Title: The Keeper of Lost Causes Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen Publisher: Penguin Group Source: NetGalley Chief Detective Carl Mørck survives a shooting while the two officers with him didn’t fare as well. One was killed and the other was sent to the hospital to recover. Mørck has guilt over how he behaved during the incident. He begins arriving… Continue reading The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
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The Path Home by Caedem Marquez
Title: The Path Home Author: Caedem Marquez Source: The author for review (goes on sale 8/1/11) Mr. Dominguez is handsome, kind and content with life. He devotes his time to feeding the poor, being a good person and helping a homeless child named Christopher. Everything is as it should be. Then, one day he sees her… Continue reading The Path Home by Caedem Marquez
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Title: Best Friends Forever Author: Jennifer Weiner Publisher: Atria Source: Columbus Metropolitan Library Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular… Continue reading Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Ascension by Sable Grace
Title: Ascension Author: Sable Grace Publisher: HarperCollins (Avon Imprint) Source: NetGalley The gates of hell have opened, and one woman will stand in the crossfire as the Dark Breed — vampyre, demons, shape shifters — and mankind fight their last battle for survival. Kyana is half Vampyre, half Lychen…and the last of her kind. Determined,… Continue reading Ascension by Sable Grace
Draw the Dark by Isla J. Bick
Title: Draw the Dark Author: Isla J. Bick Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab Source: ARC from NetGalley “The things I draw: They tend to die.” There are things the people of Winter, Wisconsin, would rather forget. The year the Nazis came to town, for one. That fire, for another. But what they’d really like to forget is Christian… Continue reading Draw the Dark by Isla J. Bick
The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
Title: The Restorer Author: Amanda Stevens Publisher: MIRA Books Source: NetGalley From the back of the book: My name is Amelia Gray. I’m a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I’ve always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now… Continue reading The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Title: Water for Elephants Author: Sara Gruen Publisher: Algonquin Paperbacks Source: My personal library I’ve been interested in reading Sara Gruen’s books for years. In one of the first interviews I read of hers, she mentioned she wrote the first draft of this novel during NaNoWriMo and it’s now a habit. While I was off… Continue reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Title: When the Men Are Gone Author: Siobhan Fallon Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Source: LibraryThing Early Reviewers The focus of the stories in You Know When the Men Are Gone varies from an observer of military life to directly involved which keeps it interesting without rehashing the same story type. Not all of the stories take… Continue reading When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
Try Me by Parker Blue
Title: Try Me Author: Parker Blue Publisher: Belle Bridge Books Source: LibraryThing Early Reviewers It can be difficult to start a series midway through but I never felt like I was truly missing anything. Sure, I don’t know everything that happened between Dan Sullivan and Val Shapiro but I have a pretty good guess. Her… Continue reading Try Me by Parker Blue
The Association 1: President Park Incidents
Title: The Association 1: President Park Incidents Author:E.P. Shirleyjack Source: The author Description from Smashwords: In retrospect, I should have called the police after the Second President Park Incident. The police or the Magic Council. But it all started so innocuously, behind the dumpster at Jiggle Jon’s Cold Beer, Lotto and Groceries, in the bluish… Continue reading The Association 1: President Park Incidents