![]() ![]() Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. ![]() The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.ġ940. "The reigning queen of historical fiction" - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenu e ![]()
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Joanna Nadin - The Stepmonster - 9781405282215 - V9781405282215. ![]() ![]() The $50,000 she’s offered to kill someone’s scumbag husband is certainly tempting enough for her to explore that option - enough that she accidentally ends up with a dead body in her car. ![]() It’s clever, it’s over-the-top, and it’s just fun -despite the very dark subject matter.įinlay Donovan is a young divorcee with two kids, an empty bank account, and a looming book deadline, when she’s accidentally mistaken for a hitman in a northern Virginia Panera. ![]() And if you’ve read “Finlay Donovan is Killing It,” I think you’d say that description is 100% spot-on. Review: I never thought that I would find myself describing a book as an “enjoyable murder farce,” but well, 2021 is taking us strange places. Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. ![]() “Finlay Donovan is Killing It” by Elle Cosimano ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths.and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea's surface. It may just be the key to eradicating the 'Gets. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Mariana Trench, a heretofore-unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia"-a universal healer, from initial reports-has been discovered. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. It causes people to forget-small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. ![]() From the acclaimed author of The Troop- which Stephen King raved "scared the hell out of me and I couldn't put it down.old-school horror at its best"-comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They mention the psychological distress of surviving the First World War and the way these artists offered a more emotional, less detached stance than Cubism did the Surrealists were more politically revolutionary than their Cubist counterparts. 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![]() ![]() Prince is smitten, but Dani’s not looking to get derailed. When the romantic DJ meets the ambitious writer, sparks fly. But her college essay keeps tripping her up and acknowledging what’s blocking her means dealing with what happened at that party a few months ago. ![]() She’s focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. Until he meets Dani Ford.ĭani isn’t checking for anybody. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners. Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers-or so it seems. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. “Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” -Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land ![]() |