Wow, the last one for November! Mini-me’s birthday tomorrow so will be running around sorting things out but will aim to reply to the comments. I love playing the guessing game of who voted for what…I fail every time!
The voting was crazy last week and there were 2 books who tied for third…so it obviously means I have to keep both especially as there is one that I am dying to read! There was one vote between 1st and 2nd so close indeed!
So in favour of being visually appealing, what does that mean for who is staying??
What do we have at the end of November then?? Anything more exciting? I know for sure one book that will definitely be staying ???
Caught by Harlan Coben
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Also by this author: Dont Let Go
17 year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate—and nationally televised—sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
The Girl In The Ice (DCI Erika Foster, #1) by Robert Bryndza
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Also by this author: The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard, Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding, Coco Pinchard, The Consequences Of Love And Sex, A Very Coco Christmas, Coco Pinchard's Must-Have Toy Story
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.
When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.
The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London.
What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding?
As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika.
The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she’s faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were viciously murdered by blasts from a shotgun held only inches from their faces. There were almost no clues and no apparent motive for the crime. Five years later, two men were hanged for the crime on a gallows in the Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and death of these six people. The reader is mesmerized with suspense and astonishing empathy as Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers. It is a powerful story of inexorable crime and punishment, even more powerful for underscoring the awareness that it is reality, not literature. It is arguably Truman Capote's masterpiece.
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
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A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.”
At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.
With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.”
Enter Anna’s world and follow her rise from “scrappy little nobody” to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page—with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
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Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
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While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The ship was overcrowded with more than 10,500 passengers — the intended capacity was approximately 1,800 — and more than 9,000 people, including 5,000 children, lost their lives.
Sepetys (writer of 'Between Shades of Gray') crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy. Joana, a Lithuanian with nursing experience; Florian, a Prussian soldier fleeing the Nazis with stolen treasure; and Emilia, a Polish girl close to the end of her pregnancy, converge on their escape journeys as Russian troops advance; each will eventually meet Albert, a Nazi peon with delusions of grandeur, assigned to the Gustloff decks.
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Well an interesting bag this week. Some I am looking at and thinking – really why? And others I am interested to see if they stay!!!
Over to you now!
Until next time xxx
Davida Chazan says
That “Salt to the Sea” sounds amazing!
Zoé says
The cover is amazing too! I have heard so many good things about it
nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog says
Well that was easy vote! Hope Mini Me has a great birthday tomorrow xx
Zoé says
Thanks lovely! Hope she magically grows some listening ears xxx
Kelly says
Excuse me! Where’s my chuck the lot button then?!
noveldeelights says
Right? What the actual fu…dge?!
Zoé says
I forgot it!!! Sorry it’s there now ???
Kelly says
Yeah us Grinches need to be able to chuck the lot don’t we ?
Zoé says
So I’m guessing you did that this week ?
Kelly says
No since the button was missing I actually voted ?
Zoé says
Oops sorry!! I forgot! It’s there now x
gemsquietcorner says
Capote getting my vote ?
Simon says
Happy birthday for mini you…
Zoé says
Thank you ?
Simon says
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Simon says
I hope you’ve been well 🙂
Zoé says
Getting there! It’s been hectic! How are you?
Simon says
It’s been hectic here too… I’m getting somewhere but I’m not sure where ?