Must Reads - 27th January 2018
So I need to start by apologising for the BIG gap since my last post - unexpected ended up having a wee stay in the local hospital and have been pretty foggy and yuck since to be honest - but going to try and resume normal service!
Here's a wee list of must reads I will be adding to my To Be Read pile to get me started...
How could such a thing happen?
But it did happen.
I wasn't one of the others, observing.
It happened to me.One hot summer's day, two-year-old Jessica Preston disappears from the beach. The police are convinced she drowned, but Sandra Preston won't give up hope that her daughter is still alive.
How can she?
Twenty years later, another child goes missing, and Sandra is approached by a young journalist who raises questions about what really happened to Jessica Preston all those years ago. But when the journalist discovers someone with an explosive secret, it threatens not only to reveal what's been covered up for so long, but puts both their lives in danger.
But it did happen.
I wasn't one of the others, observing.
It happened to me.One hot summer's day, two-year-old Jessica Preston disappears from the beach. The police are convinced she drowned, but Sandra Preston won't give up hope that her daughter is still alive.
How can she?
Twenty years later, another child goes missing, and Sandra is approached by a young journalist who raises questions about what really happened to Jessica Preston all those years ago. But when the journalist discovers someone with an explosive secret, it threatens not only to reveal what's been covered up for so long, but puts both their lives in danger.
Meet Rachel. She is caught in a spiral of endless crying, dirty nappies, and sleepless nights. She fears for her sanity and the safety of her children.
She's lonely.
Meet Adam. Suffering from the pain and trauma of a terrible accident that he blames himself for, he stays at home, unable to bring himself to leave the house.
He's lonely.
So when Rachel and Adam rekindle their long lost friendship online, what starts as a little harmless flirtation, soon becomes an unhealthy obsession, and slowly the threads of their lives unravel before them.
Four lonely people. Two unhappy marriages. One dangerous, but inevitable climax.
Papa says everyone
has a story that deserves to be told.
Most begin years ago, after the second
bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the
pure, the infected, and the Ragers.
Many recount the moment we
rose up from the ashes and started anew.
Others tell of the day we built
a wall to keep them out.
For some, they’re nothing
more than the vestiges left behind—a simple name carved into the knotty bark of
a Juniper tree.
My story begins with a
boy. A mute, from the other side of the wall, known only as Six, who
touched my heart in ways that words never could, and gave me the courage to
face my darkest truth.
Nora Reid believes scientific laws control everything, even love. With her grandparents’ epic first kiss story cemented in her brain, Nora develops a hypothesis she’s determined to prove: for each person in the world, there is exactly one other person, and at first kiss, they’ll experience an immediate and intense reaction.
But after four years of zero-reaction kisses, she comes up with a new theory: maybe that pesky crush on her stunningly hot best friend Eli Costas is skewing her results.
She needs to get rid of him, and fast.
Eli Costas is an injury-prone lacrosse star with a problem—the one chance he had at winning over the girl next door resulted in the most epic first kiss ever. And now she’s...trying to get rid of him? Hell no. It’s time to disprove her theory and show her exactly what she’s missing.
Game. On.
Disclaimer: This book contains a stunningly hot lacrosse player who isn’t above playing dirty to win over the stubborn girl-next-door of his dreams.
An Invitation to the Unseen Realm
For as long as he can remember, Blake K. Healy has seen angels and demons. He sees them as clearly as he would see you if you were standing right in front of him. He sees angels dancing in worship services and whispering words of encouragement in people’s ears. He also sees demons latching on to people and perpetuating addiction
and bitterness in their hearts.
The Veil chronicles how Blake matured in this gifting, while overcoming the fear and confusion of what he saw, how he learned to use his gift of seeing for God’s glory, and how to teach others to do the same.
This new and updated version of The Veil also includes a brief guide on how to begin growing in the gift of seeing in the spirit yourself, as well as an appendix of scriptural references to the spirit realm and angels, along with Blake’s commentary on these passages.
and bitterness in their hearts.
The Veil chronicles how Blake matured in this gifting, while overcoming the fear and confusion of what he saw, how he learned to use his gift of seeing for God’s glory, and how to teach others to do the same.
This new and updated version of The Veil also includes a brief guide on how to begin growing in the gift of seeing in the spirit yourself, as well as an appendix of scriptural references to the spirit realm and angels, along with Blake’s commentary on these passages.
Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the new-born twins were fast asleep.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other.
Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.
They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other.
Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.
In a house full of secrets, two babies – one light-skinned, the other dark – are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town.
Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined. A web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilising their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the truth.
A Cookbook with Seriously Satisfying, Truly Simple, Good-For-You (but not Too-Good-For-You)Recipies for Real Life
For anyone on the move, working long hours, and trying to eat just a little bit better, Healthyish offers 120 satisfying recipes that take under an hour to prepare, and with ingredients that won’t break the bank.
Emphasizing balanced eating rather than fad diet tricks, Hunt includes recipes for every meal, from Miso Butter Toast with Nine-Minute Eggs, to Spiced Chicken Flatbread with Dill Tzatziki, to a single-serving Chocolate and Almond Butter Cookie. Healthyish is a call for simple ingredients, quick prep, and even quicker clean-up so everyone can enjoy what’s most important at the end of a long day: getting back to the couch.
Emphasizing balanced eating rather than fad diet tricks, Hunt includes recipes for every meal, from Miso Butter Toast with Nine-Minute Eggs, to Spiced Chicken Flatbread with Dill Tzatziki, to a single-serving Chocolate and Almond Butter Cookie. Healthyish is a call for simple ingredients, quick prep, and even quicker clean-up so everyone can enjoy what’s most important at the end of a long day: getting back to the couch.
421 Miles from Home
Thirteen-year-old Martin and his younger brother Charlie are on a very special journey. They're going to be travelling 421 miles all the way from Preston to the very tip of Cornwall. By train, bus and taxi, they are determined to get there in the end; and they're hoping to catch a glimpse of the dolphin that regularly visits the harbour there. But is that the only reason they are going?
Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for . . .
Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things.
And realises her life has been a lie.
Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas.
But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago . . .
Thanks so much for checking out this list. I can't wait to read these books, so watch out for my full reviews.
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Happy Reading!
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