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REVIEW: Dark Season by Joanna Lowell

Dear Joanna Lowell,

Your Victorian-era historical romance, Dark Season, came to my attention via this article in Publishers Weekly. The article mentioned that you are a professor who writes literary fiction under the name Joanna Ruocco, and that you have received the prestigious Pushcart Prize. This, in addition to the mention of your upcoming historical romance trilogy, sold at a three-house auction for a six-figure advance and to be published under the pen name of Joanna Lowell, made me...

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Kickstart My Heart by Autumn Jones Lake: $ 2.99
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REVIEW: Blue Skies by Anne Bustard

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For fans of Kate DiCamillos Louisianas Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very ownher fathers return home.

Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmotherthe best matchmaker in the whole countyis responsible for thirty-nine of them.

Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own.

The war ended three years ago, but Glory Beas father never returned home from...

REVIEW: Welcoming Elijah by Leslea Newman, illustrated by Susan Gal

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Celebrated author Lesléa Newman unites a young boy and a stray kitten in a warm, lyrical story about Passover, family, and friendship.

Inside, a boy and his family sit around the dinner table to embrace the many traditions of their Passover Seder around the dinner table. Outside, a cat wonders, hungry and alone. When its time for the symbolic Passover custom of opening the familys front door for the prophet Elijah, both the boy and the cat are in for a remarkable surprise.

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REVIEW: Matzah Ball Surprise by Laura Brown

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This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is overone hilarious misstep after the next.

Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her well meaning family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one simple mealthat includes singing, the history of her forefathers, and not one bit of yeast. The hot guy at her gym would be perfect. He probably hates bread, anyway, with a body like that. But when she...

REVIEW: Love Hard by Nalini Singh

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Sometimes a book arrives at just the perfect time and that special alchemy that happens between story and reader happens; a combination of great book and the exact right reading mood. Thats what happened here.

I admit enemies to lovers isnt generally my favourite trope. But Jacob (Jake) Esera and Juliet Nelisi arent enemies for long. And they never were really enemies per se. More, they clashed in high school but shared a very special someone and so, made an effort to get...

REVIEW: One Way to Venice by Jane Aiken Hodge

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Five years ago, Julia Rivers life fell apart. After a whirlwind marriage to the love of her life, Julia found herself trapped in a family filled with secrets. When she was nearly killed, Julia and her unborn child fled, leaving behind this family who seemed to have it out for her.

Now, years after giving her newborn up for adoption, Julia begins receiving bizarre letters from an anonymous sender the latest containing a picture of a boy that is unmistakably hers. Urged to find her son,...

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What Janine is Reading and Listening to, Fall 2019

Death and the Harlot by Georgina Clarke

I read 39% of this book historical mystery set in mid-eighteenth century London before quitting. The period detail seems quite good and the book is pretty page-turning but unfortunately, the heroines motivations dont make sense.

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Lizzie Hardwicke is a sex worker in a high-class brothel (or at least as high class as bawdy houses got back in 1759) in London and one of her clients is murdered. Mr. George Reed wasnt a particularly great guy; Lizzie only...

REVIEW: The Story of Us by Molly O’Keefe

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Dear Molly O’Keefe:

I think I got this as a freebie somewhere, though I’m not sure where – maybe Daily Deals? Anyway, it was on my Kindle for a bit before I started it. I’ve read four Molly O’Keefe books (all part of the same series, under the M. O’Keefe name) and one novella. There have been elements to these books that feel very fresh and different, particularly in terms of heroines that aren’t at all cookie-cutter or sweet and innocent. But there’s also been a lot of what feels like...