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Teenage super-sleuth Stevie Bell just solved one of America s most infamous cold cases. So where s she going next? Summer camp!
Maureen Johnson’s “Truly Devious” young-adult trilogy introduced the teenage super-sleuth and featured her solving a high-profile murder mystery that had haunted her prestigious Vermont private school, the Ellingham Academy, since the 1930s. Stevie’s new standalone adventure, “The Box in the Woods” (Katherine Tegen Books, out June 15), catches up with the young detective and her friends the summer after their insanely chaotic school year as Stevie’s recruited by the enigmatic owner of a New England sleep-away camp to do a true-crime podcast about four coun
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When Ducharmeâs 2019 Time article on Juul came out, it was pretty tough to walk around New York without seeing the vape device. I was excited when I found out that article was to grow into a book, and the story Ducharme offers is a bizarre, somewhat frightening page-turner (and is set to become a docuseries, to boot). âCarliann Rittman, reviews editor
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A woman named Sasha Marcus is harassed and canceled by menâs rights activists after speaking her mind in response to an internet troll in McElroyâs engrossing novel. Sasha then accepts a new gig helping her failed actor friend start a cult designed for men to purge themselves of toxic masculinity. McElroyâs conceit works on multiple levels, with incisive satire, earnest explorations of male identity, and a gripping plot.
“Everybody’s asking what they can do to help in this situation. What we think is this: Just be a good person.” – Russell Winfield
Be a good person. It’s a simple message. Everything about Absinthe’s recent segment release in honor of Black History Month from the film,
Channel Zero is simple: the music by snowboarder/actress Gabby Maiden, the individual cuts, even the featured quote from Russell Winfield. “Just be a good person,” he said last summer when
Channel Zero was being made. “If you’re a good person, everything will end up fine.” A-freakin’-men.
That simple message comes at a complicated time in America. The Black community is being recognized in ways it never has before. Or more to the point, following the George Floyd killing late last spring, Black people are being heard like never before. Americans are talking about race for the first time in a long time. Film companies, brands, media outlets across every segment of sport, action or oth
Our fave mystery books to cozy up with during the cold weather
Winter weather is the perfect time to catch up on your reading. There s nothing like curling up in a heap of blankets and puzzling over whodunnit? Whether you re obsessed with shows with dramatic twists and turns like
Riverdale or
Pretty Little Liars, or you ve read every
Nancy Drew book written, channel your inner Enola Holmes and check out these mystery books that will have you hooked for hours.
A Good Girl s Guide To Murder
Everyone knows that Sal Singh murdered Andie Bell, and then took his own life. Case closed. Five years later, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to prove Sal s innocence and find the real killer. Her list of suspects is long, and it s hard to tell who really is innocent. Filled with twists and turns, and starring loveable and quirky good girl Pip,