From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires , this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? https://www.amazon.com/My-Best-Friends-Exorcism-Novel/dp/1594749760
Lorie Dewey:
ReplyDeleteI found the book Thomas Jefferson’s Tripoli Pirates interesting. Not sure about whether students would. I love history and although this wasn’t really a history more of an overview it was rather dry. At the very end of the book there was one mention of the way Jefferson’s naval battle was similar to what’s going on over there today but it seemed too little too late to make it relevant. I think it would have been much more interesting if they had made those correlations from the beginning. I do think that I learned some things I didn’t know about the commanders of those famous ships , some of it good and a lot of it bad. Jefferson really picked some losers in the beginning which lead to years of defeat. There were of course some amazing men. One thing that struck me ,was because communication was so very difficult, things took forever to get resolved. In the end Jefferson lived long enough to see it resolved to an extent , and managed to wait to die on the fourth of July as did his friend John Adams.
Not my favorite book but it did make a strong point for a strong navy and Marine Corp.