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NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “This book is every suspense lover’s dream and it kept me up  way  too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters.”—Reese Witherspoon A backpacking trip has deadly consequences in this   “eerie psychological thriller . . . with alluring locales, Hitchcockian tension, and possibly the best pair of female leads since Thelma and Louise” ( BookPage ),   from the bestselling author of  The Lost Night  and  The Herd . A  Marie Claire  Book Club Pick • Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by  Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Journal,  and  CrimeReads Emily is having the time of her life—she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the tr...

  A feature adaption of the novel  We Were Never Here  is in the works at Netflix. The project comes from  Greg Berlanti  and Sarah Schechter’s Berlanti/Schechter Films and  Molly Sims ’ Something Happy Productions. The book from Andrea Bartz, which was recently picked as a title for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, follows two best friends, Emily and Kristen, who, according to the project’s synopsis, “take off to the mountains for their annual reunion trip. When Emily returns to their room one night to find an eerie scene, she’s reminded of horrifyingly similar events that occurred the year before. Back home, as Emily struggles to bury her trauma through new love and work, she’s forced to reckon with the truth about her closest friend.” Sims will produce alongside Berlanti, Schechter and Mike McGrath for Berlanti/Schechter, which has a first-look feature film deal with the streamer. Producers are currently searching for a writer and director for the project....

Synopsis:  Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything–including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he’s only just met. Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it’s that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk? Q&A with Ni...

Where did the idea for  Instructions for Dancing   come from? NICOLA YOON:  My mom has been very sick since 2017. The  Everything, Everything  movie came out, my mom was in the hospital the night of the premiere, and she's been wildly sick up and down since then, so this book a little bit came out of that. The question I was trying to figure out was: You love people and you love them so intensely and we're going to lose them, and do you still want to take that chance? Do you still want to keep loving people, is it worth it? It's one of the questions I always ask myself. You can't help but loving people but what if you could? [ Laughs ] Would you choose to love anyway? What's the saying, it's better to have loved than lost than never to have loved at all. Well, I don't know about that. [ Laughs ] That's really where it comes from, and then I had this idea of: If a person can see the end of all relationships, what does it mean for their own?  So how does t...

Instructions For Dancing By Nicola Yoon Nicola Yoon’s third novel is an enticing blend of YA drama, romance and magic. It totally captivated me and I’m not particularly drawn to YA books. Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Her parents have divorced following her Father’s affair. She feels disconnected from her Mother and younger sister because they act as is if nothing has happened. After a random meeting with a mysterious woman Evie discovers she suddenly has the power to see the outcome of romantic relationships all around her. Understandably rattled she sets out to unravel this newly acquired strange power. Her journey brings her to La Brea Dance Studio learning the Waltz,Fox Trot and Argentine Tango with a boy named X. He is the polar opposite of Evie; open to adventure, passion, saying yes to all of life’s opportunities and possibilities. Their growing involvement and love forces Evie to face all of her fears and her magical powers head on. I found this book captivat...

About The Book  10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 a.m. The auditorium doors won’t open. 10:05 a.m. Someone starts shooting. Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BOOK There are many different kinds of relationships in this novel: family, friendship, romantic. How do these relationships inform what is at stake for each of the main characters? Each character reacts differently to the shooting. Choose two characters and describe how they responded. Do you agree with the decisions they made? How might you have acted differently? THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS  is interspersed with texts, social media posts, and blog e...

Spoilers ahead - so don't read if you've not finished.  Can you elaborate more about your mother and your inspiration and why you reversed it and had the women create this hunting club? Do you think we’re more judgmental of unlikeable “mom’s” then unlikeable “dad’s”?   I wanted to upend the notion of a boy's club and give women the space to behave badly. And yes, we are SO much more judgemental of unlikeable mom's then dad's!! We want to know more about the relationship with Erin and Sophie. Did anything more happen with them in high school? She was so forgiving of canceled plans and such and then all of the sudden she was just done with her. Why wasn’t Erin in the group of the hunting wives? Any reason she was particularly excluded? Did she exclude herself or did they exclude her?     I feel like Erin just wasn't glamourous enough to be a part of the hunting wives. I mean that from Margot and co's perspective (I loved Erin myself and thought she was the san...

So during my browsing on Etsy I noticed a listing...Blind Date with a Book. A mystery book beautifully wrapped and decorated in craft paper. When I say these were beautiful...they were dressed up in old book pages, letters, book marks...some of them even included a sachet of tea or a crystal. Let me explain. You choose your book genre (or ask to be surprised) and the seller will send you the surprise book. They are usually gently used which makes me love them even more.  I get in the habit of always choosing a psychological thriller again and again. Why not have someone choose a book for me? I immediately ordered 5 books (naturally). The first beautifully wrapped book to arrive was a WWII historical fiction and happened to be an old library book. I had never heard of the author so I was happy to dive in!  The second arrival was a paranormal romance novel. I was thinking it would be a young adult book, perhaps about teen falling in love with a ghost. How cute would that be? I w...

We were so lucky today to have May Cobb  join us for our discussion of The Hunting Wives. We wanted to share the discussion with those that couldn't make it but may have loved the book as much as we did:  Play Video Enjoy!

We were so honored and excited to have May Cobb with us today for the discussion of The Hunting Wives.  The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers. When th...

EXCLUSIVE:   HBO Max   is developing   The Final Girl Support Group , a TV series based on New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix’s horror novel of the same name. The project hails from Oscar winner   Charlize Theron   and her Denver & Delilah Films,   It   duo Barbara and   Andy Muschietti ’s Double Dream as well as Aperture Entertainment. The novel’s title refers to a Los Angeles–based therapeutic support group for six “final girls”— survivors of mass-murderer rampages whose experiences inspired the slasher franchises that saturated horror cinema in the 1980s and ’90s, earning them minor celebrity. The book was released Tuesday, July 13 by Random House/Berkley. Andy Muschietti is set to direct the pilot. Theron, AJ Dix, Beth Kono and Andrew Haas will executive produce for Denver & Delilah Films, along with Barbara and Andy Muschietti and Irene Yeung for Double Dream and Adam Goldworm for Aperture Entertainment. Hendrix also will...

Lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh, my! Well, actually, just bears.   Karen Dionne showed up at our discussion of her book, The Wicked Sister, with an entire semester of how a writer is inspired. Somehow, she managed to squeeze all this information into less than 90 minutes.   Included in her informative presentation, if you’re going to write about bears, hold an adorable bear cub. Then, try to talk black bear rescue expert Dean Oswald into letting you behind the fenced area with the adult bears. (As persuasive as we know Karen can be, she failed at this request).   The result of this research? Well, you’ll need to read the book. I will tell you, empathy with animals is a major theme in Dionne’s psychological thrillers. Special thanks to Natalie (like the author, a Michigan girl) for her insight into how Rachel’s interior conservations with animals show how a vulnerable person gains strength and clarity through bonding with the inhabitants of our natural world.   Haven...

  It was time to put all of our author attendance in one clear and easy to access place. We're lucky enough to have people such as J.T. Ellison, Karen Dionne, Kathleen Barber, Emily Bleeker, Emily Baar (Evie Green), Sarah Vaughan, Samantha Downing, May Cobb, Grady Hendrix, Rachel Harrison, and more join us. And we at Shelf Indulgence wanted the ability for others to enjoy and appreciate the thoughtful discussions we were having. And maybe if you desire, comment and contribute.  So like, subscribe, all that jazz, and join us on our Youtube Channel:  Click Here Please note more will be added each time we have an author attend with us to discuss their book. And sometimes you may even learn something fun that the general public doesn't know by watching...

About FoxTale Book Shoppe: FoxTale Book Shoppe, named the Best Bookstore in Atlanta 2019 and 2013 by Atlanta Magazine, is located in historic downtown Woodstock, GA!  Its eclectic mix of new books includes signed first editions, hardcovers, and paperbacks, in all genres. FoxTale Book Shoppe has become one of the top destinations in the Southeast for hundreds of bestselling authors (and an occasional reality TV star) to visit. Past events have included Mary Kay Andrews, Karen White, Nicholas Sparks, Alice Hoffman, Rick Bragg, Adriana Trigiani, Joel Osteen, Newt & Callista Gingrich, Louise Penny, Iris Johansen, Ricky Skaggs, Buddy “The Cake Boss” Valastro, Jamie Deen, Jefferson Bass and Dog The Bounty Hunter. Tonight they hosted a book signing for Karen Slaughter's new book False Witness. And we was lucky enough to attend.  About False Witness: He saw what you did. He knows who you are… From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an elect...