2024 Reading Challenge

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Excerpt: In the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf

About the Book

In a small town in rural Georgia, Appalachian roots and traditions still run deep. Folks paint their houses blue to keep the spirits way. Black ferns grow, it’s said, where death will follow. And Weatherly Wilder’s grandmother is a local Granny Witch, relied on for help delivering babies, making herbal remedies, tending to the sick—and sometimes serving up a fatal dose of revenge when she deems it worthy. Hyper-religious, she rules Weatherly with an iron fist; because Weatherly has a rare and covetable gift: she’s a Death Talker. Weatherly, when called upon, can talk the death out of the dying; only once, never twice. But in her short twenty years on this Earth this gift has taken a toll, rooting her to the small town that only wants her around when they need her and resents her backwater ways when they don’t—and how could she ever leave, if it meant someone could die while she was gone? Continue reading Excerpt: In the Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf

Excerpt: The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé

About the Book

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton  Continue reading Excerpt: The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé

Excerpt and Book Review: Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

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The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive.

Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. Continue reading Excerpt and Book Review: Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

Excerpt: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

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It’s 1995, and twenty-year-old Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. Continue reading Excerpt: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

Book Review AND Excerpt: Murder Road by Simone St. James

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