Meanwhile, at an all boys public school in Berkshire…. Mr. Ward: Right class, books out, pens out, cocks away. What? No, you can’t be excused. And no, I don’t care if you’ve had your kneecaps stapled together. Stop your snivelling, go sit down and stop bleeding all over the floor. Now, today class, we’re going … Continue reading "A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke"

The mass-market tie-in edition of the first novel in Lee Child's #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series-the inspiration for the new Prime Video series Reacher. Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell. Story Locale: Rural Georgia Series Overview: Jack Reacher was a military policeman. Now he's part drifter and part knight errant-mostly he's a force of nature.

Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis The inspiration for a new film starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard, Steve Coogan, and Onata Aprile After her parents’ bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie—solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years—is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. Published in 1897 as Henry James was experimenting with narrative technique and fascinated by the idea of the child’s-eye view, What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society.

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Meanwhile, at an all boys public school in Berkshire…. Mr. Ward: Right class, books out, pens out, cocks away. What? No, you can’t be excused. And no, I don’t care if you’ve had your kneecaps stapled together. Stop your snivelling, go sit down and stop bleeding all over the floor. Now, today class, we’re going … Continue reading "A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke"

Meanwhile, at an all boys public school in Berkshire…. Mr. Ward: Right class, books out, pens out, cocks away. What? No, you can’t be excused. And no, I don’t care if you’ve had your kneecaps stapled together. Stop your snivelling, go sit down and stop bleeding all over the floor. Now, today class, we’re going … Continue reading "A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke"

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the author of Everything, Everything is now a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! This movie tie-in edition features key movie cover art and a photo insert. Natasha: Im a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never…

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NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Praise for Sharp Objects “Nasty, addictive reading.” —Chicago Tribune “Skillful and disturbing.” —Washington Post “Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale.” —People

Meanwhile, at an all boys public school in Berkshire…. Mr. Ward: Right class, books out, pens out, cocks away. What? No, you can’t be excused. And no, I don’t care if you’ve had your kneecaps stapled together. Stop your snivelling, go sit down and stop bleeding all over the floor. Now, today class, we’re going … Continue reading "A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke"

About The Beguiled (Movie Tie-In) The basis for the major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola—named best director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled —and  starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning “[A] mad gothic tale . . . The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies.” —Stephen King, in Danse Macabre   Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?

Meanwhile, at an all boys public school in Berkshire…. Mr. Ward: Right class, books out, pens out, cocks away. What? No, you can’t be excused. And no, I don’t care if you’ve had your kneecaps stapled together. Stop your snivelling, go sit down and stop bleeding all over the floor. Now, today class, we’re going … Continue reading "A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke"

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About Lore (Movie Tie-in Edition) Now a Major Motion Picture: in Lore , Rachel Seiffert powerfully examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans–both survivors of the war and the generations that succeeded them.   It is spring of 1945, just weeks after the defeat of Germany. A teenage German girl named Lore has been left to fend for herself. Her parents have been arrested by the Allies, and she has four younger siblings to care for. Together, they set off on a harrowing journey to find their grandmother. As we follow Lore on a 500-mile trek through the four zones of occupation, Seiffert evokes the experiences of the individual with astonishing emotional depth and psychological acuity.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd drifts through northern Texas, performing live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world—of the Irish pouring into New York City, of the railroad driving into the new state of Nebraska, of an eruption of Popocatépetl near Mexico City. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain once made his living as a printer, until the War Between the States took his press and everything with it. Now, at seventy-one, he enjoys the freedom of the road, even if his body aches and money is scarce. At a stop in Wichita Falls, Captain Kidd is offered a fifty-dollar gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives near San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders viciously killed Johanna Leonberger’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as their own. Recently recovered by the U.S. Army, the ten-year-old with blue eyes and hair the color of maple sugar has once again been torn away from the only home and family she knows. The captain’s sense of duty and of compassion propels him to accept, though he knows the journey will be long and difficult. Winding through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain, the four-hundred-mile odyssey south proves dangerous as well. A corrupt Reconstruction administration runs the state government, and anarchy and lawlessness have taken hold. The captain must watch for thieves, Comanches and Kiowas, and the federal army—and corral the wild Johanna. Small and thin, the despondent child has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the wary Johanna slowly draws closer to the man she calls “Kep-dun,” and the two lonely survivors forge a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. But in San Antonio another hurdle awaits, one that will force this respectable man to make a terrible choice that will determine Johanna’s fate—and his own. Unfolding in gorgeous prose, News of the World is a vivid portrait that captures a beautiful and hostile land, and a masterful eploration of the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

While the usual suspects (best-sellers and movie/TV crossovers) are there, the most wishlisted audiobooks on Audible this year also include some hidden gems

Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.

About The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition The extraordinary #1  New York Times  bestselling story about the ability of books to feed the soul is now a major motion picture.   This enhanced ebook edition is perfect for new fans and collectors alike. It includes:   ·      An exclusive video welcome to the enhanced edition from Markus Zusak. ·      The official movie trailer for The Book Thief. ·      Videos featurettes introducing Sophie Nélisse (Leisel Meminger) and Geoffrey Rush (Hans Hubermann) and their roles in the film. ·      Clips from the film embedded in the original text. ·      A video interview with Markus Zusak.   It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.   Liesel Meminger is a foster girl who scratches out a meager existence by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist: books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.  In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of  I Am the Messenger,  has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. DON’T MISS  BRIDGE OF CLAY , MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE  THE BOOK THIEF .

Discover a summer love story like no other: now a major motion picture starring Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger, and perfect for fans of The Fault in our Stars and Everything, Everything. Katie can't leave her house during the day: she has a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. But everything changes when one night, singing her heart out on a deserted station platform, she meets Charlie. Before the night is out, Katie is smitten. But she hasn't told Charlie her secret. She just wants to have her normal love story, before reality kicks in. Lost in her night-time summer romance, Katie knows that love will light the way.

The classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None. William Makepeace Thackeray's witty literary classic Vanity Fair is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows anti-heroine and ruthless social climber Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking heart and fortunes as she goes. ITV's new adaptation of will be one of the biggest drama series of 2018: its script comes from BAFTA-nominated writer Gwyneth Hughes, the series is co-produced by leading production companies Mammoth Screen and Amazon Studios, and Olivia Cooke - star of Steven Spielberg's hit blockbuster Ready Player One - plays Thackeray's timeless heroine Becky Sharp. Read the book before you see the series, then devour it all over again.

About Ashes in the Snow (Movie Tie-In) An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys’s Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow ! This special movie tie-in edition features 16 pages of color movie stills starring Bel Powley and Jonah Hauer-King in never-before-seen footage and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie, plus a brand-new letter from the author! “Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both.” — The Washington Post Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life — until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in her art, documenting these events by drawing. Risking everything, she imbeds clues in her drawings of their location and secretly passes them along, hoping her drawings will make their way to her father’s prison camp. But will strength, love, and hope be enough for Lina and her family to survive? A moving and haunting novel perfect for readers of The Book Thief . Praise for Between Shades of Gray : “Superlative. A hefty emotional punch.” — The New York Times Book Review “Heart-wrenching . . . an eye-opening reimagination of a very real tragedy written with grace and heart.” — The Los Angeles Times “At once a suspenseful, drama-packed survival story, a romance, and an intricately researched work of historial fiction.” — The Wall Street Journal * “Beautifully written and deeply felt . . . An important book that deserves the widest possible readership.” — Booklist , starred review A New York Times Notable book An international bestseller A Carnegie Medal nominee A William C. Morris Award finalist A Golden Kite Award winner A Best Children’s Book of 2011 selection from The Wall Street Journal, PW, SLJ, Booklist,Kirkus, iTunes, Amazon, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Columbus Dispatch ILA Notable Book for a Global Society Award winner Winner of 10 international book prizes across France, Sweden, Belgium, Lithuania, and Canada 26 state award lists 4 starred reviews And more!

Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne's hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love. Lucy Hutton has always believed that the nice girl can get the corner office. She's charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone. Everyone except sarcastic, cynical, and intimidating Joshua Templeman. Her nemesis. Josh is the dark and brooding to Lucy's light and cheery, the crisp pressed suit to her retro outfits and bright red lipstick. And he gets under her skin like no one else can. Trapped in a shared office together five days a week, they've become entrenched in an addictive, never-ending game of one-upmanship. When a new executive position is announced, Josh and Lucy are top contenders for the promotion, but the idea of working for the other is so unthinkable that they strike a deal: whoever doesn't get the job will walk away. The stakes have never been higher and as the competition heats up and the barriers between them begin to fall down, Lucy starts questioning just who her opponent truly is and whether this man she's hated all this time is even the real Josh. Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn't hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn't hate her either.

Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis A companion edition to the TV series from Masterpiece on PBS Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.

Stars: 5 out of 5 Pros: Great moments with the characters amid two very good mysteries Cons: None for fans Bottom Line: Dale the Whale is back Competing with accidents For Monk's attention Mr. Monk and the End of an Era The fifteenth tie in novel to the TV show Monk represents a second ending for the detective. No, the books aren’t coming to an end, but this is author Lee Goldberg’s last one, and he’s written all of them so far. He goes out with a bang in Mr. Monk Gets Even. To fully appreciate this book, you need a working basis of the TV show and to read at least the last 3 or 4 books in the series. Monk, being the obsessive compulsive person he is, would recommend watching all the episodes and reading all the books in order, and I certainly won’t argue with that. There are quite a few references to past events here, so it will help to have some context for them. The very minimum you need to know? Monk is a phobic, obsessive compulsive detective who is brilliant because those little things that drive him to distraction are also the little clues that help him solve cases. This books opens six months after the last one ended, which means it’s been six months since Natalie, Monk’s former assistant, moved to Summit, New Jersey, and began her new life as a police officer. However, she is finding she misses her life in San Francisco and the excitement that Monk brought to it. The biggest case she’s had involves stolen laundry detergent. Meanwhile, Natalie’s daughter Julie has been working as Monk’s new assistant until he can find someone permanent. But he’s got two cases to distract him right now. First, there’s a series of accidents that Monk identifies as murder. Who is the common connection? Even more worrisome, Monk’s old nemesis Dale the Whale is out of prison to have an operation. Might this be part of a larger plan to escape? Both mysteries weave in and out of the story, and both kept me entertained. While I can often guess where Mr. Goldberg is going with his plots, both had me baffled here. Yet the solutions were certainly logical in the end. But the real reason fans will want to read this book are the characters. These books have always expanded on their relationships from the TV show, but since the series ended, we’ve begun to see some remarkable growth in them. The last few books especially have started some arcs, and Mr. Goldberg brings them to a wonderful conclusion here. I love how he left them. That not only includes the main characters from the TV series but also some minor ones and even a few he’s invented. I read the last few chapters with a smile on my face. Of course, I was often smiling as I read the book since much of the humor from the series is still here. If I wasn’t smiling, I was laughing out loud because things were that funny. The series of Monk novels will continue with a new author (and former producer of the show) taking over. And I’m planning to give them a read as well. But wherever the characters go from here, Mr. Monk Gets Even is a great farewell from Lee Goldberg. Interested in reading more? Since this is Monk, you'll have to read the Monk Novels in order.