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    Book Review:: Read Between the Lines | Emily Kerr

    June 12, 2025

    The grouch in the library may not be as bad as he seems… Kat is ready for love, and she thinks she’s finally found it through a…

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    Book Review:: A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers

    June 10, 2025

    What is it that drives us? What is our purpose? What happens when we actually achieve what we set out to do? What comes next? A Psalm…

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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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    Book Review:: Sunny Side Up | Katie Sturino

    June 8, 2025

    Sunny Side Up is a new novel by Katie Sturino for all the second-act ladies out there. Sunny is trying to find her mojo after a divorce…

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    Book Review:: Wild Side | Elsie Silver

    June 7, 2025

    Buckle in for the third trip around the Rose Hill sun – it’s a heart-wrenching one! There was a lot of healing in Wild Eyes with Skylar,…

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    Book Review:: Sounds Like A Plan | Pamela Samuels Young & Dwayne Alexander Smith

    June 6, 2025

    Sometimes a bookworm has to do some retail therapy, am I right? I picked this book up on a whim on one of those such occasions because…

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    Book Review:: The Ghostwriter | Julie Clark

    June 3, 2025

    Once upon a time, two children were murdered in their home. Siblings. Leaving one brother, not home at the time, alive. No one was ever convicted. This…

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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:: Wild Eyes | Elsie Silver

    June 1, 2025

    What I wouldn’t do to live in a place as beautiful and idyllic as Rose Hill. The first book in this Elsie Silver series is Wild Love,…

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    Book Review:: Slow Burn Summer | Josie Silver

    May 30, 2025

    Fake it until you make it. Good advice, right? Maybe not always. Kate Elliot was an actress as a young woman. Now, after a divorce, she reaches…

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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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