Tag: Book of the Day

  • Book of the Day: The Paradiso Files: Boston’s Unknown Serial Killer

    The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial KillerThe Paradiso Files: Boston’s Unknown Serial Killer by Timothy M. Burke

    In this bold and suspenseful true-crime story, former homicide prosecutor Timothy M. Burke makes his case against one Leonard Paradiso.

    Lenny “The Quahog” was convicted of assaulting one young woman and paroled after three years, but Burke believes that he was guilty of much more – that Paradiso was a serial killer who operated in the Boston area, and maybe farther afield, for nearly fifteen years, assaulting countless young women and responsible for the deaths of as many as seven.

    Burke takes the reader inside the minds of prosecutors, police investigators, and one very dangerous man who thought he had figured out how to rape and murder and get away with it.

    The Paradiso Files generated headlines when first published in February 2008. Nine days later, Paradiso died at the age of sixty-five…

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  • Book of the Day: The Bookshop on the Corner

    The Bookshop on the CornerThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

    Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after?

    Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more.

    Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile — a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. 

    From helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.

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  • Book of the Day: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice

    Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True VoiceHere’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by Maureen McCormick

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television’s The Brady Bunch, had it all—style, looks, boys, brains, and talent. But what viewers didn’t know… was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick, the young actress who portrayed her, was living a very different—and not-so-wonderful—life.

    Now, for the very first time, Maureen tells the shocking and inspirational true story of the beloved teen generations have invited into their living rooms—and the woman she became.

    In Here’s the Story, Maureen takes us behind the scenes of America’s favorite television family, the Bradys. With poignancy and candor, she reveals the lifelong friendships, the hurtful jealousies, the offscreen romance, the loving support her television family provided during a life-or-death moment, and the inconsolable loss of a man who had been a second father. But The Brady Bunch was only the beginning. Haunted by the perfection of her television alter ego, Maureen landed on the dark side, caught up in a fast-paced, drug-fueled, star-studded Hollywood existence that ultimately led to the biggest battle of her life.

    Moving from drug dens on Wonderland Avenue to wild parties at the Playboy mansion and exotic escapades on the beaches of Hawaii, this candid, hard-hitting memoir exposes a side of a beloved pop-culture icon the paparazzi missed. Yet it is also a story of remarkable success. After kicking her drug habit, Maureen battled depression, reconnected with her mother, whom she nursed through the end of her life, and then found herself in a pitched battle for her family in which she ultimately triumphed.

    There is no question: Maureen McCormick is a survivor. After fifty years, she has finally learned what it means to love the person you are, insight that has brought her peace in a happy marriage and as a mother. Here’s the Story is the empowering, engaging, shocking, and emotional tale of Maureen McCormick’s courageous struggle over adversity and her lifelong battle to come to terms with the idea of perfection—and herself.

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