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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Innocence is a kind of insanity” 





Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer, whose book, Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street was inspired by her own life in early 1950s Socialist Prague—her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace, thus penning a political thriller cum detective novel, that is translated into English by Alex Zucker, an award winning translator.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”




Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author, pens her latest suspense novel, The Wrong Man, which is a heart-stopping thriller about an interior decorator who on a business cum pleasure trip to Florida gets conned by a man about his identity, and little did she knew that a simple stolen identity case would land her up in a dangerous game of illegal medicine trading scam which will put her on the hit list.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."



Frank Freudberg, an American author, has penned a compelling and thoroughly gripping thriller, Find Virgil, which is about a serial killer who goes on a killing spree after his detection of lung cancer due to a second hand smoke, finally resulting in challenging him to shut down all the major cigarrate-making companies, and he doesn't care for if he need to kill in this process.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 





Beth Miller, a debut English author, has penned a heart-touching contemporary story, When We Were Sisters about two friends being step sisters and how this relationship changes the course of their whole loves, moreover, it's also about facing with the harsh realities that come with sudden decisions made by a parent in a child's life.

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.”




Chris Cannon, an American author, pens her new book, Blackmail Boyfriend, which is a cute high school love story between a rich guy and a middle class girl, who blackmails the guy to be her fake boyfriend till a certain rumor dies down, but for that the guy needs to face the girl's three elder dominating brothers, and little bit into the mess and fake boyfriend-girlfriend drama, both started to get real feelings for one another.

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” 





Melissa de la Cruz,a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, pens her new YA book, The Isle of the Lost which is the first book in the Descendants series. This series opener tells the story of all those villains whom we all encountered in all the Disney Princess books and movies, from Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty to the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Jafar from Aladdin to Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians, when they were banished from the kingdom to a lonely island devoid of any magic or charms. This is the villains' story whom we all loved to hate them, but now we get to love them for real!

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.” 





Renée Carlino, USA TODAY bestselling author, pens her latest tear-jerking new adult book, Before We Were Strangers, which is a love story between two people who met at college but then got separated because of their career and jobs, now after a decade and a half when they became strangers to each other, they meet again, and are they once again willing to relive the past as well as willing to write their unfinished love story?

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"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time. "





Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author, pens his new novel, The Fall of Princes that screams being rich and leading a fast life with all the millions that allows one to lead such a lifestyle, and also the 80s when the golden dreams of Wall Street ruled everyone in America, along with it's sprawling downfalls that was so hard to avoid while living on the edge.

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