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    Book Review:: Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes | Sandra Jackson-Opoku

    July 25, 2025

    Readers, we have a new amateur sleuth to enjoy! Sapphire (Savvy) Summers is a small town cafe owner thrown into a murder mystery when a man drops…

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    Book Review:: As A Last Resort | Kristin Wollett

    July 22, 2025

    Burying your head in the sand is so much easier than facing your past. Or in Samantha’s case, fleeing her home town, severing all ties, and hyper-focusing…

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    Book Review:: Not Quite Dead Yet | Holly Jackson

    July 20, 2025

    What do you do with the time you have left after you find out a traumatic brain injury will kill you within days? For Jet, it is…

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    Book Review:: Greenwich | Kate Broad

    July 18, 2025

    Greenwich is a bit of an odd book that isn’t easy to slot into conventional genre conventions. As a millennial, it’s hard for me to call this…

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    Book Review:: The Goldens | Lauren Wilson

    July 16, 2025

    Lauren Wilson’s new book The Goldens will have you sucked into the orbit of a young influencer and experience first-hand the dogma that can lead impressionable young…

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    Book Review:: If You Love It, Let It Kill You | Hannah Pittard

    July 15, 2025

    I was this today years old when I learned what auto-fiction is. A fictional story using elements from the author’s real life. To be honest, I didn’t…

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    Book Review:: The Greatest Possible Good | Ben Brooks

    July 13, 2025

    Most people do not live their lives according to their own values. They say they do, they say they support certain things or care about them, but…

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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:: Bitter Sweet | Hattie Williams

    July 8, 2025

    Bitter Sweet is the story of a damaged young girl during a year of bad choices that includes an illicit affair that will change her life forever.…

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    Book Review:: The Homemade God | Rachel Joyce

    July 7, 2025

    Something I am coming to terms with about myself is that I am absolutely lost over a good family saga. Seriously send me all of your recommendations…

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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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