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REVIEW: Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose.

A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he c...

REVIEW: Play to Win by Kelly Jamieson

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Dear Ms. Jamieson:

When I started reading this book, I wondered if I had missed a previous book or two in your new series. Before Chapter 1, there’s an extensive cast-of-characters run-down of the Wynns. Once the book begins, the reader is almost immediately given backstory on the hero’s recent romantic woes in a way that made me think they’d occurred in a previous book. But no, I double-checked, and this was definitely book one in the series.

Play to Win opens with Theo Wynn being offered t...

NEW RELEASES: Week of August 14, 2019

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His Baby Deal by Elizabeth Lennox: $ 2.99
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The Reluctant Boyfriend by Erika Kelly: $ 3.99
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Beauty and the Bayou by Erin Nicholas: $ 4.99
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So Steady by Eve Dangerfield: $ 3.99
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Filthy Rich by Julie Kriss: $ 3.99
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REVIEW: Playing House by Ruby Lang

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Oliver Huang and Fay Liu, are both Chinese-American urban planners in Manhattan. When Oliver is first introduced to the reader he presents himself as unemployed and taking some short term contract work to keep himself afloat. But it became apparent to me that what he really is is a self-employed freelance urban planner.  Fay is a partner in a boutique firm, Milieu, she started some years before with two friends and colleagues.

As it happens, Oliver sent his resume to Milieu ab...

REVIEW: American Fairytale (Dreamers #2) by Adriana Herrera

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Fairy-tale endings don’t just happen; they have to be fought for.

New York City social worker Camilo Santiago Briggs grew up surrounded by survivors who taught him to never rely on anything you didn’t earn yourself. He’s always dreamed of his own happily-ever-after, but he lives in the real world. Men who seem too good to be true…usually are. And Milo never ever mixes business with pleasure…until the mysterious man he had an unforgettable hookup with turns out to be the wealthy donor behind...

REVIEW: Ghost Cat by Kevan Atteberry

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There is a ghost in my house. I’ve only seen it out of the corner of my eye, but I think it is a cat, says a little boy in this comforting tale of love and loss.

There’s something oddly familiar about this ghost cat–it does lots of things that remind the boy of the cat he used to have. The boy’s not sure why the ghost cat never stays for more than a few moments, or why the ghost cat has visited him in the first place. He follows the ghost cat all over his house, until finally it leads him to...

REVIEW: Red Yellow Blue by Lysa Mullady

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Red loves being red! Apples, wagons, fire trucks — he thinks all the best things are red! Yellow admires Red’s roses, but Red just wants to be left to mind his own business — why can’t Yellow mind hers?

But when Yellow and Blue go off to make frogs, shamrocks, and caterpillars, Red realizes that he may be missing out. The possibilities are endless when the colors work together!

Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on encouraging empathy and cooperation.

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REVIEW: Ogilvy by Deborah Underwood, illustrations by T.L. McBeth

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The clothes don’t make the bunny in this new picture book from New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Underwood, illustrated by T. L. McBeth.

When Ogilvy moves to a new town, the possibilities feel endless. There are so many new bunny friends and fun things to do together! But in this town, bunnies in dresses play ball and knit socks, and bunnies in sweaters make art and climb rocks. Ogilvy wants to do everything—and won’t let a sweater or a dress get in the way.

Dear Ms. Underwood,

I hea...

REVIEW: An Unexpected Coddiwomple by Loretto Thompson

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By the time Loretto discovered the cache of WWII letters, her father had been dead almost 50 years. She’d accepted she would never know him. All that changed when she decided to type his 500+ letters for her siblings. With each letter she heard her father’s voice. With each place she visited and each person she met, the 50 years without him melted away and the enduring gap that had opened between them when she was 4-years-old gradually began to close.

An Unexpected Coddiwomple takes you on...

REVIEW: The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

[image error]Dear Alisha Rai,

The Right Swipe is the first in your new Modern Love series.  The heroine, Rhiannon Hunter, is the sister of the hero in your earlier book, Hurts to Love You (which is on my TBR) but there isn’t really more of a link between the two series so it’s easy to jump in here without reading the earlier books.

Rhiannon is the developer and co-owner (with silent partner and best friend, Katrina) of Crush, an app-based dating platform similar to Tinder but more feminist. She was previo...