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NEW RELEASES: Week of August 6, 2019

Contemporary
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai: $ 9.99
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Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs by Annie Rains: $ 1.99
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Dare Me Tonight by Carly Phillips: $ 4.99
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Summer on Moonlight Bay by Hope Ramsay: $ 5.99
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Ray by Jennifer Ashley: $ 2.99
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News Bits: Reading aloud, the power of reading, inspiring students, helping neighbors

Lately the world seems to suck more each day. Here are a few nice things I’ve found from last week.

Crossing Divides: Why I read aloud to strangers -Janine and her husband read aloud to each other but here’s a group of people who read to each other but who are strangers. Well at first, they’re strangers but most appear to build relationships as they read to each other and then discuss the stories.

According to The Reader – a charity coordinating shared reading across the UK and beyond – rea...

REVIEW: Mixed Marriage The Diary of a Portuguese Bride by Elizabeth Cadell

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This is the diary of an English girl who falls in love with an eligible young Portuguese, Afonso. The bride recounts, vividly and hilariously, her and her Mother’s plans for an English country wedding, how they dealt with Uncle George (The Head Of The Family), and their success in making sure that on her wedding day the church was filled with music and flowers (both officially banned due to the “mixed” marriage of a Catholic bridegroom and a Church of England bride).

She subsequently finds...

Open Thread for Readers for August 2019

[image error]Apologies for being late for last month. :) Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

REVIEW: Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal and the Greatest Match Ever Played by L. Jon Wertheim

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In the 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, Centre Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. He just needed to cling to his trajectory. So in the last few moments of daylight, Centre Court witnessed a coronation. Only it wasn’t a crowning for the Swiss heir apparent but for a swashbuckling Spaniard. Twenty-two-year-old Rafael Nadal prevailed, in five sets, in wha...

REVIEW: The Whistle Stop Canteen by Barb Warner Deane

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A wartime train station encounter changes a lifetime…

After losing her fiancé in WW1, Margaret Parker settled into a quiet, lonely life as the town librarian in North Platte, NE. After the US enters WW2, Margaret volunteers as the historian for the Servicemen’s Canteen organized by the women of North Platte. When Captain Tom Carver strolls into the Canteen, he’s immediately drawn to Maggie and works hard to woo her, via letters, as he heads off to war. While reluctantly falling in love long...

REVIEW: Dancer of the Nile (The Gods of Egypt) by Veronica Scott

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Egypt, 1500 BCE: Nima’s beauty and skill as a dancer leads an infatuated enemy to kidnap her after destroying an Egyptian border town. However, she’s not the only hostage in the enemy camp: Kamin, an Egyptian soldier on a secret mission for Pharaoh, has been taken as well.

Working together to escape, the two of them embark on a desperate quest across the desert to carry word of the enemy’s invasion plans to Pharaoh’s people.

As they flee for their lives, these two strangers thrown together...

REVIEW: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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Dear Ms. Faye:

I saw this in the Daily Deals back in November of last year, and I clicked “buy” in spite of some reservations. I was concerned by a description of the book as “Jane Eyre meets Dexter.” I recently read a suspense book that featured murdering protagonists that also touted the “Dexter” comparison. I was reminded (since I didn’t care for that book) that I have chosen not to watch the Dexter television show or read the Dexter books in large part because I find the premise of an et...

NEW RELEASES: Week of July 30, 2019

Contemporary
Until December by Aurora Rose Reynolds: $ 3.99
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Devlin by Barbara Freethy: $ 3.99
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Work Violation by BJ Harvey: $ 3.99
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Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy by Caitlin Crews: $ 7.99
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The Year I Left by Christine Brae: $ 8.99
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JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Honor by Mary Balogh (part the second)

PLEASE NOTE: What follows is what we decided to cut from the original review so as to save the spoilers for a later and separate discussion. The discussion below is FULL OF SPOILERS so be ye warned!!  We are hoping readers who have already read the book will chime in with their thoughts in the comments.  ~ Kaetrin & Janine

[image error]Kaetrin: Before we start, here is a brief recap of the plot:

Abby is the youngest Westcott daughter at 21. She has decided to eschew high society after the scandal of her f...