Book review
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“Romance is overrated,” Brooke declared. “Give me a couch, snacks, and women who know my trauma.” Hannah is single and happy to spend Valentine’s Day with friends, but as the drinks flow and the ladies begin to exchange stories about their ex-boyfriends, the idea that someone else’s ex might have been wrong for them but…
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It was the first cost of ownership: being seen. In this county, visibility wasn’t a compliment, it was a target marked in daylight. A Reconstruction-era historical novel set in Alabama, and a testament to quiet but persistent resistance and resilience. Angie Sterling inherits an old abandoned house and quickly learns just how many of her…
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Two months ago, her life had been safe. Simple. Maybe even dull. She’d thought kale smoothies were daring. Gabriella Heart, known as Gabby, is busy sending her daughter off to graduate school when her mother is hospitalised after a bad fall. Rushing back home, Gabby is shocked to find her mother’s health is much worse…
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“Did you ever threaten Rose Martin?” “Yes,” Laura whispered. Sam swore. Emma Stewart and her best friend Laura couldn’t be more different. Emma is an introverted, single, no-nonsense sports fan, dog lover, while Laura is an outgoing, married, frills-and-flowers, prim-and-neat HOA president living in a very attractive neighbourhood in Harbor Shores, Florida. When a house…
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“Even the prettiest villages have their dark side, Maya. Let’s not forget that.” When her husband Rajiv gets a job at a university, Maya and Rajiv and their daughter Anya move from New Delhi to the small British village of Merrywick. Rajiv loves his new job, but Maya is struggling to settle in. She misses…
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The first sign of trouble came disguised as gossip. Like a curl of smoke, it slipped through my bookshop’s half-open windows with meandering confidence, snaking its way through the Latin Quarter. When the rich and prominent Fournier, owner of the glamorous Maison Fournier department store in Paris, dies under very public circumstances right after having…
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Book 1 in the River Cruise Cozies series. Adelle is retired and bored, so when her friend asks her for help, she agrees to cover for her as a tour host for a small group of women going on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam. She is looking forward to meeting new people, but…
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“Fenway,” Nathaniel Ferris said, putting on his pontificating voice, “with me as your father, people are always going to think you’re in my pocket…” When Fenway Stevenson loses both her mother and her job, she reluctantly accepts her estranged father’s offer of an apartment and a temporary job as a coroner in Estancia, her old…
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Her mother had never visited Elkhorn Slough. And no one had ever been murdered there. But there was a first time for everything. Mother-daughter murder night, is what Beth and her mother Lana would call it when they would relax together, watching detective shows in bed all evening. Now Beth is living a quiet life…
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There was nothing safe; there were only gradations of exposure to danger. Mahit Dzmare is the newly appointed ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire. Coming from a small, independent mining Station, Mahit’s diplomatic mission is to try to ensure that the Empire allows the Station to continue to stay independent while still allowing for trade and travel…