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Kindle:  947 KB Print:  162 pages Publisher:  CSP/Createspace (Jan. 16 2018) ASIN:  B0792WTNP6 AMAZON Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself 'The Gingerbread Man' is dumping mutilated bodies in her district.  While avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before he kills again...and Jack is next on his murder list.  Whiskey Sour is the first book in the bestselling Jack Daniels series, full of laugh-out-loud humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense. About the Author J.A. Konrath is the author of the Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels series that includes “Whiskey

Welcome to week 432! HAPPY CANADA DAY WEEKEND! RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . Here is my snippet from page 56 on my Kindle... View this post on Instagram Another intense and fast-paced read by J.A. Konrath for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jun 28, 2019 at 7:54am PDT Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. Q:  Would you or do you choose a book solely on the cover? A: I have. Sometimes it pays off and other times it does not.

AVAILABLE NOW! 963 minutes 5 Discs AMAZON A kind of a Desperate Housewives for teens, Pretty Little Liars follows four high-school girls as they struggle to deal with the unthinkable tragedy of the disappearance and probable murder of their best friend Alison. There's also the usual angst that comes with stress over school exams and getting into a good college, teen romance and sexuality, navigating the high-school rumor mill and popularity chain, small-town nosiness, and rocky parent and adult relationships. Rosewood is a little town in Pennsylvania with a troublemaker on the loose and a bunch of buried secrets. A year after Alison's death, BFFs Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily have grown apart, but are forced back together by the discovery of Alison's body, her funeral, and threatening texts and notes that start appearing from a mysterious person who signs the notes "A" and seems to know things that only Alison could possibly know. Each of

Kindle:  947 KB Print:  162 pages Publisher:  CSP/Createspace (Jan. 16 2018) ASIN:  B0792WTNP6 AMAZON Nia, a 14-year-old Bulgarian-American girl, ditches her private school and takes a train from Sofia en route to Berlin to confront her ex-boyfriend. On the way, she meets a wise, geriatric American named Kurt who has a knack for killing people unintentionally. On the lam across Eastern Europe, where will Kurt and Nia's intersecting journeys lead them? The Unusual Suspects is a heart-warming, coming-of-age adventure. Dominic Carrillo is a teacher and award-winning author from San Diego, CA. He began creative writing during graduate school at UCLA. His debut novel, TO BE FRANK DIEGO, tells the tragicomic story of one man's pedestrian journey through the city of San Diego. AMERICANO ABROAD is a collection of Sedaris-inspired travel stories based on his blog. THE IMPROBABLE RISE OF PACO JONES is his debut YA novel and winner of the San Diego Book Award. THE UN

Welcome to week 431! RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . Here is my snippet from location 568 on my Kindle... View this post on Instagram A fun piece of literature that has you joining the joyride. #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jun 20, 2019 at 5:22pm PDT Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. Q:  Which is your favorite library (or which would you most like to visit)? 2. How often do you visit the library? A: I can only think of the revolving library

AVAILABLE NOW! Rated R 117 minutes AMAZON From Academy Award-winning visionary Jordan Peele comes another original nightmare. Starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and Winston Duke (Black Panther), an endearing American family is pitted against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. REVIEW: Started out really weird, and not the good weird, just the weird you don't understand. Love the carnival bit though... eerie. Took about 40 minutes to get to the good stuff, the horror part of the film. It picked up speed pretty fast after that. I found myself getting jumpy. It's unrealistic, but that's what heightens the fear. Great actors, even the children. It is hard to make weird make sense, but they somehow did. Believably at that. In the end, even I wanted all the doppelgangers dead. I don't get the bunnies, never will I expect, but that's ok. It's the only part of the movie that is ir

AVAILABLE NOW! Rated PG 123 minutes AMAZON After crashing an experimental aircraft, Air Force pilot Carol Danvers is discovered by the Kree and trained as a member of the elite Starforce Military under the command of her mentor Yon-Rogg. Six years later, after escaping to Earth while under attack by the Skrulls, Danvers begins to discover there's more to her past. With help from S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury, they set out to unravel the truth. REVIEW: Great graphics, great soundtrack and great action scenes. I didn't care for the alien and their way too human vocabulary. I felt like he was too Earth for a being who came from out of this world. The alien dude did have jokes though, which kind of made up for the shoddy acting. This story of Carol, a.k.a. Captain Marvel, is of how she came to have powers and her life. If you like bad guys, Jude Law is always an epic villain. Sadly though, if you're watching for a story line, you will be

Kindle:  4331 KB Print:  188 pages Publisher:  BUOY MEDIA; 3 edition (Nov. 9 2013) ASIN:  B009YLKRAO AMAZON It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust, and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to meet with a stranger from an S&M chatroom. She met him for dinner that later led to casual, anonymous sex in the hotel room at the local inn. But someone else showed up in the room, and suddenly it was no longer a game. Zeeland Times star reporter Rebekka Franck and her photographer Sune are covering the case for the newspaper, and soon they find themselves deeply involved in a story of terrifying horror and ugly secrets. It is the sequel to the International bestseller, One, Two, He Is coming For You . Willow Rose has written another mystery-series that also takes place in the small kingdom of Denmark. Currently she has released 10 books in her Emma Frost-series. She has also just released the first book in a new series taking place in Cocoa beach, Flo

Welcome to week 430! Happy Father's day to all the dads out there, especially my husband and my dad in heaven. 💙 RULES: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your  ereader . If you have to improvise, that is okay. *Find a snippet, short and sweet. *Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below. Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56 Happy weekend to you all! Check out this read on  Amazon . Here is my snippet from page 56 on my Kindle... View this post on Instagram One of my favorite thriller authors for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 Book 2 in the Rebekka Frank series. A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Jun 13, 2019 at 7:47pm PDT Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. Q:  Have you ever been called a