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    Book Review:: Buckeye | Patrick Ryan

    September 2, 2025

    What can I say about this stunning novel except that it will move you. It is a story of life, love and war, family and community, marriage,…

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    Book Review:: At Last | Marisa Silver

    September 1, 2025

    At Last is a new slower-paced saga style novel from Marisa Silver that follows the connecting of two families through the marriage of their children. It’s an…

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    Book Review:: A Winter Wedding Adventure | Leonie Mack

    August 30, 2025

    This novel is exactly what it sounds like: an adventure set during wedding festivities in the winter. Neither Kira or Mattia are characters you might expect to…

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    Book Review:: Love Walked In | Sarah Chamberlain

    August 29, 2025

    Sarah Chamberlain’s sophomore romance is another deep dive into grief and healing, all wrapped up in a rocky-start inevitable romance that’s just what the doctor ordered. Mari’s…

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    Book Review:: Pitcher Perfect | Tessa Bailey

    August 26, 2025

    Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy for being a sleezy womanizer. Boy is completely lost for her. Girl ‘hires’ him to fake date in order to catch…

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    Book Review:: Forget Me Not | Stacy Willingham

    August 25, 2025

    Nothing pulls me out of a reading burnout better than a really compelling mystery thriller. Sometimes you just want a book where you can’t stop turning the…

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    Book Review:: Save You | Mona Kasten

    August 22, 2025

    Save You is the second book in the popular teenage drama saga Maxton Hall. If you’ve not yet read book one, please start there. My review for…

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    Book Review:: Storms and Secrets | Claire Kingsley

    August 21, 2025

    Sometimes when you’re stuck in a bad pattern of thinking you have to be jolted out of it. That’s what happened to Zachary. Literally. During an electrical…

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    Book Review:: Obsession Falls | Claire Kingsley

    August 20, 2025

    Y’ALL. If you have never read a romantic suspense novel, it is an oversight that must be remedied. It is the perfect blend of swoon level romance…

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    Book Review:: The Battle of the Bookshops | Poppy Alexander

    August 19, 2025

    It’s the Romeo + Juliet of the 21st century, but make it cozy and super intricate! Of the two bookstore battle books that have come out this…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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