Liza, along with her younger sister, grew up spending Summers in Provincetown, where their mother would go to work and hope to catch the eye of a wealthy man. Liza's father was almost totally absent, and her mother was most likely a narcissist, but definitely abusive. Because of this, Liza was drawn to a woman …
Continue reading The Babysitter: My Summers With A Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
Phew! How can I describe this book.... I feel exhausted after reading it. The cover of the book hints that it's the story of a man who rescues a magpie and then it becomes the link that leads him to understand his father better. A dual memoir, if you will. The story of two fathers …
Owl seems like a normal girl, going to school and hanging out with her best friend Mallory, but she's actually the daughter of a mortal and Jack Frost. When Summer seems literally endless and Owl can't get to the world of the fae, she teams up with her old friend Mallory to figure out what's …
Queen Elizabeth wakes at Windsor Castle to find that there's been a murder. A Russian entertainer who was amusing her guests the night before has been found dead, under unsavory circumstances. While the people around her think it was an assassination by someone from his own country, the plucky Queen sets out to solve the …
Karen is struggling following the recent death of her husband, and might be starting to remember something about the events of years ago, but can she trust her mind not to play tricks on her? Meanwhile, two swimmers find the body of a girl left in the peat bog. The preserved remains could be the …
Continue reading The Innocent Dead (Rhona MacLeod #15) by Lin Anderson
Curl up with a good book and some homemade pumpkin bread. Rachel Bloom is the creator of the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and this book is a collection of writings on what normal is. Or rather, the fact that everyone thinks that they or their life is weird, and that out there somewhere is Normal. …
Continue reading I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
In this young adult novel, Romeo and Juliet meets 1920's Shanghai, with a little dark magic twist. Juliette Cai is from the Scarlet Gang, who have fought with the White Flowers for generations. Roma Montagov was her first love, but now they hate each other. When series of mysterious deaths break out with people clawing …
Georgina's little boy has a new imaginary friend. But there's something wrong about this friend. For a start, he calls her New Granny, which is strange and uncomfortable because Georgina is still reeling from the death of her mother. She is also under a lot of pressure with work, study, and some relationship problems. When …
While sorting through her mother's house following her death, Becky finds a letter from a long lost relative asking for help. Rather than returning home, and feeling like she wants to do something that makes her feel useful, she heads to Cornwall to help out her mother's Cousin Olivia. As Becky's life catches up with …
Extraordinary Canadians is a series of interviews written in the first person, so that reading it feels like each interviewee telling their own story to the reader. The authors names might sound familiar: Mansbridge is the former anchor of The National and Bulgutch was a producer at CBC. I was curious about this book and …
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