<ul class="summary-list"><li>The pair announced the split eleven days after confirming they'd gotten back together. </li><li>Their joint statement about the split referenced "legal proceedings" and "allegations."</li></ul><p>Sikiru "SK" Alagbada and Raven Ross have had one of the most tumultuous relationships <a href="https://www.insider.com/love-is-blind-season-3-most-cringeworthy-moments-andrew-bartise-2022-10">in "Love Is Blind" history</a>. The former couple met during the pods stage of the reality show experiment and got engaged sight unseen.</p><h2>Raven and SK had a rocky start that led to a celebrated reconciliation</h2><p>They got along well during the getaways, despite having to work on their physical and sexual chemistry. The <a href="https://www.insider.com/love-is-blind-season-2-deepti-red-flag-shake-2022-10">only potential red flag</a> that emerged when considering their lives together was that SK had been accepted to graduate school in California, while Raven planned to stay in Dallas, Texas where the Pilates instructor's clients were based. The couple ultimately opted for <a href="https://www.insider.com/guides/health/sex-relationships/long-distance-relationship">a long-distance marriage</a>. </p><p>They appeared to have a financial plan for living in two different cities and vowed to visit each other often. But on their wedding day, SK said "I do not" because he didn't believe they were ready to make long-distance work.</p><p>Raven was visibly hurt by SK's decision. She ran off in tears and eventually told the cameras that she was planning on marrying SK that day. </p><div type="image" title="SK and Raven at the &quot;Love Is Blind&quot; reunion." height="1575" width="2100" msid="95724531" hostid="261" sizebytes="579462"></div><p>However, viewers learned on <a href="https://www.insider.com/love-is-blind-zanab-cole-disagreement-clementines-oranges-2022-11">the "Love Is Blind" reunion</a> that the couple had reconciled and were dating each other. Though they were living in different cities as they had always planned, Raven revealed that the distance had made their relationship stronger. </p><p>"Our communication, I think I can speak for both of us, we've never been on this level in any other relationship," she said, adding that every time they see each other they "reach a new level." </p><p>"We've grown so much from this experiment first of all, from what we went through, from being apart. It makes it so much better when we're together," she continued. "Of course, I'd prefer to be with him every day, but we've grown so much from it and it's really beautiful to do that." </p><p>She also joked that she knew how many direct messages SK was getting from other women on social media after their wedding episode aired. </p><h2>Allegations that SK cheated on Raven while they were dating emerged on TikTok </h2><div type="image" title="Raven and SK on &quot;Love Is Blind.&quot;" height="2023" width="2698" msid="95724533" hostid="261" sizebytes="143124"></div><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/love-is-blind-after-the-altar-couples-now-still-together-2022-9">The "Love Is Blind"</a> season three reunion aired on November 9. Eleven days later, Raven and SK posted a joint statement announcing their breakup to their respective Instagram followers. </p><p>"We are saddened to announce that we have decided to go our separate ways," the statement read <a href="https://people.com/tv/love-is-blind-raven-ross-sikiru-sk-alagbada-announce-split-after-cheating-allegations/">(via People.)</a> "Due to the on-going legal proceedings surrounding these allegations, we can not provide additional details and ask that you please respect our privacy during this hard time."</p><p>"Thank you for following our love story and believing in us. This journey has forever shaped our lives and we are so grateful for everyone who has been a part of it. Your love and support means everything," the statement concluded. </p><p>The "allegations" likely refer to recent TikTok videos claiming that SK cheated on Raven while they were together <a href="https://www.insider.com/love-is-blind-season-3-andrew-fake-tears-what-happened-2022-10">before "Love Is Blind" season three was released</a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic1/raven-sk-love-is-blind-cheating-rumors">According to Buzzfeed</a>, earlier in the month, a TikTok user posted a now-deleted video claiming she went on a date with SK while he was with Raven. </p><p>"Put a finger down if you went on a date in April with a guy from Hinge and then you see that he's actually on the show 'Love Is Blind,' and that he met you after the show was filmed, but is still with the same girl right now," the user reportedly said in the video. She also posted a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sixtwentyseven/video/7166076498141580586?is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7166076498141580586">video that featured SK kayaking and screenshots of their DMs</a> and conversations with each other. </p><blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@sixtwentyseven/video/7166076498141580586" data-video-id="7166076498141580586" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@sixtwentyseven" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@sixtwentyseven?refer=embed">@sixtwentyseven</a> <a title="greenscreenvideo" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/greenscreenvideo?refer=embed">#greenscreenvideo</a> at this point I’m team Raven ‍♀️ what do y’all think? Is SK caught up or nah? <a title="receipts" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/receipts?refer=embed">#receipts</a> b4 she deletes it again  <a title="loveisblind" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/loveisblind?refer=embed">#loveisblind</a> <a title="fyp" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed">#fyp</a> <a title="loveisblindnetflix" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/loveisblindnetflix?refer=embed">#loveisblindnetflix</a> <a title="loveisblindseason3" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/loveisblindseason3?refer=embed">#loveisblindseason3</a> <a title="realitytv" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/realitytv?refer=embed">#realitytv</a> <a target="_blank" title="♬ F.N.F. (Let's Go) - Hitkidd &amp; GloRilla" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/FNF-Let's-Go-7093644224830113794?refer=embed">♬ F.N.F. (Let's Go) - Hitkidd &amp; GloRilla</a> </section> </blockquote> <p>In response, <a href="https://twitter.com/CosmoLife8/status/1592660933767487488">Raven posted a now-deleted TikTok saying</a>, "Rumors are rumors and we're fine," along with, "That's my man and I'm sticking beside him." </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—RealBoringHousewife  (@CosmoLife8) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1592660933767487488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2022</a></blockquote><p>But another woman came forward on TikTok, claiming that SK was her ex. While the woman and SK were dating, he allegedly took her on a trip to Europe and revealed he had a fake fiancée from a reality show he did for Netflix for the money, Buzzfeed reported. The woman said she believed him but never got to meet Raven as he promised. SK was reportedly dating the woman in 2019 and <a href="https://www.insider.com/villa-in-ibiza-wants-couple-to-live-there-for-free-2020-1">they reconciled in Ibiza</a> in 2021 around the time "Love Is Blind" finished filming season three. </p><h2>Raven posted a subtle TikTok amid allegations </h2><div type="image" title="Raven Ross on the &quot;Love Is Blind&quot; reunion." height="2160" width="2880" msid="95724535" hostid="261" sizebytes="485482"></div><p>Raven has yet to directly respond to the allegations that SK cheated on her. </p><p>But on Tuesday she posted a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pilatesbodyraven/video/7169002231168093482?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">TikTok video of herself</a> pretending to make a phone call while eating French fries. The text on the video read, "calling god to make sure I'm not on his strongest soldiers list again this year," presumably poking fun at the popular motivational phrase-turned-meme "God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers."</p><blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@pilatesbodyraven/video/7169002231168093482" data-video-id="7169002231168093482" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@pilatesbodyraven" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pilatesbodyraven?refer=embed">@pilatesbodyraven</a> <p>mmm get somebody else to do it </p> <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - Rolandmill" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7151845492769835781?refer=embed">♬ original sound - Rolandmill</a> </section> </blockquote> 

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Netflix's "All the Light You Cannot See" is based on Anthony Doerr's novel of the same name. </li><li>The series takes place in the real French town of Saint-Malo during World War II. </li></ul><p>Netflix's "All the Light We Cannot See" is a World War II-era epic — but it's not based on a true story.</p><p>The Netflix series, directed by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/free-guy-director-shawn-levy-worries-last-original-movie-success-2021-10">Shawn Levy</a> (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/best-movies-netlfix-to-watch-march-new-2022-3">"The Adam Project,"</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/stranger-things-producer-shawn-levy-profile-2016-9">"Stranger Things"</a>), stars newcomer Aria Mia Loberti, Louis Hofmann ("Dark"), and Mark Ruffalo. Based on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/best-books-on-amazon-good-reviews">Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel</a> of the same name, it takes place in the real-life locale of Saint-Malo, which is situated on the northern coast of France in Brittany.</p><p>The series, and Doerr's novel, follow two young people swept up in the war — one French, and one German — whose paths cross in the bombarded northern coast French town. Despite firmly situating itself amid the war in Europe, Doerr's novel, and in turn, the Netflix series, are historical fiction.</p><h2><strong>What is 'All the Light We Cannot See' about?</strong></h2><p>Doerr's novel and the Netflix series follow Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Hoffman), two people on opposite sides of the war who both end up sequestered in Saint-Malo during the August 1944 battle in the town. (The <a target="_blank" href="https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/battle-of-saint-malo/g1213hqlp?hl=en">Battle of Saint-Malo</a> really happened.)</p><p>Marie-Laure is a teenager who fled Paris with her father Daniel (Ruffalo), a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History, when Nazi Germany invaded France. The pair found refuge in Saint-Malo with Marie-Laure's uncle Etienne — and crucially, took a potentially cursed, valuable gem known as the Sea of Flames from the Museum for safekeeping. During the siege of Saint-Malo, she broadcasts herself over Etienne's radio reading pages from her braille copy of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas."</p><div type="image" title="aria mia loberti and mark ruffalo in all the light we cannot see. they are holding each other close in a crowd of worried looking people" height="2400" width="3200" msid="104914583" hostid="261" sizebytes="315218"></div><p>Werner, meanwhile, is a soldier of Nazi Germany with a penchant for radio technology. An orphan, his technology acumen earns him a place in a national academy, eventually leading to him joining the military. Eventually, he arrives in Saint-Malo and tracks Etienne and Marie-Laure's radio signal, but doesn't disclose it to his superiors.</p><p>Both Doerr's novel and the show follow a non-linear narrative structure that skips between Marie-Laure and Werner's sides of the story, skipping back to show their childhood and adolescence amid the ongoing Battle of Saint-Malo. Eventually, the pair's paths collide in the city, as Nazi gemologist Sergeant Major Reinhold von Rumpel pursues Marie-Laure and the Sea of Flames.</p><h2><strong>What's the history behind 'All the Light We Cannot See?'</strong></h2><p>Doerr's first inspiration for "All the Light We Cannot See" occurred in 2004, when he heard a man become irate on a train when his call dropped, he told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/2014/05/25/314566791/world-war-ii-in-a-new-light-empathy-found-in-surprising-places">NPR</a> in 2014. However, for some time, his only thought for a novel was a "blind girl reading a story to a boy over the radio."</p><div type="image" title="louis hofmann as werner in all the light we cannot see. he's a young man in a german military uniform, sitting in front of an old radio" height="2400" width="3600" msid="104914585" hostid="261" sizebytes="493356"></div><p>When he visited Saint-Malo, however, he was struck by the city's age, and learned that it had almost been destroyed by Americans in 1944 during the second World War.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/world-war-ii-d-day-photos-2017-6">After D-Day</a> on June 6, 1944, Allied forces began to reclaim Europe. Saint-Malo, then under German control, was subject to American bombardment that left most of the city destroyed. It was eventually <a target="_blank" href="https://francetoday.com/travel/the-reconstruction-of-saint-malo/">rebuilt,</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/10-travel-places-france-outside-paris-2016-7">can be visited today.</a></p><p>As for the Sea of Flames, the potentially cursed jewel Marie-Laure's father hides from the Germans, Doerr told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.powells.com/post/interviews/anthony-doerr-the-powellscom-interview">Powells</a> that it isn't real. According to the author, the closest comparison to the jewel is a sapphire in the British Natural History Museum that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cursed-amethyst-natural-history-museum">some have speculated to be cursed</a>.</p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A number of male household entertainment names have been cashing in on millennials' famed thirst for rosé.</li><li>In June, <a href="http://static4.insider.com/post-malone-interview-new-music-most-expensive-clothing-purchase-doritos-2020-1">Post Malone</a> launched a rosé called Maison No. 9.</li><li>Prior to that, Instagram personality <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fat-jews-white-girl-rose-2015-5">The Fat Jewish</a> and "Bachelor" alum Colton Underwood also launched their own rosé brands.</li><li>Rosé appeals to millennials of all genders because of the lifestyle it evokes, Susan Kostrzewa, editor-in-chief of <a href="https://www.winemag.com/">Wine Enthusiast magazine</a>, told Business Insider.</li><li>Bro's in rosé — or brosé — is also a subset of the growing number of celeb ventures into booze brands.</li></ul><p>The ultimate food and <keyword id="4894" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="wine">wine</keyword> pairing is a bottle of rosé with chicken fingers and french fries. </p><p>That's if you're dining with rapper <keyword id="3322314" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Post-Malone">Post Malone</keyword>, who launched a rosé called Maison No. 9 in June. As he <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/post-malone-interview-new-album-rose-11595333530">told The Wall Street Journal</a>, the crisp wine "pairs perfect with the sunset" and sometimes with "a nice, hot American chicken strip." </p><p>Malone is known for his <a href="https://parade.com/946704/parade/post-malone-net-worth/#:~:text=More%20by%20Parade&amp;text=In%202020%2C%20just%20five%20years,for%20his%20grills%20and%20tattoos.oos.">record-breaking hit singles</a> like "Rockstar" and "Psycho." The 25-year-old also has an Instagram following of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/postmalone/?hl=en">22.6 million</a>. He says he has "loved wine for a minute now," but he's just the latest male millennial celeb to join the brosé league. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CExAlw7s9I0" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by @postmalone<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-09-05T18:58:59+00:00">Sep 5, 2020 at 11:58am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><p>In 2015, Instagram personality Josh Ostrovsky cofounded wine brand Swish Beverages, which has since been <a href="https://drinkbabe.net/collections/wine">rebranded BABE</a>, with the launch of White Girl Rosé. Ostrovsky, now 38, went on to release BABE Rosé in 2016, a canned sparkling rosé, and <a href="https://millennialmagazine.com/2017/11/07/fat-jewish-creates-comedy-rose-brand-pink-party-for-millennial-women/">Pink Party Rosé with Bubbles in 2017</a>, a Champagne rosé. Ostrovsky is more popularly known by his Instagram handle, The Fat Jewish, an offbeat meme account that boasts <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thefatjewish/?hl=en">10.7 million followers</a>.</p><p>And last year, Colton Underwood, 28, <a href="https://vinepair.com/booze-news/bachelor-star-colton-underwood-releases-his-own-rose/">released 65 Roses Rosé</a> with all proceeds going toward cystic fibrosis research. Underwood, a former NFL player with a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coltonunderwood/?hl=en">2 million</a> Instagram following, is best known for his season on <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/the-bachelor-colton-cassie-fence-jump.html">"The Bachelor."</a></p><p>While the move to monetize a feminized drink may seem like a gendered marketing ploy, the brosé launches actually say a lot about millennial culture. <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/brose-pink-wine-for-men">As Chloe Wyma wrote for GQ in 2015</a>, "The rosé bro is inaugurating a freer, more egalitarian world of gender-fluid beverage consumption." </p><h2><strong>The allure of the rosé bro</strong></h2><p>The 2015 launch of White Girl Rosé coincided with that year's drink of the summer — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drinks-of-the-summer-evolution-spiked-seltzer-aperol-spritz-rose-2019-9#:~:text=White%20Claw%2C%20Aperol%20Spritz%2C%20and,tell%20the%20world%20they%20are&amp;text=Spiked%20seltzer%20is%20the%20drink,as%20Aperol%20Spritz%20and%20ros%C3%A9.%A9.">rosé</a>. Ostrovsky and his cofounders felt the liquor market was saturated, <a href="https://vinepair.com/articles/white-girl-rose-instagram/#:~:text=White%20Girl%20Ros%C3%A9%20is%20a,Oliver%20Cohen%20and%20Tanner%20Cohen.">VinePair's Leslie Price wrote</a> two years later, but they found the rosé market, which was going <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Rose-goes-viral-Is-that-a-bad-thing-6480967.php">viral on Instagram</a>, virtually untouched.</p><p>What they intended to be a cheeky fad turned into long-lasting blush fever. "It was going to be a momentary thing," Ostrovsky told Price. "We were going to sell it to women in the Hamptons that we knew with like, rhinoplasty."</p><p>But after they had to quadruple their original order of 800 cases, Price wrote, they realized they had a business. In 2019, they <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/anheuser-busch-buys-the-fat-jewish-babe-wine-brand-report-2019-6-1028318256#">sold the company</a> to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beermaker.</p><div type="image" title="the fat jew babe" height="1524" width="2032" msid="78337157" hostid="261"></div><p>Post Malone's Maison No. 9 has only been around for three months, but it sold 50,000 bottles within two days of launching and 1,000 cases in the first hour alone, reported The Journal, citing online wine marketplace Vivino. The company told The Journal it was the first time they saw a product sell that quickly.</p><p>A representative for Underwood's 65 Roses did not reply to Business Insider's request for sales data. </p><h2>Popular, but not exquisite</h2><p>The numbers speak to success, but are these wines actually any good? <a href="https://vinepair.com/articles/we-had-a-bunch-of-sommeliers-blind-taste-white-girl-rose-this-is-what-happened/#:~:text=In%20our%20opinion%2C%20White%20Girl,we%20thought%20it%20would%20be.">VinePair</a> had sommeliers blind taste White Girl Rosé, which retails for <a href="https://www.totalwine.com/wine/rose-blush-wine/rose-blend/white-girl-rose/p/180927750">$10.99</a>. The concensus among most was that it was "fine," and likely made for Instagram-loving young adults.</p><p>Maison No.9, which you can guzzle for <a href="https://www.totalwine.com/wine/rose-blush-wine/rose-blend/maison-no-9-rose-by-post-malone/p/230736750">$21.99</a>, bills itself as "high-quality" and "accessible." Unlike many celeb-backed booze brands, according to The Journal, Malone was hands-on in his rosé's creation, working with his two cofounders and a winemaker in Provence, France, to perfect the blend and design the glass topper. </p><p>The editors at The Cut <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/how-does-post-malones-ros-wine-maison-no-9-taste.html">recently took it for a spin</a>, with most deeming it enjoyable but not a stand-out from other rosés. "I would say it's a bit like drinking a pink starburst, which everyone likes, but nobody loves," wrote Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz.</p><p>As of this article's publication, Business Insider was not able to find any taste test reviews of Underwood's rosé.</p><h2><strong>Everyone loves rosé</strong></h2><p>It seems, then, that these brands have nailed how millennials view rosé: It's a drink predicated more on lifestyle than on taste, and one that evokes a glamorous, faintly exotic association.</p><p>There's also the matter of the drink's target audience: In the US, rosé consumption is highest among <a href="https://wineeconomist.com/2019/03/12/global-rose-market-qa/">those ages 25 to 34</a>. That puts its drinkers squarely in the millennial generation — a generation that, with their music, Instagram following, and TV audience respectively, Malone, Ostrovsky, and Underwood have already established a strong fan base in. It's also an audience they are well-position to address; between the three of them, they tout an impressive collective social following of more than 35 million.</p><p>Susan Kostrzewa, editor-in-chief of Wine Enthusiast magazine, told Business Insider that this fan base is a critical point to consider. By nature of their audiences, millennial brosé brands "are likely to reach and appeal to more female than male wine drinkers in their efforts," she said. But since women make over 80% of the household wine purchases in America, she imagines those wines may still end up in the hands of their male partners. </p><p>On top of that, rosé is a drink that knows no gender: Kostrzewa said the millennial rosé obsession is climbing in the US among both males and females.</p><p>Kostrzewa told Business Insider that in traditional wine cultures like France, rosé is a non-gendered favorite.  Millennial wine drinkers, she said, are less swayed by gendered marketing than previous generations were, and are more attuned to overall lifestyle branding and easy enjoyment. </p><p>"In the US, its varied and approachable palate profile, as well as the glamorous south of France or coastal lifestyle naturally associated with it, is appealing to millennial wine drinkers across the board," Kostrzewa said.</p><p>Rosé also offers the "luxury of non-choice" for an indecisive generation in that it combines the freshness of white and boldness of red, GQ's Wyma wrote. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~540;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt2WkMwHr_4" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by Colton Underwood (@coltonunderwood)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2019-02-14T04:45:09+00:00">Feb 13, 2019 at 8:45pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote><p>Millennial men aren't the only celebs bottling up some pink. Consider men over 40, like <a href="https://lvewines.com/wines/">John Legend</a> and <a href="https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/brad-pitt-launches-exlusive-new-rose-champagne-2948144/">Brad Pitt</a>, or women, like <a href="https://www.winebusiness.com/newreleases/?go=getArticle&amp;dataId=2311321132">Sarah Jessica Parker</a> and <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/news/kylie-minogue-wine-rose#:~:text=Granted%2C%20much%20like%20her%20music,9%20a%20bottle%2C%20about%20%2411.">Kylie Minogue</a>, who all have their own rosé brands. They're all a subset of the increasing number of celeb-backed booze brands such as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-tequila-brand-casamigos-started-by-accident-2017-6">George Clooney's Casamigos tequila</a> and <a href="https://www.delish.com/food-news/a32188628/snoop-dogg-wine/">Snoop Dogg's 19 Crimes wine brand</a>.</p><p>As celebs venture into the liquor industry, some are turning to rosé because it seems to be showing no signs of slowing in young mainstream culture, Kostrzewa said.</p><p>As Malone told The Journal, "Everybody loves a good glass of rosé on a hot day."</p>

Post Malone joined the ranks of male celebs trying to capture the millennial market of rosé drinkers this summer. It all says a lot about the generation's thirst.

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/55ccccae2acae7f4028c0122-1024-512/5508457680_4c50efdc64_b.jpeg" alt="Obama reading" data-mce-source="The White House" data-link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5508457680/sizes/l/in/photostream/" /><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5508457680/sizes/l/in/photostream/">The White House</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>During his current two week vacation in Martha's Vineyard, President Barack Obama will find time to read six books.</p><p>Here's what he's gobbling up, according to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-summer-reading-list/story?id=33062449">ABC News</a>, which includes powerful works of fiction, commentary on being black in the US, and a biography on George Washington.</p><p>"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-That-Is-Vintage-International/dp/1400078423">All That Is,</a>" by James Salter <br />The story follows the life of a naval officer-turned book editor as he searches for love.<br /> <br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-Cannot-See/dp/1476746583/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439484415&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=All+The+Light+We+Cannot+See">All The Light We Cannot See,</a>" by Anthony Doerr <br />A blind French girl and a German boy cross paths and try to survive in occupied France during World War II. <br /> <br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History/dp/1250062187/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439484432&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Sixth+Extinction">The Sixth Extinction,</a>" by Elizabeth Kolbert <br />Non-fiction book that covers mass extinction and demonstrates that Earth and humans are in the midst of a "sixth extinction."<br /> <br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lowland-Vintage-Contemporaries-Jhumpa-Lahiri/dp/0307278263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439484451&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Lowland">The Lowland,</a>" by Jhumpa Lahiri <br />A family drama that follows the lives of two very different brothers to a tragic end.<br /> <br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/0812993543/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439484468&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Between+The+World+and+Me">Between The World and Me,</a>" by Ta-Nehisi Coates <br />Written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being black in America.<br /> <br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439484493&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Washington%3A+A+Life">Washington: A Life,</a>" by Ron Chernow <br />2010 biography on George Washington.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-jokes-about-winning-third-term-ethiopia-2015-7">Watch Obama talk about a hypothetical third term: 'I could win'</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="Q0OHRqdjp5HcLjxQY59sXgyKLBx9Go_L" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'Q0OHRqdjp5HcLjxQY59sXgyKLBx9Go_L',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

6 books President Obama is devouring during his summer vacation

<p><img class="float_right" src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54b40b69eab8ea6922c9b883-1200-858/rtxz74y.jpg" border="0" alt="flashbang">The use of flash grenades by police officers during drug raids is becoming increasingly common across the US, and there are terrifying consequences like severe burns and dismemberment, a <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/flashbangs">ProPublica investigation</a> revealed. </img></p>
<p><span>The supposedly nonlethal explosive devices, known as flashbangs or stun grenades, produce a blinding flash of light and a loud "bang" that temporarily blinds and deafens anyone standing in their path. They cost around $50 and were first invented in the 1970s to disorient criminals in hostage situations. Last week, French special forces <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/jan/09/charlie-hebdo-manhunt-kouachi-terrorist-links-live-updates">used flashbangs</a> to free hostages held at a kosher supermarket in Paris.</span></p>
<p><span>While sometimes useful during a hostage crisis, flashbangs are more often used as a quick solution by cops who don't necessarily need them.</span></p>
<p>In Little Rock, Arkansas, police used flash grenades on 84% of raids between 2011-2013, according to ProPublica. Almost every time, the most that was found was a small bag of marijuana and some beer bottles. </p>
<p>The NYPD <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/the-flash-bangs-are-stilled/">heavily curbed the use of flashbangs</a>, after a Harlem woman died of a heart attack in 2003 when cops mistakenly raided her apartment with one of the devices.</p>
<p><span>As it turns out, the explosion of these grenades directly on a human body has caused severe injury - and death - on more than one occasion, according to the ProPublica investigation. </span></p>
<p><span><span>The powder from the grenade's explosion burns hotter than lava. One woman who spoke to ProPublica said she suffered <span>second-degree burns across her body after police looking for drugs threw three grenades into her boyfriend's home when they were sleeping.  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>The flashbangs can s</span><span>ever hands and fingers, induce heart attacks, burn down homes and kill pets, the investigation found, and <span>there are few checks on officers who want to use them.</span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54b40cf6eab8ea2f29c9b879-595-400/idf_stun_grenade.jpg" border="0" alt="IDF_stun_grenade" width="754" height="507" /></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In May of last year, a 19-month-old toddler was critically injured in Atlanta when police looking for methamphetamine launched a flashbang into the playpen where he was sleeping. The grenade "blew open his face and his chest," his mother told the </span><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/toddler-critically-injured-by-flash-bang-during-po/nf9XM/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span><span><span>In November, a 2-year-old boy was hospitalized with severe burns after police in California threw a flashbang into his room during a raid on the wrong home, according to <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/11/19/cops-bombed-the-wrong-guys-family-says.htm">Courthouse News</a>. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>The grenades can be lethal, too. A 9-year-old girl in Detroit <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/joseph-weekley-manslaughter-dismissed-aiyana-stanley-jones_n_5927294.html">was killed in 2010</a> after a grenade launched through her window by police landed on her blanket and set it on fire.</span></span></span></p>

Terrifying 'Flash Grenades' Are Becoming All Too Common In Drug Raids

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59d648fbc68d7ba45a8b48da-1200/the%20mountain%20between%20us%202%20kimberley%20french.jpg" alt="the mountain between us 2 Kimberley French" data-mce-source="Kimberley French"><p class="source"><span>Kimberley French</span></p><p class="caption">Kate Winslet and director Hany Abu-Assad making "The Mountain Between Us."</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>When Israeli director Hany Abu-Assad was handed the script for "The Mountain Between Us" three years ago, he knew he wanted to shoot it at a real location.<p>In an era where practically anything can be created with the most realistic detail in a soundstage, Abu-Assad felt if he was going to put the audience in a harrowing situation like surviving an airplane crash, he would have to also put his cast and crew in that same kind of setting.</p><p>That meant shooting for a month on a mountain at an elevation of 11,000 feet.</p><p>Based on the 2011 book by Charles Martin, "The Mountain Between Us" (which opened Friday), was a script that had a few false starts before ending up with Abu-Assad. There was the time Michael Fassbender and Margot Robbie were attached, then Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike. When Abu-Assad came around, Jessica Chastain was circling. But it's easy to understand why stars might have been somewhat hesitant to go forward with the movie: It's a love story set on a mountain after the two leads survive a plane crash.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59d5319e351ccf89468b7852-1065/the%20mountain%20between%20us%2020th%20century%20fox%20final.jpg" alt="The Mountain Between Us 20th Century Fox final" data-mce-source="20th Century Fox"><p class="source"><span>20th Century Fox</span></p><p class="caption">Kate Winslet and Idris Elba in "The Mountain Between Us."</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>In the story, Ben and Alex are strangers stranded at the Salt Lake City airport as a major storm grounds all flights. As both desperately need to get back to their homes for important events, Alex comes up with the idea of hiring a pilot with a small plane to fly them back home. Ben tags along. But over the snowy mountains of Utah, the pilot suffers a heart attack, leading to a dramatic crash landing. Ben, Alex, and the pilot's dog all survive, but with little food they have to figure out quickly how to get rescued. Eventually, Ben and Alex's journey to be rescued leads to a romance.<p>It's not the kind of movie that's an easy sell for a date night.</p><p>But Abu-Assad felt with the harrowing journey Ben and Alex have to endure to survive, a powerful love story could also be told.</p><p>"The idea was great between a survival tale and it turning out to be a love story, and what's the difference between love and survival? Is there any difference between the two?" Abu-Assad said to Business Insider. "We fall in love, I think, because we want to survive. We want to bring kids to the world. So the theme is very interesting. There aren't many movies being done with the combination of survival and love."</p><p>Soon after signing on, Abu-Assad got a new version of the script following a rewrite by Chris Weitz, which he said was the best version he'd seen yet. With a locked script, Abu-Assad got it to Idris Elba, who was interested but knew the movie needed a strong female costar. Then at the 2015 British Film Academy Awards, Elba and Kate Winslet connected and the two decided they were up for the challenge of making "The Mountain Between Us."</p><p>But even Abu-Assad admits, at times during shooting he wished he had done it all on a soundstage.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59d64d34351ccf7a1a8b8413-1067/the%20mountain%20between%20us%204%20kimberley%20french.jpg" alt="the mountain between us 4 Kimberley French" data-mce-source="Kimberley French"><p class="source"><span>Kimberley French</span></p><p class="caption">Idris Elba (L) fainted from working in the high altitude.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Following a month of pre-production in late 2016, production shot for a month on the Purcell Mountains in British Columbia (which doubled for the Utah mountain Ben and Alex are stuck on in the movie). Each day started with a helicopter trip up the mountain from the base camp. And not just the cast and crew, but all the equipment had to be flown up each day. Also, the helicopter would only take everyone up if if was a clear day and not a cloud in sight. As Abu-Assad learned the hard way one morning.<p>"I always flew up first with my DP, first AD, line producer, and location manager," Abu-Assad said. "We go up and then suddenly we were rounding the mountain and there was this huge cloud on the other side of it. So the pilot had to turn around very fast - because if you go into that cloud you can't see anything, you'd be flying blind - and we went back down the mountain very fast. It was a free fall. It was like a bungee jump. That was the worst day for me."</p><p>Shooting days only lasted six hours because everyone had to get off the mountain by the time the sun went down. And the altitude was a constant battle. Abu-Assad said numerous people fainted, including Elba.</p><p>And the elements didn't just take its toll on the cast and crew, but the equipment as well. With the cold at times getting to around 40 below, all the cameras had to run 24 hours a day because they learned if they turned them off, they would never start back up.</p><p>Abu-Assad tried to keep everyone in high spirits through the shoot, but there were bad days.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/59d64be3c68d7b6d118b7c12-1200/the%20mountain%20between%20us%203%20kimberley%20french.jpg" alt="the mountain between us 3 Kimberley French" data-mce-source="Kimberley French"><p class="source"><span>Kimberley French</span></p><p class="caption">The only way up the mountain was by helicopter. The cast, crew, and all the equipment had to be brought up that way every day. But only if the weather was clear was everyone allowed up the mountain.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>The movie, shot by cinematographer Mandy Walker ("Australia," "Hidden Figures"), has gorgeous wide shots of miles of untouched snow with huge mountain ranges for as far as the eye can see. To pull off the look of the characters being in the middle of nowhere, Abu-Assad said the production had to walk for a good mile, lugging all the equipment (which included cranes and dolly tracks), in deep snow. Often up hills. In one instance, the crew almost revolted.<p>"One day we had walked and set up the shot and&#xa0;were ready, but then I was like 'This is not the right angle, we have to move the camera another half mile,' because I wanted to get the mountains in the background," he said. "You should have seen my crew shouting at me. 'You can't do this!' I felt really guilty. The line producer was yelling at me, 'Hany, you can't do this!' and I said, 'We started already, let's continue.' We all had to work together to make it possible and they did it."</p><p>So despite some days wishing he had a warm coffee in his hands inside a comfortable studio set, Abu-Assad looks back and believes the experience on the mountain was needed to make the movie.</p><p>"To be honest, this is what drives me to make movies," Abu-Assad said. "I want to have a challenge. And an honest picture. Because if you do it in a studio with a green screen, you won't be making honest decisions about your shots, lens, lighting. But when you are on location, every decision is an honest decision because you are hungry, you are cold, you are all in the same situation. The actors didn't need to pretend. We couldn't get food up there. Everyone had energy bars to chew on."</p><p>But Abu-Assad isn't crazy. Yes, he'd be willing to make a movie in these conditions again, just not the next one.</p><p>"The next movie is on a beach," he said with a laugh. "Sun and beer and beautiful girls."&#xa0;</p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3jyzGKXBOxA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/super-mario-odyssey-play-nintendo-2017-9">We played the highly-anticipated new Super Mario game and were blown away</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/UZFxEDwO-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

The director of Kate Winslet and Idris Elba's new movie recounts the grueling shoot at 11,000 feet - and how the crew almost revolted in the snow

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5457d4f369beddbf3ba1a6b7-800-600/book%20covers.jpg?maxX=600" border="0" alt="Book covers" width="600"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon</a></span></p><p class="caption">Lockhart and Moriarty author two of the most popular books this year.</p></img></div><p></p></div>With the cold weather setting in, there's nothing better than curling up with a good book.</p>
<p>As the year comes to a close we looked back to find the best reads of 2014.</p>
<p>To generate a list of the "it" books this year, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/469-what-s-the-it-book-of-2014">Goodreads</a> collected data based on the most-searched-for, standalone fiction books on Goodreads between January and August 2014.</p>
<p>These are the most popular novels of 2014.</p>
<p><strong>1. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars" target="_blank">We Were Liars</a>" by E. Lockhart</strong></p>
<p>This thrilling novel explores the lives of the Eastman family, and why teenager Cadence Sinclair Eastman can't remember what happened at her grandfather's lake house two summers ago. Cadence spends every summer at her grandfather's sprawling Cape Cod estate with two cousins and a friend. The foursome calls themselves "The Liars," and work together when their parents try to use them as pawns when it comes to settling their grandfather's estate and will. The family's dark secrets are revealed and Cadence finally uncovers what happened during that mysterious summer two years ago.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Liars-E-Lockhart/dp/038574126X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415030188&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=we+were+liars">Buy the book here »</a></p>
<p><strong>2. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18081809-landline" target="_blank">Landline</a>" by Rainbow Rowell</strong></p>
<p>Comedy writer Georgie McCool and her husband Neal, a stay-at-home dad, are struggling with their marriage. When Georgie receives the television writing opportunity of a lifetime she cancels the family Christmas trip to see Neal's family in Omaha. To Georgie's surprise, Neal packs up their daughters and heads to Omaha for the holidays anyway, leaving Georgie to contemplate their marriage. Neal is dodging her calls, so Georgie uses the ancient yellow landline phone in her room to call Neal's home phone in Omaha. However, the Neal she talks to on the other line is the Neal from 1998 when they first met. Now Georgie has the opportunity to fix her marriage from the past, or decide if her marriage truly isn't fixable. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Landline-Rainbow-Rowell/dp/1250049377/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415030902&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=landline+rainbow+rowell">Buy the book here »</a></p>
<p><strong>3. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see" target="_blank">All The Light We Cannot See</a>" by Anthony Doerr</strong></p>
<p>The World War II novel follows blind Marie-Laure and orphaned Werner. Marie-Laure's father makes scale models of their Paris neighborhood so his blind daughter can navigate the streets on her own and gain independence. When the Nazis occupy Paris, Marie-Laure and her father flee to the coastal town of Saint-Malo where she bravely works for the French resistance. Meanwhile, Werner, an engineering prodigy, lands a spot at a brutal Hitler Youth academy. Werner works for the Nazis and is sent to spy on the resistance in Saint-Malo, where his and Marie-Laure's stories converge. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-Cannot-See/dp/1476746583/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415031664&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=All+the+Light+We+Cannot+See">Buy the book here »</a></p>
<p><strong>4. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486412-big-little-lies" target="_blank">Big Little Lies</a>" by Liane Moriarty</strong></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a suburban Australian town, Madeline, Celeste, and Jane lead completely different lives but are connected by their children, who are all in the same kindergarten class. The story builds up to a parent fundraiser where a parent dies under suspicious conditions. The story starts six months before the fateful fundraiser, with the three women coming together when Jane's sweet-natured son is accused of bullying. "Big Little Lies" takes a look into the adult cliques and marriages of this seemingly placid little town and reveals the lies we tell ourselves to get through each day.  </span></p>
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<p><strong>5. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693716-one-plus-one" target="_blank">One Plus One</a>" by JoJo Moyes</strong></p>
<p>Jess is struggling to hold her family together - her husband left, her step-son is being bullied at school, and she can't afford to send her braniac daughter to compete in the Math Olympiad. That's where Ed, a geeky and selfish tech millionaire whose home Jess cleans, comes in. Because of Ed's own dysfunctionality, Jess doesn't expect anything from him. However, he helps Jess and her family get to the Math Olympiad - possibly the first thing he's ever done for someone else. </p>
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<p><strong>6. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788401-ugly-love" target="_blank">Ugly Love</a>" by Colleen Hoover</strong></p>
<p>Nurse Tate and airline pilot Miles have agreed to forgo a typical romantic relationship. Tate says she doesn't have time for a boyfriend, and Miles is still fighting demons from his past, but the two are attracted to each other so they start a purely physical relationship. Miles is upfront and honest about not being able to handle anything more; Tate says she doesn't want a relationship, but as time passes she develops feelings for Miles and believes she can change his mind, and maybe even overcome the thing that haunts him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Love-Novel-Colleen-Hoover/dp/1476753180/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415039498&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ugly+love">Buy the book here »</a></p>
<p><strong>7. "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079776-the-invention-of-wings" target="_blank">The Invention of Wings</a>" by Sue Monk Kidd</strong></p>
<p>"The Invention of Wings" is set in early nineteenth-century Charleston and is based on the historical Grimké sisters. On Sarah Grimké's eleventh birthday she is given a slave, a girl named Handful, as a present. The story covers the two girls' relationship over the next 35 years. Both come from different worlds, but have the same goal of making something more of their lives. Sarah eventually joins her older sister Angelina and the two serve as some of the earliest voices of the abolitionist movement. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Wings-Sue-Monk-Kidd/dp/0670024783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415039961&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+invention+of+wings">Buy the book here »</a></p>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4847-2000" alt="Pairie in lab Netflix the OA" data-mce-source="JoJo Whilden/Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>JoJo Whilden/Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p><strong>Warning: Spoilers ahead for "The OA" season one. </strong></p><p>With only two weeks left in 2016, Netflix surprised subscribers with the release of a new cerebral drama series called "The OA." The eight episode anthology follows a woman who calls herself the OA, though her adopted parents named her Prairie when she was a young girl. </p><p>The season finale concluded with a dramatic school shooting, a performance of functional interpretative dance (called "movements") that can allegedly open a tunnel to an alternate dimension, and the possible revelation that OA was making everything up from the start.</p><p>We're going to dive into the details more, and see if we can discern what was happening at the heart of OA's story and the divisive way season one came to a close.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4848-1920" alt="Prairie the OA Netflix" data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><h2>Starting at the real beginning</h2><p>To understand what happened in the eighth episode, we're going to walk through the events chronologically according to OA's story. Feel free to skip this chunk if you have an excellent memory.</p><p>OA says she was born in Russia in 1987 to a wealthy father who owned a metal mine. She had recurring vivid nightmares about being trapped in "an aquarium" and her nose bled each time this happened. It turns out that these special dreams were really a premonition.</p><p>OA's school bus was driven into a lake - an attack from a criminal organization called the Voi, who wanted to send a message to the children's wealthy parents. OA died, but was "sent" to some sort of alternate dimension where a woman named Khatun was waiting for her. Given the choice to stay or return, OA chose to go back to Earth. In exchange, Khatun took her eyesight so she would not have to see the suffering in her future.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4849-1920" alt="The OA with Khatun Nina " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>OA is sent to America to live with an aunt, because her father believes she will be safer there. She eventually received word that her father was killed, and OA is adopted by new parents named Nancy and Abel. </p><p>She continues having dreams/premonitions, and sleepwalks while speaking Russian. Nancy and Abel wind up heavily medicating her for 13 years, under the advice of a doctor. </p><p>OA believed her new dreams were a message from her father, telling her he was alive and would meet her at the Statue of Liberty. So she ran away from her overly attentive adopted parents on her 21st birthday, and went to New York City. But her father wasn't there. Instead she met a man named Dr. Hunter Aloysius Percy, or Hap for short. </p><p>Hap was obsessed with understanding NDEs - near-death experience. He convinced OA to come with him for a study. However, when she arrived to his house, he locked her in an underground cage along with four other "test subjects." She lived there for seven years as Hap killed his test subjects over and over again using a kind of drowning tank.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484a-1920" alt="Prairie with Hap the OA Netflix " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>One day while trying to escape, OA received a blow to the head from Hap. In another NDE, she travels to the same alternate dimension and once again meets Khatun.</p><p>This time, OA was given her sight back and instructed to swallow a bird. This act gave OA a "movement," a series of hand and body choreography accompanied by specific breathing and sound. Khatun warns her that more suffering is ahead.</p><p>"All five of you must work together as one to avert a great evil," Khatun said.</p><p>Eventually one of OA's fellow "test subjects," Homer, was given his own movement during an NDE. The group's five movements were supposed to open a portal to another dimension when they were performed together. OA and Homer realize that the movement can also heal people - they bring fellow prisoner Scott back to life and help another woman recover from ALS who ends up providing them with the fifth movement.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484b-1920" alt="The OA and Homer over Shelly Netflix" data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But right after receiving the fifth movement, Hap forced OA to leave the house. He dropped her at the side of a road and told her that he was going to move all the others so she could never find them again.</p><p>This is where the pilot of the series begins - with OA trying to find a way back to Homer and the other captives. She jumps off a bridge, believing that if she can have another NDE then she might be able to find Homer. But instead she wakes up in a hospital, and is turned over to her adoptive parents who haven't seen her in seven years. </p><h2>OA and the new group of five</h2><p>OA decides that the only way for her to find Homer and the others again is by teaching the movements to a new group of five people. Together, she believes they can open a portal and she can travel to wherever Homer is and be with him again. </p><p>Through an odd set of circumstances, OA convinces five people to meet her every night in an abandoned house. Jesse, Steve, Buck, French (Alfonso), and their teacher Betty Broderick-Allen (who everyone calls BBA).</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484c-1920" alt="OA and the five in attic Netflix" data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>OA tells them her story over the course of several nights, slowly introducing them to the idea of NDEs and the alternate universe she's traveled to. While she meets with them at night, OA goes to the FBI offices during the day for therapy sessions with a man named Elias Rahim. While we know OA isn't telling her parents the real story, it's unclear how much she tells Elias.</p><p>What she definitely tells Elias is that she has a mission, and that her premonitions have been returning. At the beginning of episode seven, OA has a new dream/premonition. In it she sees large glass windows and hears people screaming, silverware being dropped, and a gun firing. She tells Elias that she feels "something terrible is coming" and she wants to "just solve the puzzle of the premonition on time." She doesn't understand exactly what she's seeing, but she knows it's bad.</p><p>The group of five get the entire story of Hap and the experiments, and OA teaches them all five movements.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484d-1665" alt="Prairie in The OA netflix Brit Marling" data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Their efforts are foiled after the four teenagers' parents find out about the secret meetings, and walk in as OA is dramatically holding a knife and has her dress halfway off while she recounted Hap attacking her. From the parents' point of view, it looks like a psychotic 28-year-old is messing with their children while a teacher sits by and watches. </p><p>The finale jumped in time then, at least a month or two, and we're led to understand that OA is being medicated again. In the show she says she's taking "Lyprexya" which might be a stand in for a real drug called Zyprexa used for treatment of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.</p><p>Meanwhile BBA has undergone some sort of legal battle, probably over her involvement with her four students and OA in a creepy abandoned house late at night. The four teens - Jesse, Steve, Buck, and French - have all gone back to their separate friend groups in the cafeteria. </p><h2>The school shooting and the movements</h2><p>The final climax of season one was unexpected. A kid - who appears to be male - comes to the school campus with a gun and opens fire. BBA and the four teen boys are all in the cafeteria together, and begin doing the movements OA taught them. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484e-1920" alt="Steve French and Buck the OA cafeteria scene " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>This is where the show threw some viewers for a loop. It may have seemed out of left field; however, it was technically teased back in episode five in the subtlest of ways.</p><p>While getting ready in her house, BBA had the radio on in the background. A newscaster says: "Police are saying seven people were killed after a shooter opened fire inside a shopping mall on Tuesday evening. Authorities are searching for the suspected shooter, whom they say left the scene before police arrive. He was last scene walking towards..."</p><p>The audio trails off there.</p><p>But back to the school shooting. OA's group of five perform the movements, and the shooter stood still watching them. Eventually, one of the cafeteria workers takes advantage of the shooter's distracted state and tackles him. The gun goes off again in the struggle, and when the camera zooms out we realize that OA was standing outside doing the movements too. She was shot in the chest when the shooter was tackled. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b484f-1920" alt="The OA Prairie shot " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The scene cuts to OA being loaded into an ambulance. She looks at the group of five and says, "You did it. Don't you see? I have the will. Can't you feel it?"</p><p>And then, as ambulance begins to drive away, Steve hears a whooshing noise. This is the exact sound Hap described hearing when he first realized that some form of consciousness would leave the body when you died.</p><p>Steve says "it's happening" and runs after the ambulance, yelling for OA to bring him with her. Then everything goes black and suddenly OA is in a brightly lit room. As the screen goes dark again she says "Homer?"</p><h2>So what the heck just happened?</h2><p>Your interpretation of the ending depends entirely on whether or not you believe that OA's experience was real. If you do believe her, then it means her premonitions she has had since returning home were about the school shooting and she was inadvertently preparing the group of five for facing their own "great evil." </p><p>We know the movements have a healing power, so perhaps their combined efforts were enough to momentarily heal whatever it was that led them the shooter to their murderous rampage. It's also probably not a coincidence that the two times we saw the fifth movement completely, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOA/comments/5j4rcl/the_fifth_movement_includes_getting_shotdeath/">someone was shot and killed immediately afterwards</a>.</p><p>The first time was with Evelyn, the sheriff's wife with ALS who Hap forced OA and Homer to heal. Evelyn showed them the movement, and then almost immediately Hap ran into the room and shot her. Here's how <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOA/comments/5j4rcl/the_fifth_movement_includes_getting_shotdeath/">Redditor 713hobofredo explained it</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">[Evelyn] does the movement then hugs her husband and then gets shot. The motion of hugging her husband would end up with her hands over her heart just like the OA's hands were in the last scene when she was shot. So maybe the fifth movement is not only the initial movement, but also requires the hands over heart/killed with a bullet part.<strong><br /></strong></p><p>Prairie's death was probably an essential part of moving through the tunnel of time space to find Homer again - that's why Steve said "it's happening." Their efforts had worked, and she found Homer again in the end. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4850-1920" alt="Prairie the OA finale Netflix" data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But what if the truth is much less fantastical than that? What if OA really did have some kind of mental disorder, and her version of reality doesn't match with everyone else's?</p><p>In the finale we saw French break into OA's house while she's staying with her parents at a hotel. He went into her room and found a violin in the closet and a box from Amazon under her bed. The box holds several books - volumes on the Russian oligarchy, NDEs, angels, and a copy of Homer's "Odyssey." </p><p>This might lead you to believe that OA was fabricating her story for the group of five.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4851-1660" alt="French finds books The OA " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>But there's an alternate explanation. Redditors <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOA/comments/5in5sb/episode_discussion_chapter_8/dbaqrkc/">have already begun speculating</a> that Elias, the FBI worker, planted those books and the violin in OA's room. Why else would he be in their house in the middle of the night? And why was he so concerned with whether or not French was with other people?</p><p>Perhaps the FBI didn't want any credibility given to OA's story, and Elias was there to make sure she wasn't taken serious. Several things are suspicious about the books, anyways. For one, they don't look like they've been read very much, especially by someone doing research who would probably need to take notes or mark pages. </p><p>Plus, OA was talking about Homer before she had access to the internet. And the second she did have internet, she looked up "Homer Roberts" on YouTube and found a news video featuring him. Though you could argue that she was imagining things, we're more inclined to take that scene at face value and say that Homer exists outside OA's head.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4852-2000" alt="Homer imprisoned the OA" data-mce-source="JoJo Whilden/Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>JoJo Whilden/Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The timeline also doesn't add up for OA to have crafted that story based on books she ordered online. She received internet access from Steve and either that same night or the next, she began telling her story to the group of five. There simply wasn't enough time for her to order books, have them delivered, read them, and piece together a made up story. </p><p>But the show's creators, Brit Marling (who stars as the OA) and <span>Zal Batmanglij, <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-oa-producers-netflix-brit-marling-zal-batmanglij-1201942744/">told Variety that the ambiguous ending was intentional</a>. </span></p><p><span>"<span>I think there is something really delicious in the mystery about questioning the storyteller's truth," Marling <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-oa-producers-netflix-brit-marling-zal-batmanglij-1201942744/">said</a>. "[...] I think the place it kind of ultimately arrives at is that it maybe doesn't matter as much the details are true, because there's some essential core that she's imparting that smacks of honesty."</span></span></p><p>There were elements of her story that must be true - like her Russian childhood (remember when Abel recorded her speaking Russian in her sleep?) and the scars on her back. Plus Elias tells OA that her medical reports back up her story of imprisonment because she has Vitamin D deficiency and other symptoms of malnutrition. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5859b3c4dd08958d7f8b4853-1920" alt="The OA Prairie in alternate universe Netflix " data-mce-source="Netflix" /><p class="source"><span>Netflix</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Her blindness is the focus for many when it comes to discerning the truth, but you could explain the supernatural experience away by saying that her blindness was imagined or psychosomatic. </p><p><span>Co-creator Zal Batmanglij throws some weight behind this idea.</span></p><p><span>"I guess I believe the trauma in her story is true," Batmanglij <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/the-oa-producers-netflix-brit-marling-zal-batmanglij-1201942744/">told Variety</a>. "Maybe she couldn't tell her story as it actually happened, but she experienced something. I don't think the details matter. I think that there are lots of different interpretations. I think that's what's going to make it fun, if people do connect to it."</span></p><p><span>So do you believe OA? Or do you think the series was a deeper look into the perspective of someone struggling to cope with a mental disorder? 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<p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54611b2069bedd5b67266339-1200-924/guy-reading-on-a-couch-books.jpg" border="0" alt="guy reading on a couch books"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luce/2970601463">p.v/Flickr</a></span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Even though we're not even halfway through November, Amazon has already announced its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&amp;node=10207069011">Best Books of 2014</a>.</p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The annual feature included the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_acss_bw_hsb_BHP1021B_s1_n?docId=1002993971&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968745842&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">best 100 books</a> that were published this year, as well as the top 20 lists in categories from nonfiction to children's books.</span></p>
<p class="p1">This year's top ten ranking spanned genres, from an historical thriller of an Arctic expedition gone awry to a flawlessly written novel about immigration in America.</p>
<p class="p1">Keep reading to see the 10 best books of 2014 and find your next great novel.</p>
<p><strong>1. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420571X/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Everything I Never Told You</a>" by Celeste Ng:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">After the gorgeous teenage Lydia is found dead, the mixed-race Lee family is sent reeling. With themes of alienation, race, gender, family, and identity, Lydia's parents and siblings are forced to confront the Lydia they never knew and their own expectations in this quietly beautiful novel.</span></p>
<p><strong>2. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476746583/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">All the Light We Cannot See</a>" by Anthony Doerr:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">This National Book Award Finalist follows both Marie-Laurie, a blind French Girl living with her father during World War II, and Werner, a German orphan with a knack for building and fixing radios. The haunting story will stay with you and make you question how life and art are influenced by war.</span></p>
<p><strong>3. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385535376/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette</a>" by Hampton Sides:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">In 1879, the wealthy owner of The New York Herald James Gordon Bennett funded a US naval expedition to the North Pole. But things take a turn for the worse when the ship becomes trapped and the hull is breached. The men must fight to survive as they battle starvation, polar bears, and madness while trying to get home.</span></p>
<p><strong>4. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147673190X/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace:</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147673190X/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League</a>" by Jeff Hobbs: </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">This story is about the life of Robert Peace, a black student from the poor streets of Newark who made it into Yale on a scholarship. Yet even though he seemingly achieved the American Dream, he never felt like he truly belonged - and ultimately, it cost him his life. T</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">his reported memoir will influence how you think about race, class, and family.</span></p>
<p><strong>5. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594204993/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i5?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Redeployment</a>" by Phil Klay:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Phil Klay tells twelve short stories about the Iraq War and its aftermath. From horrifying patrols to what it's like coming home, Klay doesn't rely on platitudes, machismo, or patriotism - instead, he masterfully pushes back on our assumptions without veering into the maudlin.</span></p>
<p><strong>6. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476770387/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i6?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Revival</a>" by Stephen King:</strong> <span>King's most recent thriller spans five decades and focuses on the rock n' roll obsessed Jamie Morton and the small town reverend Charles Jacobs. Both men are haunted by tragic pasts and share a secret obsession, so they are naturally drawn together into a partnership as they search for answers - and find terrifying conclusions. </span></p>
<p><strong>7. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062116150/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Savage Harvest:</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062116150/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011"> </a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062116150/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i7?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art</a>" by Carl Hoffman: </strong>Hof<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">fman believes he has finally solved the decades-old mystery of Michael Rockefeller's disappearance in New Guinea in 1961. The murder mystery involves a local tribe of warriors, headhunters, and colonialism in this fascinating (and real) whodunit.</span></p>
<p><strong>8. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385350848/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i8?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">The Book of Unknown Americans</a>" by Cristina Henríquez: </strong><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">After a tragic accident leaves 15-year-old Maribel with a brain injury, the Riveras are forced to leave their beloved Mexico and go to America in search of a better life. The book follows them while also telling the stories of the other Latin American tenants sharing their apartment complex in Delaware.</span></p>
<p><strong>9. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399167064/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i9?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Big Little Lies</a>" by Liane Moriarty:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">This book focuses on three Australian moms, all with pre-schoolers in the same class. Sounds straightforward - except by the end of the book, one of them will be dead. Each mother carries a secret in this witty book that takes a deeper look into the lives of suburbia.</span></p>
<p><strong>10. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385353308/ref=s9_al_bw_g14_i10?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&amp;pf_rd_r=0P5WAEXNMBZF03H7JK7M&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1968762882&amp;pf_rd_i=10207069011">Station Eleven</a>" by Emily St. John Mandel:</strong> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">After a horrible virus spreads across America, people barricade themselves inside apartments, highways are flooded with cars, and people are murdered as they struggle to survive. This novels follows life before, during, and after the virus and illustrates both the good and evil sides of humanity in a crisis.</span></p>
<p><em>You can see the rest of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&amp;node=10207069011">Amazon's top books for 2014 here</a>.</em></p><p class="tagline">Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.</p>

Amazon's 10 Best Books Of 2014 That Everyone Should Read

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/547dca1e6da811ba3e10debb-1200-924/books-25.jpg" border="0" alt="books"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sapphir3blu3/3523201889/">Flickr/sapphir3blu3</a></span></p><p class="caption">Time to get reading.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Goodreads is out with its <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014%20"><span class="s2">2014 Goodreads Choice Awards</span></a>.<span class="s3"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014"><br /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="p3">Every year, the book recommendation site asks its users to vote for the best new book across 20 genres, from historical fiction to horror.</p>
<p class="p3">Goodreads editors first analyze statistics from the 250 million titles that were added, rated, and reviewed on the site in 2014 to nominate 15 books in each category. Readers are also encouraged to write-in nominations if their favorite didn't make the cut.</p>
<p class="p3">The final winners this year were based on almost 2 million reader votes. See if your favorite book is on the list below.</p>
<p><strong>FICTION:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18081809-landline"><span class="s4">Landline" by Rainbow Rowell</span></a>. Georgie and Neal have been married for 15 years and have two little girls together - but that doesn't mean everything is perfect. When Georgie is given a second chance to relive their first moments together, will they still fall in love? </p>
<p><strong>MYSTERY/THRILLER: </strong>"<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775247-mr-mercedes">Mr. Mercedes" by Stephen King</a>. Retired cop Bill Hodges is still haunted by a mysterious hit-and-run that killed eight people. When he gets a crazed letter from the killer, he must turn to two unlikely allies to help him solve the murder. </p>
<p class="p8"><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION:</strong><span class="s6"> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see"><span class="s4">All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>This National Book Award Finalist follows a blind French girl living with her father during World War II and a German orphan with a knack for building and fixing radios. The haunting story will stay with you.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p7"><strong>FANTASY:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16054217-the-book-of-life"><span class="s5">The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3)" by Deborah Harkness</span></a>. The conclusion to the popular series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont finally return to the present to face old enemies and discover a centuries-old secret.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>ROMANCE:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11710373-written-in-my-own-heart-s-blood"><span class="s5">Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander #8)" by Diana Gabaldon</span></a>. Fans of the "Outlander" series will love the 8th installment where things in 18th Century Scotland and in 20th Century England are getting more intense than ever before.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p7"><strong>SCIENCE FICTION:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian"><span class="s4">The Martian" by Andy Weir</span></a>. This is the story of astronaut Mark Watney who was left for dead and stuck on Mars. Will he be able to survive and let his fellow astronauts know he's still alive? Or will he die, stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being?<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6"><strong>HORROR:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412673-prince-lestat"><span class="s4">Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)" by Anne Rice</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>A mysterious voice is forcing vampires around the world to murder vampire-mavericks, and fires are raging across the globe. It will take a group of supernaturals to identify what's controlling the massacres, with the dangerous outlaw Prince Lestat at their core.</p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6"><strong>HUMOR:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20910157-yes-please"><span class="s4">Yes Please" by Amy Poehler</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>Poehler doles out truths about parenting, love, sex, and when to be funny and when not to be. And while her life advice is not always useful, it will certainly be hilarious as she discusses her famous roles and stunts (like <span class="s6">when she sat on George Clooney's lap).</span></p>
<p class="p7"><strong>NONFICTION:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143905-the-opposite-of-loneliness"><span class="s4">The Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan</span></a>. Keegan was a talented Yale graduate who died just five days after her graduation in a car crash. This is a collection of her essays, including the viral "The Opposite of Loneliness" that she wrote for the Yale Daily News.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675031-this-star-won-t-go-out"><span class="s5">This Star Won't Go Out" by Esther Earl</span></a>. 16-year-old Earl was the inspiration for the blockbuster book and movie, "The Fault in our Stars." This is a collection of her journals, fiction, letters, and sketches, published posthumously after her death.</p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6"><strong>HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404173-the-romanov-sisters"><span class="s4">The Romanov Sisters" by Helen Rappaport</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>Perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the 20th century, the Romanov sisters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia - had a tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918. This book looks at their diaries and letters to capture their young lives against the backdrop of Imperial Russia.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>BUSINESS: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667945-girlboss"><span class="s4">#GIRLBOSS" by Sophia Amoruso</span></a>. A female CEO/entrepreneur dolls out advice for young professional women, all while talking about her life hitchhiking, dumpster diving, and petty theft. For fans of the Nasty Gal brand, this is a must-read.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>FOOD/COOKBOOKS: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697389-make-it-ahead"><span class="s4">Make It Ahead" by Ina Garten</span></a>. One of the most trusted names in cookbooks has now released a collection of recipes that you can make before all of your special dinners, holidays, or even weeknights.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p7"><strong>GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21532236-serenity"><span class="s4">Serenity: Leaves on the Wind" by Zack Whedon</span></a>. Brother of Joss Whedon, Zack's book continues the story of Joss' cult hit TV show, Firefly. Malcolm Reynolds and his crew must go on another rescue mission after one of their own is captured by the Alliance government.</p>
<p class="p9"><strong>POETRY: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22151696-lullabies"><span class="s3">Lullabies" by Lang Leav</span></a>. Leav's poetry has attracted a cut following as she explores love and loss. <a href="http://2paragraphs.com/2014/11/khloe-kardashian-disses-closure-poet/"><span class="s3">Khloe Kardashian even shared the poem "Closure" by Leav</span></a> on Lamar Odom's birthday.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>DEBUT AUTHOR: </strong>"<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising"><span class="s4">Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1)" by Pierce Brown</span></a>. Darrow is one of a group of miners in the interior of Mars whose mission it is to make the planet livable. That is, until he finds out that a class of people have been living there for generations by exploiting his and his people's labor. Darrow must infiltrate their ranks with a group of rebels to stop the injustice.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6"><strong>YOUNG ADULT FICTION:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars"><span class="s5">We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>Cadence Sinclair Easton is a part of an old-money family that spends every summer on a private island off of Cape Cod. But after Cadence mysteriously washes up on shore with amnesia, she spends the next two years trying to piece together what happened to her, her cousins, and her family. Even the most jaded readers will be shocked by the ending.<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p10"><span class="s8"><strong>YOUNG ADULT FANTASY/SCI FI:</strong> "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755785-city-of-heavenly-fire"><span class="s5">City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6)" by Cassandra Clare</span></a>. </span>In the long-awaited conclusion to the "Mortal Instruments" series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother, Sebastian.</p>
<p class="p8"><span class="s6"><strong>CHILDREN'S: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18705209-the-blood-of-olympus"><span class="s4">The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5)" by Rick Riordan</span></a></span><span class="s6">. </span>In the fifth book in the "Heroes of Olympus" series, demigods face off against an army of giants in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Heroes-Olympus-Book-Five/dp/1423146735/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0"><span class="s2">The Blood of Olympus</span></a>." With the gods still woefully suffering from multiple personality disorder, its up to their human offspring to prevent the awakening of the earth goddess, Gaea.</p>
<p class="p7"><strong>PICTURE BOOKS: "</strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17846011-the-pigeon-needs-a-bath"><span class="s4">The Pigeon Needs a Bath!" by Mo Willems</span></a>. Willems writes books that make young kids (and their parents) laugh out loud. This one follows a stubborn pigeon who really, really needs to take a bath.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014">See the runners up in each category over at Goodreads</a></span><span class="s1">.<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2014"><span class="s3"><br /></span></a></span></p>

The Best New Books Of The Year, According To Goodreads

<p class="p1"><span class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><span data-post-image="" class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/545a983b6bb3f7c225584c79-1200-924/man-reading-book-london.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="man reading book london" width="480"><span class="source"><span>Luke MacGregor/Reuters</span></span></img></span><p></p></span>If you often see the same books being read on your morning commute, it may be your cue to grab a copy yourself.</p>
<p class="p1">Amazon just released its list of the <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1999088">20 best-selling books of 2014</a>, and chances are you've already seen people reading them on the train.&#xa0;</p>
<p class="p1">It's not too late to read - or reread - the bestsellers of the year.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>1. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670024783/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0670024783&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=2OQRER5DPFAVZSKC">The Invention of Wings</a>" by Sue Monk Kid:</strong> Set in the south in the early 1800s, this Oprah Book Club book follows the complicated relationship between Handful, a slave, and Sarah, her owner, as they grow up together from childhood. Their confusing friendship, in the face of politics and societal norms, becomes a beautiful and difficult thing to watch as it changes over time.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>2. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038553714X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=038553714X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=GQXE2L4UV542Z45Q">Gray Mountain</a>" by John Grisham:</strong>&#xa0;When the recession causes Samantha Kofer to lose her Wall Street law firm job, she takes a job at a legal aid clinic in Virginia until she can hopefully get back to big law. But while her new job, for the first time, puts her front and center in the court room, it also puts her in terrible danger.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>3. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476746583/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1476746583&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=CLLICEDSMYQDEUER">All the Light We Cannot See</a>" by Anthony Doerr:&#xa0;</strong>This National Book Award Finalist follows both Marie-Laure, a blind French Girl living with her father during World War II, and Werner, a German orphan with a knack for building and fixing radios. As their paths cross, this haunting story will question how life and art are influenced by war.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>4. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593073827/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0593073827&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=BBGRWDRDXU6ZU6WP">Twenty Seconds Ago (Jack Reacher, #19)</a>" by Lee Child:&#xa0;</strong>After years of being out of the Army, Jack Reacher is pulled back into service at the CIA and State Department after someone tried to shoot the president of France. In Child's latest Jack Reacher installment, Reacher finds himself face to face with an old enemy and old memories.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>5. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399167064/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0399167064&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=WQR43VNG5FULJS6R">Big Little Lies</a>" by Liane Moriarty:</strong>&#xa0;From the author of the bestselling "The Husband's Secret,"<span>&#xa0;this book focuses on three Australian moms, all with pre-schoolers in the same class. Sounds straightforward, except by the end of the book one of them will be dead. Each mother carries a secret in this witty book that dissects the lives of three suburban families.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>6. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455521205/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1455521205&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=3RZ6LCPOUYETFMRP">The Target (Will Robie series)</a>" by David Baldacci:</strong> Will Robie and his partner Jessica Reel are called in by the President to take down an international criminal. Baldacci's thrilling page-turner keeps the reader hooked as Robie and Reel hunt down their target, yet become targets themselves.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>7. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0991379659/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0991379659&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=ABOIKGZUSBU3XU7W">The Fixed Trilogy</a>" by Laurelin Paige:</strong>&#xa0;Fans of "Fifty Shades of Gray" will love "The Fixed Trilogy," which follows Alayna Wither, a rising star at the nightclub she works at, and Hudson Pierce, her boss who can't keep his eyes off her, and who Alayna can't seem to stay away from despite both their troubled pasts.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>8. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423146735/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1423146735&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=FWLW34INJ5YWUV5T">The Heroes of Olympus Book Five: The Blood of Olympus</a>" by Rick Riordan:</strong> The fifth book in Riordan's hit series launches the reader right in the middle of the&#xa0;<em>Argo II</em><em>&#xa0;</em>crew's battle with the earth mother, Gaia. The story is funny and action-packed as the crew races against time to stop Gaia and her giants before the world is destroyed.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>9. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345542924/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0345542924&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=3SPL22RQBPX6A5XJ">Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum)</a>" by Janet Evanovich:</strong> Stephanie Plum has to bring in a criminal used car dealer who missed his court date. But he's gone missing, and his No. 2 man is Stephanie's only clue and, to top it all off, now his old boss wants him dead. All in a day's work for Stephanie Plum.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>10. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080509668X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=080509668X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=P2L5K7SWTDXTFWRH">Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General</a>" by Bill O'Reilly:</strong> Just one of two nonfiction books to make the list, "Killing Patton" takes a look into the mysterious death of General George Patton, Jr., and theories about what, or who, may have really killed him.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>11. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316211273/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0316211273&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=AXUCWYEK3TGWB5PP">Unlucky 13 (Women's Murder Club)</a>" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro:</strong> With a loving husband, new baby, great job, and close friends, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer has it all figured out... until the FBI mails her a photo of a notorious killer, and Lindsay and fellow members of the Women's Murder club must find the killer before she finds them.</p>
<p class="p1"><strong>12. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525953094/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0525953094&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=7YBD7VAO3NTBL2SQ">The Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy</a>" by Ken Follett:</strong><span>&#xa0;The Century Trilogy follows five families from different countries through the 20th century. The third book spans from the '60s to the '80s - an engrossing look at how the events of these three decades impact families from around the world.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>13. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FFFNA1Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00FFFNA1Q&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=M3AOJYCBCXEIT2MD">Shadow Spell (Cousins O'Dwyer)</a>" by Nora Roberts:</strong><span>&#xa0;In the second book of the trilogy, Connor O'Dwyer and his sister Branna's best friend Meara work together on a regular basis without incident, but a near-death experience brings the two of them closer than ever - which would be fine, except Meara is afraid to get too close, and Connor is afraid of what he might unleash if he falls for her.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>14. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476754454/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1476754454&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=EZ22JMRKSMGDPNXD">Mr. Mercedes</a>" by Stephen King:</strong><span>&#xa0;Hundreds of people are waiting hopefully on line for a job fair when a Mercedes plows into the crowd, killing and injuring a number of people before driving off. Months later retired cop Bill Hodges gets a letter from the alleged driver threatening to do more damage, pulling him out of retirement to prevent history from repeating itself.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>15. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00INIXJ36/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00INIXJ36&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=7767JYSJDSFEW2RN">Blood Magick (Cousins O'Dwyer)</a>" by Nora Roberts:</strong><span>&#xa0;The second Nora Roberts book to make the list is the third in the O'Dwyer trilogy. This time Branna finds herself reunited with an old lover, yet both fear for a repeat of the heartache they caused each other years ago. "Blood Magick" is an entertaining, mystical finale to Roberts' beloved trilogy.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>16. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399162380/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0399162380&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=S3TEXSLRBVLQWQJK">Field of Prey</a>" by John Sandford:</strong><span>&#xa0;When a teenage couple encounter a dead body in an abandoned cornfield, Lucas Davenport is called in. Then more bodies turn up - 15 to be precise, and Lucas starts to notice an unusual pattern about when the victims were killed, almost like clockwork.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong>17. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385344430/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0385344430&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=VO6CMV44GVIKQ5TT">Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander)</a>" by Diana Gabaldon:</strong><span>&#xa0;It's 1778. France has just declared war of Great Britain, and the Fraser family is caught up in marriages, re-marriages, illegitimate children... and time travel. Gabaldon's thrilling series comes to life again in her latest installment.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span><strong>18. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141971189X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=141971189X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=DVRZDVL54KINWQZG">Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul</a>" by Jeff Kinney:</strong><span>&#xa0;Everyone's favorite "wimpy kid" Greg Heffley doesn't want to go on his family road trip. It's bound to be a disaster. But despite wrong turns, a fender bender, and gross gas station bathrooms, Greg is in for a bigger adventure than he imagined in Kinney's entertaining and cleverly illustrated short chapter book.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span><span><strong>19. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442416890/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1442416890&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=NHFNP7HOH3JBJW74">City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments)</a>" by Cassandra Clare:</strong><span>&#xa0;In an alternate, fantasy world, Sebastian Morgenstern is turning shadowhunters into demons and against each other. Clary, Jace, and Simon must stop him, which would be easier if only he weren't Clary's brother.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span><span><span><strong>20. "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393244660/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0393244660&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bibooklists-20&amp;linkId=GGJBEOGHNCVDLSZN">Flash Boys</a>" by Michael Lewis:</strong><span>&#xa0;Post-financial crisis, the stock market is less free than before, and all the characters involved either benefit from it big time, or are set to level the playing field. "Flash Boys" is a compelling nonfiction book that reveals the darkness, greed, and corruption on Wall Street.</span></span></span></span></p>
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