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When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile #bookreview #audiobook

When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Twelve, #partner, for the finished copy of When The Moon Turns to Blood in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Twelve Books / Hachette Audio Published: June 21, 2022   Summary: WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger…

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The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis #bookreview #audiobook

The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and @GetRedPrBooks & Avon Books, #partner,  for the finished copy of  The Friendship Pact in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Avon Books / Harper Audio Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a powerful, moving story about a young woman on a quest to find the truth about her father who learns…

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It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley

It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press/Netgalley #partner,  for the advanced copy of It All Comes Down To This in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 7, 2022   Summary: Therese Anne Fowler’s It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway…

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A Face to Die For by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook

A Face to Die For by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of A Face to Die For in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s most intriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by number one New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen.…

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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chin #bookreview #audiobook

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Librofm, Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow #partner,  for the finished copy of Counterfeit in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Harper Audio / William Morrow Published: June 7, 2022   Summary: For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise–an incisive and glittering blend…

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The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White #bookreview #audiobook

The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow #partner,  for the finished copy of The Lost Summers of Newport in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Harper Audio / William Morrow Published: May 17, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White–a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a…

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Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner,  for the advanced copy of Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving…

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The Foundling by Ann Leary #bookreview #audiobook

The Foundling by Ann Leary #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Foundling in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test…

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Review: On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (audio)

Review: On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (audio)

Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via @BookClubFavorites / Gallery Books / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything—except what she really wants—in this new novel…

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Review: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang (audio)

Review: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding by Lydia Kang (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: May 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Author / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Publishing   Summary: From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hidden identities, wartime paranoia, and the tantalizing power of deceit. Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will…

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Review: Bomb Shelter: Love, time & Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott (audio)

Review: Bomb Shelter: Love, time & Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope. A lifelong worrier, Philpott always kept an eye out…

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Review: The Island by Adrian McKinty (audio)

Review: The Island by Adrian McKinty (audio)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company / Hachette Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Novel Suspects / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY. After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed…

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Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (audio)

Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – Netgalley / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: The New York Times best-selling author of the “heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hard to put down” (Laurie Frankel, New York Times best-selling author) modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. When…

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Blog Tour & Review: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner. Thank you Austen Prose PR for inviting me to participate.     Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: ALC via Macmillan Audio   SUMMARY: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and…

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Review: Magpie by Elizabeth Day (audio)

Review: Magpie by Elizabeth Day (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Source: Print ARC Paperback via BookClub Favorites / ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in this taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate—that is until she threatens to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to create. Marisa…

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Review: Everything Must Go by Camille Pagan (audio)

Review: Everything Must Go by Camille Pagan (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: April 26, 2022 Source: Print – Finished copy via KCCPR/SuzyApprovedBookTours / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A warm, wry novel about secrets, second chances, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences. Laine Francis believes there’s a place for everything—and New York, where her family lives,…

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Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece – forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After talking her way into a job with…

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Review: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (print/audio)

Review: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (print/audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 29, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish…

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Blog Tour & Review: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Mrs. England by Stacey Hall. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA / Harper Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print – Paperback via HTP Books / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   SUMMARY: Simmering with slow-burning menace,  Mrs. England  is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and…

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Review: Young Rich Widows by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan & Vanessa Lillie (audio)

Review: Young Rich Widows by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan & Vanessa Lillie (audio)

Publisher: Audible Originals Published: April 14, 2022 Source: ALC via Authors   Summary: When the four partners of a prominent law firm are killed in a mysterious plane crash, their widows must come together to uncover the truth in this explosive, edge-of-your-seat novel. It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside…

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Review: Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones (audio)

Review: Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones (audio)

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 5, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Avid Reader Press / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am…

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Review: Moment in Time by Suzanne Redfearn (audio)

Review: Moment in Time by Suzanne Redfearn (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: March 8, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Author / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a heartrending story about the power of friendship during the most challenging moments in life. It’s been eight years since a tragic accident changed Mo Kaminski’s and Chloe Miller’s lives forever. Now in their midtwenties, they’re…

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Review: Killer View by Roy Johansen (audio)

Review: Killer View by Roy Johansen (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 8, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Grand Central / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: New York Times best-selling author Roy Johansen delivers a thrill-a-minute listen featuring a fearless heroine for hire. An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie Mercado has faced all kinds of danger and always emerged victorious. But one thing…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery. Thank you HQN Books for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: HQN Books / Harper Audio Published: March 15, 2022 Source: Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary:  One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about…

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Review: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner (audio)

Review: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner (audio)

Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Gallery Books / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: “A twisty, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times, London) debut thriller, as electrifying as the number-one New York Times best seller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. In this “gloriously tangled game of…

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Blog Tour & Review: A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer (Print/Audio)

Blog Tour & Review: A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer (Print/Audio)

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer. Thank you #ZooloosBookTours for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: March 15, 2022 Source: E-galley via Publicist / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: Nobody can get into the mind of an erratic killer – except an unpredictable detective. When a young man is found…

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Review: Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson (audio)

Review: Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson (audio)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Published: March 7, 2022 Source: Print – Personal copy / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller – a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard…

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Review: Unmissing by Minka Kent (audio)

Review: Unmissing by Minka Kent (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: February 15, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A return from the past knocks a family dangerously off-balance in a novel of spiraling suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent. Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak,…

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Review: Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor (audio)

Review: Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor (audio)

Publisher: Harper Perennial / Harper Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Harper Perennial / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: USA Today best-selling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women’s alternating voices. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his…

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Review: Last Seen Alive by Joanna Schaffhausen

Review: Last Seen Alive by Joanna Schaffhausen

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: The fifth book in Joanna Schaffhausen’s heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series. Boston detective Ellery Hathaway met FBI agent Reed Markham when he pried open a serial killer’s closet to rescue her. Years on, their relationship remains defined by that moment and by Francis Coben’s horrific crimes. To free herself from Coben’s legacy, Ellery had to walk away…

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Review: The End of Getting Lost by Robin Kirman (audio)

Review: The End of Getting Lost by Robin Kirman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: February 15, 2022 Source: Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley / ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage – a year that the woman has no memory of – in this searing novel of intimacy and deceit. The year is 1996 – a…

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Review: The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers & M.J. Rose (audio)

Review: The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers & M.J. Rose (audio)

Publisher: Blue Box Press / Brilliance Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – Paperback via GetRedPR / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother’s vintage jackets, purses… and pearls of wisdom Estranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity…

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Review: The Village by Caroline Mitchell (audio)

Review: The Village by Caroline Mitchell (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: From the bestselling author of the DI Amy Winter series comes a thriller about a shocking disappearance—and the village that has conspired to keep the truth buried. Ten years ago, the Harper family disappeared. Their deserted cottage was left with the water running, the television playing cartoons, the oven ready for baking. The doors were locked…

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Review: One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner (audio)

Review: One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends Frankie Elkin into the woods in search of a lost man–and the shocking truth about why he went missing in the first place. Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared, learns of a young man who has gone missing in a…

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Review: Count to Three by T.R. Ragan (audio)

Review: Count to Three by T.R. Ragan (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: December 14, 2021 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: For a private investigator on the trail of a missing girl, every second counts in a gripping thriller by New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan. On her first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Tinsley disappeared without a trace… Five agonizing years later, her divorced mother, Dani Callahan, is a private investigator. She and Quinn Sullivan, a promising young…

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Review: Secrets of Our House by Rea Frey (audio)

Review: Secrets of Our House by Rea Frey (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan Audio Published: February 8, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via  GetRedPR / Audio – ALC via Netgalley   Summary: A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Secrets of Our House is a deeply-felt novel of long-held secrets and the strength of family. Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina, it is…

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Review: Somebody’s Home by Kaira Rouda (audio)

Review: Somebody’s Home by Kaira Rouda (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Netgalley via GetRedPR / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is…

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Month in Review: December 2021

Month in Review: December 2021

  I cannot believe the year is over! December flew by…even faster than I thought it would and yet, I managed to read more than I have in a while. So strange how that happens. This year we were spoiled by all the incredible books that were published and even still, I was able to read quite a few backlist books and even some of my own. I am going…

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Review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda (audio)

Review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: July 13, 2021 Source: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer – all on one street. Hollow’s Edge use to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then…

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Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (audio)

Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (audio)

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co / Macmillan Audio Published: March 16, 2021 Source: Print – Personal Copy / Audio – ALC via Macmillan Audio   Summary: For fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange, Angeline Boulley’s debut novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and…

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Blog Tour & Review: Into the Sound by Cara Reinard (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Into the Sound by Cara Reinard (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: December 1, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher via TLC Booktours / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins. During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get me…There’s somebody coming. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there’s only her sister’s abandoned car.…

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Book Feature & Review: Amazon Original Stories – Holiday Reads

Book Feature & Review: Amazon Original Stories – Holiday Reads

  Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, is back with a brand new collection of short stories to kick off your holiday reading. There are four short stories by best-selling authors and all are available now. These stories are not available in print – only in digital or audio format. They are available on Amazon and if you are a Prime member – they are free! Click here…

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Review: A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson (audio)

Review: A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 9, 2021 Source: Print – William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this action-packed follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines, “a true stunner of a thriller debut” (James Rollins) and “a great read” (Nevada Barr). Fresh off her wolverine…

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Blog Tour & Review: Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind. Juniper Baker had just graduated from…

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Review: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Review: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ALC via Publisher   Summary: Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a…

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Review: The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb (audio)

Review: The Keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Amazon Publishing / ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: The spirits of Nordic folklore come calling in this entrancing tale of family secrets and ancient mysteries by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Haunting of Brynn Wilder. In Metsan Valo, her family home on Lake Superior, Anni Halla’s beloved grandmother has died. Among…

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Review: What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (audio)

Review: What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 2, 2021 Source: Finished copy via Grand Central Publishing / ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships. A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely…

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Review: I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Review: I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio via Netgalley   Summary: One secret. Eight cryptic words. Lifetimes of ruin. Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father if not the loving man…

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Review: In Another Light by A.J. Banner (audio)

Review: In Another Light by A.J. Banner (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via GetRedPR & Netgalley / ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: The death of a look-alike stranger leads a grieving woman down a troubling path in this riveting novel by A. J. Banner, bestselling author of The Poison Garden. Three years ago mortuary cosmetologist Phoebe Glassman lost her husband in a tragic accident. No longer the…

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Review: No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale (audio)

Review: No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep. Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes. Once a year, Lily mails a picture of her…

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