5/24/2023 0 Comments Bury me deep by christopher pike![]() ![]() I started to wonder if Jean was going to be a Too Stupid to Live character, but she really wasn’t. But there are frictions going on with her friends because of the two guys they are hanging out with (Dave and Johnny). ![]() She wants to go to Hawaii to enjoy the beach and scuba diving with her friends. You have Jean slowly investigating what is going on. He seems to still want or need something from Jean. The experience freaks out Jean, but she quicks dreaming of and seeing Mike, he doesn’t seem to be dead. Jean was delayed and doesn’t fly out with her friends, but she ends up sitting next to a guy named Mike. “Bury Me Deep” follows Jean who is off to Hawaii to join her two best friends, Mandy and Michele. I thought this one did a great job with the horror and fantasy elements. Pike really did just go all out with murder and really grown up topics. ![]() I really did love this book ridiculously as a teenager, and I still enjoyed it. I am going to boo the heck out of the cover of the newest release, I loved the older version of the cover I had when I was a teen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He lives in the village of Old Lyme, Connecticut with his girlfriend Diana and Freddie their beloved cat. ![]() He was nominated for the Dilys Award and also the Derringer Award and he managed to win the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. He has continued writing for TV and film and has also co-authored ‘Gideon’, which proved to be an international bestseller.ĭavid was born in 1952 in the United States where he got educated at the University High School, West Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Barbra, and the Columbia School of Journalism. Handler has also written short stories, which were nominated for various awards and he was part of the writing team that created ‘Kate and Allie’ an Emmy Award winning sitcom that aired on the CBS network. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and started his career in New York as a journalist, and published two highly acclaimed novels about growing up there, before resorting to writing crime friction. David Handler is the author of the Hoagy and Lulu mysteries and the Mitch and Desiree mysteries. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The island by olivia levez![]() ![]() With chess, more so than any other sport/game, you can plan your moves in advance, map out a course for success and learn to understand how that success or failure directly relates to the choices you make. Around that time, chess was being introduced into inner city schools as a way to teach underprivileged children skills that would translate into their lives. ![]() ![]() I remember back in the early 1980’s watching a piece on 60 Minutes about a chess club in a Harlem grade school. ![]() So when she discovers another survivor on the island, will it bring out the worst in her again? Or will it finally help her to see that her future is worth fighting for?Ī gripping and thoughtful story about a girl determined to survive against all odds and find the courage to become the person she wants to be. Survival is hard and so is being honest with herself. And when she is there she also has to think about the past. "Echoing O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, Levez’s story will keep readers riveted as determined, hard-edged Frances fights to survive."Īs part of an Outward Bound” style treatment for young people who’ve committed crimes, Frances finds herself on a plane to a remote village where she will do community service in exchange for staying out of juvenile detention.īut an accident leaves her alone on a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends’ conflicts and their triumphs. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. ![]() Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut “as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale” ( Kirkus, starred review).īound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sovereign by C.J. Sansom![]() They have received another complicated mission from their new boss, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, to look after the wellbeing of a suspected conspirator in a plot to overthrow Henry VIII’s government, so that he can make it to London for further questioning. We join Matthew Shardlake and his dedicated assistant Jack Barak on the road to York to join the Progress to take care of local petitions for the King. Sansom shapes his latest adventure with his hunchback lawyer and part-time detective, Matthew Shardlake, in book three of the delightful Shardlake series, “Sovereign”. ![]() It is the city of York and during this important Progress that C.J. It was very political as Henry was trying to make the North submit to him after the Pilgrimage of Grace while at the same time he was waiting for a meeting with King James V of Scotland. However, the Progress of 1541, when Henry VIII and his fifth wife Catherine Howard traveled to the hostile northern part of England, was anything but a casual visit. ![]() When one thinks about a royal Progress, we often think about the glitz and glam of the royal family traversing the entire country at a leisurely rate to inspire awe for their subjects. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Manansala mia p![]() ![]() I’d been lucky enough to build a writing community long before I sold my first book, and had the guidance of friends who were further down the path than me to warn me about the various ups and downs of publishing. I knew what it was before I got my book deal. Manansala here, on the release week of my second book, Homicide and Halo-Halo, to talk about something many writers dread: Second Book Syndrome. T he Dreaded Second Book Syndrome (plus giveaway) Mia is here celebrating the release of Homicide and Halo-Halo. ![]() And I’ve been lucky enough to work with her on Sisters in Crime’s two big awards - the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Writers of Color and the Pride Award for Emerging LBGTQIA+ Crime Writers. I so happy to welcome back Mia! It’s been such a joy to watch her go from unpublished to published author. Mary C is the winner of Homicide and Halo-Halo. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Nancy Drew by Kelly Thompson![]() ![]() St-Onge is excited for the project because:Īs someone who read stacks of Carolyn Keene's mystery stories as a young girl, Nancy Drew has been high on my list of 'characters I'd like to draw comics of' for a while now. She is a powerful character that can connect to so many different people in so many different ways. ![]() Everyone from my mother (who is never terribly interested in my superhero projects, but it very kind and pretends to be!) to friends of all different ages have this incredible connection to Nancy – and everyone sees her a bit differently. But one of my absolute favorite things about Nancy is the look on people's faces when you say her name. Nancy, the classic master teen mystery-cracker, will be shown in a way you've never seen before, by a creative team with a huge respect for the original tales, and what she could mean for a modern audience.Ī sassy super-independent detective, which is one of my favorite things ever. ![]() There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her…and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything… especially solving crimes. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell![]() ![]() There are stories of men at war, of lovers trying to begin a relationship, of others trying to sustain their love. In "Dancing in the Movies" a college student returns to his hometown, where he finds his girlfriend-a heroin addict-and tries to convince her to overcome her habit. "The Darkness of Love" narrates three days in the life of a black policeman, distressed by his inner fears of racism and irresistibly attracted by his wife's sister. In the end, this book probes individual impulse and responsibility, creating stories so unerringly authentic that they become-irrepressibly-part of everyone who reads them. Often there is no right or wrong, and the characters' motives for the choices they make are as diverse as the childhood memories they cherish and abhor. ![]() Encompassing a vast gamut of personalities, situations, and emotions, these stories penetrate our motives for doing what is right. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The graduate novik![]() For her.As the savagery of the school ramps up, El is determined that she will not give in not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholom _Sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling and Lodestar award-nominated A Deadly Education'The dark school of magic I have been waiting for' Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale'Fantasy that delights on every level' Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval_Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education.The dark school of magic has always done its best to devour its students, but now that El has reached her final year - and somehow won herself a handful of allies along the way - it's suddenly developed a very particular craving. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Confess colleen hoover series![]() In addition, Owen's assistant, a lady called Lydia, is the snarky, no-nonsense character who's constantly pushing Owen and Auburn together, despite their struggles. Auburn's friend, Emory, though she has everything going for her, has a secret that she's terrified of revealing. ![]() Apart from the main storyline, the show's side stories also add an extra flavor to the series. The show tries to break away from the typical boy-meets-girl trope, and instead explores the complicated aspects of relationships, such as what to do if you're grappling with heavy secrets. As they become closer, Auburn and Owen confront their pasts, and they struggle to decide whether they should take a leap of faith in each other or not. The confess gallery becomes a space where Auburn reveals her past and her secrets that she's kept hidden from the world. He has an art exhibit gallery where people come to confess, leave their deepest secrets, and have them painted on a canvas. Owen has a secret, and that is how he knows Auburn's story. She meets Owen Gentry (Ryan Cooper), an artist who makes a living by painting portraits at night. ![]() ![]() The story follows the life of Auburn Reed (Katie Leclerc), a young woman who's enthusiastic about art and has undergone immense struggles in life. The show first premiered in 2017 on go90, and its characters are brought to life by some of the most talented actors in the industry. ![]() Confess is a romantic drama series developed from the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. ![]() |