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entertainment | gotta read By lisa marie
Influence
by Sara SHEPard, Lilia Buckingham
Released January 5th
ready to delve into the world of teen in-
Get fluencers like you’ve never done before.
After a video she makes goes viral, everyone
knows Delilah Rollins. And now that she’s in LA,
Delilah’s standing on the edge of something incredible.
Everything is going to change. She has
no idea how much.
Jasmine Walters-Diaz grew up in the spotlight.
A child star turned media darling, the
posts of her in her classic Lulu C. rainbow
skirt practically break the Internet. But if the
world knew who Jasmine really was, her perfect
life? Canceled.
Fiona Jacobs is so funny—the kind of girl for
whom a crowd parts—no wonder she’s always
smiling! But on the inside? The girl’s a hot mess.
And when someone comes out of the shadows
with a secret from her past, it’s one that won’t
just embarrass Fiona: it will ruin her.
Who wouldn’t want to be Scarlet Leigh? Just
look at her Instagram. Scarlet isn’t just styled to
perfection: she is perfection. Scarlet has a gorgeous,
famous boyfriend named Jack and there’s
a whole fanbase about their relationship. To everyone
watching online, their lives seem perfect .
. . but are they really? The sun is hot in California
. . . and someone’s going to get burned.
The Forever Girl
by Jill ShaLVis
Released January 12th
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis
does it once again with a heartfelt story of
family, forgiveness, and secrets that have the
power to change the course of more than one
life.
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When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding
of her estranged BFF and the sister of her
heart, it’s also a reunion of a once ragtag team of
teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy
tore them apart and scattered them wide.
Now as adults together again in the lake
house, there are secrets and resentments mixed
up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly,
they instantly fall back into their
roles: Maze their reckless leader, Cat the den
mother, Heather the beloved baby sister, and
Walker, a man of mystery.
Life has changed all four of them in immeasurable
ways. Maze and Cat must decide if they
can rebuild their friendship, and Maze discovers
her long-held attraction to Walker hasn’t faded
with the years but has only grown stronger.
Spin
by Patricia Cornwell
Released January 12th
Captain Calli Chase races against time to
thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity
hanging in the balance in this new thriller.
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch
gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes
face-to-face with her missing twin sister—as
well as the startling truth of who they really are.
Now, a top-secret program put in motion years
ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can
redirect its course.
Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA
investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot
sets out on a frantic search for the missing
link between the sabotaged rocket launch and
her predetermined destiny…a search that someone
else seems very interested in stopping.
From NASA to the Chase family farm, to the
White House to distant orbits of space, Calli
plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with
a cunning and ruthless adversary. One wrong
move will unleash cataclysmic consequences
reaching far beyond the boundaries of Earth.
The Third Rainbow
Girl: The Long Life of
a Double Murder in
Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Released January 19th
New York Times “100 Notable Books of
2020.” A stunning, complex narrative
A
about the fractured legacy of a decades-old
double murder in rural West Virginia — and
the writer determined to put the pieces back
together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in
Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class
outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26,
and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in
an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking
to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering
but never arrived. For thirteen years, no one
was prosecuted for the “Rainbow Murders”
though deep suspicion was cast on a succession
of local residents in the community,
depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward.
In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only
to be released when a known serial killer
and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph
Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. As time
passed, the truth seemed to slip away, and the
investigation itself inflicted its own traumas
— turning neighbor against neighbor and
confirming the fears of violence outsiders
have done to this region for centuries.
In The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley
Eisenberg uses the Rainbow Murders case
as a starting point for a thought-provoking
tale of an Appalachian community bound by
the false stories that have been told about it.
Weaving in experiences from her own years
spent living in Pocahontas County, she follows
the threads of this crime through the
complex history of Appalachia, revealing how
this mysterious murder has loomed over all
those affected for generations, shaping their
fears, fates, and desires. Beautifully written
and brutally honest, The Third Rainbow Girl
presents a searing and wide-ranging portrait
of America — divided by gender and class and
haunted by its own violence.
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