tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52843607306197318542024-02-20T02:12:40.095-05:00Book Mama BlogBook Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414574115445675278noreply@blogger.comBlogger765125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284360730619731854.post-39001770300328688312021-02-08T22:14:00.003-05:002021-02-08T22:14:47.450-05:00Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex & Love Addict - release day review and giveaway<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWA6dR_nbOcnmrj0YWw04UEd949LI8GskNKwsaLFPiewNnh7oW1jkU4p9ir4l4tskBdLPU2Mgnj1SzTKESWRCDDNq7OWRW9cjdjzjhTFirioujffqRzUtuyPgEAoGiWRH9rRNjT4s8zmX/s499/41PM4K7Qu9L._SX326_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="328" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWA6dR_nbOcnmrj0YWw04UEd949LI8GskNKwsaLFPiewNnh7oW1jkU4p9ir4l4tskBdLPU2Mgnj1SzTKESWRCDDNq7OWRW9cjdjzjhTFirioujffqRzUtuyPgEAoGiWRH9rRNjT4s8zmX/w263-h400/41PM4K7Qu9L._SX326_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="263" /></a></b></div><b>About the book:<o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Imagine if <b><i>Sex
and the City's</i> </b>Samantha discovered she was a sex and love addict.
Go on a hilarious, inspiring and, at times, shocking journey as <b>Roxanne</b> conquers
her fears, changes her ways, gets closer to healthy relationships and begins
loving herself a little more each day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What if you realize you're
an addict and your </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">drug of choice is MEN</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">? After years of working as
an image-obsessed actress in Hollywood, Roxanne finds herself at rock bottom
from a disease that is anything but glamorous. In her first year of recovery,
Roxanne has to take accountability for her past. From tales of being mistaken
for a prostitute at the Hotel Bel-Air to botching a threesome attempt with an
A-list celebrity, Roxanne must face the truth about herself and stop playing
the victim.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Roxanne's odyssey of using
sex and love—as destructive and beguiling as an alcoholic reaching for a
bottle—is a veritable rollercoaster of ups and downs, laughter and tears, and a
true testament to facing your absolute truth and conquering your fears. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Secret Life of a Hollywood
Sex & Love</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Addict has the vibrant, relatable vibe of<b> chick lit</b>,
the soul-baring honesty of a <b>memoir</b> and the wisdom of a <b>self-help </b>book.
It’s a vulnerable, humorous and sometimes outrageous look into the world of
addiction. So take a front-row seat into this complex world and the 10 RULES
Roxanne learns along the way. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Review by Marlene Roberts:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We’ve heard people say
that they are addicted to men or addicted to sex, but do they truly realize the
definition of what they’re proclaiming?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just like any other addiction, being addicted to sex and the need to
feel loved is a more common condition than one may think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s a real diagnosis that can lead to
negative effects if one lets it get that far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Brianne Davis, a Hollywood actress, who has firsthand experience with
this condition has penned an impossible to put down story loosely based on her
experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this book, fictional
character, Roxanne takes us on a journey of her many highs and lows dealing
with her addiction to sex and love.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At
times hilarious, and others quite sad, we get a glimpse of how it would be to
suffer from such a disorder. Although some may think it’s a “sexy” disease, one
that could only bring pleasure and self-gratification, we get to see another
side that many don’t know about.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
side that’s desperately searching for love, and many times not in the proper
ways or with the right people.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
witness as Roxanne hits rock-bottom and works to heal herself and hopefully
come out on the other side.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Full of information that I
was unaware of, I found this book not only extremely enjoyable and hard to put
down, but giving me knowledge of a disease that Hollywood has glorified through
movies and TV shows for as long as I can remember.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s an honest and raw look at the life of a
person who is desperately seeking love and acceptance in the form of sex and
physical connection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Purchase the book at:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1736106503/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=secretlife0c-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1736106503&linkId=21dcdbfaa94e7e8ce9924697dd0a9597" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcCs2Vf_vOOWJIgxRv8Nkqr_mLmNQMzU67WYVlpIfN0Ieh-NTlomZ80h0S-2N5AP4J0GVA-C8pka6Qqps9So6xVwa52oW0B3ZTqXgCUObUvmrfjikuTac9GmpXT8-GrnR3e9dqjGNPTZi/s751/rs%253Dw_600%252Ccg_true.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcCs2Vf_vOOWJIgxRv8Nkqr_mLmNQMzU67WYVlpIfN0Ieh-NTlomZ80h0S-2N5AP4J0GVA-C8pka6Qqps9So6xVwa52oW0B3ZTqXgCUObUvmrfjikuTac9GmpXT8-GrnR3e9dqjGNPTZi/s320/rs%253Dw_600%252Ccg_true.jpg" /></a></b></div><b>About the author:</b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brianne Davis is a
Hollywood actress, writer, producer and director. She can be seen as an actress
in <i>Lucifer, Casual, True Blood,</i> the History Channel’s
series <i>Six</i>, and the film <i>Jarhead</i> starring Jake
Gyllenhaal. Brianne has produced three films with her production company, Give
& Take Productions. She has directed two films, <i>The Night Visitor
2: Heather’s Story</i> and <i>Deadly Signal</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Brianne has over a decade
of recovery as a sex and love addict. Inspired by her life experience, she is
the host of the popular Personal Journals podcast </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Secret Life</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">. Her
article </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">“I’m a Sex and Love Addict. Here’s How I Realized I Had a
Problem.”</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> was published in Huff Post Personal’s March 2020 issue and
received over a million views. Brianne lives in Los Angeles with her husband,
Mark Gantt and son, Davis.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Connect with the author at:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.briannedavis.com">Brianne’s Website</a> * <a href="http://www.secretlifenovel.com" target="_blank">Secret Life Website</a> * <a href="http://www.secretlifepodcast.com" target="_blank">Secret Life Podcast Website</a>
* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thebriannedavis" target="_blank">Brianne’s Facebook</a> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SecretLifeNovel/" target="_blank">Secret Life Facebook</a> * <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebriannedavis/" target="_blank">Brianne’s Instagram</a> * <a href="https://www.instagram.com/secretlifenovel/" target="_blank">Secret LifeInstagram </a>* <a href="https://www.instagram.com/secretlifepodcast/" target="_blank">Secret Life Podcast Instagram<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
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secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze
their reckless leader, Cat the den mother, Heather the beloved baby sister, and
Walker, a man of mystery. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life has changed all four of them in immeasurable ways. Maze and
Cat must decide if they can rebuild their friendship, and Maze discovers her
long-held attraction to Walker hasn’t faded with the years but has only grown
stronger.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Purchase the book at:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062897853?tag=harpercollinsus-20" target="_blank">Amazon </a>* <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forever-girl-jill-shalvis/1135856077?ean=9780062897855" target="_blank">B&N</a> * <a href="https://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780062897855?AID=10747236&PID=7310909&cjevent=3e8d58b2252711eb8109002d0a240610" target="_blank">Books-A-Million</a> * <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062897855" target="_blank">Indiebound </a>* <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-forever-girl-9780062897855/9780062897855" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjonvDKqOEsjMliTk6j_QkM0dpG98uFqahG-V8koPg7TFwGIICwVF_qhSmgHxh8mVGfc1kQvptgpcnjnrIwhITaNaxUsBNqxBRPMQ0Q_Xmz6cEmqBzjqG-IiKsd66O5SOtttoH-wLXMoJLq/s1459/Jill+Shalvis+Author+Photo_credit+Susan+Zweigle%252C+ZR+Studios.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1459" data-original-width="1100" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjonvDKqOEsjMliTk6j_QkM0dpG98uFqahG-V8koPg7TFwGIICwVF_qhSmgHxh8mVGfc1kQvptgpcnjnrIwhITaNaxUsBNqxBRPMQ0Q_Xmz6cEmqBzjqG-IiKsd66O5SOtttoH-wLXMoJLq/s320/Jill+Shalvis+Author+Photo_credit+Susan+Zweigle%252C+ZR+Studios.JPG" /></a></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;">About the
author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New York Times</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> bestselling
author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky
characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um,
mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever
romances are sold and visit her website, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/5284360730619731854/8233724012941222653"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc;">www.jillshalvis.com</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her
city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Book Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414574115445675278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284360730619731854.post-20149417627704648902020-10-20T00:00:00.001-04:002020-10-20T00:00:05.351-04:00The Cookbook Club - Review & Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTusVhsPg2EqXW-l8iWjLUEVsTB-PV6maZMnfY3V6R0IS1hyVjSlHaovHbb83b4aobQ0XkY1LzCx5zFSqd-wKKrz8TxCtNq5-saB0KOc-UsQcbXJPPFipdvQ9ewPfUhiG9Zu52OFKmfhy/s499/51gwzRSJdkL._SX329_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTusVhsPg2EqXW-l8iWjLUEVsTB-PV6maZMnfY3V6R0IS1hyVjSlHaovHbb83b4aobQ0XkY1LzCx5zFSqd-wKKrz8TxCtNq5-saB0KOc-UsQcbXJPPFipdvQ9ewPfUhiG9Zu52OFKmfhy/s320/51gwzRSJdkL._SX329_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Margo,
Trista and Aja, three woman who couldn’t be more different, form friendships
while bonding over food.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Each at a
crossroads in their lives, they come together as members of a cookbook
club.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through an eight-month period,
each woman gains new perspective on life to enhance and rebuild their lives.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Part-time
real estate agent, Margo’s life gets turned upside down when her attorney husband,
Calvin, announces that he is moving to San Francisco for a promotion and she’s
not invited.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">It doesn’t take long for
Margo to realize how much of her life she has devoted to her husband, only to
neglect herself in the meantime.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">After
posting an invite on Intagram for The Cookbook Club, a club that will focus on
a new cookbook every couple of weeks, Trista feels this will help her create new
menu dishes for her sports bar/restaurant that is in need of an update.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Previously working as an attorney, Trista,
aka Boozy Crocker, is trying to pick up the pieces of her life after being
fired from her high-paying job.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Pregnant
and with a partner who puts her down at every turn, Aja has a revelation that
has her reprioritizing her life … without the baby daddy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
story was very enjoyable.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">And there’s
something about food that not only brings people together, but forms
long-lasting bonds.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Included in the book
were some recipes that I’m anxious to try.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
took away from the story a wonderful sense of friendship, women empowerment and
wanting to join a cookbook club.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I have
always enjoyed Beth Harbison’s books and this one did not disappoint.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">It was the perfect fall story.</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;">I absolutely loved it.</span></span></p>
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the book at:</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062958623/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sin-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062958623&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a>* <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cookbook-club-beth-harbison/1137460123?ean=9780062958624">Barnes&Noble</a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrT3fa29FtbfvI1SW_qPMJf47oSgDbqJwVInj37rF6gRuWeX0Itl-upFKulQ7otoHj9nGG03kkoKLjbx3LJRK3XsZ1LFelL4DagunD2A6G3Pa3Na3NfZXIn174Lk__ld_e4saHM7PUgt_4/s560/31ef20_288998e1077e4f51897a77cd43b7d49a.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrT3fa29FtbfvI1SW_qPMJf47oSgDbqJwVInj37rF6gRuWeX0Itl-upFKulQ7otoHj9nGG03kkoKLjbx3LJRK3XsZ1LFelL4DagunD2A6G3Pa3Na3NfZXIn174Lk__ld_e4saHM7PUgt_4/s320/31ef20_288998e1077e4f51897a77cd43b7d49a.webp" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>About the author</b>: </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><em><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 107%;">New
York Times </span></em><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111; line-height: 107%;">bestselling author
Beth Harbison started cooking when she was eight years old, thanks to Betty
Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls. After graduating college, she worked
full-time as a private chef in the DC area, and within three years she sold her
first cookbook, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Bread Machine Baker</em>. She published
four cookbooks before moving on to writing women’s fiction, including the
runaway bestseller <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shoe Addicts Anonymous</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">When in Doubt, Add Butter</em>. She lives in
Palms Springs, California. </span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Connect with the author at</b>: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><a href="https://www.bethharbison.com/">Website </a>* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorBethHarbison/photos/?ref=page_internal">Facebook </a>*
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Enter to win a print copy of </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>The Cookbook Club</i></b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><i> </i></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a class="rcptr" data-raflid="170869b9434" data-template="" data-theme="classic" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/170869b9434/" id="rcwidget_3n6rem5g" rel="nofollow">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a></p><script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script></div>Book Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414574115445675278noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284360730619731854.post-60667984256995538082020-08-11T06:00:00.001-04:002020-08-11T06:00:07.878-04:00Louisiana Lucky - Review & Giveaway<p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qwAm8vJPvCqFl96HP0-yRZ4ujSLwgvYiM1z04aO8kuxfrarM4mHHurjY7ouBBd3fz59eF29q0mSAfyt9ZDidWTREZ5t3Tn9RQ3NGWmJ3hD_84cVZOYO0aN7TavRllVg6IZ5XUbKrSJRL/s499/411Xq7ahXhL._SX320_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="322" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qwAm8vJPvCqFl96HP0-yRZ4ujSLwgvYiM1z04aO8kuxfrarM4mHHurjY7ouBBd3fz59eF29q0mSAfyt9ZDidWTREZ5t3Tn9RQ3NGWmJ3hD_84cVZOYO0aN7TavRllVg6IZ5XUbKrSJRL/w258-h399/411Xq7ahXhL._SX320_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s be honest, we have all fantasized about
what we would do if we won the lottery.</span><span face="" style="color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="background: white;">Me?</span> <span style="background: white;">I’d
pay off all of mine and my family’s debt, buy myself the car of my dreams and
invest the rest.</span> <span style="background: white;">But, that’s
just a fantasy.</span> <span style="background: white;">Who really
wins that kind of money?</span></span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Breaux sisters:</span><span face="" style="color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="background: white;">Lexi, Hanna and Callie, who have been playing the
lottery for years fantasizing of how each would use the winnings, their dream
of winning became a reality.</span> <span style="background: white;">Each
had their own unique ideas of what to do with the money.</span> <span style="background: white;">Lexi wanted her storybook wedding. </span> <span style="background: white;">Hanna wanted a reliable home and a safe school for her
son.</span> <span style="background: white;">And for Callie it was to
pursue the career she’d always dreamt of.</span> <span style="background: white;">One would think that this landfall of money would make
everyone’s dreams come true and solve all of their problems, right?</span> <span style="background: white;">But as we know, with a large fortune comes the
potential for just as large problems.</span> </span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">With fun,
relatable characters, Louisiana Lucky is the perfect summer
read. From start to finish, this book captured my attention and held
on tight. I would absolutely recommend this book. And,
who knows, maybe one of us will get the itch to buy a lotto ticket and, with a
dollar and a dream, become the next big winner.</span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Purchase the book at:</span></b><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982115637?tag=simonsayscom">Amazon </a>* <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/louisiana-lucky-julie-pennell/1133949842;jsessionid=30B083144F40777093127D0BE359CDE4.prodny_store01-atgap05?ean=9781982115630&st=AFF&2sid=Simon%20&%20Schuster_7567305_NA&sourceId=AFFSimon%20&%20Schuster">Barnes&Noble </a></span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCaIYPNoRAdwOHc-iurIC-fy5nKCrp30pWwHNLWD-u1YVR3IHHANJJ2BfhtYoRJ0my6tMueJQlVW4G7UMqcWZz3hLKl3Na1uBsNqM1bECxi2aHY50KIHAUIkJaPA4IOXTNNRy5uO8aCUe/s400/qPe4LMku_400x400.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqCaIYPNoRAdwOHc-iurIC-fy5nKCrp30pWwHNLWD-u1YVR3IHHANJJ2BfhtYoRJ0my6tMueJQlVW4G7UMqcWZz3hLKl3Na1uBsNqM1bECxi2aHY50KIHAUIkJaPA4IOXTNNRy5uO8aCUe/w320-h320/qPe4LMku_400x400.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b>About the author:</b><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="" style="background: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Hi there! I'm a lifestyle writer and author. I cover travel,
home, health, career, personal finance and relationships for various national
publications. I'm a former digital editor for </span><i><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Seventeen</span></i><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> magazine and Alloy Entertainment. My first novel, </span><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://juliepennell.blogspot.com/p/the-young-wives-club.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">The Young Wives
Club</span></i></a><span style="background: white;">, was published by Emily
Bestler Books at Simon & Schuster in February 2017.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Originally from Louisiana, I moved to New York
City for the dream the second I graduated from college (Louisiana Tech
journalism '05, go Bulldogs!) There's still a crawfish-shaped place in my heart
for my home state. I am married to a St. Louis boy I met in Manhattan, and we
currently live in Philadelphia with a rambunctious toddler.</span></span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="background: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="" style="background: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Connect with the author at:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://juliepennell.blogspot.com/p/portfolio.html" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Website </a><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">* </span><a href="https://twitter.com/juliepens" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Twitter </a><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">* </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliepens/" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Instagram</a></p>
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books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open
nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five
years—a book she recognizes as </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Book of Lost Names</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The accompanying
article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during
World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people
with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an
eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the
waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in
Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort
of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means.
Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old
memories and help reunite those lost during the war?</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">As a graduate
student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a
Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she
begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral
Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a
mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to
preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they
really are. The records they keep in </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Book of Lost Names</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> will become even more vital when the resistance cell
they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kristin
Harmel is the #1 international bestselling and USA Today bestselling author
of <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Winemaker’s Wife, The Room on Rue Amelie</span></i>, and a
dozen other novels that have been translated into numerous languages and sold
all over the world.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">A former
reporter for <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">PEOPLE</span></i> magazine, Kristin has
been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a
sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local
magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. After stints covering health
and lifestyle for <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">American Baby, Men’s Health</span></i>,
and <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Woman’s Day</span></i>, she became a reporter for <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">PEOPLE</span></i> magazine while still in college and spent
more than a decade working for the publication, covering everything from the
Super Bowl to high-profile murders to celebrity interviews with the likes of
Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, OutKast, Justin Timberlake, and Patrick
Dempsey. Her favorite stories at <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">PEOPLE</span></i>, however,
were the “Heroes Among Us” features—tales of ordinary people doing
extraordinary things. One of those features—the story of
Holocaust-survivor-turned-philanthropist Henri Landwirth (whom both Walter
Cronkite and John Glenn told Kristin was the most amazing person they’d ever
known)—partially inspired Kristin’s 2012 novel, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The
Sweetness of Forgetting</span></i>, which was a bestseller all over the world.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
addition to a long magazine writing career (which also included articles
published in <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Ladies’ Home
Journal, Every Day with Rachael Ray,</span></i> and more), Kristin was
also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily
Buzz—where her assignments included flying to London three times to interview
the cast of the Harry Potter films—and has appeared on Good Morning America and
numerous local television morning shows. She even stumbled into a role as an
extra in the 2003 American Idol movie while awaiting an interview with Kelly
Clarkson.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kristin
was born just outside Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood there, as
well as in Columbus, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Florida. After graduating with a
degree in journalism (with a minor in Spanish) from the University of Florida,
she spent time living in Paris and Los Angeles and now lives in Orlando, with
her husband and young son. She travels frequently to France for book research
(and—let’s be honest—for the pastries and wine) and writes a book a year for
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Harrington sisters have never gotten along. Sara is a Type-A,
career-focused event planner, and her younger sister Mariel is the opposite:
bohemian, semi-employed, and recently engaged. When Sara's mother lures her
back to Connecticut under false pretenses, she is perturbed to discover Mariel
waiting for her, eager to reconcile their relationship -- and get some help
with the final arrangements before her big day. The two sisters haven't spoken
since the night Sara realized something was going on between Mariel and Sara's
boyfriend, Carter Pryce. And now Mariel is about to marry Carter, the man she
stole from Sara, the man Sara still loves.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">When Mariel asks
Sara to stand in for a bridesmaid who has to cancel at the last minute, Sara
realizes it's the perfect cover to unravel the nuptials and win Carter back.
Sara begins to slowly sabotage Mariel's picture-perfect wedding, but when she
crosses paths with David Cole, he challenges her self-image as the jilted
second-fiddle to her spotlight-stealing sister. Will Sara realize what a
bridesmaid-zilla she's become in time to fix the damage before Mariel's big day?</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Funny, soulful, and
as sweet as buttercream, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Wedding Thief</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> is the perfect summer read.</span></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Mary Simses grew up in Darien, Connecticut and began writing
stories as a child. After majoring in journalism in college, she worked for a
few years in magazine publishing, but then decided to go back to school to
become a lawyer. While working as a corporate attorney, Mary enrolled in an
evening fiction writing class at a university in Connecticut and began writing
short stories “on the side.” Several of her stories were published in literary
magazines. She finally took the advice of a friend and decided to try writing a
novel. That manuscript ultimately became <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop
& Café</span></em>, which was published in 2013 and later adapted as a
movie called <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Irresistible Blueberry Farm</span></em> for the Hallmark Movies
& Mysteries Channel. Mary has since written <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Rules of
Love & Grammar</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Wedding Thief.</span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Book Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414574115445675278noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284360730619731854.post-46320624042854496582018-10-16T08:27:00.001-04:002018-10-16T08:27:56.868-04:00Christmas at the Chalet - release day review and giveaway<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christmas
at the Chalet by Anita Hughes is her latest Christmas novel. This sweet story
takes place at a gorgeous ski chalet in St. Moritz during the ever busy week of
Christmas. Felicity Grant, the bridal designer, is revealing her latest
collection and it was felt that this location was best for publicity. This is
her best collection yet. Despite it being Christmas, Felicity's life is
somewhat a mess. She was hoping for an engagement ring from her boyfriend,
Adam. They had dated six years but instead received a spa certificate. She was
disappointed in her gift. Is she beginning to think of the possibility that she
may never walk down the aisle especially in one of her stunning dresses? </span></div>
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Nell is the top model for the showing and is engaged. Nell has a problem though.
Her parents are divorced and cannot be around each other. Both have voiced that
they will not be at her wedding if the other is there. What both parents don't
know is that they are both in St. Moritz. Nell is having problems juggling
spending time with both and not having one run into the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Both Felicity and Nell need some inspiration and insight. For Felicity, it is
hard to see what is right in front of her. She also gets advice from the local
doctor. For Nell, one extraordinary feat might not be enough. <br />
What happens between Felicity and Adam? What about Nell? Will she
get her romantic wedding? Anita Hughes's latest story is romantic and fun. It's
about love and putting the past behind you. The setting is beautiful and the
time of year is just magical. This is definitely a cozy read and does not
disappoint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anita Hughes was
born in Sydney, Australia. Her titles include MONARCH BEACH, MARKET STREET,
LAKE COMO, FRENCH COAST, ROME IN LOVE, ISLAND IN THE SEA, SANTORINI SUNSETS,
WHITE SAND, BLUE SEA, EMERALD COAST and CALIFORNIA SUMMER. Her Christmas books,
including CHRISTMAS IN PARIS, CHRISTMAS IN LONDON and the upcoming CHRISTMAS AT
THE CHALET are reader favorites. She lives in Dana Point, CA</span><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Emma is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma
retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur.
Broken-hearted. Kidnapper.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a
crowded airport terminal. When a second-chance encounter with Emma presents
itself, Sarah takes her―far away from home. But if it’s to rescue a little girl
from her damaging mother, is kidnapping wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Amy Townsend. Unhappy wife. Unfit mother. Unsure
whether she wants her daughter back.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Amy’s life is a string of disappointments, but her biggest issue is her
inability to connect with her daughter. And now Emma is gone without a trace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">As Sarah and Emma avoid the nationwide hunt, they form an unshakeable
bond. But what about Emma’s real mother, back at home?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rea Frey is the author of four nonfiction
books. Her debut novel, NOT HER DAUGHTER, will be released by St. Martin’s
Press August 21, 2018. </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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eating, or writing about herself in the third person, you can find her hard at
work on her next book and ghostwriting for other people. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now you see him; now you don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ben was supposed to be gone only for the
weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He went to their beach house in
Ocean City, Maryland, to take care of routine maintenance. Willa had seen him
just before he left. And then, suddenly, Ben was gone. Now you see him; now you
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Three years after Ben’s unexpected
death at the beach house, Willa is still struggling in a big way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has vaguely gone through the motions of
parenting their son, Jamie, these past three years, but her emotional distance is
taking its toll on him ─ as well as on Willa herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally acknowledging this, Willa decides it’s
time to move on with her life and to try to reconnect with her son before it’s
too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this realization, Willa
starts the process by facing the beach house, the old haunts, and the ghosts of
summers past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At first the years’ of memories ─Ben
and Willa met here at this beach house when they were both still teens─
overwhelm Willa, and she pictures Ben everywhere she goes. But then she
actually ─literally─ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sees</i> Ben.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, his ghost. She would see him, then he’d
be gone.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now you see him; now you don’t. Is
Willa going insane?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t think
so, but can an insane person be a reliable source? Willa enlists the help of
Jamie, her best friend, Kristin, and Kristin’s daughter, Kelsey for the summer
─for more reasons than one! It is Willa’s hope that working together to fix up
the beach house will bring far more benefits than just the house, for each of
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eve</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ry<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Time You go Away </i>is bottom line a story of loss, of grief that is
heart-wrenching and far-reaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Author
Beth Harbison’s main character, Willa, has quite unexpectedly, at age
thirty-five, lost her husband and best friend. It happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how a person traverses the days that
follow are personal to everyone who has been in Willa’s shoes. Some may even
assert to have seen their loved one’s ghost, or felt a “presence.” Grief is a
path unto itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every
Time You go Away </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is also a
story ─Willa’s story─ about finding a way <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">through</i>
the grief, finding a way to heal from the pain and loss, finding a way to fully
rejoin the world of the living again. For the people in her world ─ family,
close friends─ that new normal is an adjustment as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We all know someone who’s grieving a
personal loss ─maybe it’s even you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
so, you have my sympathies. Read<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Every
Time You go Away</i>. Yes, it begins with grief and loss, but it’s also Willa’s
journey to hope, to living again. And hope ─and living life─ are both worth it
every day of the week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">BETH HARBISON is </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The New
York Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">One Less Problem Without You</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">If I Could Turn Back Time</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Driving with the Top Down</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger; When In
Doubt, Add Butter; Always Something There To Remind Me; Thin, Rich, Pretty;
Hope In A Jar; Secrets of a Shoe Addict; </i>and<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shoe Addicts Anonymous</i>. She grew up in Potomac, Maryland, outside Washington, DC,
and now shares her time between that suburb, New York City, and a quiet home on
the eastern shore.</span><br />
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Time You Go Away</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> by Beth Harbison<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A delightful novel about two
headstrong sisters, a small town's efforts to do right by the community, and
the power of a lost dog to summon true love</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy
serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her
regulars, and she takes great pleasure in knowing exactly what's "the
usual." But her life is soon shaken when she discovers she and her
free-spirited, younger sister Kit stand to inherit the home and land of the
town's beloved cake lady, Peggy Johnson. </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Kit, an aspiring--and broke--filmmaker thinks her problems
are solved when she and Nora find out Peggy was in the process of selling the
land to a big-box developer before her death. The people of Guthrie are
divided--some want the opportunities the development will bring, while others
are staunchly against any change--and they aren't afraid to leave their
opinions with their tips.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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soon. But Nora isn't quite ready to let go of the land, complete with a
charming farmhouse, an ancient apple orchard and the clues to a secret life
that no one knew Peggy had. Troubled by the conflicting needs of the town, and
confused by her growing feelings towards Elliot, the big-box developer's rep,
Nora throws herself into solving the one problem that everyone in town can
agree on--finding Peggy's missing dog, Freckles.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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bands together to help her, and Nora discovers that doing the right thing
doesn't always mean giving up your dreams.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Louise Miller is a writer and
pastry chef living in Boston, MA. Her debut novel, THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO
COUNTRY LIVING was selected as an Indie Next pick by the American Booksellers
Association, a Library Reads pick by Librarians across the U.S., and was
shortlisted by the America Library Association’s Reading List Council for best
women’s fiction in 2017. Her 2nd novel, THE LATE BLOOMERS’ CLUB, will be
published in July 2018. Louise is an art school dropout, an amateur flower
gardener, an old-time banjo player, an obsessive moviegoer, and a champion of
old dogs.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">The
author of the bestselling novel </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">The Party</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">—lauded as “tense and riveting” by <i>New York Times</i> bestselling
author Megan Miranda<i>—</i>returns with a chilling new domestic drama about two women
whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job,
she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would
be the day she started living her life. Overweight, insecure, and lonely, she
is desperate to fit into Forrester’s world. But after a disturbing incident at
the school leads the other children and their families to ostracize the
Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever before.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Until she meets Kate Randolph.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Kate is everything Frances is not: beautiful, wealthy, powerful,
and confident. And for some reason, she’s not interested in being friends with
any of the other Forrester moms—only Frances. As the two bond over their
disdain of the Forrester snobs and the fierce love they have for their sons, a
startling secret threatens to tear them apart.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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name is Amber Kunik. And she’s a murderer.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In her masterful follow-up to </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Party</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, Robyn Harding
spins a web of lies, deceit, and betrayal, asking the question: Can people ever
change? And even if they can, is it possible to forgive the past?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Robyn
Harding is the author of several books, including </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">The Party </span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her
Pretty Face</i>, and has written and executive produced an independent film.
She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her husband and two children.</span><br />
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See Life Through Rosé</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">-<b><i>Colored
Glasses</i>, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another
hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and
pitfalls of everyday life.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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phone calls with their dogs, or learning what “adulting” means, Lisa and
Francesca are guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and appreciate the funniest
moments in life. Like the perfect glass of rosé, they’re always here to help
you escape from your own busy, modern life and instead, get lost in theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"This<b> </b>summer beach read―which is indeed “like a glass of rosé,
between two covers”―is sure to cheer readers spanning the generations."
―<i>Publishers Weekly</i> on <i>I See Life Through Rosè-Colored
Glasses<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We all need down-to-earth wisdom and
comedy<b> </b>now more than ever, and you will find both in abundance in<i> I
Need a Lifeguard Everywhere But the Pool.”</i> ―<i>Connecticut Post</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get to be flies on the wall as the mother-daughter team fights, makes up, and
hurls barbs just like you and your mom.<b>”</b> ―<i>O, The Oprah
Magazine </i>(“Perfect Summer Must Read”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">LISA
SCOTTOLINE is a bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author and a columnist for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Philadelphia Inquirer.</i>She has been
published in thirty countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array
of pets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">FRANCESCA SCOTTOLINE SERRITELLA graduated cum laude
from Harvard University, where she won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, the Le
Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize and the Charles Edmund Horman Prize for her
creative writing. She lives in New York with one dog and one cat, so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Together they have written <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere But the Pool, Does
This Beach Make Me Look Fat, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog</i> and
many others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://scottoline.com/">Website </a>* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LisaScottoline/">Facebook </a>* <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaScottoline">Twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">#1 </span></strong><em><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New York Times</span></b></em><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> bestselling author Susan Mallery masterfully explores
the definition of a modern family—blended by surprise, not by choice—and how
those complicated relationships can add unexpected richness to life.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">“Heartwarming…this book is sweet and will appeal to readers
who enjoy the intricacies of family drama.”—Publishers Weekly</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Life is meant to be savored, but that’s not easy with no
family, limited prospects and a past you’d rather not talk about. </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Callie Smith doesn’t know how to feel when she discovers she
has a brother and a sister—Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and
privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Despite her trepidation,
she moves into the grand family home with her siblings and grandfather on the
shores of Lake Washington, hoping just maybe this will be the start of a whole
new life.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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each other, but not with their posh new lifestyle, leaving Malcolm feeling like
the odd man out in his own home. Becoming a family will take patience, humor, a
little bit of wine and a whole lot of love. But love isn’t Malcolm’s strong
suit…until he learns that an open heart, like the family table, can always make
room for more.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">#1 <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">New York Times</span></em> bestselling
author Susan Mallery writes heartwarming and humorous novels about the
relationships that define women's lives—family, friendship, romance. She's best
known for putting nuanced characters into emotionally complex, real-life
situations with twists that surprise readers to laughter. Because Susan is
passionate about animal welfare, pets play a big role in her books. Beloved by
millions of readers worldwide, her books have been translated into 28
languages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Susan lives in Washington state with her husband,
two ragdoll cats, and a small poodle with delusions of grandeur. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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author at:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.susanmallery.com/index.php">Website </a>* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SusanMallery">Facebook </a>* <a href="https://twitter.com/susanmallery">Twitter</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Book Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414574115445675278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5284360730619731854.post-19269771378645517352018-06-26T08:42:00.001-04:002018-06-26T08:42:54.772-04:00All We Ever Wanted - release day review & giveaway<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
Emily Giffin's novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All We Ever Wanted</i>,
we come to meet Nina, who is subjected to choose between her family and her
values. Nina and Kirk Browning live a very wealthy life after Kirk sold his
software company. Together they have a son named Finch. Finch recently was
accepted into Princeton University. They were "that" couple and to everyone; they looked perfect yet
something was off about them. As a matter of fact, Finch spoke very little to
Nina and she suspected Kirk was cheating on her. One night, Nina and Kirk
attended an event but what happened during that event at a totally different
location changed the Brownings’ lives forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That night, Finch attended a party. Also in attendance at the party was Lyla.
Lyla is the daughter of single parent Tom. Tom works multiple jobs so as to
give Lyla a better life. She also attends the same prestigious school as Finch.
Unlike Finch, she attends on scholarship as they cannot afford tuition
outright. She has a crush on Finch but he is dating Polly. At the party, in
which Lyla was not given permission to attend, a picture was taken of her and
was uploaded onto the Internet. She was half naked in the picture and drunk. A
racist comment was also posted with the picture. The post came from Finch's
phone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finch gets in trouble with his school for doing such a thing and his college
admission could be jeopardized. He has to have a hearing as to what his
consequences will be but Kirk attempts to give Tom hush money. Tom then returns
the money to Nina when they secretly meet. After meeting up with Tom, Nina has
personal battles to deal with as to whether to believe Kirk and Finch's story
or follow her own morals and convictions. Is this horrible incident one that
Nina and Kirk can survive? Does Nina want their relationship to
survive? Did Finch really take Lyla's picture and post it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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complicated and the story is powerful and intriguing. This is a definite page
turner, one you cannot put down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Emily Giffin is a graduate of Wake
Forest University and the University of Virginia School of Law. After
practicing litigation at a Manhattan firm for several years, she moved to
London to write full time. The author of seven New York Times bestselling
novels, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof, Love The One You're
With, Heart of the Matter, Where We Belong, and The One & Only, she lives
in Atlanta with her husband and three young children.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Relentlessly twisting, Samantha
King’s debut novel is a dark and brilliant slice of psychological suspense in
which even the happiest family can awake to a nightmare . . .</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Maddie Castle is broken. Ever since the tragedy that struck
on her twins’ tenth birthday, she’s been trying to fit the pieces together, to
get back to the life she led before. Maddie, her husband, Dom, and their
children, Aidan and Annabel, lived in a comfortable home on a quiet street in a
London suburb. Life was busy and satisfying. They were happy. Weren’t they?</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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through each day, hardly sleeping, eating, or speaking. It’s easier to stay
locked in her own head than to torment herself by reliving what happened. And
yet, the harder Maddie tries to pin down her memories, the more they slip out
of reach. Is her guilt and remorse justified? Is it Maddie’s fault that
everything was ripped apart?</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Samantha
King</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> is a former editor and a qualified psychotherapist.
After her childhood in the south‑west of England, teenage years spent in the
north‑east and student days somewhere in between, she finally settled in west
London where she enjoyed a career publishing other people's books, before going
freelance and surrendering to a long‑time urge to write her own. She lives with
her husband and two young children, who inspired her to write her debut
novel. An English graduate and lifelong bookworm, Samantha is always
fascinated to hear readers’ opinions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Anita Hughes brings to life Rosie Keller in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">California Summer</i>. Rosie met Ben Ford
while in college and they live together in LA. Together they have one Indie film
under their belts. Ben directed the film and Rosie was the associate producer.
As a couple, they had three goals -- get married, go to Africa, and buy a
house. To Rosie, Ben seemed like the perfect partner. He was a sleeping giant,
never raised his voice, and hardly ever disagreed with Rosie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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One day Rosie came home and found that Ben had slept with MaryBeth Chase, a
producer. After admitting that he slept with her, Rosie moved to Montecito for
the summer. Montecito was the home of her friend Angelica's parents, Estelle
and Oscar. Everyone was friendly there and made Rosie feel welcome. Estelle
enforced into Rosie to love what you do and throw out the rule book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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After the breakup, Rosie learned that Ben was going to direct To Catch A Thief
and his lover, MaryBeth, was going to be the executive producer. They even had
a new production company called MB&B. In order to keep busy and
attempt to move on, Rosie opened up her own taco shop, Rosie's Tacos. She even
personalized it to her style. The white sign of the taco shop had her name
written in cursive letters. The lettering was done in deep red which was the
same color of her favorite Bobbi Brown lip gloss. Rosie even had a heart placed
over the I in her name and a red rose after the word Tacos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At Montecito, she met many people, including Josh and Colby. She and Josh got
quite close and at Estelle and Oscar's annual 4th of July party, they kissed.
Their romance blossomed. She and Colby, a famous musician, became good
friends. He even wrote a song about her. He titled the song “Rosie.” The song
was about breaking free of the fast track and doing what you love. The song
made her restaurant famous and super busy. Colby, soon after, offered Rosie to
expand her business with him. At the time, she turned down his offer due to
Josh. Will she change her mind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ms. Hughes did it again with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">California
Summer</i>. She gives us a beautiful and charming love story. It's a
captivating read that is a curl up in bed, beach, or just about anywhere read.
I would highly recommend it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Anita Hughes was born in
Sydney, Australia and had a charmed childhood that included petting koala
bears, riding the waves on Bondi Beach, and putting an occasional shrimp on the
barbie. Her writing career began at the age of eight, when she won a national
writing contest in THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper, and was named "One of
Australia's Next Best Writers." (She still has the newspaper clipping.)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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Creative Writing from Bard College, and attended UC Berkeley's Masters in
Creative Writing program</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">True
or false:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loveday Carlew has spent the
better part of the last seven years hiding in the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lost for words </i>bookshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you are defining <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hiding</i> as being
concealed or hidden from sight, then false.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Okay, it is true that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">occasionally,</i>
Loveday does try to hide amongst the bookshelves during her work day (she loves
books; people, not so much). But the truest part of that statement is metaphoric:
Loveday has spent the better part of the last seven years in the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lost for words </i>bookshop hiding from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">life</i> ─ her past, her present, and her future.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is the Loveday we meet today ─apprehensive
and introspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or false: Archie Brodie has lived many lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are defining <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lived</i> like
reincarnation, than false. To hear him tell it, he has traveled the world,
associated with royalty of all kinds, lived a lifetime of wild, weird, and
wonderful adventures, being whomever he wanted to be in the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true part is, again, metaphoric. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he is the owner and proprietor of the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lost for words </i>bookshop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Archie is also Loveday’s boss (he<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is</i> the owner), her friend (unspoken),
and her guardian (secretly).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">True
or false: Nathan Avebury enters the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lost
for words</i> bookshop to reclaim his lost (and found by Loveday) copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grinning Jack</i> by Brian Patten. You know
this cannot be as simple as just true or false, right? So yes, it is true that the
Brian Patten book is Nathan’s. He did accidentally drop it on the sidewalk, and
he does want it back. But it is Loveday’s pithy ‘lost and found’ sign in the
window that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> draws him into the
bookshop ─and to Loveday herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
quote Harper Lee, “You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your
family, and they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ‘em or not.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also can’t choose your childhood. Given
these two statements, I propose one more true or false statement: Despite your
family and/or your childhood, you can, as an adult, choose your own future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Trick,
right? That statement does not ─<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cannot</i>!─<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have a “one size fits all” answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is personal to each person, to each life.
Every person, thus every story, is different. Author Stephanie Butland uses unique
and quirky Loveday’s narrative in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lost
for words bookshop </i>to skillfully illustrate one path, one life, one answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using the present to move the Loveday’s story
forward, Butland alternatively takes us back in time to live with Loveday the
events of her past that accumulate to shape the twenty-five-year-old woman we
meet at the beginning of Butland’s book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Butland ends her telling of Loveday’s life, where does she stop? Is Loveday
still hiding amongst the books and bookshelves in the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lost for words </i>bookshop<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">? </i>Has
Loveday found a way to navigate people<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>─Customers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friends? Family? ─ into
her solitary life of books? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
can suggest two ways to find out:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.
Stop by the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lost for words </i>bookshop<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(fyi… it’s in London) and ask for
Loveday; or 2. Read Stephanie Butland’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lost
for words bookshop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Either way, I
can assure you that you will enjoy meeting captivating, intriguing, inquisitive
Loveday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stephanie
Butland is a writer, who is thriving after breast cancer. (She used to say she
was a survivor, but that was a bit lacking in joie de vivre.)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Although she’d never have chosen it, her dance with cancer
has changed her life in many positive ways. Now she is happier, healthier, and
more careful with her precious life and the precious people and things in it.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Her writing career began with her dance with cancer, and now
she is a novelist.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Aside from writing, she works as a speaker and trainer, and
she works with charities to help raise awareness and money in the hope that
cancer will soon be about as scary as a wart.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">She lives in Northumberland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old
dresses when the bride-to-be―her granddaughter June―unexpectedly arrives and
announces she’s calling off the marriage. With the tending of June’s uncertain
heart in mind, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes
to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cowboy named Buddy. She sees a future together, but she can’t help wondering if
his feelings for her are true. When Buddy breaks her heart, she runs away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In her
search for a soul mate, Nell will run away from marriage twice more before
finding the love of her life. It’s a tale filled with excitement, heartbreak,
disappointment, and self-discovery―as well as with hard-earned life lessons
about love. Another stunning, emotional novel from a master storyteller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A journalism graduate of the University of Denver,
Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. A staff
member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,)
she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from
penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to
contemporary polygamy. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her
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with her husband, Bob. She is the mother of two daughters, Dana, a lawyer in
New Orleans, and Povy, a photographer in Golden, Colorado.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Cara Rutledge returns
to her Southern home on the idyllic Isle of Palms. Everything is comfortingly
the same, yet each detail is rife with painful memories. Only through
reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara
release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love,
career, and hope for the future.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn’t
know where her life will take her, leaves her historic home in Charleston, with
all its entitlement and expectations, and heads to her aunt’s beach house. On
the island, she is part of the freer, natural ocean lifestyle she loves,
rejoining the turtle team, learning to surf, and falling in love. Remembering
the lessons of her beloved grandmother, Lovie, the original “turtle lady,”
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family gather together to find the strength, love, and commitment to break
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Mary Alice Monroe is the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">New York
Times</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;"> bestselling author of more than a dozen novels,
including <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Summer Girls</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Summer Wind</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Summer’s End,</i> <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last Light Over Carolina</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Time Is a River</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sweetgrass</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Skyward</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Beach House, Beach House Memories, Swimming Lessons,
The Four Seasons</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Book Club</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beach House for Rent</i>. Her books have received numerous awards, including the 2008
South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, the 2014 South Carolina
Award for Literary Excellence, the 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award,
the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, and the International Book Award for Green
Fiction. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South
Carolina.</span><br />
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to rent out or lose their beloved Bella Flora after the loss of their
renovation-turned-reality-TV show Do Over, Maddie, Nikki, Avery, Kyra, and
Bitsy move into cottages at the Sunshine Hotel and Beach Club believing the
worst is over. Only to discover just how uncertain their futures really are. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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whose career has come roaring back to life while Nikki faces the daunting
realities of mothering twins at forty-seven. Avery buries herself in a tiny
home build in an attempt to dodge commitment issues, and Kyra battles to
protect her son from the Hollywood world she once dreamed of joining. And Bitsy
is about to find out whether the rewards of seeking revenge will outweigh the
risks. </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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Road know that their friendship--tried and tested--can chase away the darkest
clouds and let the sun shine in...</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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two novellas, including </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">One Good Thing</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sunshine Beach</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A Week at the Lake</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">While We Were Watching Downton Abbey</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The House on Mermaid Point</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Ocean Beach</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, and </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Ten Beach Road</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. The mother of two
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fourth-generation cattleman Luke
Parker looks into his childless future and wonders what will become of the
ranch he’s worked so hard to preserve. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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Family Services has exposed her to the worst side of parenting. So much so that
the altruistic redhead doubts she’ll ever have children of her own.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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boy abandoned on DCF’s doorstep just days before Christmas, but only if the
cowboy can convince a jaded social worker that he’s good father material on a
two-week cattle drive through Florida’s version of the Old West.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Leigh Duncan is the award-winning
author of more than two dozen novels, novellas and short stories. Her first
full-length book, The Officer’s Girl, was released by Harlequin American
Romance in 2010. Leigh went on to write seven more books for Harlequin,
including the highly acclaimed Glades County Cowboys series, before she began
writing the more complex, heart-warming and emotional stories that have
resonated with her readers. The lead author for Hallmark Publishing's new
imprint, an Amazon best-selling author and a National Readers’ Choice Award
winner, Leigh lives on Central Florida's East Coast where she writes women’s
fiction and contemporary romance with a dash of Southern sass.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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her own reasons for wanting a share of their father's estate, meet in the grand
Victorian home in which he grew up, only to be greeted by another secret he
purposely hid from them: his sister Bonnie. The women reluctantly band together
to take on Fritz's challenge, working with a local contractor to begin the
renovations financed by an account Fritz had set up for the task. While the
restoration appears to go smoothly at first, it soon becomes apparent that the
work will be more extensive than originally thought, and Des, elected to handle
the money, needs to find ways to stretch out the remaining savings while
searching for new sources of funding.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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the Hudson sisters also try to come to terms with the father they only thought
they knew. In the process, each woman discovers her own capacity for
understanding, forgiveness, love, and the true meaning of family.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Stewart is the award-winning </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;"> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA
TODAY</i> bestselling author of numerous novels and several
novellas and short stories. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with
her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester
County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life and tends her gardens while
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Three generations. Seven days. One
big secret. The author of <i>The Coincidence of Coconut Cake</i> unfolds
a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a
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<span style="background: white;">Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her
fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage
daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there’s no chance of that. Her
relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries.
Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at
Grilled G’s, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon
a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her
mother’s failing health and her daughter’s rebellion, this optimist might find
that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">Amy
E. Reichert, author of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">The Coincidence of Coconut Cake</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%;">, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luck, Love & Lemon Pie</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Simplicity of Cider</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go, </i>loves to write
stories that end well with characters you’d invite to dinner. A wife, mom,
amateur chef, Fix-It Mistress, and cider enthusiast, she earned her MA in
English Literature and serves on her local library’s board of directors.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1914; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick
summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000-acre remote barrier
island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the
eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her.
Josephine’s cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter
with Brooke, who is an attorney, but Brooke knows that Mrs. Warrick has long
been a client of a prestigious Atlanta law firm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1914; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over a few meetings, the ailing
Josephine spins a tale of old friendships at a time when World War II was
looming; when secrets led to betrayal and a long-unsolved murder. She tells
Brooke she is hiring her for two reasons: to protect her island and legacy from
those who would despoil her land, and secondly, to help her make amends with
the heirs of the long dead women who were her closest friends, the girls of The
High Tide Club—so named because of their youthful skinny dipping
escapades—Millie, Ruth and Varina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to face her past, deliberately evading Brooke’s questions. When Josephine nears
death with her secrets intact, Brooke is charged with contacting Josephine’s
friends’ descendants and bringing them together on Talisa for a reunion of
women who’ve actually never met. <em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "georgia" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; padding: 0in;">The High Tide Club</span></em> is
Mary Kay Andrews at her Queen of the Beach Reads best, a compelling and witty
tale of romance thwarted, friendships renewed, justice delivered and true love
found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1914; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A native of St. Petersburg, Florida,
she received a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia and was a
newspaper reporter for 14 years. The last ten years of her career were spent as
a features reporter for <em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "georgia" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; padding: 0in;">The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1914; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She is married to her high school
sweetheart, Tom Trocheck, with whom she has a 40-year (and counting)
collaboration yielding two grown children, two adorable grandchildren and
countless memorable kitchen experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1914; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers
including <em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "georgia" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; padding: 0in;">The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal</span></em> and <em><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "georgia" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; padding: 0in;">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</span></em>, where she spent the
final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The 2:00 a.m. call is the first
time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister’s voice in years. Annie is a drug
addict, a thief, a liar—and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie
out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But
this time, she’s not just strung out—she’s pregnant and in premature labor. If
she goes to the hospital, she’ll lose custody of her baby—maybe even go to
prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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fragile newborn niece while her carefully ordered life is collapsing around
her. She’s in danger of losing her job, and her fiancé only has so much
patience for Annie’s drama. In court-ordered rehab, Annie attempts to halt her
downward spiral by confronting long-buried secrets from the sisters’
childhoods, ghosts that Lexie doesn’t want to face. But will the journey heal
Annie, or lead her down a darker path?</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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hotly divisive topic and asks how far the ties of family love can be stretched
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