Book Club

[beach-mom]

Happy October everyone!

The Nook Free Friday selection for October 7 is an audio book:

Set the Night on Fire by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by Diane Piron Gelman

Lila Hilliard returns home to Chicago for the holidays only to find someone is stalking her. Her father and brother are trapped in a fire, and a man on a motorcycle tries to shoot her. As she desperately tries to figure out who is after her and why, she uncovers information about her father's past indicating he was part of the volatile movement of young people during the late Sixties. Which means her parents were not the people she thought they were. Part thriller, part historical novel, part love story, Set The Night on Fire tells an extraordinary tale about the stormy late Sixties, and a group of idealists who were sure they would change the world.

*Sounds interesting!  Enjoy! 

[beach-mom]

The Free Friday selection for October 14 is 

Pillow Stalk (A Madison Night Series #1) by Diane Vallere

Interior Decorator Madison Night might look like a throwback to the sixties, but as business owner and landlord, she proves that independent women can have it all.

But when a killer targets women dressed in Madison's signature style--estate sale vintage to play up her resemblance to fave actress Doris Day--what makes her unique might make her dead.

The local detective connects the new crime to a twenty-year-old cold case, and Madison's long-trusted contractor emerges as the leading suspect.

As the body count piles up, Madison uncovers a Soviet spy, a campaign to destroy all Doris Day movies, and six minutes of film that will change her life forever.

[Stargazer77]

The Nook Free Friday selection for October 21st is an audiobook with a running time of almost 8 hours:

Fluent Forever:  How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner

Memory is the greatest challenge to learning a foreign language; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, making fluency seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. Starting with pronunciation, you'll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

[beach-mom]

Thanks @Stargazer77! I was away and had a spotty Internet connection!  

[beach-mom]

The Free Friday selection for October 28 is the perfect book for Halloween. It is an audio book only - not available in other formats. If you like spooky stories being read to you, enjoy!  

Come Join Us By the Fire by Various Artists 

Nighties Books, a new horror imprint from Tor Books, is proud to present 35 audio-only horror short stories showcasing the breadth of talent in today's field.

Theresa DeLucci, editor of Come Join Us By the Fire, says, “We wanted this long list of stories to showcase the scope of modern horror, from the cosmic and Lovecraftian, the beloved undead tropes of zombies, ghosts, and slashers, to the more uncanny and internal terrors of isolation, lost love, aging, and one of the briefest, most distressing alien abduction stories you'll ever hear (`No Matter Which Way We Turned' by 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Brian Evenson.)”

The authors also reflect the diversity of horror as a field, with selections from horror grandmasters such as Joe R. Lansdale; New York Times bestsellers like Richard Kadrey and Victor LaValle; exciting new voices including recent Bram Stoker Award winner Gwendolyn Kiste (The Rust Maidens), Cassandra Khaw, and Michael Wehunt; and literary crossover stars such as Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties), National Book Award finalist and winner of the the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.

There's something for every listener, so come join us by the fire and hear tales not to tell against the dark... but to embrace it.

Contents
“No Matter Which Way We Turned” - Brian Evenson
“Daddy” - Victor LaValle
“This Guy” - Chuck Wendig
“Flayed Ed” - Richard Kadrey
“The Pond” - Paul Tremblay
“Her Body, Herself” - Carmen Maria Machado
“The Girls in the Horror Movie” - Gwendolyn Kiste
“These Deathless Bones” - Cassandra Khaw
“It Washed Up” - Joe R. Lansdale
“Stemming the Tide” - Simon Strantzas
“Midnight Caller” - Stephen Graham Jones
“Black Bark” - Brian Evenson
“The Anatomist's Mnemonic” - Priya Sharma
“Rabbit Heart” - Alyssa Wong
“The Beasts of the Earth, The Madness of Men” - Brooke Bolander
“Cold, Silent, and Dark” - Kary English
“When the Zombies Win” - Karina Sumner-Smith
“Harold the Spider Man” - Paul Tremblay
“Ponies” - Kij Johnson
“Black Neurology” - Richard Kadrey
“Beware of Owner” - Chuck Wendig
“The Vault of the Sky, The Face of the Deep” - Robert Levy
“Don't Turn on the Lights” - Cassandra Khaw
“Wasp & Snake” - Livia Llewellyn
“Greener Pastures” - Michael Wehunt
“And When She Was Bad” - Nadia Bulkin
“El Charro” - John Langan
“Dream Home” - Kat Howard
“Spawning Season” - Nicholas Kaufmann
“In Sheep's Clothing” - Molly Tanzer
“57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides” - Sam J. Miller
“Was She Wicked, Was She Good?” - M. Rickert
“A Life That Is Not Mine” - Kristi DeMeester
“That Which Does Not Kill You” - Lucy A. Snyder
“The Design” - China Miéville