 2014: 62932 Edited Decemby Athena it was allright but there were quite a few problems with the bookħ - The book was enjoyable but not without its flawsġ0 - An absolutely awesome book I really enjoyed 7), I will be rounding it up (so a 7 would become 4 stars ****).ġ I abandoned this book, it was too horrible to finishĢ-4 I didn't enjoy the book much, there were too many things I struggled withĥ - Eh. I also post ratings between one and five stars (* *****), because this is how GoodReads rates the books. It's partially based on the Dutch school system, where 6 or higher is a pass. Links to important posts within this thread: It's that time of the year again, to make a new reading log! ![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of an opening quote from Mark Twain that reads “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened”, nothing untoward is even hinted at. It is a well-made and well-acted drama, brought to the screen by artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson and her actor husband Aaron, who plays Frey, but curiously excludes everything about the book’s post-publication journey. Thirteen years after that infamous Oprah interview, broadcast months after she had effusively praised Frey’s book and turned it into a phenomenon via her book blub, A Million Little Pieces has been adapted into a film. The most captivating element of its existence is the noise that surrounds it – the accusations that it was largely faked, despite being marketed as a memoir, the literary-world war of words over its editing, and the piercing, terrifying glare of Oprah Winfrey, who elegantly destroyed Frey on live television over his apparent betrayal. It is also the least fascinating thing about A Million Little Pieces. ![]() James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces is a sprawling and manic novel about addiction, survival and redemption. ![]() ![]() THE QUIET AMERICANS chronicles the exploits of four spies - Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times, Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family, Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis, and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed CIA. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. ![]() From the bestselling author of LAWRENCE IN ARABIA, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect America and the world today At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With out any words, each illustration featured through out the book tells more than words could say. This is one of the most beautifully illustrated picture books I've seen. ![]() This seemingly simply story from Daniel Miyares is enriched with incredible depth and texture that transcend words. So of course the little boy goes on the hunt for his beloved boat, and when the rain lets up, he finds himself on a new adventure altogether. The boy and his boat dance in the downpour and play in the puddles, but when the boy sends his boat floating down a gutter stream, it quickly gets away from him. Source: book from publisher to review, in exchange for my honest reviewĪ boy's small paper boat and his large imagination fill the pages of this wordless picture book, a modern-day classic from the creator of Pardon Me! that includes endpaper instructions for building a boat of your own.Ī little boy takes a boat made of newspaper out for a rainy-day adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You’d have to be a eunuch not to see that.” Joe’s brows shot up, and he turned as if expecting to see someone new behind him. Guys in Richmond would be drooling right now.” You can learn more about this international bestselling author by visiting her website at Amazon Terri resides in Pittsburgh, PA, with a menagerie of high-maintenance pets. Since her debut in 2013, her work has been translated into five languages, and sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. She fell in love with the written word at a young age and the genre of romance beckoned during her teen years. ![]() You can learn more about this international bestselling author by visiting her website at Amazon Facebook Pinterest Bestselling and award winning author Terri Osburn writes contemporary romance with heart, hope, and lots of humor. ![]() ![]() Bestselling and award winning author Terri Osburn writes contemporary romance with heart, hope, and lots of humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Permission to Come Home confronts and destabilizes the stigma Asian Americans face in caring for their mental health. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today - 5.6 percent of the population - they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. I am so very grateful that she exists.”-Steven Yeun, actor, The Walking Dead and Minari Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. I believe that her knowledge, presence, and activism for mental health in the Asian American/Immigrant community have been invaluable and groundbreaking. Wang has been an incredible resource for Asian mental health. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she’s the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they’re all in. With the storm cutting off access to and from the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.īut no-one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. Though it’s beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous – as does her brother, Isaac.Īnd when they wake the following morning to discover his fiancée Laure has vanished without a trace, Elin’s unease grows. ![]() But she’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother’s recent engagement, she has no choice but to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. ANYONE COULD BE NEXT.Īn imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. This is the chilling debut from the hottest new talent in crime fiction.ĮVERYONE’S IN DANGER. High in the Swiss Alps, a luxury hotel opens in what was once a sanatorium, but the new design can’t hide the building’s dark history for long. ![]() Genres: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of it all, Alenna and her new friends Gadya (a headstrong warrior girl), Liam (the blue-eyed, smoldering hot warrior boy), David (who landed on The Wheel the same time Alenna did), and others make plans to escape The Wheel before the Monk overruns everything. ![]() When she does, Alenna ends up on Prison Island Alpha – or The Wheel – where all GPPT failures get sent, and as she tries to adapt to the primitive society on The Wheel, she discovers that a powerful entity named the Monk has taken over the majority of The Wheel and everyone is at war. but she didn’t expect to fail the Government Personality Profile Test (GPPT) which tests for criminal tendencies. Her parents were brutally taken away by the police when Alenna was just a child, and she’s always felt somewhat different from the other kids. Sixteen-year-old Alenna Shawcross is an orphan living in the United Northern Alliance, the unification of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico that is now ruled by a dictatorship. ![]() |