![]() ![]() ![]() If small-town scares are your cup of tea, BLOODLINE belongs on your 2021 reading list. BLOODLINE is a spine-tingling, up-all-night-reading psychological suspense novel-meets-horror story worthy of the comparisons to Rosemary’s Baby that it is receiving. Evil is lurking in the town of Lilydale, and Joan is going to have to rely on all her wits and inner strength to make it out with her life. Joan is right to be suspicious-but even her wildest imaginings could never have prepared her, or the reader, for what is in store. Her neighbors have taken a keen interest in every aspect of her life, her fiancé is growing distant, and she swears someone is following her in the town. But as Joan settles into her new home, she can’t shake the feeling that something is just a bit off. For pregnant journalist Joan Harken, her fiancé’s hometown of Lilydale represents a bright future: a place where their unborn child can grow up with all the safety and security that a tight-knit community has to offer-the kind of safety and security that was missing from her own upbringing. Set in 1960’s Minnesota, BLOODLINE draws readers into the heart of a picture-perfect town harboring unthinkable secrets. The author of 2020 standout UNSPEAKABLE THINGS returns on January 1 with her next work of dread-inducing rural horror, BLOODLINE. ![]() If “small-town suspense-meets-horror” were a genre, Jess Lourey would be its queen. The Verdict: sinister small-town suspense ![]()
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Also, his fondness for vast, monolithic ruins (a favourite with many other Cthulhu and horror writers) is evident in the intricate description found in the page-long story. ![]() Lovecraft's common images and ideas, such as relics of the deep past and things "without name". ![]() Lovecraft, written in 1919 and published in May 1923 in The National Amateur. ![]() "Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. ![]() ![]() Convinced that no one could ever love her due to how she looks, she lives as a recluse of sorts. Sage was driving the car when she got into an accident that killed her mother and left her with a scarred face. ![]() What begins as a book that seems to be telling the story of Sage Singer turns into something much more. This is important when looking at the characters she has created in the novel. The Storyteller was published in 2013, more than 70 years after the start of World War II. From school shootings to individual rights to child molestation, she seems unafraid to tackle any subject and ask her readers to think about it a little differently. Jodi Picoult is an author that likes to tackle the hard questions in our society in her novels. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. ![]() All Creatures Great And Small (Original Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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A heart-wrenching family crisis and a longing to know her origins then drive Jane to painstakingly research her roots in Rhodesia, Johannesburg, London, Berlin and Sydney. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family - a promise she honours until the death of her adoptive parents. ![]() ![]() A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating she is adopted. ![]() ![]() Bragg spent a lifetime trying not to be his father, but at the end of All Over But the Shoutin' he is compelled to write his long-gone father a few words. ![]() I will not be my mother." Yet, at the same time we are just like them without trying. ![]() It is funny how when we are on the cusp of carrying on traditions from childhood we say we will do things differently than our parents. His ability to tell stories from a compassionate point of view draws a great deal of attention and eventually, fame. But, I digress.īragg travels the world seeing atrocities far worse than growing up in poverty or having a delinquent dad or a drug-addled brother. To be fair, we are a society becoming more and more sensitive to slights, real and perceived. Maybe it's this last point that makes it okay for him to use words like Eskimo. ![]() I don't know what's more poor than dirt, but Bragg will never let you forget he grew up less than dirt with words like white trash, ragged, welfare, slums, poverty, raggedy, and did I mention poor? Three, he's southern to the core, despite moving to New York City. Rick Bragg needs you to understand three things about his life: One, he grew up with a strong mother. ![]() ![]() It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. ![]() WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. ![]() The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors. She lives in Tornado Alley with her husband, two children, and her baby dog named Blue. Her titles have claimed many bestseller tags in numerous categories, are translated in multiple languages, and have been adapted into audiobooks. But love can have deadly consequences when it comes from a Constantine.Īt the stroke of midnight, that choice may be lost for both of us. K Webster is a USA Today Bestselling author. As the head of the Constantine family, Im used to people bowing to my will. When she challenges me with an offer of her own, I have to decide if I'm willing to give her far more than cold hard cash. I crave her tears, her moans, her submission. When I discover the one woman who doesn't wither under my gaze, but instead smiles right back at me, I'm intrigued.Īsh Elliott needs cash, and I make her trade in crudeness and degradation for it. From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a brand new forbidden romance that's going to leave you speechless. ![]() Cruel, rigid, unyielding-I'm all those things. Books similar to Stroke of Midnight (Cinderella, 1) Stroke of Midnight (Cinderella, 1) by K. ![]() As the head of the Constantine family, I'm used to people bowing to my will. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was less about being a famous child than about being a not-so-famous grownup. After that, he wasn't sure who he was at all.So, in 2001, he started a blog. Wil was a very famous kid - right up until he wasn't. But most of us don't do it in front of millions of people.
![]() ![]() Fitzgerald is the author of Nailedand Jesus: Mything in Action, part of The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion series. ![]() The problem, according to author and religion critic David Fitzgerald ( and others), is that key parts of this story are distorted at best and fabricated at worst. He accepts Jesus as his savior and proceeds to lay out those persuasive interviews in his book, which goes on, as I said, to become a religion best-seller. He lines up scholars and theologians and confronts them with the hardest possible questions about their faith-and comes away convinced that the Evangelical view of the Bible and Jesus is true. Strobel’s wife converts, and Strobel sets out to prove her wrong, using the same strategy that made him a fearsome investigative journalist. The story that Evangelicals find so convincing and delicious is this: Strobel, a tough-as-nails atheist journalist and his atheist family are out to dinner when his daughter is saved from choking to death by an evangelical nurse who felt called by God to go to the restaurant that night. His 1998 book, The Case for Christ, has sold millions of copies, was made into a 2017 movie by the same name, and was recently re-issued in a “new and updated” edition. ![]() Many Evangelicals think of Lee Strobel as the man who can cure your doubts about their religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as 'Between-Two-Lives'.ĭetermined to provide schooling for all the village children – white, black and Native American – Elizabeth is soon at odds with the slave owners, as well as her own father, who insists she marry local doctor Richard Todd. It is December 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced and meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered – a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his honesty. When Elizabeth Middleton leaves England to join her father and brother in a remote mountain village on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to establish a school. The first in Sara Donati's bestselling Wilderness series, this epic novel of love and adventure interweaves the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two outsiders from different worlds. ![]() |