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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:: 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:: Sounds Like Trouble | Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith

    July 5, 2025

    Sounds Like Trouble is the second book in a fun contemporary mystery series co-written by Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith. Jackson and Mackenzie are back…

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    Book Review:: The Spirit of Love | Lauren Kate

    July 1, 2025

    A vacation fling, a workplace rival, two very different love connections. The Spirit of Love is a new novel by Lauren Kate that will have you leaning…

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    Book Review:: The Summer You Were Mine | Jill Francis

    June 29, 2025

    Second chances, autism representation, sports-y, and the idyllic backdrop of an Italian summer? Count me in. Jill Francis’ The Summer You Were Mine just might be the…

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    Book Review:: Sunburned | Katherine Wood

    June 26, 2025

    Actions have consequences, and the law doesn’t care about good intentions. Sunburned is a brand-new novel that will have you glued to the pages as a high-stakes…

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    Book Review:: The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood

    June 24, 2025

    A tree falls in the woods, and all three of your adult children are standing beneath it. You dive forward to remove one from danger, but the…

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    Book Review:: The Love Fix | Jill Shalvis

    June 20, 2025

    You can’t escape your past by running away from it. At least, not in fiction! After the death of her mother, Lexi has to return to a…

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    Book Review:: Gloves Off | Stephanie Archer

    June 16, 2025

    Fan of sports romance? Stephanie Archer should be on your list! Gloves Off is the fourth book in her Vancouver Storm series. The Fake Out, the second…

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    Book Review:: Never Been Shipped | Alicia Thompson

    June 9, 2025

    Music is a powerful phenomenon. It can transport us to a place or time, if only in our minds. For Micah and John, it brings them back…

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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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