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Viral Dating Apps, Desperate Gigolos, and Murder Author: Cleo Coyle Going viral is the latest trend for the Blend – unfortunately, this sudden fame is tied to a swipe-to-meet app, a gun toting customer with an axe to grind, and an audience with the itch to press record. As the Internet eats up the video of romance gone bad, Clare worries about the PR for her coffeehouse while also starting to look more closely at the phone dating culture that is surrounding her. Clare has little to like about this new dating app, since everyone from her philandering ex to [...]

Straight to the Hart... Author:  Holly Lorka “Awkward” or “Shame” would have been good titles for this book.  But either of those titles would have been a downer.  The chosen title of Handsome provides a much more positive and accurate vibe, as well as some levity when it’s contrasted with the book’s cover image:  the author in her circa-1970s fifth-grade (or so) school picture.  But while author Holly Lorka is undoubtedly handsome as an adult, she’s spent much of her life feeling awkward and ashamed.  This collection of loosely-connected autobiographical essays presents her inspiring story of triumph over these painful [...]

What if Your Reality Could Constantly Change? Author: Blake Crouch What would you do if you woke up one day to a new set of memories from another conflicting life? Most of the world, including the dense and panicked population of New York City, is up against just such a problem in the wake of False Memory Syndrome (FMS), a new and misunderstood neurological disease. With reality literally shifting under everyone’s feet, the suicide rate climbing, and scientists baffled, Detective Barry Sutton is just beginning to sense the depth of the iceberg. But, as understanding slowly uncoils, so do his [...]