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Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration … Continue reading Cherish Farrah, by Bethany C. Morrow
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 How well do you know your neighbour?Would you trust them with your life? I heard Emily before I saw her. The harsh smack of heels against cheap wooden floorboards. The loud phone calls. The incessant music. I knew Emily before I met her. Discarded receipts in our communal hallway. Sticky leftovers … Continue reading The Girl Upstairs, by Georgina Lees
The best-selling book of Mushroom has came back in a luxury English edition!This book is a collection of mushroom and fungi paintings by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century. The paintings each show the plant in its habitat and have been executed in a straightforward natural history illustration style with meticulous attention … Continue reading Mushroom Botanical Art, by Toshimitsu Fukiharu
Girls of Paper and Fire #3 'Don't struggle, Lei-zhi. It's time to take you back to the Hidden Palace. You're going home.' The jaw-dropping conclusion to Girls of Storm and Shadow left the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in the balance. There's one thing Lei knows - she can never return to the Hidden … Continue reading Girls of Fate and Fury, by Natasha Ngan
Book #2 🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 A family is found murdered in their old farmhouse at Christmas time. As if that's not sinister enough, the crime undeniably echoes that of a similar scene that took place 20 years earlier in the exact same spot. DI James Walker doesn't see how the two can be connected…or … Continue reading The Killer in the Snow, by Alex Pine
Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a … Continue reading Gilded, by Marrisa Meyer
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 They’re lying,’ my little stepson whispers, his blue eyes shining with tears as I tuck him into bed for the first time. ‘They think I’ve forgotten, but I remember everything. I know my mummy is still alive.’ Lily is newly wed to Edward in a whirlwind of a marriage which her … Continue reading The Second Marriage, by Jess Ryder
Blake and Byron Thrillers book #1 🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 She came back on the day of her father’s funeral, ten years after she vanished. But she can’t be who she says she is… When Blake disappeared as a teenager, on a cold dark night, her father never reported her missing. She is presumed dead. … Continue reading The Last Time She Died, by Zoë Sharp
Girls of Paper and Fire #2 Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei and her warrior love Wren … Continue reading Girls of Storm and Shadow, by Natasha Ngan
🎧 Audiobook review 🎧 Ghost-writer Joely Foster has been asked to write the memoir of an eccentric old lady with a troubling past. Relieved to have a break from her own marital difficulties, Joely escapes to the woman’s isolated house, where she gets to work writing about a pivotal event in Freda Donahoe’s life. On its surface, … Continue reading My Lies, Your Lies, by Susan Lewis
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