The author has gifts as a writer: a novelistic eye for scene and detail, an ear for realistic dialogue. His story keeps moving, free of constraints common to courtroom lawyers or newspaper reporters.
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There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year plus. Until Proven Safe takes us to the places others lingered through time.
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UnCovered
review by Christine Szymanski, ACLS Somers Point Branch
Hannah has been married to her beloved husband, Owen, for one year when she receives a note from him saying, “Protect her”. She realizes he is referring to his 16-year-old daughter, Bailey. But why has he smuggled this note to her? Why does he leave a note for his daughter with over $60,000 in her locker? He is missing. Is he running? Why? So begins “The Last Thing He Told Me.”
As a U.S. Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her California floating home unannounced, Hannah begins to realize her husband is not who she thought he was. But who is he, and does Bailey hold the key to his real identity? Hannah and Bailey set out to find the truth about who Owen is and why he really disappeared.
From Sausalito, California to Austin, Texas, Hannah and Bailey follow clues – remembering stories that Owen told them about a past professor, memories about a wedding, and a football stadium. All the clues lead them closer to the truth. And while discovering the past, Hannah and Bailey are building a new future - one that they never could have anticipated.
A Reese’s Book Club Selection, “The Last Thing He Told Me” is currently #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. With beautiful prose, Laura Dave has constructed a suspenseful mystery and a story about love, family, and trust. I couldn’t put this book down!
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Nisha Sharma's new YA novel follows two Indian American teenagers who overcome differing backgrounds to find love while prepping for an important dance competition — a perfect teen movie setup.
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Becky Chambers comes down to earth for her new series, about a world where humans and robots diverged so long ago that now each group is just a myth to the other, and robots propagate themselves.
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