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    Book Review:: Rules of the Heart | Janice Hadlow

    April 27, 2026

    Have you ever been swept up in an engrossing historical timepiece that runs on romance? If not, you need to pick up Rules of the Heart by…

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    Book Review:: The Irish Goodbye | Heather Aimee O’Neill

    September 26, 2025

    I love me a good family drama, and The Irish Goodbye by debut author Heather Aimee O’Neill was no exception. When families come together for holidays, it…

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    Book Review:: The Hounding | Xenobe Purvis

    August 5, 2025

    The Hounding is a new novel by Xenobe Purvis full of mysticism, skepticism, and general uproar over rumor and gossip that will have consequences for an entire…

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    Book Review:: If You Love It, Let It Kill You | Hannah Pittard

    July 15, 2025

    I was this today years old when I learned what auto-fiction is. A fictional story using elements from the author’s real life. To be honest, I didn’t…

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    Book Review:: The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood

    June 24, 2025

    A tree falls in the woods, and all three of your adult children are standing beneath it. You dive forward to remove one from danger, but the…

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    Book Review:: The Book of George | Kate Greathead

    October 6, 2024

    The thing about life is we can’t see very far ahead of ourselves. We don’t know what will happen or who we’ll meet or how we’ll feel.…

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    Book Review:: Amazing Grace Adams | Fran Littlewood

    August 13, 2024

    Have you ever had a bad day? Bad week really. Months, even. Or a decade, if we’re being honest. Grace has. And she’s kept it together, mostly,…

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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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