There’s nothing a reader likes more than telling their friends how the book was better than the movie! But first, we better watch them just to make sure… Here’s the latest 2024 adaptations of book to TV or film.
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A Good Day to Die #BookTour
What 276 executions taught a death row chaplain about life
A Good Day To Die:
What 276 executions taught a death row chaplain about life
by Carina Bergfeldt
Genre: Christian Biography
He is the last person to touch them before they die.
His face is the last they see before they are executed.
He stands there with one last goal: to get them to heaven.
276 TIMES CHAPLAIN Jim Brazzil has sat in death’s waiting room. He has listened to confessions in the eleventh hour. The last moment of the condemned, when everything bubbles up to the surface and they have to share.
Now Jim is the one dying, ready for his last confession.
THE AWARD-WINNING Swedish journalist Carina Bergfeldt and the American prison pastor start a conversation that ends up changing both their lives. He is older, patient, and wise. She is young, restless, and angry.
IN HIS HOUSE in the Texan countryside, their discussions about death and sorrow, hope, atonement, and love create a magical journey.
How are we supposed to live our lives?
Can one always be forgiving?
And what day is actually a good day to die?
Praise:
”Brilliant, Bergfeldt! … Touching, uplifting, and awful at the same time.”
“A book to bury yourself in. Whether or not you have a strong faith, it is healing to take part in their conversation.”
”A touching and disturbing book, but also an experience. Maybe even an awakening.”
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CARINA BERGFELDT is an award-winning, best selling author, journalist, and one of the most popular TV hosts in Sweden.
Bergfeldt rose to prominence as a reporter at Aftonbladet, Sweden’s biggest daily newspaper, and then went on to become the US correspondent for SVT, Sweden’s public service broadcaster.
She has won the Great Journalist Award for Storyteller of the Year, Writing Style of the Year, and the Kristallen television Award for Best Host. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate at the Umeå University for her coverage of America.
Carina Bergfeldt has published both fiction and non-fiction books, with translation rights sold to 15 countries.
She lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with her husband and son.
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Waking Tamara #BookTour
The apocalypse has been and gone.
Generations have passed.
The old world wakes up to a future they never imagined.
Waking Tamara
A Dragon’s Fated Heart Book 4
by Beverly Ovalle
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The apocalypse has been and gone.
Generations have passed.
The old world wakes up to a future they never imagined.
Indra answers a mating call and is plunged into his future. He’s drawn to a beauty frozen in the
past. He wants more than a kiss when he wakes her. But he has to have patience.
Gazing into Indra’s eyes, Mara is instantly smitten. One surprise after another has her believing
in fairy tales. But there are no princes in her story, only dragons.
Believing in dragons isn’t the hard part. Even becoming a dragon brings her more pleasure than
she’d ever dreamed. But being told she’s becoming a parent without her consent.
Nope.
Indra has some groveling to do.
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Beverly Ovalle dabbled with writing on and off for years when her best friend finally dared her to submit a story to a writing contest. Beverly decided she had nothing to lose and since she’d always wanted to be an author sent it in and agonized for months waiting to hear back. Contract in hand she has never looked back.
Beverly Ovalle has been obsessed with dragons and romance since she was a young girl, collecting dragon books and reading everything she could find on them even down to the care of real-life dragons. She’s always been slightly panicked that the world as we know it will end, so has prepped for it, haunting survivalist pages and prepper projects she felt she needed in the event SHTF (shit hit the fan).
An avid fan of all romance, Beverly’s goal is to share her love of the written word and write the spicy romances that she enjoys. She writes what she loves to read and it was only a matter of time before her obsessions crept into her writing for her to share. She hopes you enjoy her tales as much as she loves writing them.
A United States Navy Veteran, Beverly has traveled around the world and the United States enabling her to bring her settings to life. Reading romances since the fourth grade she’s followed as the genre changed and spread into the vast cornucopia of romance offered today.
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Escape Routes #BookTour
It’s 1985 and pampered psychotherapist Lauren Olive loses her job, the love of her life to his hairdresser and is forced to move to a backwoods bungalow as a drug couselor in a rural jail.
Escape Routes
by Marsh Rose
Genre: Historical Women’s Fiction
It’s 1985 and psychotherapist Lauren Olive, a pampered Baby Boomer in the California wine country, has never owned a bank account, lived without a man, or seen the dark side of life. But after she loses her job, and then the love of her life abandons her for his hairdresser, she’s forced to move to a decrepit bungalow in the backwoods and accept work as a drug counselor in a rural jail.
At her new job, the inmates view her wide-eyed naivete with hilarity and her hardened coworkers resent her middle-class roots. Worse, the bungalow seems poised to collapse around her. If Lauren is going to survive financially, avoid going back to live with her parents, and regain normality, she’ll need to leave her little-girl ways behind. But success doesn’t come without struggle. Surrounded by her crusty landlord, the jail’s seasoned deputies, skeptical inmates and a new love interest, Lauren must confront challenges she never could have imagined in her comfortable city life.
Escape Routes is a tale of maturity under duress. It speaks to the emerging audience of readers who want stories of growth and accomplishment by strong women in compelling situations. Although it is a work of fiction, it offers a glimpse into rural American criminal justice during the 1980s, a time when addiction treatment for inmates was in its formative years. Its narrative captures genuine lifestyles, concerns, speech, and behavior without demonizing, demeaning, or glamorizing the characters on either side of the bars.
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Lies and Love in Alaska
by Marsh Rose
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Romance
To stop the meddling of her matchmaker friends, divorcee Annalee fakes an affair with an Alaskan bush pilot whose profile she has seen in a magazine about bachelors in that rugged environment. The plan backfires when he appears in her small California town and lures her to his remote cabin with stories about the magnetic pull of the Last Frontier and the promise of lasting love.
In ways she never imagined, she finds herself falling for both the pilot and Alaska in spite of the bears, blizzards, peculiar neighbors, pyromaniac ex-girlfriend, stack of love letters hidden in a pantry and evident truth to what they say about single men in Alaska: the odds are good, but the goods are odd. Before Annalee can sever her ties in California and move north, a shocking telephone call from an unknown woman rocks her world and catapults her into a whole new way of life.
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Marsh Rose is a freelance writer, psychotherapist and college educator. Her short stories have appeared in a variety of publications including Cosmopolitan Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Carve Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, and New Millennium Writings where she took first prize for creative nonfiction in 2018. This is her second novel. She lives in the north San Francisco Bay Area with her greyhound, Adin.
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Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor #CoverReveal
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There is a murderer among them.
And no one with secrets is safe.
Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor
by AJ Skelly
Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense, Mystery
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None meets The Gilded Age in this delicious, suspenseful murder mystery.
When Lady Emma Grace Hastings receives a much-coveted invitation to the most auspicious Christmas party of the season—one that comes with a 10,000 pound prize for the winner of a mysterious game—she cannot believe her good fortune.
But as the guests are assembled at Mistlewaithe Manor, the chilling intent of the game is revealed. Each guest has cause for alarm, because all of them have secrets, and to win the prize money, those secrets must be exposed.
Things take a sinister turn when Emma Grace finds herself caught between her old love and her soon-to-be betrothed. Suspicions abound, and old wounds are opened. The dead body in the study does not help. Nor does the raging winter storm that prevents escape from the manor. Emma Grace must battle her heart, use her wits, and put her sleuthing skills to the test to survive the weekend alive.
Because there is a murderer among them.
And no one with secrets is safe.
**Releases June 4th – Preorder now!**
AJ Skelly is an author, reader, and lover of all things fantasy, history, and fairy-tale-romance. And werewolves. She has a serious soft spot for them. As an avid life-long reader and a former high school English teacher, she’s always been fascinated with the written word. She lives with her husband, children, and many imaginary friends who often find their way into her stories. They all drink copious amounts of tea together and stay up reading far later than they should.
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