Sandy, Breaking the Pattern
Raised to a life of crime, Sandy is a teenage prostitute, junkie, and con artist. But can she escape her past and build a new future?
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Henry, Breaking the Pattern
Henry is an intense, heartwarming story about Henry’s descent into darkness. Can he escape the darkness or will it consume him?
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Darkness Before the Dream
Willie Laplante is happy to welcome his daughter back to the reservation in northern Manitoba. But Nicole has not overcome her challenges and her arrival does not herald the healing of their differences.
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Lose Yourself in The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
I just finished reading The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten, an author I don’t think I have read before. What a great book! Toten writes about Adam Spencer Ross, a teen battling OCD, and his family and group relationships as well as the girl in group that he falls in love with and vows to “save.”
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Artemis Runs Afowl in The Atlantis Complex
The Atlantis Complex is book 7 in the Artemis Fowl series. In this episode, Artemis is suffering from a fictional dissociative mental illness which makes it difficult for him to manage even his day-to-day activities. The spy/inventor/criminal mastermind who is usually ahead of the game in every instance is really suffering in this installment.
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Rick Riordan has Another Hit with Magnus Chase
I have just started Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 1 the Sword of Summer. I am a little behind in getting in on the Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan, seeing as there are already three books out in the series. But this is the first time it has shown up on my suggested reading list.
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Pain, Medical Kidnap Files #5 and Other Freebies
Ready for another freebie roundup?
This weekend only, you can get Pain, book #5 of the Medical Kidnap files for free at ebook retailers.
When your child is in pain, everything else takes a backseat.
Fae Glover has put everything else on hold while she tries to help her daughter to get a diagnosis and effective treatment. Unfortunately, DFS has other ideas and in short order has apprehended Hannah. And they have no intention of ever giving her back.
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Stay home and read new releases
I know, the Black Friday sales have already started and you should be getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner, and this year is just weird. Wouldn’t you rather curl up with a good book and let everyone else do the shopping?
Today is the release of Pain, book #5 in my Medical Kidnap Files series. As with all of my books, Pain can be read as a standalone or together with the rest of the series. If you want to start with book #1, you can pick up Mito for free.
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Reading List: Books with Racially Diverse Main Characters
There are an increasing number of books out there featuring BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour) main characters. The “default” is still white main characters, but the call for more diverse characters is louder and more insistent, and authors are stepping up to fill the gap. BIPOC authors writing characters from their own cultures (#ownvoices) are particularly sought after.
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Back to school – time to hit the books
It is about time to go back to school. Some of you may have started/your kids may have started already. Here, I don’t think any of the schools have opened back up yet, but they will be soon. School may be a very different experience this year. Some of you are suddenly homeschooling or online schooling. Some may be going back to classrooms with different setups to allow for social distancing. And some may be going back to “normal.”
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