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Hell Bent

Journey to Hell for Redemption Author: Leigh Bardugo What do you do when your mentor and secret crush is literally in Hell because of your actions? If you’re Alex Stern, the bad girl with a past and a gift for seeing the dead, you’ll do anything to rescue Darlington, including opening a portal to Hell in the middle of Yale. Guilt is a powerful motivator, after all, and Alex has enough blood on her trembling hands. Hell Bent begins a few months after the ending of Ninth House. The Board of Lethe has settled the mess, hidden the bodies, invented a [...]

2023-05-17T14:10:35-07:00May 14th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

How to Sell a Haunted House

When The Puppets Come Out to Play Author: Grady Hendrix The Joyners had the appearance of a happy, successful family, but death often reveals the greatest sins, the most hidden regrets. Their life was no exception. When Louise gets the call that her parents have died in a car crash, she knows that she must confront more than loss and red tape. She is now forced to work with her jealous, immature brother, thanks to the strictures of the will. She must leave her distraught daughter with her manipulative ex. She must face a house filled with her mother’s ministry: puppets [...]

2023-05-05T20:13:16-07:00May 5th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

In Cold Blood

A Surprisingly Banal Representation of Murder Author: Truman Capote A sleepy Kansas town, where families safely leave their doors unlocked. Where everyone knows everyone else in town. A family – father, mother, two children, slaughtered in the night. Shot, point blank. Tied up. Robbed. All for $40.00. Truman Capote took an infamous, seemingly inexplicable crime and ushered in narrative non-fiction and the popularity of true crime books with In Cold Blood, which has since become a classic. I remember as a child watching the first movie based on this book. I recall marveling at the complexity of emotion, the way that [...]

2023-05-02T18:43:51-07:00May 2nd, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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