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    Book Review:: It’s A Love Story | Annabel Monaghan

    May 27, 2025

    If you haven’t read a book by Annabel Monaghan, seriously, what are you waiting for? She is a queen of the romance genre, and It’s A Love…

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    Book Review:: The Gravedigger’s Almanac | Oliver Potzsch

    May 26, 2025

    If you have any interest in exploring some of the earliest practices of modern criminology, this is the mystery for you! Oliver Potzsch’s newest release, The Gravedigger’s…

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    Book Review:: The High Dive | Chelsea Fagan

    May 25, 2025

    For the girlies looking for a sophisticated summer romance that will scratch the travel itch, you’ve landed in the right place. The High Dive by second time…

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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:: The Guest Cottage | Lori Foster

    May 23, 2025

    For fans of the Hallmark Channel, I give you, The Guest Cottage, by Lori Foster – the first book in her new Firefly Summer series. A woman…

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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 Love Haters | Katherine Center

    May 18, 2025

    The Love Haters is one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and I was lucky enough to snag an early copy of it for review. In…

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    Book Review:: Everything’s Coming Up Rosie | Courtney Walsh

    May 17, 2025

    With a title like Everything’s Coming Up Rosie and such a cute cover, who could resist this new release from Courtney Walsh and Thomas Nelson Publishing?! Luckily,…

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    Book Review:: All the Perfect Days | Michael Thompson

    May 16, 2025

    Every choice we make effects innumerable other choices in our lives. Some of them can change our trajectories entirely. It might not even feel like a big…

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    Book Review:: Not A Strong Enough Word | Allie Samberts

    May 14, 2025

    Okay folks, get ready to swoon over Allie Sambert’s new novel Not A Strong Enough Word. This book about second chances completely won me over. Scarlett once…

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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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