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Jessica Warman
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Ten years ago, seven-year-old Samantha and her next door neighbor Remy watched helplessly as Sam's little sister was kidnapped. Later, Remy and Sam identified the man and he was sent to prison.
Now, Sam's shattered family is returning to her childhood home in an effort to heal. As long-buried memories begin to surface, she and Remy wonder what they really saw. The more they re-examine the events of that fateful night, the more questions they have about what happened to Turtle... and they become more certain that Turtle's killer is still out there, hidden amongst the members of their tight-knit community.
Master storyteller Jessica Warman keeps listeners guessing in an arresting pause register that questions whether the potential for evil lurks within us all.
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The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be. As Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone--a text Tyler sent that could have changed everything.
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Such sweet sorrow
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Marlena
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
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The Daisy Children
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When Katie Garrett gets the news that she’s received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn’t have come at a better time. She flees Boston and travels to rural Texas. There, she’s greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly and flamboyant, Scarlett couldn’t be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother’s possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them.
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a little odd to me
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The Last Place You Look
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
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The Shape of Desire
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For 15 years Maria Devane has been desperately, passionately in love with Dante Romano. But every month, Dante shifts shape, becoming a wild animal. During those times, he wanders far and wide, leaving Maria alone. Since the beginning, she has kept his secret, knowing that their love is worth the danger. But when a string of brutal attacks occur in local parks during the times when Dante is in animal form, Maria is forced to consider whether the lies she's been telling about her life have turned into lies she's telling herself.
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More mature content than her previous works
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Get Lucky
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Filled with wit and heart, Get Lucky by Katherine Center explores the deep bonds of sisterhood. Sarah Harper’s whole world revolved around her job at a New York advertising agency before an email snafu got her fired. Now she’s seeking refuge at her sister Mackie’s home in Houston. But Mackie, who’s unable to get pregnant, is also down-and-out these days. So Sarah decides to do something good and becomes a surrogate mother.
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Finding what matters most in life
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Still Missing
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.
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A singular voice; a horrendous story.
- By Richard Delman on 01-21-12
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The Forgotten Girl
- By: David Bell
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers’s door - and it’s his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she’s clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor - she asks Jason and his wife to take care of her teenage daughter for 48 hours while she handles some business in town. But Hayden never returns.
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Distracting narration
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- Joyrdan
- 08-06-18
Amazing book
I could not stop reading! This book is amazing and has a great thrilling story line.
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- Rida
- 09-28-20
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I really like the story but I prefer actually seeing the words to understand it.
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- SARAH GINGERICH
- 05-31-16
Sam
I wish we knew how the story ended for Sam & Remy but I guess it never does.
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- Pink Amy
- 09-29-22
Compelling
Grade: B+
Ten years ago, in the early hours of New Year’s Day, seven-year-old Samantha and her next door neighbor, Remy, watched as a man broke into Sam’s home and took her younger sister, Turtle, from her sleeping bag. Remy and Sam, too afraid to intervene at the time, later identified the man as Sam’s sister Gretchen’s much older ex-boyfriend, Steven, who was sent to death row for Turtle’s murder. Now, Sam and her family have moved back to the home from where Turtle disappeared and she starts to wonder if she can trust her memories.
THE LAST GOOD DAY OF THE YEAR pulled me in from the first paragraph in a way that screams, this is a special story. Samantha's narration switches from 1986, when Turtle was abducted, and 1996, when Sam and her family move back to their small PA town, I guess teens might see this as a period piece, pre-social media when having the Internet was optional. Since Turtle's disappearance, Sam has always been the "good daughter" to her preoccupied parents, but within her thoughts are layers of complexity and angst. I wouldn't characterize TLGDOTY as a thriller as much as a character study of the impact of a little girl's kidnapping and presumed murder on Sam, her family and her neighborhood. Although I didn't finish on one sitting, I had a hard time putting down my kindle. What kept me from giving TLGDOTY an A was the ending was fairly ambiguous and I felt like readers deserved more. I also wish there has been a few more clues earlier on. That's about all I can say without giving anything away
I'm a Jessica Warman fan and THE LAST GOOD DAY OF THE YEAR is her best work yet. I can't wait to see what she comes up with next. I think most readers teen and adult women will enjoy this novel.
THEMES: family, kidnapping, secrets, coming of age
ETA: I enjoyed the audiobook too.
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