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Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/152689/grady-hendrix/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: January 14, 2025 Number of pages: 496 pages Author’s website: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where …
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Rating: 3/5 Genre: Memoir A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of …
What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …
https://www.tashacoryell.com/ Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Psychological Thriller Published by: Berkley Books Publish date: June 25, 2024 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s website: https://www.tashacoryell.com/ Support local! Pre-order the book on BookShop! An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he's acquitted, decides to move in with him and …
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Romance Fantasy, Romantasy Published by: Berkley Publishing Group Publish date: May 14, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.kateerobert.com/blood-on-the-tide Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Set sail for adventure and love in the next spicy fantasy romance from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash hit Neon Gods. As …
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I received an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book from Netgalley and Parson Press. This has not impacted my rating and this review is voluntary. Genre: Romance Published by: Parson Press Publish date: 24 Oct 2023 Number of pages: 356 pages Author’s website: https://www.authorkimifreeman.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Told in a dual timeline …
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© Andrew Hayes-WatkinsI received an advanced audio copy of this book from Netgalley and MacMillian audio. Thank you! This review is given voluntarily. Genre: Thriller, Mystery, FictionPublished by: Macmillan Audio / Celadon BooksPublish date: June 15th, 2021Audio Length: 10 hoursNumber of pages: 352 pagesAuthor’s website: https://twitter.com/AlexMichaelidesSupport local! Buy the book on BookShop! Edward Fosca is a murderer. …
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Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review. Rating: 4/5 Genre: Fiction Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Malibu: August 1983. It's …
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Thank you Netgalley and Simon Schuster for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is a collection of stories that crawls into the nooks and crannies of sexual imagination. I suggest that only those that are open to BDSM and other forms of kink read this book, because it may …
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