Title: SAT Prep 2017-2018 Study Guide Publisher: Test Prep Books Pub. Date: 26 September 2017 Great guide to the SAT for reluctant studiers. Readable and engaging. If you are serious about raising your score, this guide is worth a shot. It is light and readable, but serious. The language is accessible, yet it…
Eric Olafson: Captain Black Velvet
Title: Eric Olafson: Captain Black Velvet Author: Vanessa Ravencroft Publisher: Inkitt Pub. Date: 24 July 2017 Series: Eric Olafson Genre: Sci-fi, Space Opera I have a weakness and last week I indulged it. One morning I looked at my mound of literary fiction, YA, Mystery, Suspense, and Thriller titles in my TBR pile and…
Ill Will
Title: Ill Will Author: Dan Chaon Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub.Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Psychological thriller, Literary Suspense, Crime, Horror, Contemporary You know that chill you get when you walk into shadow? That is this book. A cold dark truth emerges from beneath this twisted murder tale as the timeline of a man’s…
The Bone Witch
Title: The Bone Witch Author: Rin Chupeco Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pub. Date: 7 March 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Magic, Necromancy, YA This book is really two story-lines converging. In one, young Tea is learning to control her new magic without letting the darkness in. In the other, the Bard is recounting his meeting with…
Gone Without A Trace
Title: Gone Without A Trace Author: Mary Torjussen Publisher: Berkley Books Pub. Date: 18 April 2017 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense One day Hannah comes home to find her boyfriend gone– every trace of him erased from her life. No photos No Facebook posts. No text history. Her original belongings in the house returned to…
Sycamore
Title: Sycamore Author: Bryn Chancellor Publisher: Harper Pub. Date: 9 May 2017 Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Suspense This is not a love story. This is a tight, suspense filled, humanity revealing, cross-genre mystery thriller plus. When newly unearthed bones (that just may belong to the long missing girl Jess Winters) are discovered in the…
The New Urban Crisis
Title: The New Urban Crisis Author: Richard Florida Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 11 April 2017 Genre: Nonfiction, Divisive Politics, Urban Issues, Global Commune Planning First, I am going to say: Hey authors, readers are not stupid. I am always mad when I think I am going to be reading an information packed…
The Wanderers
Title: The Wanderers Author: Meg Howrey Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Pub. Date: 14, March 2017 Astronauts Helen, Yoshi, and Sergei are training for the first Prime Space Mars mission. It is interesting but occasionally stressful for them and their families. Apply external stimuli and observe the internal workings of complicated people. That is it….
All That’s Left to Tell
Title: All That’s Left To Tell Author: Daniel Lowe Publisher: Flatiron Books Pub. Date: 14February 2017 Genre: Psychological Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Literary Fiction This book is not about intrigue or terrorism, it is a story of humans and the power of stories. Marc, an American held hostage in Pakistan, is a man exposed,…
Fatal Option
Title: Fatal Option Author: Chris Beakey Publisher: Post Hill Press Pub. Date: 21 February 2017 Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Recommended, Fiction Hang on to your seats, people! This is a fast-paced wild ride from the very first page. It would be difficult to unfold the plot without giving some serious spoilers, which I do not…
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Title: 4321 Author: Paul Auster Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, LLC Pub. Date: 31 January 2017 Genre: Literary Fiction Families are complicated, life is capricious and unstable, and what you know is so easily what you might have never known, especially for Ferguson, who is created to live his life from birth to death…
Finishing School- The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can’t Seem to Get Done.
Title: Finishing School- The Happy Ending to That Writing Project You Can’t Seem to Get Done Publisher: TarcherPerigee Pub. Date: 10 January 2017 Genre: How-To, Writing Books, Philosophy, Self-Help This might be just another of the thousands of books that try to help authors finish their manuscripts, but maybe it is a book that…
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