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Hello everyone! Sorry I've been a bit lagging on posting reviews on The Book Cafe. We are officially into July, which means we are at the halfway point of 2016! I wanted to post a little recap of the books that I have read so far in 2016 and the books that I am looking forward to reading in the second half of 2016. As of July 4th, as per Goodreads, I have read 91 novels (out of my goal of 176).

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The Missing Hours By: Emma Kavanagh Genre: Mystery A woman disappears One moment, Selena Cole is in the playground with her children and the next, she has vanished without a trace.A woman returns Twenty hours later, Selena is found safe and well, but with no memory of where she has been.What took place in those missing hours, and are they linked to the discovery of a nearby murder?‘Is it a

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Mug Shot By: Caroline Fardig Genre: Cozy Mystery Former musician Juliet Langley has barely had a day off since taking over management of the coffeehouse owned by her best friend, Pete Bennett. But there's always more to be done—such as prepping for the annual Holiday 5K Race organized by Pete's snobby socialite girlfriend, Cecilia Hollingsworth. This year, Java Jive has a booth right at the

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The Ex By: Alafair Burke Genre: Mystery Twenty years ago she ruined his life. Now she has the chance to save it.Widower Jack Harris has resisted the dating scene ever since the shooting of his wife Molly by a fifteen-year-old boy three years ago. An early morning run along the Hudson River changes that when he spots a woman in last night’s party dress, barefoot, enjoying a champagne picnic

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The Cracked Spine By: Paige Shelton Genre: Cozy mystery In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to start a job at The Cracked Spine. She doesn't know much about what she's gotten herself into, other than that the work sounds exciting, and that her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime. Edwin has promised that

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All Dressed in White By: Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke Genre: Mystery The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride.Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish

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Hidden Bodies By: Caroline Kepnes Genre: Mystery/Thriller Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he’s heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him.In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats

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Missing Pieces By: Heather Gudenkauf Genre: Mystery/Thriller Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body found in the cellar of their family farm, the circumstances a mystery. The case rocked the small farm town of Penny Gate, Iowa, where Jack was raised, and for years Jack avoided returning home. But

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Going Coastal By: Jane DiLucchio Genre: Cozy Mystery A client dying on her massage table is traumatic enough for Kate Matthews, but when the police declare that death a murder, life becomes more painful for her as she is cast as the major suspect.None of this is what Kate expected from her move to the peaceful town of Santa Barbara. After a near-fatal heart attack, an early retirement from her

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Future Winds By: Kevin Laymon Genre: Science Fiction Set in a science fiction setting with elements of twisted horror, Future Winds is a strange yet wondrous tale of species self-preservation and the all-out moral cost of survival.  Forced to leave earth, humanity discovers a planet capable of supporting life and hatches an audacious plan that will warp them across the universe to settle

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The Incurables By: Jon Bassoff Genre: Horror The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he’d practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbitol lobotomy.  With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catatonia, delusions and psychosis,

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Hidden By: Emma Kavanagh Genre: Mystery/Thriller HE'S WATCHINGA gunman is stalking the wards of a local hospital. He's unidentified and dangerous, and has to be located. Urgently.Police Firearms Officer Aden McCarthy is tasked with tracking him down. Still troubled by the shooting of a schoolboy, Aden is determined to make amends by finding the gunman—before it's too late.SHE'S WAITINGTo

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Career of Evil By: Robert Galbraith Genre: Mystery When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of

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The Girls from See Saw Lane (Brighton Girls Trilogy Book #1) By: Sandy Taylor Genre: Women’s Fiction / Historical Fiction Brighton 1963. Mary Pickles and I walked along the street with our arms linked, looking in shop windows. We were best friends and together we were invincible. Dottie and Mary forged a friendship over a bag of penny sweets when they were eight years old. They’ve shared

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Falling By: Emma Kavanagh Genre: Psychological Thriller A plane falls out of the sky. A woman is murdered. Four people all have something to hide. Jim is a retired police officer, and worried father. His beloved daughter has disappeared and he knows something is wrong. Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their only son.Cecilia had

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Pines (Wayward Pines #1) By: Blake Crouch Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no

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The Casquette Girls (The Casquette Girls, #1)  By: Alys Arden Genre: YA / Paranormal Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling

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Mr. Mercedes  By: Stephen King Genre: Mystery/Thriller In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded.

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Six of Crows By Leigh Bardugo Genre: Young Adult / Fantasy Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge. A

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Liar (the sequel to Compulsive) by Lia FairchildGenre: Contemporary RomanceWhen all you’ve known are lies, how do you face the truth? My past was a bitch. Now it’s come back to haunt me. After months apart, Daniel and I are finally trying to make our relationship work. But my lies run deeper than either of us imagined. Lies so terrible I imprisoned them in the darkest recesses of my mind. Just

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***When Our Worlds Fall Apart*** by Lindsey Iler  COVER REVEAL   Kennedy Conrad is everything he needs.   Graham Black has two rules in life. Play baseball, so he can get the hell out of Tennessee, and leave your shirt on when you drop your panties. He’s a typical all-American pitcher with the world at his fingertips. His devilish good looks and charm help

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Bird Box By Josh Malerman Genre: Horror / Dystopia Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river,

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Happy Almost Halloween!! Christyn here with the 4th and FINAL review of our October Spooky Reads feature here at The Book Cafe! Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna #1)by Kendare BlakeGenre: YA Horror/Paranormal Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his

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Death Before Decaf  By Caroline Fardig Genre: Fiction / Cozy Mystery After her music career crashes and burns spectacularly, Juliet Langley is forced to turn to the only other business she knows: food service. Unfortunately, bad luck strikes yet again when her two-timing fiancé robs her blind and runs off with her best waitress. Flushing what’s left of her beloved café down the

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Slade House By David Mitchell Genre: Fiction / Mystery Thriller Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.  Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won’t want to leave. Later,

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