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My Favorite Season is Spring by Patrice Wilkerson

My Favorite Season is Spring by Patrice Wilkerson is the perfect picture book to read to children to get them excited about the spring season. It is beautifully illustrated by Brooke Beaver with pictures that every child will enjoy. Children will be able to spot butterflies, bees, flowers, birds, and a kite flying in the… Continue reading My Favorite Season is Spring by Patrice Wilkerson

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January The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (audio) Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey In the Weeds by B.K. Borison (audio) Radiant Sin by Katee Robert Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison (audio) Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Verant (audio) Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Things We… Continue reading 2023 Books Read

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The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church

I'm thrilled to offer a very early review of Meagan Church's forthcoming novel, THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY, which is slated for publication with Sourcebooks on March 5, 2024. Thank you so much to Sourcebooks and to Meagan for allowing me to read a very early copy! Set during the 1960's in North Carolina, THE… Continue reading The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church

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Drama King by Penny Reid

Drama King by Penny Reid About the Book Stuck with her off-limits, taciturn, hunky movie star client during a sudden snowstorm on Christmas Eve, an extremely capable and highly professional bodyguard must keep him alive and warm without letting the tension building between them get too hot. Bathsheba (Beth) Ryan can’t thank her best friend… Continue reading Drama King by Penny Reid

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A Christmas Memory by Richard Paul Evans

About the Book It’s 1967, and for young Richard it’s a time of heartbreak and turmoil. Over the span of a few months, his brother, Mark, is killed in Vietnam; his father loses his job and moves the family from California to his grandmother’s abandoned home in Utah; and his parents make the painful decision… Continue reading A Christmas Memory by Richard Paul Evans

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Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler

About the Book Someone Else's Life will publish on February 1, 2023 through Thomas & Mercer (Amazon Publishing) A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles.… Continue reading Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler

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A Kentucky Hug for Christmas by Judith Natelli McLaughlin

Maddy is a songwriter turned music teacher, who is down on her luck after leaving her longtime beau and leaving Nashville to move back in with her mother in small-town Crowns Grove, Connecticut. Though she dreams of writing songs again, she falls into a teaching position at the local elementary school, helping in the music… Continue reading A Kentucky Hug for Christmas by Judith Natelli McLaughlin

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The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green

About the Book An impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European Front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its… Continue reading The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green

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If Only Christmas Would Come by Molly Stewart & Brad Fitch

About the Book Sarah Sprinkel knows how to jump the hurdles of a man’s world! But when a devastating accident at home threatens to crush her goal of finishing college, she must decide whether to pursue her dreams or save her small cranberry farm. The answer is easy. The only obstacle Sarah didn’t account for… Continue reading If Only Christmas Would Come by Molly Stewart & Brad Fitch