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    Book Review:: Ghost Business | Jen DeLuca

    September 7, 2025

    Welcome back to Boneyard Key, where the kitchy beach town theme is actually rooted in truth. Boneyard Key is haunted by a wide array of ghosts, and…

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    Book Review:: Buckeye | Patrick Ryan

    September 2, 2025

    What can I say about this stunning novel except that it will move you. It is a story of life, love and war, family and community, marriage,…

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    Book Review:: At Last | Marisa Silver

    September 1, 2025

    At Last is a new slower-paced saga style novel from Marisa Silver that follows the connecting of two families through the marriage of their children. It’s an…

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    Book Review:: A Winter Wedding Adventure | Leonie Mack

    August 30, 2025

    This novel is exactly what it sounds like: an adventure set during wedding festivities in the winter. Neither Kira or Mattia are characters you might expect to…

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    Book Review:: Pitcher Perfect | Tessa Bailey

    August 26, 2025

    Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy for being a sleezy womanizer. Boy is completely lost for her. Girl ‘hires’ him to fake date in order to catch…

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    Book Review:: Save You | Mona Kasten

    August 22, 2025

    Save You is the second book in the popular teenage drama saga Maxton Hall. If you’ve not yet read book one, please start there. My review for…

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    Book Review:: As A Last Resort | Kristin Wollett

    July 22, 2025

    Burying your head in the sand is so much easier than facing your past. Or in Samantha’s case, fleeing her home town, severing all ties, and hyper-focusing…

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    Book Review:: Both Things Are True | Kathleen Barber

    July 11, 2025

    I love a good complex second chance romance story, but hanging it all upon a series of miscommunications is risky business, and in Kathleen Barber’s new release…

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    Book Review:: The Night We Lost Him | Laura Dave

    June 17, 2025

    I’m coming to realize that Laura Dave is one of my favorite authors right now. She’s an excellent atmospheric writer. The tone of her books is clear…

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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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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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