Month: April 2021
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Mean and Shellfish by TAMAR MYERS
A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery This is one of the funniest cozy series! And the laughs may come to an end before the festival! Murder, wild shenanigans and visitors from afar may all take center stage at Hernia’s fourth Billy Goat Gruff Festival. It is after all the premier event of Hernia. The festival has attracted […]
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THIEF OF SOULS by BRIAN KLINGBORG
“On the night the young woman’s corpse is discovered, hollowed out like a birchbark canoe, Inspector Lu Fei sits alone in the Red Louts bar, determined to get gloriously drunk.” Lu Fei has all the credentials of a top-notch Inspector and yet he is living in a small town in the north of China,where life […]
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MURDER IN THE COOKBOOK NOOK by ELLERY ADAMS
A Book Retreat Mystery #7 Storyton Hall in Virginia is home to Jane, her boys her beloved Aunt and Uncle and this week to the cast and crew of a book -themed cook-off show. The cooking tent is up and the six chefs have arrived along with host Mia and her entourage. Winning this competition […]
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Sweetshop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan
A novel in recipes! A delicious rom-com about finding yourself and breaking out of routines, The Sweetshop of Dreams is full of tempting desserts, family secrets, and second chances. In London, Rosie has a busy life. A job that is okay. A boyfriend who was rather bland and a momma’s boy. But who is she to complain? […]
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Three Dreamers A Memoir of Family by LORENZO CARCATERRA
“By the time you reach my age,” he writes, “you have witnessed too much loss to not be aware of what lies ahead.” From the author of Sleepers and an incredible body of work, Carcaterra takes us down a totally different road with Three Dreamers. This is the homage to the three women in his […]
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The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer Publication Day! @djpalmerauthor @StMartinsPress Congratulations!
Another thriller from Palmer! And it is so good! Some backstory: Grace and Arthur run the family pizza joint in town. They have two sons, Jack and Ryan. Grace though has always dreamed of being the mother to a daughter. So imagine her surprise when she finds a four-year-old little girl abandoned in the park. […]
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THREE MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE RITZ by GAIL CROWTHER (The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton)
The story of two of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The two meet at a workshop in Boston led by Robert Lowell, they for a friendship that spun way out of control fueled by jealousy, respect, and a rivalry that never ended. There is so much I did […]
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HER THREE LIVES by CATE HOLAHAN
“All human beings have three lives. Public, Private, and Secret” Gabriel Garcia Marquez A very appropriate quote to start off the book. This standalone thriller is the latest from Holahan and it’s a twisty one. Greg is a recently divorced architect who met Jade, twenty years his junior and fell head over heals for her […]
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BLOOD AND TREASURE DANIEL BOONE AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA’S FIRST FRONTIER by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
The middle of the 1700’s were full of uncertainty for the thirteen colonies that Great Britain has founded so far. There are so many different battles going on it’s no wonder everyone was a little anxious. Everyone wants to find a new frontier. And they are all willing to die for it. The Natives, the […]
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