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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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    Book Review:: Once Upon A Crime | Brynn Kelly

    August 17, 2025

    Did you know an audible subscription comes with access to tons audiobooks you don’t have to use credits to listen to (as long as you’re still a…

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    Book Review:: The Book of Lost Hours | Hayley Gelfuso

    August 15, 2025

    A big idea can change the world, for what is the world as we know it, but ideas? It starts small, inside the mind of one person,…

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    Book Review:: Love at First Sighting | Mallory Marlowe

    August 12, 2025

    Love at First Sighting is no ordinary romance. You might say…ahem…it’s out of this world. Just kidding. It takes place on Earth. But it is tightly wrapped…

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    Book Review:: Wes and Addie Had Their Chance | Bethany Turner

    August 11, 2025

    Another second chance love story out of Adelaide Springs. That place did their youth so bad the universe has conspired against it to bring all the little…

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    Book Review:: Just Another Dead Author | Katarina Bivald

    August 10, 2025

    Katarina Bivald’s new book Just Another Dead Author is a cozy mystery set at a French writer’s retreat. When one of the most notable attendees winds up…

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    Book Review:: Everything is Probably Fine | Julia London

    August 8, 2025

    Julia London’s new novel Everything Is Probably Fine is an absolute triumph. I’m convinced this novel has the potential to change the world, at least for those…

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    Book Review:: The Hounding | Xenobe Purvis

    August 5, 2025

    The Hounding is a new novel by Xenobe Purvis full of mysticism, skepticism, and general uproar over rumor and gossip that will have consequences for an entire…

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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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