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Ellen’s 2019 Year in Books
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Ellen Crosby
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A Yankee in Virginia
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the same hospital my where my parents and grandparents were born. I have cousins who say “Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd” and until my father took a job in Pittsburgh when I was twelve, I thought everyone in the country celebrated Patriot’s Day on April 19, commemorating Paul Revere’s famous Midnight Ride to warn the Minutemen that the British were
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The Merlot Murders (Wine Country Mysteries #1)
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2006
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14 editions
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The Chardonnay Charade (Wine Country Mysteries #2)
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2006
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13 editions
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The Bordeaux Betrayal (Wine Country Mysteries #3)
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2008
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15 editions
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The Riesling Retribution (Wine Country Mysteries #4)
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2009
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13 editions
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The Sauvignon Secret (Wine Country Mysteries, #6)
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2011
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11 editions
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The Viognier Vendetta (Wine Country Mysteries #5)
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2010
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9 editions
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The Champagne Conspiracy (Wine Country Mysteries, #7)
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The Vineyard Victims (Wine Country Mysteries, #8)
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Multiple Exposure (Sophie Medina, #1)
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2013
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8 editions
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Harvest of Secrets (Wine Country Mysteries, #9)
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2018
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7 editions
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Betsy wrote: "I am a Southerner who lives in the “rest of the State”, where, yes, we would not mind the annexing of NoVA to DC or MD. But as you say,
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The map disappeared when the series moved to a new publisher. My daughter-in-law's uncle mentioned the same thing about the missing map--which actually hadn't occurred to me! So my oldest son is designing a new map for the Minotaur series. Stay tuned
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“We all have a right to our private lives; it's living a secret life that gets us in trouble.”
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“We are all masters of our own destiny, my mother used to tell me. Even though we can’t always choose what happens to us, we can choose how we respond. In the end, she said, the way we handle the tough things life throws at us—adversity, loss, hardship, rejection—is what defines each of us as a human being. Whether we face them with courage and grace and honesty or choose to feel sorry for ourselves, blame someone else, lash out at life’s injustices with anger and cruelty—that’s what makes us who we are.”
― The Vineyard Victims
― The Vineyard Victims
“Plato—“No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.”
― The Merlot Murders
― The Merlot Murders
Polls
Which genre would you like to read for the August Book of the Month?
YOUNG ADULT
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones
Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
CHICK-LIT
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
Falling by Jane Green
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
Falling by Jane Green
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su
HISTORICAL FICTION
Ronan's Echo by Joanne van Os
Once by Morris Gleitzman
The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh
Ronan's Echo by Joanne van Os
Once by Morris Gleitzman
The Lavender Keeper by Fiona McIntosh
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