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    Book Review:: Bitter Sweet | Hattie Williams

    July 8, 2025

    Bitter Sweet is the story of a damaged young girl during a year of bad choices that includes an illicit affair that will change her life forever.…

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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:: 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:: 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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    Book Review:: Racing Heart | Darci St. John

    May 19, 2025

    I read every racing romance I can get my hands on, so I was pleased to be selected as an arc reviewer for Darci St. John’s newest…

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    Book Review:: 10 Marchfield Square | Nicola Whyte

    April 21, 2025

    If you are a fan of the Hulu Original show Only Murders in the Building starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, you’re going to love…

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    Book Review:: We All Live Here | Jojo Moyes

    April 13, 2025

    We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes is a raw, emotional, and realistic story of a family that has fallen apart and is only functioning through strategic…

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    Book Review:: Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford

    April 8, 2025

    Bake off, but make it bookish! Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame is the cozy adventure of a lithe septuagenarian ready to take a little piece of the…

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    Book Review:: Famous Last Words | Gillian McAllister

    February 25, 2025

    Cam’s first day back at work as a literary agent after maternity leave doesn’t exactly go the way she planned. But no one plans for the police…

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    Book Review:: Beautiful Ugly | Alice Feeney

    January 14, 2025

    What is it with tiny little Scottish islands? Grady Green, bestselling author, is struggling to work after the disappearance of his wife Abby. Finally at a breaking…

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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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