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Just before the dedication of Sadie’s memorial, Detective Collins finds Avery in the Loman house. She presents her evidence, which he sets on fire in the office trash can. Collins was the first officer at the scene of her parents’ accident, and the Lomans paid him to cover up all traces of Parker’s involvement. Whoever killed Sadie used Avery’s car to take her from the party to the bluffs, and the evidence left behind could be used to frame her.
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” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses who were holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner. “Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price — their lives — to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement. ” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner.
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The Loman family’s lies are rising to the surface, but can Avery keep her head above water? Most compelling are the class tensions between Littleport’s year-round residents and the seasonal, moneyed tourists as well as the elusive nature of memory and the intricacies of friendship. An election-year roast of President Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with large protests outside the event. The Last House Guest is the latest thriller by Megan Miranda, author of All the Missing Girls. The book tells the story of Avery, a girl struggling to understand the death of her best friend, Sadie.
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Kelly O’Donnell, president of the correspondents’ association, opened the event by reminding the audience of the important work that journalists do but noting that the dinner is happening at “a complex moment for our nation” and in a decisive election year. The following year, Avery returns to Littleport to prepare for a new summer season with Faith. The two repaired their friendship and started their own rental company. Rumor has it that Parker took a plea deal for his involvement in the car accident and Collins’ death, but Avery is simply happy the truth is out at last.
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A year after her best friend’s supposed suicide, a young woman must clear her name when new evidence is uncovered. An evocative and perfectly readable thriller, but genre fans will find few surprises within. Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost will roast Joe Biden at the star-studded event. Biden, 30, has obvious ties to politics, but she also married a political junkie. Her husband, Peter Neal, interned at the White House during the Obama administration, and contributed to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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After Avery’s grandmother died, Avery was alone, and the ridiculously wealthy Lomans seemed to welcome her into the family, even giving her a job as property manager for their coastal rentals and a place to live in their guesthouse. When Avery finds Sadie’s phone hidden in the rental cottage where last year’s Plus-One party was held, she turns it in to the police—after doing a bit of snooping. Additionally, someone’s been breaking into the rentals, and Sadie’s brooding older brother, Parker, is acting strangely. Sadie’s death is looking less and less like a suicide, and Avery is at the top of the suspect list.
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Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, and The Last House Guest, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. She has also written several books for young adults, including Come Find Me, Fragments of the Lost, and The Safest Lies. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Follow @MeganLMiranda on Twitter and Instagram, or visit MeganMiranda.com. The rapper rose to stardom as one-third of the hip-hop group Migos, which also featured his nephew, Takeoff. In 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed while attending a private party in Houston with Quavo.
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She remembers that Sadie had a copy of her car keys; Avery decides to check her trunk. She finds dents and scratches suggesting Sadie was inside, alive and fighting to get out. Avery also finds the missing buckle from one of Sadie’s broken shoes.
First granddaughter Naomi Biden — the eldest daughter of Hunter Biden — had a memorable moment in the national spotlight during her 2022 White House wedding, and is no stranger to the White House Correspondents' Weekend events. Keri Russell, 48, recently handed fans of The Americans a new favorite show with Netflix's The Diplomat, in which she stars as a rugged foreign service officer thrown into the more polished role of U.S. ambassador to the U.K. The president made a grim speech about what he believes is at stake this election, saying that another Trump administration would be even more harmful to America than his first term. “We have to take this serious — eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk’ but not after January 6,” Mr Biden told the audience, referring to the supporters of Mr Trump who stormed the Capitol after Biden defeated Mr Trump in the 2020 election. Mr Biden began his roast with a direct focus on Mr Trump, calling him “sleepy Don’’ in reference to a nickname Mr Trump had given the president previously. He went on to note that despite being similar in age, the two presidential hopefuls have little else in common.
Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s six-month-old military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel. Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and complain of anti-Semitism. They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window. Mr Biden’s speech, which lasted around 10 minutes, made no mention of the ongoing war in Gaza.
While Mr. Fetterman may have been in the minority among his political peers, with most of whom following the president’s example and opting for a traditional tux, creative black tie proved a talking point. See Billy Porter in a black sequin caftan over a classic white shirt; Questlove, in an artistically paint-splattered jacket; and Fran Drescher, the SAG-AFTRA president, in a white brocade pantsuit. And how many politicians have met a photo op they didn’t want to seize for a messaging moment? It’s only fitting, really, given the subtext of journalists being jailed around the world.
Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments and withstanding police sweeps in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel. Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and complain of antisemitism. Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia. Despite being similar in age, Biden said, the two presidential hopefuls have little else in common. Former Trump Vice President Mike Pence has refused to endorse Trump’s reelection bid.
Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl—but that’s just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer.
Former vice president Mike Pence has refused to endorse Mr Trump’s re-election bid. Chants accused US journalists of undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point. According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants.
The police arrive with the news that they found Sadie’s body at the beach across town. One of the few mentions came from Kelly O’Donnell, president of the correspondents’ association, who briefly noted some 100 journalists killed in Israel’s 6-month-old war against Hamas in Gaza. In an evening dedicated in large part to journalism, O’Donnell cited journalists who have been detained across the world, including Americans Evan Gershkovich in Russia and Austin Tice, who is believed to be held in Syria. Families of both men were in attendance as they have been at previous dinners. An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war. This information about The Last House Guest was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.
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