Today’s prompt gave me two thoughts that aren’t book-related, but they’re life things. I like the next person loves to read with the rain in the background, but it doesn’t seem like any rain is showing up here since it’s already AC warm. The other thing my mind went to is how I used to use rain sounds on my phone to help me sleep. Anyway, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl, who has a new weekly topic.
April 21: April Showers (Interpret this however you’d like: rainy day reads, books that make you cry, books that give you happy tears, books to wash away a bad reading experience, books set in rainy places, books with rain/raindrops/umbrellas on the cover, blue book covers, etc.). I’m doing rain/storm in the title.
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On the last day of her mother’s life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and cousin she has never known. But only the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather’s eye, can help her understand the dark currents that lie behind her family’s loving reception.
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“It’s my funeral. If I want you to play Bon Jovi as they wheel my body away to be cremated you’ll do it.” The horrified look on Brendan’s face says he’ll do anything but. “People will laugh.” “I want them to. I want a funeral where everyone stands around and remembers the funny things I did, and then they get really pissed.” Sophie Molloy has Breast Cancer. She didn’t think it was cancer to begin with, she thought it was another cyst. She also didn’t think it would be the catalyst for a series of life changing events, none of which involved chemotherapy. Within months of her diagnosis, Sophie loses not only her right breast but her boyfriend of three years, her house and her best friend. Her life spirals from great to bad, then ugly. Nothing can make it better, not even the crazy care packages her mother keeps sending from Melbourne. To make matters worse, Sophie fears she’s developing a crush on the plastic surgeon that will be reconstructing her breast. Dr. Hanson has the bedside manner of an angel and the looks to match. He’s so caring and compassionate, Sophie begins to believe he cares about her in a most non-doctor-patient kind of way. But he doesn’t, of course. He’s merely her doctor. Or does he? A fictional tale, based on the author’s medical journey with the disease, Storm in a B Cup is a warm-hearted glimpse into the world of a Breast Cancer sufferer that will have you laughing out loud. Lindy Dale was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in February 2012 and is now in the last stages of reconstruction. She lives happily on the farm with her husband of 25 years.
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A daring drug raid on a Minneapolis hospital takes place on the same day that Lucas Davenport’s wife, Weather who is a surgeon, is due to participate in an operation to separate conjoined twins at the same hospital. Carefully investigating the raid, Davenport concludes that it must have been, in part, an inside job and as a witness, Weather is now in grave danger from one of the many hundreds of members of staff.
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Biographer Ellie Connor is in Gideon, Texas, to research blues singer Mabel Beauvais who, on the verge of fame, mysteriously disappeared more than forty years ago. Gideon holds another mystery for Ellie. It’s the truth about her parents—a restless mother who died young and a father she never knew. They are an unsettled piece of Ellie’s own past. Somewhere in this town is the answer to both of her quests.
No one is more accommodating than charismatic Laurence “Blue” Reynard, a local with deep roots in Gideon. Sexy and charming, he’s also getting under Ellie’s skin like a smooth jazz rhythm. Yet beneath his seductive facade is a soul damaged by loss. Tragic, wanting, and beautiful. So wrong for a woman just passing through town. If only his passion and vulnerability weren’t so irresistible.
As Ellie pieces together Mabel’s puzzling life and that of her father, Blue takes the surprising journey with her. What then for Ellie? Follow her instincts and say goodbye, or follow her heart?
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Thirteen-year-old Rain must overcome sadness after her all-star brother is badly beaten up at a white frat party. Eventually, Rain finds hope again and helps her family heal.
I feel like Rain.
Rain rising through the unexpected.
Gentle and a force like Mom says.
I feel like me.
Rain is keeping a big secret from everyone around her: She’s sad. All the time.
Xander, her older brother, is an all-star student athlete and a superhero to Rain since their dad is not around. But even he can’t help Rain with her dark thoughts. Rain hates the way she looks, and she feels inferior to her best friend, Nara, who’s skinny and got more money, lighter skin, and hair that curls.
When Xander is the victim of a hate crime, things take a turn for the worse. Xander stops speaking to everyone, including Rain, whose dark thoughts turn into action.
Rain’s secret battle puts her life on the line. But when her favorite teacher invites her to an after-school circle group, Rain finds friends and the courage to help herself and her family heal. Like the rain, she is both gentle and a force, and though she faces many storms in her life, she finds the strength to rise again.
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This historical middle grade novel written in free verse, set against the backdrop of the desegregation battles that took place in Houston, Texas, in 1972, is about a young boy and his family dealing with loss and the revelation of dark family secrets.
Ten-year-old Paulie Sanders hates his name because it also belonged to his daddy—his daddy who killed a fellow white man and then crashed his car. With his mama unable to cope, Paulie and his sister, Charlie, move in with their Aunt Bee and attend a new elementary school. But it’s 1972, and this new school puts them right in the middle of the Houston School District’s war on desegregation.
Paulie soon begins to question everything. He hears his daddy’s crime was a race-related one; he killed a white man defending a black man, and when Paulie starts picking fights with a black boy at school, he must face his reasons for doing so. When dark family secrets are revealed, the way forward for everyone will change the way Paulie thinks about family forever.
Goodreads Blurb:
Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor camp to the next. Finally, towards the end of the war and at the peak of Moishe’s deepest despair, a simple act of kindness by a group of courageous Czech women redeemed his faith that goodness could survive the trials of war: That was the day it rained warm bread.
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One nature guide. One accidental forest fire. And one steamy investigator hot on her tail.
Life would be easy for Jen Kulak if she hadn’t just burned down the forest she depends upon for her business’s wilderness adventures. It would be even easier if she hadn’t accidentally fallen head over heels for the fire investigator tracking her every move.
When the pressure on Jen heats up will she run like she has in the past? Or will she find the strength to fight the accusations that could cost her everything, including her own happily ever after?
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Keeping in view the name of the book Rainbow, the book has been divided into five sections each having poems of its unique color.
Section I mainly comprises of poems about life & culture e.g. poem on Rakshabandhan, women & their contribution, today’s social scenario & love etc.
Section II mainly comprises of poems about weather & tastes e.g. poems on weather and food like Mushrooms, Sawan, images of spring, winter rain, mirage, Rose day and poem on Waterballs & Baklava etc.
Section III mainly comprises of poems on my favorite poets/poetesses like Louise Gluck & Surendra (My Ex-Boss and an author). Other poems in this section are prayer, teaser, ink slingers and paper jesters on cartoonists, social media & its affects, Guru, pain, healing etc.
Section IV comprises of Some Notes based on my thinking about the world like Age, Revolution, Truth, Mentor, life & un-heard voice of earth etc.
Section V comprises of some poems of Humor like April Fool, A day to spook lazy souls (this poem is dedicated to my respectable Engineering Senior Mr. Mahendra Ranga IRS), Friends on Fun, Holi & My Bengaluru visit expressed in a humoristic tone.
Overall it has been tried to make the book a real Bouquet of different colors of life & culture in poems.
Goodreads Blurb:
Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it’s one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn’t want told that’s about to unleash a storm of trouble.
As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she’s really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her; not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.
Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side. Zack’s twisted trail to the truth will lead to a long-unsolved triple homicide, bikers, drug wars, and a stone-cold killer hell-bent on revenge. It’s a story that’s already cost him his job and possibly his wife, and, if Zack’s not very lucky, it will cost him his life.
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