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Celebrate the history and memories of NSYNC with the ultimate tribute book—filled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more.

With over 70 million records sold, NSYNC is one of the best-selling boy bands of all time—and arguably the most famous. Following their successful self-titled debut album in 1997, led by the single “I Want You Back,” NSYNC’s second album, No Strings Attached, became one of the fastest-selling albums in history, with over 1 million copies sold in just one day. The boy band completed five nationwide concert tours before going on hiatus in 2002. To the glee of NSYNC fans around the world, NSYNC reunited in 2023—after almost two decades apart—to release the single “Better Place.”

Now you can have the band back with this fully illustrated, definitive retrospective. Expertly curated by a fan, for the fans, this collection is overflowing with the band’s history, greatest moments in performance, and the evolution of each member. This is the ultimate NSYNC fan experience.

This memory-filled collection features:
 

• Fun facts, like how the band got its name and how each member joined the group
• Explorations of each of NYSNC’s albums and best-loved songs
• Fan memorabilia and merchandise
• Information on their global tours
• and more!

Bring the band back to life with the NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration!

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Selena Fragassi

Selena Fragassi is a 15-year music journalist who is currently a featured contributor for the Chicago Sun-Times as well as SPIN and Loudwire. Her bylines have also appeared in The A.V. Club, Paste, Nylon, Popmatters, Blurt, Under the Radar, and Chicago Magazine, where she was previously on staff as Pop/Rock Critic. Artists she’s interviewed include Rise Against, Gene Simmons, Jennifer Hudson, Andra Day, Chrissie Hynde, Demi Lovato, Debbie Harry, Slash, Deftones, Evanescence, Alice Cooper, Jack White, The Black Keys, Charlie Puth, Bon Jovi, and Bonnie Raitt, among many others. Selena’s work has been anthologized in That Devil Music: Best Music Writing and she has appeared on televised panels regarding music matters for WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program. She is also a voting member of The Recording Academy.

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NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration 

Written By Selena Fragassi 

Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews

First, I want to thank Selena Fragassi and Quarto Books for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review. 

Calling all die hard fans of NSYNC it is imperative that you go out and get Selena Fragassi’s NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration book that she just wrote!! It is incredibly detailed with never before heard of stories (ok I never heard of them), beautiful pictures of them throughout the years, a discography of solo and together projects, and timeline of events. You learn about where the boys individually came from, how they became a band, and to what they have been up to since the group breakup. Selena made this book an extremely special collectors edition for all those who love NSYNC!!

If you did not know you do now that I am a HUGE fan of NSYNC!!! I have mad crushes on Lance and JC. I have loved their music and them since the early 90’s! Like Selena you can see me in the grocery store when my fave song Tearin Up My Heart comes on and I am lip syncing or bopping my head to the music. Oh I don’t care who sees me lol…those are my boys! So, when I heard Selena wrote a book about NSYNC just like she did about my other obsession New Kids On The Block oh I knew I had to read it and review it for her!! Side note if you have not read her New Kid On The Block book what are you waiting for? That is another good read!  

Selena really did educate me in this book on many things I did not know about. For example I did not know there was a 5th member by the name of Jason right before they found Lance. That was an interesting story to hear about. Wonder where it is now and if he is kicking himself for not sticking with it. However, if he never left the world might not have met Lance! 

Selena gave us a backstory of where each of the boys came from, their home life, how they got into the band, and later on in the book we get an update on where they are now in life. 

Over the years there have been wars with The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC and Selena discusses his and includes pictures. This gets me thinking…are The Backstreet Boys going to get their book next time around? I do love them too! I had the honor of meeting Howie D and Nick at the Boulevard Mall back in the day. Howie and AJ are my faves! 

You can’t talk about NSYNC without talking about The Original Mickey Mouse Club and how Justin met and got their start there. Not to mention all the incredible young talent that would grow up to be famous stars!  Oh and we all know that is where Justin met Brittney. 

Speaking of Justin and Britney Selena went there and focused on them and everything that has been going on to the present day! She did an incredible job summarizing everything up perfectly. My two cents…I love NSYNC..loved Justin and Britney together back in the day…but after reading Britney’s new book and learning Justin’s actions sorry but I am team Britney. 

Selena dives in and explains everything that happened with what went on with the whole Lou Pearlman situation and included pictures. 

NSYNC 30th Anniversary Celebration is an incredibly researched, well put together and very well written book that every NSYNC fan should have. 

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Tessa Becker has several reasons to never return to her hometown: She will have to face the man who shattered her heart. She is terrified to confront her ailing mother’s condition. That is where the murders happened. Tessa Becker must return home for one reason and one reason alone: Someone else is dead and it’s time to finally learn the truth. Ever since the first murder, Tessa’s once charming and safe hometown has been infected with suspicion and fear. Back then accusations were made in whispers, but without proof, the killer still walks free. And now it’s possible they’ve struck again. If things weren’t complicated enough, Tessa finds herself forced to stay with the one man she had hoped to avoid. Years ago, Garrett Campbell held her heart until he crushed it. Now, he’s a stranger. He’s also her brother’s best friend. In an all-too-familiar place filled with secrets and devastating loss—surrounded by people and memories she’d rather forget—Tessa will have to discover the truth about what happened back then, and the threat it poses to the town and the ones she loves most before it’s too late. Seamlessly blurring the edges of psychological thriller and romantic suspense, million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin’s latest romantic thriller will have you hopelessly falling in love and obsessively searching for answers all in one breath. Read Now! Download your updated KMod Booklist Order a signed paperback

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If You Lie: A Thriller
Caleb Stephens
Publication date: November 1st 2024
Genres: Adult, Thriller

A buried past. A new-age cult. A floating prison with no way off.

Seven years ago, Olivia woke up in the trunk of a stranger’s car—and barely escaped with her life. She’s been looking over her shoulder ever since.

Now, Olivia is a true-crime podcaster on a mission to help other women avoid her fate. But years spent covering violence and crime have left her burned out. So when Olivia’s estranged sister Quinn invites her to reconnect on an exclusive cruise, she jumps at the chance for a break…only this trip won’t be the relaxing vacation she’s hoping for.

The ship is elegant, the meals are divine, and the people are friendly—maybe too friendly. But Quinn isn’t the sister Olivia remembers. And strange things are starting to happen that echo Olivia’s past in unsettling ways.

When someone on the ship goes missing, Olivia realizes she’s playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Only this time, she might not survive.

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EXCERPT:

Sounds came.

The steady ping of rain drumming against steel.

The muted whoosh of wind. The high whine of rubber kissing asphalt.

I was moving.

Why am I moving?

Air clawed up my throat and slid back down again—slowly, painfully—my lungs pulling harder than my esophagus would allow, my chest rising and falling in uneven shifts. I couldn’t breathe.

I should be able to—

My eyelids snapped open to darkness. Pure black. I tried to scream and couldn’t. My voice was gone, lost in my burning throat. Another sound came instead—this one closer, directly overhead.

Clack. Clack. Clack.

I raised my hands and brushed a loose rod, then pushed past it and felt cool metal press against my palm. I followed it lower, the metal curving behind my head until it terminated in a rubber seal.

A car, I thought. I’m in a trunk.

Oh, God …

Oh, fuck.

It’s why my knees were jammed in a fetal position, why a rough pad of carpet burned against my cheek and scratched my neck. A shot of cold panic swam down my spine. Time stuttered, and I wheezed for oxygen. It felt like I was breathing through a straw. I was going to pass out if I didn’t get it together and fast.

Focus, Olivia. Stay calm.

And then: He thinks I’m dead.

It’s why my hands weren’t bound, why my mouth wasn’t gagged. It’s why my ankles weren’t slung in an interstate of knots. The man who’d done this to me thought I was dead. I could still feel his fingers squeezing, digging into my neck, could still hear his voice burning hot in my ear.

Fucking die, already!

Those words pouring over me in a shower of sour breath.

Clack. C-Clack. Clack.

Think, Olivia! You have to think!

I slowed my breathing and forced my mind to calm. There had to be a way to open the trunk or signal another car. A wire to rip free from the brake lights or a latch to pop. Didn’t all the newer cars have those specifically for situations like this? For women who, like me, simply disappeared?

And I would disappear if I didn’t find a way to get out.

My heart sloshed in my chest, and I rolled to my right, toward the sidewall of the trunk, and extended an arm. My fingers brushed over objects I recognized. Jumper cables, and a can of gas. Coiled rope and boxes. A hard plastic case. Duct tape. Nothing else.

Jesus, no latch.

I tried the other side, muttering a prayer as my hands crawled through a graveyard of clinking bottles, my fingers scraping over the dry brush of cardboard and through the crinkle of plastic sacks. Dust tickled the back of my nose, and I nearly unleashed a sneeze before I bit it off. Don’t! He’ll hear you. Then I tried again, moving slower this time, feeling for what had to be there.

And it was—nestled a few inches above the floor of the trunk.

A trunk release. A lever to pull.

Reality wobbled. My heart fluttered and crashed.

Work, I thought. Please, God, work.

I pulled.

There came a click, and the world exploded into a fireball of light. A gray sky moved above me, swollen with thunderheads, trees sweeping past on either side. Headlights coasted behind the car in a sea of rushing metal. Cold rain lashed against my neck. I forced myself upright, and the brakes slammed and sent me hurtling backward as the car screeched to a stop.

Move! Move! Move!

I scrambled from the trunk.

One foot connected with the ground. The other slipped. I crashed to the road, and the sound of rain filled my ears along with the heavy thunk of a door opening. Two boots hit asphalt.

His boots.

Air scabbed over my lips. The world swam.

Go! I pushed myself upright—and I ran. Across the white line on the shoulder of the road and into traffic with brakes shrieking all around me. Horns tearing past. Rain pelting my face. Wind hissing in my ears. Behind me came a full-throat roar.

“Stop, you fucking bitch!”

My lungs burned for air, everything smearing to a blur.

“I said, stop!” Louder this time. Closer.

But I didn’t stop, couldn’t stop. I kept running—pushing through the fire in my chest, ignoring the pain in my throat—until I stumbled off the road and tumbled down a grass-slicked descent.

Rolling now. Everything spinning. Gasping for air.

I splashed into a pool of muddy water and came up coughing, wiping my eyes to a sight that filled me with terror. The man stood above me on the hill, looking down with one hand balled into a fist and the other holding a knife.

You’re dead, I thought. He’s going to kill you.

A cloud of blue and red light rose behind him followed by a voice. “Remain where you are! Drop the knife!”

But the man didn’t. He just stared down at me with his breath turning to mist.

And took a step. Took another.

Then the gunshots rang out.

Author Bio:

Caleb Stephens is an award-winning author writing from Denver, Colorado. His novels include the thrillers If You Lie, The Girls in the Cabin, and Feeders, as well as the darkly humorous urban fantasy novel, Soul Couriers, which is forthcoming in 2025. His fiction collection If Only a Heart and Other Tales of Terror includes the short story “The Wallpaper Man,” which was adapted to film by Falconer Film & Media in 2022. He's hard at work writing his next thriller.

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