![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it’s witches gathering together to save a town or a solo witch trying to hide their power and keep loved ones safe, the magic is everywhere. Spooky season reading is finally here! Even if you like to read about witches all year round, like me, there’s something special about curling up with a good witchy book in the month of October that feels magical. After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve must overcome her own pain and loss and find the strength to deal with what she fears most - a teenage daughter she can no longer control and a past that could come back to haunt her in the most monstrous of ways. ![]() From Goodreads Choice Awards nominee comes a new domestic thriller with witchy vibes, perfect for readers of The Push by Ashley Audrain and The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is full of whimsy, wonder, energy, and joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee's delightful book evokes the same positive feelings she describes. " Joyful overturns conventional wisdom about happiness: that it comes from within, and that experiences-not things-make us happier. Warning: reading this book may cause unexpected bouts of joy." ( Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg) Ingrid Fetell Lee’s blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight. ![]() "Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it―and how to create it. ![]() Joyful is an inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good" ( - Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global Founder, The Huffington Post) "A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea: we all have within the power to design joy into our lives. Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy." ( Susan Cain, author of QUIET and founder of Quiet Revolution) ![]() "This book has the power to change everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, however, Kahneman didn’t want to participate in the book. Lewis, who incidentally lives just down the hill in Berkeley from Kahneman, said that after talking with him on and off for a year and a half, he became quietly confident that there was a great story to be had. Those years devoted to conceiving, researching, outlining, interviewing, and writing the book weren’t quite as confrontational as those between Lewis and his beleaguered mother, but they were still their own form of battle. Seven years is also about how long it took Lewis to write The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, his latest book about the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky. I needed an immovable object for seven years, and she provided it.” ![]() “I needed someone to push up against, to shape myself. “When I was 14-years-old, right before the end of the war, in a moment of cool rationality in our family kitchen, my mother turned to me and said, ‘I just want you to know, for the last seven years you've made my life sheer hell.’ And I thought, ‘Yeah, I won.’” He laughs. “My mother is the most sweetly strong-willed person I’ve ever met, and we butted heads for seven years,” Lewis tells me, from his home in Berkeley, California. FROM AGES SEVEN TO 14, Michael Lewis engaged in what he calls a “constant,” “excellent” war with his mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, everyone Jenna loves is in peril, and only the ultimate sacrifice can save them… Thrust into a terrifying nightmare where a threat looms in every shadow, Jenna and Damian find themselves in a race for survival. ![]() He knows letting her get close to him will put her in danger, but when he suspects Jenna’s in trouble, there’s only one thing that matters: protecting her at all costs. ![]() He never thought he’d care about anything again…until he meets Jenna. Jenna was determined to leave her dark past behind her and build the life she’d always wanted, but just when she thought all her dreams were finally coming true, a shocking incident shattered her fairy-tale life, and now she’s hiding a terrible secret-a secret that could cost her everything.ĭamian is as gorgeous as he is mysterious, keeping his own dark secrets from everyone he meets. FAIRY TALES AREN'T SUPPOSED TO END IN MURDERĪ sexy fighter saw her bruises. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will keep you on edge, but do NOT skip to the end of the book, no matter HOW MUCH you might be tempted!!!! A good pair with Anna Dressed In Blood, although not nearly as much gore, and will go over well with those who like Kimberly Derting ( Body Finder series). ![]() The tension between her stepmother and Jade is extremely believable, and hits just the right note, as does the building of suspicions between suspects. The alternating format gives readers a huge chill and enormous insight into Kayla’s character and the possible motives behind each suspect, while Jade races to find out who the killer is before anything worse happens to her family. Kim Harrington is the author of Clarity (a 2012 ALA Quick Pickfor Reluctant Readers), Perception, The Dead and Buried, and Forget Me for teens. And the killer seems to be one of those who knew Kayla and felt she had it coming, because as readers find out from Kayla’s journal entries, she gives Regina George a run for her money. While Jade would rather try and go through senior year, Kayla has other plans- find her killer, or Jade’s family will suffer. Her little brother tells her about seeing a shimmery girl in his room, which is the ghost of Kayla- the girl who died under mysterious circumstances earlier in the year. Jade is instantly the talk of the school- not for being the new girl, but for being the girl who moved into the “murder house”, which her dad and step-mom conveniently forgot to tell her about. ![]() ![]() ![]() An ex-Los Angeles cop, he wrote this book after incidentally meeting up with five old LAPD partners. Edelen says he grew up in Indianapolis, but really grew up in the U.S. It's a very high-risk quid pro quo that seems destined to fail.īeguiling revelations, bizarre circumstances, and consequences with romantic twists make this a most intriguing read.Ībout the Author: Norman E. He turns to people connected with the JTF's target of interest, suspected drug laundering ex-L.A. Obsessed to find out what happened to Karen but unable to get help from the inside with government agencies that ought to know if she is dead, Kevin turns to the outside for help. Recounting hearing Karen, as an apparition, saying to him on 9/11, "Wait for me, Kevin. Doupchek, reportedly killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11.ĭoupchek's single Joint Task Force partner, Treasury Agent Kevin A. It Don't Matter starts with a new "dead or alive" search, this time for married DEA Agent Karen B. Edelen wraps up the story begun in After a While You Wonder and Tuesday After Next. ![]() It Don't Matter: Amor Regge Senza Legge (Love Rules Without Rules or Laws) - The Third Novel in the Trilogy After a While You Wonder puts a proper period at the end of this series.Īuthor Norman E. It Dont Matter: Amor Regge Senza Legge (Love Rules Without Rules or Laws) - The Third Novel in the Trilogy After a While You Wonder puts a proper period at. ![]() ![]() Her life turned around when, bored at work one night, she decided to sell a few pieces of vintage clothing on eBay. Fast-forward seven years, and Amoruso was running a $100 million company with 350 employees. In this memoir/business book, Amoruso, CEO of the Internet clothing store Nasty Gal, offers advice to young women entrepreneurs who seek an alternative path to fame and fortune. Beginning with a lengthy discussion of her suburban childhood and rebellious teen years, the author describes her experiences living hand to mouth, hitchhiking, shoplifting and dropping out of school. ![]() ![]() A Dumpster diver–turned-CEO details her rise to success and her business philosophy. ![]() ![]() I started evaluating it now since I needed to identify the solution to the challenge, as well as likewise I had to do with 76% of the means with when I recognized, Holy Shark, I have actually reviewed 76% of thisbook Afterwards I was so disappointing that it was mosting likely to greater than quickly, that I thought about positioning it down. ![]() As well as likewise naturally I thought about it daily when I stired up, as well as yet truly did not establish the response as well as it’s really so easy I was so insane at myself!) So last night I was thinking about precisely just how I would certainly reach review this today, I ‘d really substantial my Arrange, when it was supplied to my kindle at 11 pm main time! HUZZAH FOR ME, yet alas other than my rest regimen. ![]() remarkable writer girl, if you review this, I asked everyone I identified to discover up with solutions, as well as the majority of us had lots of. ![]() So the 2nd I wound up Actually, Sneaky in November, I 1) Preordered this book 2) Re- reviewed it to guarantee I made certain all the hints pertaining to that the abductor was therefore I recognized as well as likewise can please myself as I waited to learn the service to that all consuming puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() You see, there was this awesome movie called Teen Witch. Long before anyone uttered the words Harry & Potter. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.Īs a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.īy the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. ![]() Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father-an elusive European warlock-only when necessary. Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() A thin film of sweat coats my skin, trapping wisps of hair against my forehead, clinging to my school shirt. I turn my eyes away from the tiny carcasses and try to focus on the mass of quadratic equations on the board. At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window-do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough? I wonder what it would be like to be shut up in this airless glass box, slowly baked for two long months by the relentless sun, able to see the outdoors-the wind shaking the green trees right there in front of you-hurling yourself again and again at the invisible wall that seals you off from everything that is real and alive and necessary, until eventually you succumb: scorched, exhausted, overwhelmed by the impossibility of the task. It is hard to believe that they were ever alive. I gaze at the small, crisp, burned-out black husks scattered across the chipped white paint of the windowsills. ![]() |