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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:: Overruled | Lana Ferguson

    May 24, 2025

    Steamy romance readers will love Lana Ferguson’s newest release, Overruled, coming out July 1st, 2025. Danica and Ezra are rival divorce lawyers who have been across the…

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    Book Review:: Songs of Summer | Jane L. Rosen

    May 20, 2025

    Maggie Mae Wheeler inherited a vintage record shop from her adoptive parents and has started a fling with her lifelong best friend that feels natural but not…

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    Book Review:: The Seven O’Clock Club | Amelia Ireland

    April 11, 2025

    What does it take to earn a five-star rating? Is it simply capturing and holding your attention? Is it making you feel things down deep in the…

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    Book Review:: Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) | Jesse Q. Sutanto

    March 16, 2025

    Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) is the second book in the Vera Wong series. If you haven’t read Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for…

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    Book Review:: Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | Jesse Q. Sutanto

    March 14, 2025

    If you love contemporary murder mysteries and haven’t yet discovered Vera Wong, you’re in for a treat. She is the fun and spunky lead in an investigation…

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    Book Review:: Swept Away | Beth O’Leary

    March 11, 2025

    This book is so much more than I expected. It is easy to assume from the premise that it might be a romantic comedy full of worst-case…

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    Book Review:: What Happens in Amsterdam | Rachel Lynn Solomon

    March 9, 2025

    Sometimes you have to go to the other side of the world to figure yourself out. Dani’s life is in a bit of a shambles – she’s…

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    Book Review:: Exes & O’s | Amy Lea

    February 7, 2025

    What if your next great love was one you already had? What a question. Timing is everything, after all. Then again, maybe fixating on your past can…

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    Book Review:: Toto | A.J. Hackwith

    December 10, 2024

    You think you know what the yellow brick road will bring. You have no idea. When you live life through the eyes of a bad dog, it’s…

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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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