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Library book: The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: 2/1/2006 Pages: 432 Genre: Murder/Mystery Review: Library book Amazon  It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.

Library book: The Vanishing of Class 3B Jackie Kabler

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Publisher: One More Chapter Published: 5/11/2023 Pages: 353 Genre: Suspense Review: Library book Amazon One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip. But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong. The children and their teachers simply do not come back. What’s happened doesn’t seem possible. How can an entire class of children simply vanish?

Library Book: The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

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Publisher: Entangled Red Tower Books Published: 9/3/2024 Pages: 645 Genre: Mythology, Romance, Fantasy Review: Library Book Amazon Percy Jackson for adults meets The Hunger Games with a slow burn romance between a contestant and Hades himself. Every hundred years, the gods toy with us mere mortals. And we let them. The gods of myth are alive and well. Once every century, they select a new ruler in a cutthroat competition, pushing mortal players to the limit. But this year, Hades is done sitting on the sidelines. And he’s picking a champion no one expects—in this modern mythic romantasy, she’ll fight for her life… for the god of Death.

KU: The Web of Silence Duet #1 Little Stranger Leigh Rivers TRIGGER WARNIN

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Publisher: Unknown? Maybe self? Published: 10/29/2023 Pages: 207 Genre: Erotic Suspense/Dark/BDSM Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon OWNING HER IS ALL HE EVER WANTED She betrayed him, and now he wants revenge against the foster sister who became his forbidden obsession the second he laid eyes on her. After she sends him to prison for years, he’s free and ready to haunt her. Everything about Olivia belongs to Malachi Vize. Her mind Her body Her soul Her fear Her pain On Halloween night, he can no longer lurk in the shadows. All he has left to own is her heart, even if he needs to take it. This story comes with extremely triggering content. Please read the "Content Warning" page.

NetGalley: At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki

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Publisher: Page Street YA Published: 9/24/24 Pages: 384 Genre: Teens/YA/Romance/LGBTQIAP Review: NetGalley Amazon Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman―and if he fails he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die. The boys borrow time hiding in the memories of the dead while the Ferryman hunts them, and Zan must decide if he’s willing to give up his chance at life to save Bastian―and Bastian must decide if he’s willing to keep living if it means losing Zan.

Kindle Unlimited: Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

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Publisher: Thomas and Mercer Published: 8/13/2024 Pages: 325 Genre: Thriller Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen years ago. And extensive therapy—and writing letters to her younger brother—has since curbed those nasty tendencies. Now twenty-four, Hanna is living an outwardly normal life of domestic content. Married to real estate agent Jacob, she’s also stepmother to his teenage daughter Joelle. They live in a beautiful home, and Hanna loves her career as a phlebotomist—a job perfectly suited to her occasional need to hurt people. But when Joelle begins to change in ways that don’t suit Hanna’s purposes, her carefully planned existence threatens to come apart. With life slippin...

Library Book: Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers Published: 7/13/1999 Pages: 192 Genre: Realistic Fiction Review: library book Amazon A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs… It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl’s harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of a...