Books with Noel

*I received a copy of this from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion and thoughts!* Ghosted in L.A. by Sina Grace     {About: Daphne Walters moves to Los Angeles and finds that the only ones who can help her find love and live life to the fullest are the ghosts of her new home! In Los Angeles, finding an apartment is killer—unless you live with the dead. Daphne Walters moves to Los Angeles for her boyfriend Ronnie, ready to live her happily ever after. But when happily ever after turns into happily for a month, she’s stuck in a strange city with no friends, family, or prospects for fun. Desperate to escape the lingering ghost of Ronnie’s presence everywhere, Daphne sets out to explore the city—and ends up encountering ghosts of a more literal kind! Rycroft Manor is abandoned, beautiful, and haunted. Will the dead be able to help Daphne find the life she’s been missing in the big city? }      This graphic novel was more ...

Title: The King's 100 By: Karin Biggs Published: July 21st, 2020 Genre: YA | Fantasy GOODREADS   Synopsis:    Sixteen-year-old Piper Parish, princess of the loveless, STEM-only kingdom of Capalon, is a disappointment to her citizens and to her older sister, the queen. When Piper receives an anonymous note stating her mother is still alive and living in the enemy kingdom of Mondaria, Piper chooses to risk death in effort to prove once and for all that she's not just the queen's defective little sister. With the companionship of Chip, a piece of tech embedded in her wrist, Piper flees Capalon and enters a world where love and emotional expression are unrestricted. Posing as a singer for the enemy king’s court of performers, the King’s 100, Piper risks death if she is revealed to be the Capalon princess, but discovers that living a life without the freedom to love might actually be the most dangerous risk of all. The King’s 100 is a glittering and mysterious lov...

*I received a copy of this book from DC and Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.* Title: Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed Author: Laurie Halse Anderson and Illustrated by: Leila Del Duca Genre: DC | Teen & YA | Graphic Novels | Comics | Fantasy Published: June 2nd, 2020 AMAZON | GOODREADS     Summary: New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson ( Speak , Shout ) and artist Leila del Duca reimagine Wonder Woman's origins in this timely story about the refugee experience, teenage activism, and finding the love and strength to create change. Princess Diana believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings--namely acceptance into the warrior tribe of Amazons. The celebrations are cut short, however, when rafts of refugees break through the Themysciran barrier. Diana tries to help them, but she is swept away by the sea--and from her home--thus becoming a refugee herself. Now Diana must ...

Title: The Oracle Code By: Marieke Mijkamp and illustrated by: Manuel Preitano Genre: DC | Teen & YA | Graphic Novels | Comics | Mystery | Suspense Published: March 10th, 2020 AMAZON | GOODREADS   Synopsis: The #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp and artist Manuel Preitano unveil a graphic novel that explores the dark corridors of Barbara Gordon's first mystery: herself.    After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed below the waist, Barbara Gordon must undergo physical and mental rehabilitation at Arkham Center for Independence. She must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss. Strange sounds escape at night while patients start to go missing.    Is this suspicion simply a result of her trauma? Or does Barbara actually hear voices coming from the center's labyrinthine hallways? It's up to Barbara to put the pieces together to solve the mysteries behind the walls.   ...

By: L. A. Detwiler Published: March 12th, 2020 Genre: Suspense | Thriller | Crime | Dark thriller | Adult Fiction AMAZON | GOODREADS     Synopsis: From the USA Today and International Bestselling author of The Widow Next Door comes a demented page-turner. If you knew your father’s darkest secret, would you turn him in? What if his secret was connected to you? Ruby Marlowe’s always been a daddy’s girl. Her mother died when she was two, and her single father has ensured she has everything she needs. However, everyone has dark secrets, and Ruby’s father is no exception… When she's young, she doesn’t understand the weight of her father’s killing game. However, as she ages, she realizes her obsessive tendencies aren’t the only elements that separate her from her peers. After she begins to investigate her mother’s life and death, Ruby starts to believe there are some secrets even she doesn’t know about the serial killer she calls Daddy. As her father’s killing gr...

Author: Ira Alice Genre: Children's | Adventure | Family AMAZON | GOODREADS      Synopsis:  Mother Fox asked her little daughter to go hunting and get some food for the very first time in her life. The little fox decided to catch the Sun since it looked very appetizing.   Going in search of it, the girl had no idea she would meet a little toad Loudcroak who would become her faithful friend.   This charming adventure story is filled with kindness, courage, and faith, teaching children how true friendship overcomes any obstacles.    *I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.  My little brother absolutely loved this book, he even got a frog and fox stuffed animal that he calls Loudcroak and Redkin now lol! It's about a little fox (Redkin) that is told to get dinner for her mother, and she sees the sun and thinks it's a kind of food and wants to get it for her mother. On the way she make...

Shielded by Kaylynn Flanders Published: July 21st, 2020 Genre: Fantasy | YA | Adventure AMAZON | GOODREADS   Synopsis: For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by war, and the princess who might be the key to saving not only those closest to her, but the kingdom itself, if she reveals the very secret that could destroy her. The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans. As the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn's--her brother's--magical abilities, so the king promises her hand in marriage to the prince of neighboring Turia in exchange for resources Hálendi needs. Jenna must leave behind everything she has ever known if she is to give her people a chance at peace. ...

Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin Published: June 2nd, 2020 Genre: Adult Fiction | Contemporary | Romance AMAZON | GOODREADS    Synopsis:   Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and, most notably, her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her as often as possible to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee that she offers them. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of their hilarious and touching confidences. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a man—Julien Sole, local police chief—who insists on depositing the ashes of his recently departed mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that the grave Julien is looking for belongs to his mother’s one-time lover, and that his mother’s story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violette’s own ...

From the Ground to the Trapeze Line Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman (I've heard so much about Bowman's other books, but this is the first one I've read!) Published: March 10th, 2020 Genre: YA | Contemporary | Fiction | Romance AMAZON | GOODREADS   Synopsis: The Greatest Showman meets This Is Us by way of Sarah Dessen in this heart-wrenching, hopeful contemporary novel about a multiracial teen who risks it all to follow her dreams by joining the circus, from the critically acclaimed author of Starfish. Harley Milano has dreamed of becoming a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her heart and soul that she would be up there herself one day. After a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family, and joins the rival traveling...