by Dermot Ross

4.6 stars – 17 reviews

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Ernest Hemingway wouldn’t approve of all the glowing adjectives, but there’s no denying that Hemingway’s Goblet is smart, witty and at times uproariously funny. Dermot Ross has created a memorable and flawed lead character named Nick Harrieson, a divorced middle-aged law professor who is popular with students at his university in London but haplessly (and hopelessly) naive and noncommittal when it comes to his relationships with women. Nick doesn’t help himself when he allows himself to be drawn into an ill-advised relationship with one of his masters students, a Korean woman named Adrienne. Soon he finds himself the subject of a sexual harassment allegation. Forced to take a one-month leave while the university investigates, he learns that his grandfather was in Pamplona in the 1920s, and in due course he finds out that the goblet sitting on his sister’s mantlepiece with a mysterious inscription was a gift from Hemingway to Grandpa Harrieson in 1925. Nick’s quest to learn more about his grandfather and the goblet leads to his joining forces with Adrienne as they uncover some unsavory revelations about the great author. Nick also is forced to confront a number of aspects about his own character and life.

This clever literary gem is much more than a novel. It takes readers on a wild ride from London to Auckland to Thailand to Hemingway’s Spain. Dermot Ross provides a gentle leg-pull on many of Hemingway’s renowned and toxic characteristics, but without disrespecting the quality of Hemingway’s writings. The portrait of the Nobel Prize winner that emerges is comical and at
times scandalous.

The book is part mystery, part romance, part historical fiction, and all parts delightfully rollicking.

by Christina Lauren

4.4 stars – 34,396 reviews

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On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a captivating short story by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners.

One typo, and a boy and girl connect by chance. Wishing each other a happy Valentine’s Day isn’t the end. In fact, it becomes a friendly annual tradition—with rules: no pics, no real names, nothing too personal. As years pass, the rules for their email “dates” are breaking, and they’re sharing more than they imagined—including the urge to ask…what if we actually met?

Christina Lauren’s The Exception to the Rule is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.

by Mike Omer

4.3 stars – 22,875 reviews

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After a year in captivity, a kidnapped child escapes—only to reveal horrific truths that lead her psychologist on a race against time in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mike Omer.

When eight-year-old Kathy Stone turns up on the side of the road a year after her abduction, the world awaits her harrowing story. But Kathy doesn’t say a word. Traumatized by her ordeal, she doesn’t speak at all, not even to her own parents.

Child therapist Robin Hart is the only one who’s had success connecting with the girl. Robin has been using play therapy to help Kathy process her memories. But as their work continues, Kathy’s playtime takes a grim turn: a doll stabs another doll, a tiny figurine is chained to a plastic toy couch. All of these horrifying moments, enacted within a Victorian doll house. Every session, another toy dies.

But the most disturbing detail? Kathy seems to be playacting real unsolved murders.

Soon Robin wonders if Kathy not only holds the key to the murders of the past but if she knows something about the murders of the future. Can Robin unlock the secrets in Kathy’s brain and stop a serial killer before he strikes again? Or is Robin’s work with Kathy putting her in the killer’s sights?