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This post is partnership with Little, Brown and Co! Hey everyone! I'm back with another bookish post and giveaway! Today's feature is the book Humans, Bow Down by James Patterson! While I haven't read this book yet, it's sitting on my nightstand next in line! I have a overview of the book for you to check out and also a fabulous giveaway! Plus, it was just released on Monday, February

Okay... who else loves Jodi Picoult? I'm a little late to the game with reading this book, but maybe some of you haven't read it yet either! I usually pick up all of my books at thrift stores, garage sales or my local library book shop, so most of the time I don't read books until years after they are released. I happen to be a huge fan of Holocaust books, so when I read the description

This post is brought to you in partnership with Redhook! I'm back with another bookish post for you today! Yay! Baby Doll by Hollie Overton! It's an edge of your seat thriller and you can enter the giveaway for a chance to win a hard cover copy for yourself! Thriller books are a favorite of mine and I just started reading my copy of this last night! I made it to page 70 in the first

This post contains affiliate links. Thanks for your support! Y'all have no idea how happy I am to be typing this post!! Finally after a couple years, I'm able to squeeze some reading time back into my life again! What does that mean for you? BOOK REVIEWS! Let's get the "Cool Reads" back into Hot Eats and Cool Reads again! Today I'm sharing a pretty amazing book with all of you! Diane

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Book summary: One man�s search for his missing wife in a dystopian futuristic Helsinki that is struggling with ruthless climate change. It�s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets; the authorities have issued warnings about malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, and the plague.

Summary from Goodreads: A mother�s love vs. A daughter�s revenge. Charlene Shaw has gone through hell. She was raped and left for dead, yet she continued on her quest for fame. She�s a beautiful, desired actress who has found her Mr. Wright. According to the magazine headlines, her life is perfect. There�s just one thing her heart cries for�her daughter, Raven. This might be her hardest

Summary from Goodreads: How far will you go for fame? Fifteen-year-old Charlene Shaw runs away from her small hometown in North Carolina to become an actress. She meets a truck driver, the gold cross around his neck is a good sign that he will get her closer to her dreams; right? On the self destructive road to stardom, Charlene�s using everything in her path to erase the past and the

Summary from Goodreads: Meet Darryl Graham, or as his new neighbors call him, The Man in 3B. Darryl's new to the Jamaica, Queens building, but from day one he's made quite an impression on his neighbors. He has made it very clear he greatly values his privacy, but he is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be, so inquiring minds want to know. Unfortunately, in Darryl's

Summary from Goodreads: At the end of The Passage, the great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. In the second volume of this epic trilogy, this same group of survivors, led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals: the first offensives of the Second Viral

Summary from Goodreads: It�s been a year since a meteor collided with the moon, catastrophically altering the earth�s climate. For Miranda Evans, life as she knew it no longer exists. Her friends and neighbors are dead, the landscape is frozen, and food is increasingly scarce. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda�s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three

Summary from Goodreads: Susan Beth Pfeffer�s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto

Summary from Goodreads: Miranda�s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the

Summary from Goodreads: Susanna Miller may have lost legal custody of her beautiful eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but that doesn't mean she is giving him up. Even if her ex-husband, Jim, an attorney, and his new wife, Peggy, have every advantage to offer a child, Susanna knows the two of them cannot be as caring, loving, and devoted as she has been. Defying a court order to give Tyler

Summary from Goodreads: The compelling sequel to No More Time-Outs finds Wisdom Jones accepting the terms of a deadly proposition from his old enemy: a life for a life. Wisdom Jones�s mother needs a kidney and the only donor is one of his old enemies, Highnoon, who offers the organ for the chance to kill Wisdom. Jones accepts the proposition, but issues a stipulation of his own: he

Description from Goodreads: After ten years of marriage, Asabe and Adam remain childless. Fueled by desperation and a long held secret, Adam marries a second wife. This decision acts as the catalyst to change no one could have predicted. Read An Unproductive Woman to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.

Description from Goodreads: As Pastor George Landris welcomes a new member to the Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center, jealousy begins to shake up the congregation...Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl. But when her life takes a very different turn, it's nt the future she'd envisioned for herself. Feelig a void she can't fill, she fid

Description from Goodreads: How far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life�with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well�Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected�even switch parties from Democrat to Republican. With the political tide turning, Lawrence

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