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We have about a million covers to share this week (conservative estimate), and in the interest of saving space and time, this week's Cover Art post is a "streamline" edition. You can click on the book's title to link to Goodreads or on the images themselves to link to the cover reveal source (be it author, book blog, or Goodreads). Abigail, Kristina, and I still picked our Best and Worst, what are yours?
The Cursed (League of the Black Swan #1) by Alyssa Day
Kiss of Temptation (Deadly Angels #3) by Sandra Hill
Gameboard of the Gods (Age of X #1) by Richelle Mead
Transparent by Natalie Whipple
Shadow of the Mark (Carrier #2) by Leigh Fallon
Sweet Peril (The Sweet Trilogy #2) by Wendy Higgins
Icons (Icons #1) by Margaret Stohl
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn
Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike
If I Should Die (Revenants #3) by Amy Plum
Witch Fire (Burn Mark #2) by Laura Powell
The Shape Stealer (Black Swan Rising #3) by Lee Carroll
Slashback (Cal Leandros #8) by Rob Thurman
Amityville Horrible (Otherworld Stories Novella) by Kelley Armstrong
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Omens (Cainsville #1) by Kelley Armstrong
Midnight's Kiss (Dark Warriors #5) by Donna Grant
Unbreakable (Unraveling #2) by Elizabeth Norris
Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston
Wild Invitation (Psy-Changeling #0.5, 3.5) by Nalini Singh
A Darkness Strange and Lovely (Something Strange and Deadly #2) by Susan Dennard
Embers in a Dark Frost by Kelly Keaton
Towering by Alex Flinn
The Dark Shore (The Atlanteans #2) by Kevin Emerson
Awaken (Abandon Trilogy #3) by Meg Cabot
After Daybreak (Darkness Before Dawn #3) by J. A. London
In the After by Demitria Lunetta
The Ward by Jordana Frankel
Elegy (Hereafter #3) by Tara Hudson
Goddess (Starcrossed #3) by Josephine Angelini
September Girls by Bennett Madison
This Strange and Familiar Place (So Close to You #2) by Rachel Carter
Born of Illusion by Teri Brown
Omega (Penton Legacy #3) by Susannah Sandlin
Parallel by Lauren Miller
The Lives We Lost (Fallen World #2) by Megan Crewe
Impostor (Variants #1) by Susanne Winnacker
Sinner's Heart (The Hellraisers #3) by Zoe Archer
Demonosity by Amanda Ashby
Reboot (Reboot #1) by Amy Tintera
Dr. Frankenstein's Daughters by Suzanne Weyn
Apollyon (Covenant #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Glass God by Kate Griffin
Sleeping with the Entity (Entity #1) by Cat Devon
The Entity Within (Entity #2) by Cat Devon
Arclight by Josin L. McQuein
A Conspiracy of Alchemists (The Chronicles of Light and Shadow #1) by Liesel Schwarz
Day After (The 19th Year #2) by Emi Gayle
Shadows of Glass (Ashes Trilogy #2) by Kassy Tayler
And our picks for Best & Worst covers of the week…
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How to Decorate with Elephant Home Decor
Elephants have a majestic look and walk with noble pride. Many people believe that having elephant home decor brings good luck and money. In Thailand and Indonesia, the elephant is sacred, a symbol of elegance, wisdom, loyalty and longevity. People who practice Feng Shui ornaments sometimes placed elephants in parts of their homes; this is considered to positively affect the welfare of the occupants of the house.
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Place the elephant home decor in the western side of the area of your living room. This is supposed to bring luck to your children and theirs. Place an elephant statue facing the front door of your house. This position helps protect your home. Harvest intelligence, wisdom, prudence and dignity to put an elephant in your office, looking out.
It covers a section of the floor with a carpet with elephants in print. Another idea of elephant home decor is to buy a print or save a design of elephants. Buy a large container elephant for your patio. Wicker furniture work well with this type of Asian motif. Hang a picture of a herd or a single elephant on your wall. The elephant motif often found in Asian inspired, contemporary culture in formal or elegant homes.

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All About Jazz is celebrating Richard "Groove" Holmes' birthday today!
Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes, Born Richard Arnold Jackson (Camden, New Jersey) was a jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of "Misty," and is considered a precursor of acid jazz. Holmes burst onto the music scene in the early 1960s (his first album, on Pacific Jazz with guest Ben Webster was recorded in March 1961).


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Getting to the heart of a good father
One of Maurice Neligan's sons recalls the life and legacy of his eminent, and widely loved, surgeon father, writes JUNE SHANNON
NEXT MONTH marks the second anniversary of the death of Maurice Neligan, eminent heart surgeon, medical pioneer and committed patient advocate.
A compassionate doctor, Neligan was also a loving father and husband, and his sudden death was a huge shock and a massive sadness for his family to endure.
His son Maurice is also a surgeon and chief of orthopaedic surgery and director of the division of sports surgery at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin.
"My overriding memories are he would never miss a football match," Maurice jnr says.
In fact, Maurice snr went to great lengths to guarantee that he never missed a football match. He was one of the co-founders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, and on designing the new hospital, ensured his office overlooked the senior football pitch in the neighbouring Blackrock College, where his sons went to school.
"He was very warm, you never got the feeling that he didn't have time for you, he gave a lot of his time," his son says.
It is clear talking to Maurice jnr that he shares his father's passion for medicine. He learned his anatomy skills from the very same books pored over by his father years earlier, and learned from the many annotations in his father's recognisable hand that his dad was a very keen student.
Maurice Neligan snr had a natural affinity with people and with his patients in particular and people regularly still approach Maurice jnr with personal memories of his dad. From the junior anaesthetist who was given a pair of GAA tickets, to the young man who said he and his family would be eternally grateful to Maurice snr for saving his life as an infant.
"He had a phenomenal memory for names. People would be walking down the street and they would say: 'Hello Mr Neligan, you don't remember me,' and he would say 'I do. I operated on you seven years ago, I did two valves and such and such.' That is a gift. He had that and that is a really nice thing to have," Maurice jnr recalls.
Maurice says the upcoming second anniversary of his father's death holds "bittersweet memories".
" not easy, not easy for my mum because I think he probably left a little bit too early . . . but we all agree that we wouldn't have liked for him to have been sick. He wouldn't have liked to be not able to go and play his golf, or be totally independent. Anything short of that would have really been very hard for him to take. So in one way good, and in one way bad. But huge happy memories."
A very close family, Maurice jnr recalls that, like his siblings, he phoned home four or five times a week, and that he spoke to his dad the night before he died.
"He was quite fit and there was no indication that he was unwell at all. I don't know if he didn't know that he was unwell. He complained of reflux a little bit and he was always taking anti-reflux medication. So reflux, heart burn. I am not sure if he wasn't having some angina or something like that. When you look back you might say that was it, so I don't know," he says.
According to Maurice jnr, his father had a personal aversion to doctors and any kind of medical intervention. Therefore, dying in his sleep, as he did, would have been his chosen way to go.
"If he was going to pick a way to go, this would have been the way to go, no doubt about it, absolutely no doubt about it because he was very happy.
"Men look after their cars better than they look after their health and that is well known. I think Irish males are becoming more conscious now of their health but it is a struggle . . . We are more aware of screening now and prostate and other things and I think people are aware but it does need to keep being pushed," he says.
The shock of losing his father so suddenly to a cardiac arrhythmia, an electrical conductivity problem with the heart, was huge.
"You never imagine it, you just don't imagine it," he says.
"He had a very full life, full of ups and downs, but he was balanced. He was happy I think, at the end."
After his father's death Maurice said the family received numerous beautifully written cards and letters.
"People who had never met him sent us letters or come in here and say 'I knew your dad, I met your dad once.' still a huge connection with people, that is wonderful to see," he says.
"That is irreplaceable . . . we all are only here for a period of time but I think he has a legacy which is a long-standing one."
The Mater Foundation has recently established the Maurice Neligan Fund, which aims to build the Maurice Neligan Heart and Vascular Theatre in the Mater hospital in Dublin. This new theatre will be the first of its kind in an Irish public hospital and will mean better survival rates and shorter stays for patients who need complex heart procedures.
According to Maurice jnr, the new theatre is a fitting tribute to his father. Rather than a portrait or bust, which his father wouldn't have liked, a theatre is something of practical benefit to the types of patients he cared for throughout his career.
Maurice jnr says he would also like to establish an annual debate or platform in his father's name. A forum where independent thinkers could discuss issues of importance to the public health service and help drive policy. Issues such as universal healthcare that his dad fought so hard for, particularly in his later years through his regular Heart Beat column in this newspaper.
"We would love to do it with The Irish Times because it was a huge part of his life," he says
Maurice jnr says his father hugely enjoyed writing his weekly column and they always had "an undertow of common sense, which is in short supply sometimes".
"I think Dad would be disappointed by the lack of progress in all the issues he was so passionate about," he adds.
While the Maurice Neligan Fund will be an important way of ensuring his legacy continues, his work will also quite literally live on in the hearts of his many patients and their ever-grateful families.
For more information on the fund, see materfoundation.ie


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My life used to be happy. I mean, I had great friends, and the most perfect boyfriend any girl could ever ask for... but then it all changed one night this Summer.
Now my friends are stuck in Somewhere-Land, Hogwarts is pretty much doomed - oh, and that vision a certain mixed-up Slytherin pal of mine had a while ago? Well, it's come true. Could me life BE any more topsy-turvey?!
The final instalment of The Magic Trilogy
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