Atlantic Ave Magazine - April 2017

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Gotta Read
By LISA MARIE
All by Myself, Alone
by Mary Higgins Clark
Released April 4 2017
A glamorous cruise
on a luxurious ocean
liner turns deadly in
the latest mystery
from “Queen of Suspense”
and #1 New
York Times bestselling
author Mary
Higgins Clark.
Fleeing a disastrous
and humiliating arrest of her husbandto-be
on the eve of their wedding, Celia
Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert,
hopes to escape from public attention by
lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship—
the Queen Charlotte.
On board she meets eighty-six-year-old
Lady Emily Haywood, “Lady Em,” as she is
known throughout the world. Immensely
wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless
emerald necklace that she intends to
leave to the Smithsonian after the cruise.
Three days out to sea Lady Em is found
dead—and the necklace is missing. Is it
the work of her apparently devoted assistant,
Brenda Martin, or her lawyer-executor,
Roger Pearson, and his wife, Yvonne,
both of whom she had invited to join them
on the cruise? Or is it Professor Henry
Longworth, an acclaimed Shakespeare
scholar who is lecturing on board? Or
Alan Davidson, a guest on the ship who is
planning to spread his wife’s ashes at sea?
The list of suspects is large and growing.
Celia, with the help of her new friends
Willy and Alvirah Meehan, who are celebrating
their forty-fifth wedding anniversary,
sets out to find the killer, not realizing
that she has put herself in mortal
danger before the ship reaches its final
destination.
The Horse Dancer: A Novel
by Jojo Moyes
Released
April 11 2017
A quintessential
Jojo Moyes novel
about a lost girl and
her horse, the enduring
strength of
friendship, and how even the smallest
choices can change everything
When Sarah’s grandfather gives her a
beautiful horse named Boo—hoping that
one day she’ll follow in his footsteps to
join an elite French riding school, away
from their gritty London neighborhood—
she quietly trains in city’s parks and alleys.
But then her grandfather falls ill, and
Sarah must juggle horsemanship with
school and hospital visits.
Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after
her failed marriage: her professional
judgment is being questioned, her new
boyfriend is a let-down, and she’s forced
to share her house with her charismatic
ex-husband. Yet when the willful fourteenyear-old
Sarah lands in her path, Natasha
decides to take the girl under her wing.
But Sarah is keeping a secret—a secret
that will change the lives of everyone involved
forever.
Alex and Eliza:
A LOVe Story
by Melissa de la Cruz
Released April 11 2017
From the #1 New
York Times bestselling
author of The
Witches of East End
and The Descendantscomes
the
love story of young
Alexander Hamilton
and Elizabeth
Schuyler.
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution
echo in the distance, servants flutter
about preparing for one of New York society’s
biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand
ball. Descended from two of the oldest
and most distinguished bloodlines in New
York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of
their fledgling country’s founding families,
and even prouder still of their three
daughters—Angelica, with her razorsharp
wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks;
and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival
those of both her sisters, though she’d
rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than
dressing up for some silly ball.
Still, Eliza can barely contain her excitement
when she hears of the arrival of one
Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish
young colonel and General George Washington’s
right-hand man. Though Alex has
arrived as the bearer of bad news for the
Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck—as
an orphan, and a bastard one at that—to
be in such esteemed company. And when
Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so
begins an epic love story that would forever
change the course of American history.
In the pages of Alex and Eliza, #1 New
York Times bestselling author Melissa de la
Cruz brings to life the romance of young Alexander
Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler.
The Stars Are Fire:
A novel
by Anita Shreve
Released April 18 2017
From the New
York Times bestselling
author of
The Weight of Water
and The Pilot’s
Wife (an Oprah’s
Book Club selection):
an exquisitely
suspenseful
new novel
about an extraordinary
young woman tested by a catastrophic
event and its devastating aftermath-
-based on the true story of the largest fire
in Maine’s history
In October 1947, after a summer long
drought, fires break out all along the Maine
coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are
soon racing out of control from town to
village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland
is left alone to protect her two toddlers
when her husband, Gene, joins the
volunteer firefighters. Along with her best
friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two young children,
Grace watches helplessly as their
houses burn to the ground, the flames finally
forcing them all into the ocean as a
last resort. The women spend the night
frantically protecting their children, and
in the morning find their lives forever
changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting
news of their husbands’ fate, and left to
face an uncertain future in a town that no
longer exists. In the midst of this devastating
loss, Grace discovers glorious new
freedoms--joys and triumphs she could
never have expected her narrow life with
Gene could contain--and her spirit soars.
And then the unthinkable happens--and
Grace’s bravery is tested as never before.
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