Summary: One of Us Is Lying is a gripping young adult mystery that unfolds in a high school setting. The story revolves around five students - Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, Cooper, and Simon - who find themselves in detention together. Simon, the creator of a notorious gossip app at school, was about to reveal devastating secrets about his fellow classmates, but suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances in the detention room. The remaining four students quickly become suspects in what turns into a murder investigation.
It’s the summer of 1942 in Paris. Sarah is ten years old when officers come to her family’s apartment telling them that they must come with them and leave their home. Sarah is completely vulnerable as she has no idea why this is happening, and in the heat of the moment, she tells her brother to stay in the cupboard, locking him inside. The issue that Sarah's soon comes to realize is that her brother has no food and water and he has no way to get out and the key that Sarah holds will not be able to make it to help him.
One of my all time favorite books! This book follows Macy and Elliot. After the death of Macy’s mother, she is struggling. That is when she meets Elliot. This book follows their growing friendship and love. Until they fall apart. But with a duel timeline, you are also able to read about their rekindling. You are able to see how they gain back what they lost. Their friendship is beautifully written and you get very connected to the characters. It did take me a little to get into the book, but once I got a couple chapters in, I could not put the book down!
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and small-town Alabama Scout Finch gives us a glimpse into growing up during the 1930s. Scout lives with her dad and brother and their housekeeper Calpurnia. Scout’s dad is a lawyer who is representing an African American man who is being wrongly charged for rape. Scout also experiences fear in her neighbor because her family lives next to the supposed town crazy Boo Radley.
Georgia Ford, a real estate lawyer in San Francisco, discovers a secret that her fiancé kept and goes to her family home in Sonoma a week before her wedding. She expects comfort from her family in her hometown, but when she learns that they are selling the Sonoma vineyard that she grew up on, she wants nothing but to save it and her family. However, she meets Jacob, the soon-to-be owner, and learns more family secrets that could threaten to break the family apart. So, Georgia handles the problems, overcomes the obstacles, and decides on a new path for her life that she didn’t expect.
The play starts with seeing the burning anger of a man named Iago and all of his plans and schemes for the future. One of the people he wants to ruin is Othello, a great and mighty general in the city of Venice. Iago has burning jealousy throughout the book and wants to be better than Othello. Iago also plans on helping his close friend, Roderigo, and his wishes to win over Desdemona, who is Othello’s wife. Throughout the play, Iago gains the trust of and manipulates almost every character to get his way and the ultimate goal of power and to watch the demise of others.
If you are into true crime and are looking for a compelling, nail-biting, and somewhat gruesome story, The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule is the book for you.
Won, the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA, rose to stardom as one of the best players on the team as he filled in after “Powerball!” got injured. A Korean American TV producer, Carrie is working to get K-dramas onto the American stage. Won wants to be a basketball star and renew his temporary contract with the New York Knicks, while Carrie wants to bring representative Korean shows to America.
The NearWitchfollows the main character, Lexi, in her search for the town’s missing children, attempts to learn more about an unnamed stranger, and questions about whether childhood stories are more than scary tales after all.
The Alchemyst is the first book of a 6-book series called The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Nicholas Flamel was a real person, an alchemist said to have discovered the elixir of life which would make you immortal. The records showed that he died in 1418. Josh and Sophie Newman are two twins living in San Francisco during the summer. Josh is working at a bookstore and his boss is a man named Nick Fleming.
