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    Book Review:: Once and Again | Rebecca Serle

    May 15, 2026

    We’ve all had those moments, those crossroads moments, when we can see two paths stretching out before us, and we have to pick between them. Or something…

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    Book Review:: If Only You Knew | Ellie K. Wilde

    February 13, 2026

    Man, sometimes you gotta go back to a genuine sports romance novel, and If Only You Knew by Ellie K. Wilde really fits the bill (also it’s…

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    Book Review:: Where He Left Me | Nicole Baart

    November 4, 2025

    Sadie Sheridan almost gave up on finding the one. But then, in her 40s, she fell in love with another professor at her university. Felix. He’s smart,…

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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:: 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:: Any Trope But You | Victoria Levine

    April 1, 2025

    Oh tragic personal crisis – Oh handsome brawny hunk in the woods who can right any wrong with his handsome brawny-ness! Any Trope But You is a…

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    Book Review:: Murder at Gulls Nest | Jess Kidd

    March 28, 2025

    A quaint coastal town. A missing person. A silent little girl who sees everything. A former nun who won’t let it go. Murder at Gulls Nest is…

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    Book Review:: Beartown | Fredrik Backman

    February 14, 2025

    For most, hockey is just a sport, but for one little town deep in the forests of Sweden, it is everything. For the first time in decades,…

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    Book Review:: Unloved | Peyton Corinne

    January 31, 2025

    If you were a big fan of Icebreaker, Unloved is another college hockey romance with spice, heart, and finding your place you that will scratch that same…

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    Book Review:: Only in Your Dreams | Ellie K. Wilde

    January 21, 2025

    As you may know, timing is everything from love to war, and Melody and Zac never had theirs right. They met in high school, growing close as…

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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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