A Deadly Search for Emily

A Deadly Search for Emily
Author: John Paul Carinci
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665720867

Brett is contemplating his upcoming sixty-fifth birthday when his life is suddenly ended in a horrific car accident. As he begins the transition from Earth to the afterlife, Brett receives a visit from his English spirit guide. When Ashley presents him with a choice to either stay in the hereafter or return to Earth, Brett must make an agonizing decision without knowing what awaits him. Brett, who was adopted at birth, chooses to return for one reason: he wants to find the biological family he never knew. With help from his spirit guide and records, Brett locates a living set of twin siblings and learns why his mother gave him up for adoption. When his DNA results mysteriously lead him to a different biological sister, he soon discovers she is dying and has no contact with the twins. Determined to solve the DNA mystery, he reaches out to her. Unfortunately he is about to make an even more alarming discovery—someone wants him dead. But why? In this exciting tale, a man cheats death to search for the biological family he never knew and soon discovers that someone is out to kill him.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Author: Heather Fawcett
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593500148

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. “A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, PopSugar Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, muddle Emily’s research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart. Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Hotel Magnifique

Hotel Magnifique
Author: Emily J. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 059340453X

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Hotel Magnifique opened the door to a sumptuous and glittering world of magic and mysteries and left me enchanted. Perfect for fans of Caraval and The Night Circus.” –Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows and Small Favors For fans of Caraval and The Night Circus, this decadent and darkly enchanting YA fantasy, set against the backdrop of a Belle Époque-inspired hotel, follows seventeen-year-old Jani as she uncovers the deeply disturbing secrets of the legendary Hotel Magnifique. All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister, Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town. The hotel is legendary not only for its whimsical enchantments, but also for its ability to travel—appearing in a different destination every morning. While Jani and Zosa can’t afford the exorbitant costs of a guest’s stay, they can interview to join the staff, and are soon whisked away on the greatest adventure of their lives. But once inside, Jani quickly discovers their contracts are unbreakable and that beneath the marvelous glamour, the hotel is hiding dangerous secrets. With the vexingly handsome doorman, Bel, as her only ally, Jani embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of the magic at the heart of the hotel and free Zosa—and the other staff—from the cruelty of the ruthless maître d’hôtel. To succeed, she’ll have to risk everything she loves, but failure would mean a fate far worse than never returning home.

Perfectly Famous

Perfectly Famous
Author: Emily Liebert
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982110317

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Pretty Revenge—a “gripping tale of subterfuge, betrayal, and retribution” (Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)—comes the story of a journalist obsessed with finding a crime novelist who disappears after a deadly attack on her beloved daughter. As a mother and a famous author, Ward DeFleur has it all. She lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until, one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered and Ward’s entire world is shattered. Consumed by panic and grief, Ward vows never to put pen to paper again. Enter Bree Bennett. Bree is a recently-divorced, former-journalist-cum-housewife, desperate to fill her days with something other than Pilates classes and grocery shopping. So she decides to start writing for the town newspaper. What begins as Bree’s effort to tell Ward’s tragic narrative turns into a fixation with finding her favorite author. Unfortunately, Ward doesn’t want to be found. Even worse, Stevie’s killer is still on the loose… This harrowing tale of one woman’s infatuation and another woman’s fear is full of explosive surprises, perfect for fans of The Night Olivia Fell and Then She Was Gone.

Deadly Home

Deadly Home
Author: Trisha Grace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Having your motion sensor alarm triggered at two in the morning is never a good thing-especially if you have a target on your back.Emily Bennett is tired of traveling around the world and chasing story after story as an investigative journalist. She is tired of living-as her parents have always said-recklessly.Now that she is a successful murder-mystery writer, she thinks it is time to try and lead a normal life.Time to settle down and live life quietly.And she is doing just that-in the picturesque beach town of Anchorville, Oregon.But two weeks after moving into her beautiful new home, a man triggers her motion sensor alarm at two in the morning.Minutes later, she is in the living room-a gun in hand-facing down the intruder.An intruder who is supposed to be dead.Emily wants answers. Unfortunately, Alexander Lewis doesn't have any. He has lost his memory and is more confused about the situation than she is.Emily doesn't know what to do. She is supposed to be done with being reckless. She can't possibly let Alexander stay, especially not when she suspects his aunt may be a murderer ... right?*Previous published as Home To You by Trisha Grace

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Author: Emily Austin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 1982167351

"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.

Searching for Zion

Searching for Zion
Author: Emily Raboteau
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 080219379X

From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).

Emily's Vengeance

Emily's Vengeance
Author: Stephen Van Scoyoc
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2001-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595170633

Emily was a happy, bubbly little girl until events took a tragic turn one summer night in Galveston, Texas. Suddenly her mother and sister are dead and Emily is left dying in the swamp while the murderer calmly drives away. Emily’s life is spared when she is found and rushed to hospital with critical head injuries. The killer is tracked down, tried, and convicted. In the months to come Emily appears to recover fully, but there remains a deeper, unhealed injury. Emily and her father settle back into a comfortable life before fate strikes another sudden blow and Emily is left alone. Sorting through the personal effects of her father she discovers his darker side. She learns from a diary that he had plotted a bitter revenge against the murderer and his family. Emily makes a solemn vow and retrieves the gauntlet her father dropped. As a series of unfortunate deaths begin to occur in the convicted man’s family who could have suspected that they were being committed by such a young, charming, and educated woman? Even if they suspected they would never catch her — but things are not at all what they seem.

This Cruel Design

This Cruel Design
Author: Emily Suvada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481496387

Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, she must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control in this thrilling sequel to This Mortal Coil, which New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman says “redefines ‘unputdownable.’” The nightmare of the outbreak is finally over, but Cat’s fight has only just begun. Exhausted, wounded, and reeling from revelations that have shaken her to her core, Cat is at a breaking point. Camped in the woods with Cole and Leoben, she’s working day and night, desperate to find a way to stop Lachlan’s plan to reprogram humanity. But she’s failing—Cat can’t even control her newly regrown panel, and try as she might to ignore them, she keeps seeing glitching visions from her past everywhere she turns. When news arrives that the Hydra virus might not be as dead as they’d thought, the group is pushed into an uneasy alliance with Cartaxus to hunt down Lachlan and fix the vaccine. Their search takes them to Entropia, a city of gene-hackers hidden deep in the desert that could also hold the answers about Cat’s past that she’s been searching for. But when confronted with lies and betrayals, Cat is forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts. And while Lachlan is always two steps ahead, the biggest threat to Cat may be the secrets buried in her own mind.

A Crimson Warning

A Crimson Warning
Author: Tasha Alexander
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429951052

Secrets prove deadly in this new novel from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves. Some very prominent people in London are waking up to find their doorsteps smeared with red paint, the precursor to the revelation of a dark secret – and worse – by someone who enjoys destroying lives Newly returned to her home in Mayfair, Lady Emily Hargreaves is looking forward to enjoying the delights of the season. The delights, that is, as defined by her own eccentricities—reading The Aeneid, waltzing with her dashing husband, and joining the Women's Liberal Federation in the early stages of its campaign to win the vote for women. But an audacious vandal disturbs the peace in the capital city, splashing red paint on the neat edifices of the homes of London's elite. This mark, impossible to hide, presages the revelation of scandalous secrets, driving the hapless victims into disgrace, despair and even death. Soon, all of London high society is living in fear of learning who will be the next target, and Lady Emily and her husband, Colin, favorite agent of the crown, must uncover the identity and reveal the motives of the twisted mind behind it all before another innocent life is lost.