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The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

Enza and Ciro grew to adolescence in the mountains of Italy, their lives crossing one another but never meeting, until Ciro arrives to help bury her little sister and the two are pulled into a saga of...

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Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox has a muse named Mary. Mary is sexy, witty, sweet, and has all the features of his dream woman. Mr. Fox’s wife, a fairly ordinary woman, is beginning to pick up on signs that there is another...

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Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

Futuristic bodice-ripper? Yes, that day has come.  Dr. Catherine Young has set out to find a man named Tom McEnroe out in the middle of nowhere, where his band of secret operation soldiers known as the...

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

Bernadette Fox is kindof a mess. She doesn’t seem to get along with the other parents at her daughter’s school, her house is falling apart, her husband is never home, and she hates dealing with...

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The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

Edie Middlestein has a big problem. She can’t stop eating. She thinks about food all day long. This wasn’t a problem until her Doctor told her she had to put it to a stop or she was killing herself....

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Rogue Rider by Larissa Ione

Rogue Rider, by Larissa Ione, is Book 4 of Lords of Deliverance series, which is made up of Eternal Rider, Immortal Rider, and Lethal Rider.   The series is about the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse,...

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The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

Anyone who knows me can already guess that this is going to be a raving review. Kate Morton is HANDS-DOWN my favorite author, has held the title for the last couple of years. I read The Distant Hours,...

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Paranormal Romance of 2012

Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Fallen Angels, Demons, Witches, Fairies, Pixies, Gods and Goddesses, the genre of paranormal romance, which took the world by storm some years ago, is still going strong,...

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Vanity Fare : a novel of lattes, literature and love by Megan Caldwell

Molly Hagan is a single mother in Brooklyn with a passion for coffee, books, and handsome men…Her husband left her for a hot young blond and she has been hiding behind romance novels and a steaming...

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How to Deceive a Duke by Lecia Cornwall

I will be the first to admit that when I saw the cover to this book, I thought “OH BROTHER, another cheesy romance novel…” but I was pleasantly surprised the night that I decided maybe some light,...

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The Hangman in the Mirror by Kate Cayley

Francoise Laurent is the 16-year-old daughter of an alcoholic laundress and a drunkard. She wears her fingers down to the bone helping her parents to pay the rent and keep a minimum of food on the...

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The Queen’s Lover by Francine du Plessix Gray

In popular culture, Marie Antoinette is very well-known for being the Queen who was beheaded by her people.  She is also portrayed as having her own tidy collection of male admirers. One such man...

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The Midwife’s Revolt by Jodi Daynard

Lizzie Boylston is a midwife in the tumultuous times of the Revolutionary War, when neighbors could very well be enemies and the tension between the Tories and the Whigs was bordering on hostile and...

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The Blood Gospel, Order of the Sanguines

Dr. Erin Granger is an archaeologist working on a dig in Israel who gets called in by the Israeli government to help out with a high-priority archaelogical find that has the potential to be very...

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Sleeping in Eden by Nicole Baart

The suicide of a local drunk in Blackhawk, Iowa, holds very little suprise for the residents of the town. Doctor Lucas Hudson, a local physician, is called up by the police to fill in as coroner and...

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Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs

Forensic Anthropologist Temperance Brennan is back with the 15th installment in the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs, which many of you already know has been in the inspiration for the...

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Come In and Cover Me by Gin Phillips

Ren is an Archaeologist with a very serious edge-she can connect to the spirits of the departed, and they guide her towards important finds on archaeological dig sites, bring her perspective, and even...

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The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley

Matt Beaulieu and Elle McClure were deeply in love with one another and trying desperately to have a baby when she had an accident that put her on life support. Her wish was to be laid to rest, not to...

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s...

William E. Dodd became America’s Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in 1933, bringing his family to Berlin with him. Based on correspondences between a number of very colorful individuals, including his...

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Summerset Abbey by T.J. Brown

Rowena, Victoria and Prudence are 3 young ladies with modern ideas, trapped in a world of strict, old-fashioned social requirements. They grew up relatively protected from the harsh class system, cozy...

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