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  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,        Live To Tell is written by Lisa Gardner, and is the fourth book in her bestselling Detective D.D. Warren series. It is published by Penguin Random House under their Bantam imprint. In it, we are introduced to Danielle Burton, a psychiatric nurse who is the sole survivor of her family's massacre at the hands of her father decades prior. She works day to day trying to do her best to help the child who is a patient in the locked ward that she works in; her own twisted past haunts her daily.    Across town Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren is on a date that seems to be going well. But she is interrupted by her precinct as she is called to a horrific crime scene: an entire family has been butchered, and the lead suspect is the father, currently fighting for his life at a local hospital after a botched attempted suicide. But the scene reads against murder-suicide for D.D., and she is determined to find ou...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Takedown Twenty is the twenty-fourth novel in Janet Evanovich's bestselling Stephanie Plum series. Published by Penguin-Random House under their Bantam imprint, Takedown Twenty pits Stephanie Plum against everyone's favorite Mafioso, Salvatore Sunucchi, who just happens to be godfather to Stephanie's boyfriend, Joe Morelli. After skipping out on his bail, Sunny is in hiding with the help of Morelli's crazy, old-world grandmother, Bella. As she investigates Sunny's whereabouts, Stephanie is pulled into another case involving the murder of elderly women throughout New Jersey. With the help of Ranger and her Grandma Mazur, Plum begins to get closer to finding the killer only to have Grandma Mazur become the killer's next target.    This installment changed up the formula of the series by focusing more on the murder mystery rather than Stephanie's attraction to Morelli and Ranger. There was a lot of soul-search...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Recently the ad campaign released the next song off the full album for the Daisy Jones & the Six series: Honeycomb (click on the album cover for the YouTube video). You can watch the Trailer here:  Daisy Jones & the Six - Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube      Let me know in the comments below what you are reading. Have you read Daisy Jones and the Six?       Let me know in the comments below what you are reading.         Also please follow me on my  social media platforms  and enjoy shopping with me at eBay and Mercari.      SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS AT LINKTREE     Because there is always time to read,   Xepherus3   All written content (c) Copyright 2023 by Thomas Bahr II Top logo designed by Xepherus Studios The book cover is Copyright by the publisher  

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,        Daisy Darker is written by Alice Feeney and is published by Flatiron Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing. In it, we are introduced to Daisy Darker, a woman with a rather quiet life. She is a volunteer at an aging home and has faced several near-death experiences due to a faulty heart. Her family is a fractured bunch that only cares about themselves and rarely contacts her.   Her grandmother, Beatrice Darker, is the exception. And on October 30th, Daisy and her family are invited to a birthday celebration for the elder Darker on an island. It's business as usual, with Daisy's family ignoring her. Her niece, Trixie, has taken to align herself with Beatrice, noticing the shallow ways of her own mother and relatives. She is pleasant to Daisy. As the birthday celebration nears, a reading of the will takes place which infuriates the family. The next few hours continue as each family member is found de...

    Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!      Bird Box is published by ECCO Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. In this post-apocalyptic novel of dread and survival, we are introduced to Malorie, a mother of two small children who makes a desperate attempt to forge the river as they flee the home they have known for the past   several  years. The children are trained to listen and are   hyper-aware  of their   possibly  dangerous surroundings. As they  continue  on,   silent  and blindfolded, she reflects on the events that led up to her current   predicament .    We flash back several years to Malorie who is living with her sister, Shannon. After organizing their living space, the two deal with an impending pregnancy, something Malorie is apprehensive about. The two do their best to prepare for the future. But a series of strange events begin to unfold where people have been drive...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,          Murder in an Irish Cottage is the fifth book in Carlene O'Connor's Irish Village series of cozy murder mysteries. It is published by Kensington Books and is available now in hardcover. In this fun and whimsical book, we are once again brought back to the village of Kilbane, Cork County, Ireland. Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan and her fiancé (and superior in law enforcement), Macdara Flannery, are back to solve the latest murder in Ireland. Unfortunately, this time the deceased is Macdara's Aunt Ellen, and Siobhan is worried that she may have to solve this case alone because Macdara is too close to the victim. But that is not her only issue. The townsfolk in Ellen's village believe she was killed by Fairy folk and will not hear any other explanation, even though Ellen was clearly murdered by a human.   The investigation is made easier with the help of an old friend of Siobhan's from the Garda academy. But ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,        Harry Potter is a boy who finds out that he is a Wizard. Not only is he a Wizard, but he survived one of the evilest Wizards of them all...the dreaded Voldemort. But Harry has lived a dull and restrictive life with his aunt and uncle, and their obnoxious son, Dudley. Harry is miserable but has no way out of this ordinary existence. Until one day he is visited by the postman, or so he thinks. He receives letters addressed to him daily and his uncle tears them up only to have more come to their home.    After being on the run with Harry to escape the letters, his aunt and uncle, and obnoxious Dudley whisks Harry away to a place no postman can reach. But to their surprise, the letter is delivered and with it an enormous man named Hagrid. Hagrid reveals Harry's past, and that he is soon to start his wizarding classes at a magical place, called Hogwarts. Harry i...