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Three Plantations - Two Wishes - One Ancient Curse

Check out the book trailer below for Compulsion by Martina Boone.

Beautiful Creatures meets The Body Finder in Compulsion, the first novel in a spellbinding new trilogy.

After the death of her disfigured, shut-in mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation, which is guarded by an ancient spirit who cursed one of the island's three founding families and gave the others magical gifts that become compulsions. (Publisher Summary)

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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine & Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

Check out the book trailer below for William J. Mann's new book, Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood!

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Book Trailer: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

Liar Temptress, Solider, Spy by Karen Abbott

In Liar Temptress, Soldier, Spy, author Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farm girl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who were spies. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war.

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Book Trailer: Cold Light

Attention all fans of crime fiction! Jenn Ashworth's Cold Light is a beautifully haunting psychological thriller with a darkly compelling story. The author, who may liken to Tana French and Laura Lippman, made a buzz in the UK with her debut novel, and follows up with a great sophomore effort which focuses on two teenager girls in the English countryside and the secrets that are revealed when a dead body is found.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda