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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:: 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:: 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 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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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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