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DAILY DEALS: Fashion Queen, Varsity Soccer Star, Runaway Heiresses

I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:
Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That’s how she became student body president. Varsity soccer star. And it’s how she’ll get into Stanford. But she’s never had a boyfriend. In fact, she’s a disaster at romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her...

REVIEW: Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

[image error]Series spoilers follow: For readers who haven’t read the series, this is not the book to begin with – start at Moon Called, book 1.

Content warning: depictions of violence and torture of people and animals.

Dear Patricia Briggs,

I enjoyed Storm Cursed much better than Silence Fallen. For starters, Storm Cursed does relate more closely to the Columbia Basin Pack and their claiming of the Tri-Cities territory (which occurred in Fire Touched) and, there is not a long period where Adam and Mercy...

DAILY DEALS: My worst mistake

All of My Love by Francis Ray $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:
Stella McBride realizes that she made a horrible mistake when she divorced her husband Paul to marry another man. Now a free woman, more than anything she wants another chance with the man she truly loves. But Paul doesn’t want to have anything to do with her.
Paul was devastated when Stella divorced him. If it hadn’t been for their children, he might not have survived. There’s no way he’ll ever let her back in his life again. The nex...

REVIEW: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

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Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.

As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Mi...

NEW RELEASES: Week of May 7, 2019

Contemporary
No Longer Lost by Angel Payne: $ 5.99
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Contemporary
Because He’s Perfect by Anna Edwards , La Roux, Alice , et al: $ 0.99
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The Wedding Party by Cara Connelly: $ 1.99
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One Night in Christmas by Debbie Mason: $ 0.99
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Sweet Home Louisiana by Erin Nicholas: $ 4.93
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REVIEW: A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

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Once again you have been blessed by the cover gods. But better than that, the inside of the book lives up to the promise of that beautiful cover. A Prince on Paper was lovely.  I’m generally a hero-centric reader. And I did love Johan. But the star of this book is Nya. I just loved her. She’s had a difficult life but she’s brave and courageous and strong. She doesn’t hide even though perhaps she’d have good reason to do so. She is a no bullshit woman, telling people like it...

REVIEW: American Witch by Thea Harrison

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Dear Thea Harrison,

The Elder Races series and it’s spin-offs is one of the very few PNR series’ I have actually kept up with and I was excited to read the newest installment, American Witch, the first in a new trilogy set in the (Elder Races version of the) USA, revolving around, as the title suggests, witches. Unfortunately, American Witch didn’t work nearly so well for me as I’d been hoping it would and not as well as previous Elder...

DAILY DEALS: Business deals, secret babies, military comrades

Dealmaker, Heartbreaker by Rochelle Alers $ 3.99

From the Jacket Copy:
When a business deal
Becomes an affair of the heart.

Big-city Noah Wainwright’s always viewed business as a game. But when he stumbles across bed-and-breakfast owner Viviana Remington, she’s playing by different rules. Rules of honor that bring the love-’em-and-leave-’em playboy to his knees. And reserved Viviana’s hardly immune to the real-estate guru’s many charms. When Viv learns how the Wainright family plays the game,...

REVIEW: Artful Cats: Discoveries from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American art by Mary Savig

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Cats, cats, and more cats! Expressive or aloof, affectionate or enigmatic, cats have complicated characters that make them compelling artists’ muses. Artful Cats explores the quirky and charming relationships of artists with their cats in 130 rarely seen photos, paintings, sketches, manuscripts, and letters from the Archives of American Art. Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Louise Nevelson, Marcel Breuer, Yves Tanguy, Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Weston, Robert Indiana, Judy Chicago, Berenice Abbott,...

REVIEW: How to Land a Plane by Mark Vanhoenacker

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From the bestselling author of Skyfaring (125,500+ copies sold in the US and UK alone), a witty guide on how to land a jetliner—in 60 pages!

British Airways pilot and internationally bestselling author Mark Vanhoenacker invites readers to take a seat—the captain’s seat, that is—and relax, to learn the ins and outs of landing a plane. This funny, easy-reading guide covers every step from approach to touchdown, explaining complex topics with the help of illustrations, bolded terms, and clear l...