![]() Read more of Staff Picks: The 10 Best Books We’ve Read This Year (So Far)Īllow us to present the most popular thrillers on Off the Shelf from the past year!įind out which reads resonated the most with your fellow booklovers! ? ❤️ /QhufVKRtt7įrom internationally bestselling author Laura Dave comes a riveting new suspense novel about a woman’s search for the truth about her husband’s disappearance-no matter the cost.īefore Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Laura Dave’s discussion-worthy thriller was not only a perfect beach read, but it also made me wonder how I would react if I were in Hannah’s shoes. Because while they may not agree on much, they’re on the same page about one thing: Owen Michaels’s disappearance must be solved. ![]() Guided only by a cryptic note from her husband that simply reads “Protect her,” Hannah assumes responsibility for her moody teenage stepdaughter, Bailey, and together the two of them try to figure out what on earth is going on. What would you do if, out of the blue, you learned that your new husband’s company was under federal investigation and he was nowhere to be found? It’s not a hypothetical question for Hannah Hall, whose idyllic life turns nightmarish in the space of a day in THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME. ![]()
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You know what’s kinda great about delivering food for hours a day? Between narrating nonstop (good news, but still stressful), and finishing up my second novel (also good news, and still stressful), I have been mostly absent from everything! I haven’t even been able to read like I want to, because when I’m not doing book stuff, I’m working with GrubHub. Hello my darling Book Fiends! How are you, lovelies? I have been ridiculously busy and stressed out to the max. ![]() ![]() As the media broke the news as it was learned later on President Obama spoke about the tragedy and was moved to tears. Mothers and fathers of Newtown gathered in a firehouse waiting and desperate to find out the if their children survived. ![]() The scene of the shooting was horrific and as the day unfolded and more Americans learned the news many were filled with shock. As police were closing in around 9:40 Adam went into another classroom and committed suicide. 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Stuart Gibbs is the author of the FunJungle series, as well as the New York Times bestselling Spy School and Moon Base Alpha series. But when someone threatens to blackmail Teddy’s girlfriend, Summer, if he doesn’t solve the crime, his involvement in this mystery is no longer black and white. After all, FunJungle has never encountered a crime this serious. ![]() The FBI steps in to investigate, and Teddy is happy to leave the job in their (supposedly) capable hands. But when the truck transporting Li Ping shows up, its precious cargo has vanished into thin air. Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth when the zoo’s newest addition goes missing - before she even arrives! - in Panda-monium, the latest novel in Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series.įunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the arrival of its most thrilling animal yet - Li Ping - a rare and very expensive giant panda that the zoo went to enormous lengths to secure. 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So this month in preparation for the release of The Demon Tide, the long awaited new book in the Black Witch series, I’m re-reading the three previous Black Witch books. ![]() ![]() Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. About everything-her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. All she has to do is show up and be honest. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements?Įnter Dr. The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers-her psychotherapy group-and in turn finds human connection, and herself.Ĭhristie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. “This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read.” -Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women ![]() “This book is a testament to the power of human connection.” -Reese Witherspoon ![]() “O ften hilarious and ultimately very touching. A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Designer Michael Anastassiades’ impeccable live/work space in Waterloo We met with Yasuyo last month for a tour of her beautifully-crafted home in Worcester Park.Ħ. Botanical stylist Yasuyo Harvey’s family home in the London suburbs ![]() We initially sold her the space in 2015.ĥ. Rachel celebrated completing the work on her new apartment in October by inviting us back to look around. Ray-Stitch haberdasher Rachel Hart’s renovated 1920s factory apartment in Hackney We met with Hanna this summer, for a tour of her immaculate Maida Vale period conversion (and some delicious baked treats).Ĥ. Supper club extraordinaire Hanna Geller Goldsmith’s reimagined 1930s home in Maida Vale We revisited Mark in his Bermondsey apartment, having sold it to him in 2016, to see his garden room and ever-expanding art collection.ģ. Restaurateur Mark Hix’s newly refurbished live/work apartment in Bermondsey ![]() We met with creative power-couple Duncan and Luke back in April, and they showed us around their eclectically-curated Camden apartment.Ģ. Duncan Campbell and Luke Edward Hall’s maximalist Camden flat We’re taking another look at the most viewed features, with our roundup of the top 10 home interiors of 2017.ġ. This year we’ve interviewed over 30 design-loving homeowners for our Journal, to get a snapshot into some of the UK’s most exceptional modern homes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keen to test the young man’s astonishing memories, the narrator casually introduces the subject of reincarnation and is satisfied that Charlie, at least, is unaware that his scenes of historical life are factual. Believing that he is sketching out fictional ideas and images for the benefit of the story’s narrator, Charlie recounts the incidents of two previous incarnations. As the tale unfolds, Charlie’s dreams of literary success–unmatched by his actual capabilities–assume a secondary significance. ![]() ![]() “The Finest Story in the World” tells the story of Charlie Mears, a young man employed in a London bank who is, the narrator informs us, “full of aspirations” (90). This article will consider the connections between Mortimer Collins’s novel Transmigration (1874) and Rudyard Kipling’s short story “The Finest Story in the World” (1891) and argue for a stronger relationship between the two texts than is generally understood to show that Kipling’s short story adapted and reworked elements of Collins’s novel to create a different yet respectful literary representation of reincarnation. ![]() |