THE POWER OF REAL OPTIMISM
FAMILY LIES
A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD
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BOOK CLUB
BY CHARIS TORRANCE
THE POWER OF REAL OPTIMISM
BY DR DEEPIKA CHOPRA
According to professional psychologist and media expert Dr Deepika Chopra, optimism isn’ t about pretending everything is fine. Instead, it’ s about staying open and flexible, especially when it’ s not.
With real-life tools like quizzes and the 33-day Real Optimism Challenge, this book will challenge your relationship with hope, rewire how you recover from hard things, and invite you to stay soft without falling apart.
FAMILY LIES
BY KAREN ROSE
In the fourth instalment of the San Diego Case Files, Kit McKittrick’ s sister becomes entangled in a web of deadly family secrets. Kit and police psychologist Sam Reeves accompany her foster sister Akiko to the home of Mary Sherman after Akiko receives a phone call from a woman claiming to know her birth mother. Though Akiko is eager to uncover the truth, Kit cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong, so she tags along. Her instincts prove correct: as they stand outside Mary’ s door, shots are fired, Kit is hit, and inside lies the corpse of Mary Sherman.
As more bodies begin to surface, Kit starts piecing together the terrifying puzzle of Akiko’ s birth family. But the deeper she digs, the more she wonders whether some secrets are best left buried.
With her blend of intimate storytelling, psychological insight, Chopra offers something far more enduring than a quick fix or fleeting affirmation. She invites us into a deeper, more resilient way of living – one where we can stay curious in the face of fear, open in the face of grief, and grounded even as the world wobbles beneath us.
A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD
BY JOHN CONNOLLY
In this new Charlie Parker thriller, the chapter begins with Parker hot on the case. When the body of a teenage runaway from a“ troubled teens” school is discovered in Maine’ s rural Kennebec River Valley, seemingly drowned, and another girl vanishes, feared dead, the private investigator is drawn into a chilling mystery. As Parker digs deeper, he uncovers a sinister connection between the school and something far older, far darker.
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