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Check - A Beautiful Checklist

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Check is an iPad and iPhone list manager that is as simple as it is beautiful. Set in Futura, on...

PAC-MAN Pop

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PAC-MAN Pop! is the only game that combines classic arcade action with hours of addictive bubble...

Funk Drummer

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Funk Drummer is the grooviest drum machine with the ability to improvise like a human drummer. The...

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TOP METACRITICS SCORE: 91 KOTAKU: "Gaming App of The Day!" Gamezebo: “A fantastic game for the...

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May 28, 2020

"A highly interesting read that will leave you hooked on each and every word."

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**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Galveston Island, Texas, September 2008

Katie doesn’t believe in ghosts. And she certainly doesn’t believe the rumors that her family’s home is haunted, despite its tragic history: two young women who lived there in different eras died in hurricanes—one during Hurricane Carla in 1961, one during the Great Storm of 1900, the greatest natural disaster to befall the United States. But that was the past, a fact Katie reminds herself of when she returns to Galveston to await Hurricane Ike with her parents and boyfriend in her family’s Broadway mansion, hoping to rekindle her flailing relationship.

While Katie is not afraid of the ghost stories she’s heard, she is afraid of the monster storm approaching. As even die-hard Islanders evacuate, her fears grow—fear of the looming hurricane, fear that she’s talentless as a painter, fear that her relationship with her boyfriend is already over. As Katie struggles against her fears, the past whispers to her of the women who died there and the haunting similarities they share with Katie’s own life.

Through three different timelines, Storms of Malhado weaves a story of Galveston’s past, underscoring its danger and isolation, as well as its remarkable resilience, and its capacity for both nostalgia and reinvention. Full of contradictions, at once insular and open to the world, Galveston Island is as much a character of the novel as Katie, Suzanne, Betty, their lovers, and their confidantes.