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Shuddering, The

A Snowy Horror Thriller Author: Ania Ahlborn Ryan and Jane are having one last hurrah at their childhood cabin high in the Colorado mountains before the sale is finalized. While Daddy dearest isn’t their flavor of the month, they still have some happy memories at the cabin. This is also their chance for everyone to get together and to resolve old traumas. Ryan is getting ready to move to another country, after all, and Jane is still recovering from her recent divorce. Jane brings her best friend, Lauren, and Ryan surprises Jane with her old high school-crush, Sawyer. This would be [...]

2023-03-25T14:20:41-07:00March 25th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Dragon Seed

A Story of the Nanjing Massacre Author: Pearl S. Buck Ling Tan is in love with his land, as any 1930s Chinese farmer would be. He has a good life, a good family, a connection with his land and village that is sustaining. True, there are rumors of war, but what does it matter to ordinary people who “rules” the country? Farming and village life will go on as before. Taxes will be sent to a different entity. Nothing will change. Lao Er, Ling Tan’s second son, and his wife, Jade, know better. As members of the younger generation, both are [...]

2023-03-21T18:17:50-07:00March 21st, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Searcher, The

A Slow, Disappointing Offering Author: Tana French Cal Hooper, hardened Chicago police detective, has seen it all and lost it all. He’s divorced. The job took his marriage, his family, his connections, and his belief in the goodness of humanity. Now that he is retired, he wants away from it all. And there is nothing more remote than this village in rural Ireland, where the natural beauty is superseded only by the harshness of the terrain and the forbidding, windswept quietness. Here, he will restore an old cottage, go on walks, enjoy the simple happiness of the locals. Here, everything will [...]

2023-03-19T20:33:10-07:00March 19th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |
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