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All the Dangerous Things

We've Seen It All Before Author: Stacy Willingham Isabelle Drake hasn’t slept in a year. Not since the day her infant son, Mason, was stolen out of his crib. How could she not have heard? Not have checked earlier? Not have known? And what about all those nights she hated motherhood, the stress, the strain, the demand? Is the absence somehow her fault? The police have no leads. Her husband has now moved on to a new relationship; it’s been a year. He wants to move on with his life. Everyone has accepted that Mason is gone. Probably dead. Certainly, never [...]

2024-09-14T14:13:05-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

House in the Cerulean Sea, The

Bad Morals, Charming Storytelling Author: TJ Klune Linus Baker is the type of unassuming person who always colors within the lines. He does what he is told with precision, sheaves of paper, and a pedantic directness that has finally gotten him noticed. And that’s probably not a good thing. Linus is a Case Worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s the bureaucrat sent to government-sanctioned orphanages to make sure that magical children are safe from one another and that society is shielded from them. That’s not to say that Linus doesn’t have a conscience. He does. But [...]

2024-09-13T21:05:17-07:00September 13th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Contagion

It's In the Water Author: Erin Bowman Zombies? Isolation? Creepy space planets with ice cold waters harboring wavy black seaweed? Inept crews, running out of oxygen with no true weapons? A parasite with an insatiable desire for a host? A self-destruction warning echoing down blood-soaked corridors? Sign me up because these are some of my favorite things! Contagion is told from several viewpoints, and we begin the book by briefly meeting our characters / future zombie chow. There’s Thea, the intern who has landed it big by working for the famous Lisbeth, an aging scientist with a specialized study of Corrarium, [...]

2024-09-02T16:10:08-07:00September 2nd, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |
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