Review: Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Title: Truth Be Told    Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan      Series: Jane Ryland/Jake Brogan #3      Published: October 2014, Forge Books   Format: ARC E-book, 400 pages    Source: Publisher   Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from their suburban home.…

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The Sunday Post #43 (10.5.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.    This weekend I helped my sister move.…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in October 3

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog So, I went back to the gym this week and did 2 days of treadmill walking and then took a yoga class. While I’ve been doing some yoga here and there at home, I haven’t taken an actual class in a while and am planning to work it back into my schedule. It’s nice to mix it up a bit.…

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Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins (CLOSED)

***Congratulations to Melanie Backus, winner of the giveaway!!! Thanks to all who entered!   Title: In Your Dreams    Author: Kristan Higgins     Series: Blue Heron, # 4     Published: September 2014, Harlequin HQN    Format: ARC E-book, 480 pages    Source: Netgalley via Little Bird Publicity      Everyone loves Jack Holland, but Emmaline Neal needs him. Her ex-fiancé is getting married in Malibu and, obviously, she can’t go…

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Month in Review: September 2014

It’s hard to believe it’s already October! This year is flying by…and I really wish it would slow down just a bit. I’ve got way too many books to read and just not enough time to read them all. Now, though, all the Fall TV shows are back, so that’s competing for my reading time. Luckily, I can crochet while I watch TV and I have quite a few projects…

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Review: Perfect Together by Carly Phillips (audio)

Title: Perfect Together     Author: Carly Phillips    Series: Serendipity’s Finest, #3     Narrator: David Barker   Published: 2014, Recorded Books   Length: 8.5 hours   Source: Publisher  In the picturesque town of Serendipity, New York, three siblings have grown up in the shadow of their proud and respected police chief father. But what do love, fate, and fortune have in store for the next generation of Serendipity’s…

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Review: Burn by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

Title: Burn    Author: James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge     Series: Michael Bennett, #7      Published: September 2014, Little, Brown & Company   Format: ARC Paperback, 401 pages    Source: Publisher   Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City – and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career. At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks…

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The Sunday Post #42 (9.28.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.    Usually my weekends are a time for…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 26

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Today I went and renewed my membership at the gym. I haven’t really been there since the early spring, but now that it’s getting lighter out later in the mornings, I think I will go back to going to the gym first thing in the mornings to walk on the treadmill a few days a week. Plus, I desperately need…

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Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (audio)

Title: The Cuckoo’s Calling    Author: Robert Galbraith     Series: Cormoran Strike, #1     Narrator: Robert Glenister   Published: May 2013, Hachette Audio Length: 16 hours   Source: Library  A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to…

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Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne (CLOSED)

Title: Angel Killer     Author: Andrew Mayne      Series: Jessica Blackwood, #1      Published: September 2014, Bourbon Street Books    Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate…

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Review: Barefoot in the Rain by Roxanne St. Claire

Title: Barefoot in the Rain    Author: Roxanne St. Claire     Series: Barefoot Bay, #2       Published: October 2012, Forever    Format: Paperback,      Source: Personal copy    They say you can never go home again . . . When “Life Coach to the Stars” Jocelyn Bloom is embroiled in scandal, the only place she can hide is the one place she wishes she could forget. She…

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The Sunday Post #41 (9.21.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  Fall is almost here and while we’ve had…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 19

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog   I was doing really good this week until I woke up Thursday with a nasty head cold! And it came out of no where…I was in the city on Wednesday and felt totally fine. I walked around all afternoon – managing to get in over 20,000 steps, even!!! It was  a great day, just wandering around. Then Thursday morning…

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Review: Winter of the World by Ken Follett

Title: Winter of the World    Author: Ken Follett     Series: The Century Trilogy, #2       Published: September 2012, Dutton Adult   Format: Hardcover, 940 pages    Source: Personal copy   Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and…

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Short & Sweet Review: Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs

Title: Fatal Voyage    Author: Kathy Reichs     Series: Temperance Brennan, #4       Narrator: Kate Harper    Published: August 2001, Simon & Schuster Audio   Length: 11 hours 47 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible     A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is first on…

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The Sunday Post #40 (9.14.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  This past week was so busy at work…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 12

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog This past week was crazy busy at work. I work mainly from home, occasionally going into the office for meetings or trainings. This week, though, I had be in the office every day to cover the phones due to sick leave and vacation coverage, so it really messed up my regular schedule. I got in short walks each day, but…

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Review: The Other Girl by Pam Jenoff

Title: The Other Girl     Author: Pam Jenoff      Published: September 2014, Harlequin MIRA    Format: E-book, 21 pages    Source: Netgalley   One woman’s determination to protect a child from the dangers of war will force her to face those lurking closer to home… Life in rural Poland during WWII brings a new set of challenges to Maria, estranged from her own family and left alone with…

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Review: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Title: Fall of Giants    Author: Ken Follett      Series: Century Trilogy, #1       Published: September 2010, Dutton Adult    Format: Hardcover, 985 pages     Source: Personal copy    Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in…

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Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: Accidents of Marriage by Randy Susan Meyers (CLOSED)

Title: Accidents of Marriage    Author: Randy Susan Meyers  Published: September 2014, Atria Books    Format: Hardcover, 368 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   Accidents of Marriage examines the effect of a husband—and father’s—verbal rage and the aftermath of a serious accident caused by his unchecked anger. For Madeline Illica, her husband Ben is her greatest blessing and biggest curse. Brilliant and caring, he turns into a raging bull…

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The Sunday Post #39 (9.7.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.  I spent this past weekend at my sister’s…

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Review: Sight Unseen by Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen (audio)

Title: Sight Unseen    Author: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen    Series: Kendra Michaels, #2    Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers   Published: July 2014, Brilliance Audio    Length: 10 hours 15 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award winning author are back with a new a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI A deadly…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in September 5

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I’m slowly getting myself back on a regular schedule with my walking. I always feel so much better when I get my walking in each day. Plus, I’m determined that for this month, in addition to doing my regular fitness walks (which I list below) I get an overall 10,000 steps in a day 5 days a week and 5,000…

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Review: Conversion by Katherine Howe (audio)

Title: Conversion    Author: Katherine Howe    Narrator: Khristine Hvam   Published: July 2014, Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours 30 minutes    Source: Personal copy via Audible  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts:…

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Cover Reveal: The Tapestry by Nancy Bilyeau

Publication Date: March 24, 2015 Touchstone Publishing Formats: eBook, Hardcover Pages: 390 Genre: Historical Mystery Series: Joanna Stafford, Book Three In THE CROWN, Sister Joanna Stafford searched for a Dark Ages relic that could save her priory from Cromwell’s advancing army of destruction. In THE CHALICE, Joanna was drawn into an international conspiracy against Henry VIII himself as she struggled to learn the truth behind a prophecy of his destruction.…

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Month in Review: August 2014

How is it September already? I feel like the summer was just starting the other day and yet fall will be here before we know it…I do have to say, I love the fall – the crisp, cool days, the changing leaves – I just hope we have a fall season before we move into winter! There are a ton of books coming out this fall and I’m hoping my…

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The Sunday Post #38 (8.31.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 29

  #BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Last weekend we went to the beach and had a great time. I even convinced my hubby to take a walk with me Sunday morning – it was so nice!!! The rest of the week consisted of me taking lots of short walks with a sick dog…luckily she’s finally feeling better!   Here’s…

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Blog Tour & Author Q&A: Lori Foster – With Giveaway!!! (CLOSED)

Today, I am pleased to welcome Lori Foster to Always With a Book. Her latest book, No Limits, is the first book in her Ultimate series. It is now available. You can read my review of the book here. Please enjoy this Q&A and be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of No Limits below! Can you tell us a little bit about your…

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Blog Tour, Review & Excerpt: No Limits by Lori Foster

Title: No Limits   Author: Lori Foster     Series: Ultimate, #1      Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN    Format: ARC Paperback, 432 pages    Source: Publisher   A surprise inheritance reunites a mixed martial arts fighter with the woman he’s never forgotten in the first in a smoldering new series from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster… Cannon Colter is quintessential hero material: chiseled jawline, shredded body—the…

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Review: Hard Knocks by Lori Foster

Title: Hard Knocks     Author: Lori Foster     Series: Ultimate, #0.5       Published: August 2014, Harlequin HQN    Format: E-book, 60 pages    Source: Personal copy   In the stunning prequel novella to her new mixed martial arts series, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings together an elite fighter and the woman he’s determined to win. Power. Brute strength. Unforgettable moves. It’s no wonder Harper…

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Review: Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich (audio)

Title: Top Secret Twenty-One     Author: Janet Evanovich    Series: Stephanie Plum, #21     Narrator: Lorelei King   Published: June 2014, Random House Audio   Length: 6 hours 16 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was…

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Blog Tour & Review: Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo

Title: Three Story House    Author: Courtney Miller Santo     Published: August 2014, William Morrow & Co   Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages     Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of…

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The Sunday Post #37 (8.24.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 22

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week was a bit of an off week for me. I ended up having a headache that lasted 5 days…nothing seemed to make it go away so exercising was the last thing on my mind. I did manage to get in some easy walks, but nothing strenuous. Luckily, the headache has subsided, and…

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Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway: After I’m Gone by Laura Lippman (CLOSED)

Title: After I’m Gone    Author: Laura Lippman     Published: August 2014 (Reprint); William Morrow Paperbacks    Format: Paperback, 384 pages     Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   Dead is dead. Missing is gone. When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette “Bambi” Gottschalk at a Valentine’s Day dance in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Thanks to his lucrative—if not all legal—businesses,…

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Book Blast & Giveaway: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee

Author Alison Atlee’s The Typewriter Girl is now an audio­book, nar­rated by Audie win­ner Ros­alyn Lan­dor, and in celebration she’ll be touring the blogosphere from August 4-29 with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours! Enter to win a copy at the end of this post! I read this book last year when it first came out in print edition and you can read my review here. Audible Audio Book Edition Release…

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Review: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Title: The Good Girl    Author: Mary Kubica     Published: July 2014, Harlequin MIRA   Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages    Source: Publisher   “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her dry cleaning done, where she works. I don’t know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she’s scared. But I will.”…

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The Sunday Post #36 (8.17.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 15

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Another week has come and gone! It wasn’t quite as busy as last week and I was able to get in my walks each day. I also decided to do some inside walking while catching up on my DVR instead of just sitting on the couch – might as well be productive while watching…

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Review: The Collector by Nora Roberts (audio)

Title: The Collector    Author: Nora Roberts    Narrator: Julia Whelan   Published:  April 2014, Brilliance Audio  Length: 15 hours 44 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart . . . When…

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Blog Tour & Review: Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech

Title: Season of the Dragonflies    Author: Sarah Creech      Published: August 2014, William Morrow    Format: ARC Paperback, 224 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains For…

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Review: Butternut Summer by Mary McNear

Title: Butternut Summer    Author: Mary McNear     Series: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #2 Published: August 2014, William Morrow Paperbacks    Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages    Source: Publisher   Return to the golden beauty of Minnesota’s Butternut Lake in this emotional story that vividly captures the joy and pain of first love, as a mother and daughter each come to terms with the desires of her heart. Summer…

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The Sunday Post #35 (8.10.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Review: The Perfect Score by Beth Albright

Title: The Perfect Score    Author: Beth Albright      Published: May 2014, Tule Publishing Group   Format: E-book, 138 pages    Source: Personal copy   Ginny Bloom Hunnicutt is crawling back home to Cottonwood Cove Alabama, her promising CNN news-reporting career in shambles when an on-air flub cost her the job and cost CNN a lawsuit. Putting ego aside, she takes a position at the Chatterbox, the local weekly…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 8

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week work was super busy and my schedule was jammed packed. I ended up working nights this week, which totally throws my schedule off track. I did manage to get some walks in each morning, but they were quick ones – mainly just to get the dogs out for a bit. Next week,…

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Review: Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella (audio)

Title: Wedding Night    Author: Sophie Kinsella    Narrator: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Mark Bramhall   Published: April 2013, Random House Audio   Length: 13 hours   Source: Library  Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old…

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Review: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Title: Big Little Lies    Author: Liane Moriarty     Published: July 2014, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam   Format: ARC Paperback, 480 pages    Source: Publisher   A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned…

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The Sunday Post #34 (8.3.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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