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    Book Review:: A Lot to Unpack | Portia MacIntosh

    October 2, 2025

    Liberty is in need of a fresh start. She just found out her boyfriend, who she works with, has been using dating apps to send pictures of…

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    Book Review:: The Reluctant Flirt | Jennifer Probst

    July 12, 2025

    Jennifer Probst fans, we’re back in Outer Banks, a small idyllic beach town perfect for falling in love. Book of the Month is the first title in…

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    Book Review:: Coming in Hot | Josie Juniper

    June 15, 2025

    Another Formula 1 sports romance! It opens with a spicy scene, which is pretty indicative of what to expect in a romance. If it was a pepper,…

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    Book Review:: Battle of the Bookstores | Ali Brady

    June 2, 2025

    Well well well, if it isn’t a battle between the battle-of-the-book-selling-establishment books this year. As soon as I noticed both Berkley and Avon were coming out with…

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    Book Review:: Love and Other Paradoxes | Catriona Silvey

    February 22, 2025

    Love and Other Paradoxes is just another run-of-the-mill woman-comes-from-the-future-to-change-the-past-and-boy-gets-caught-up-in-the-crossfire situation. Joseph Greene wants to be the next great poet, so much so that he’s had poet’s-block (like…

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    Book Review:: When We Grow Up | Angelica Baker

    February 18, 2025

    Looking for a book that hits on every hyper-zennial political and culture topic there is without actually giving any substance to any of it? Man, I hate…

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    Book Review:: Change of Heart | Falon Ballard

    February 11, 2025

    Our lives are made up of one moment to the next – moments that are mostly logical and organic as they happen. If we’re not careful, those…

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    Book Review:: The Christmas Dog Sitters | Lucy Mitchell

    September 19, 2024

    Some books are hits, and some are just misses, and unfortunately, this one was the latter for me. When Rachel’s sister is going away with her new…

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    Book Review:: Not in Love | Ali Hazelwood

    July 10, 2024

    I’ve read a few Ali Hazelwood books. Love, Theoretically, Love on the Brain, The Love Hypothesis, Check & Mate — I was expecting Not in Love to…

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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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