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DAILY DEALS: Only one romance today but other deals

American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera $ 3.99

From the Jacket Copy:
No one ever said big dreams come easy

For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He’s got six months to make it happen—the last thing he needs is a distraction.

Jude Fuller is proud of the life he’s built on the ba...

What Janine is Reading and Listening to in Early 2019

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han, narrated by Laura Knight Keating

Recently I finished listening to the audiobook of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han. This was the version narrated by Laura Knight Keating and is not to be confused with another version which has a different narrator.

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The book is a charming YA romantic comedy; I highly recommend it. It was made into a Netflix original movie and I saw the movie first, but even so I really enjoyed the book. The movie...

DAILY DEALS: No blue boxes today but four deals

Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah $ 6.44

From the Jacket Copy:
Winner in the Australian Book Industry Awards 2006 – Australian Book of the Year for Older Children.

The slide opened and I heard a gentle, kind voice: What is your confession, my child? I was stuffed. The priest would declare me a heretic; my parents would call me a traitor…. The Priest asked me again: What is your confession, my child? I’m Muslim. I whispered.

Welcome to my world. I’m Amal Abdel-Hakim, a 17 ye...

REVIEW: See the Light by Kate McMurray

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Kate McMurray brings friends-to-lovers to the Great White Way

Up-and-coming Broadway actor Jeremy was given two days to get up and get out. Dumped by his long-term boyfriend and suddenly homeless, he needs a sofa and a sympathetic ear, stat.

Enter Max, aspiring makeup artist and Jeremy’s BFF and former roommate.

Max has been in love with his best friend forever. Now that Jeremy is back in his home, his old feelings are back, too. He’s happy to help his friend, but this time…it’s complicated....

NEW RELEASES: Week of March 12, 2019

Contemporary
ROOTED by Angelia Vernon Menchan: $ 2.99
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Contemporary
Your Love Is Mine by Bella Andre: $ 5.99
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Contemporary
Hero for Hire by Cat Johnson: $ 3.99
AMZN | iBooks | BN | Kobo | Google Play
Contemporary
Mac by Donna Michaels: $ 3.99
AMZN | iBooks | BN | Kobo | Google Play
Contemporary
Crash & Burn by J.H. Croix: $ 2.99
AMZN | iBooks | BN | Kobo | Google Play
Fiction
My Very ’90s Romance by J...

DAILY DEALS: Ultimate Pis

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau $ 3.99

From the Jacket Copy:
If there’s one thing that might get my dad, a retired math teacher, to visit Toronto and have a real conversation with me for the first time in seventeen years, it’s a big nerdy Pi Day party. And hopefully this party—and seeing the tech company I built from nothing—will finally be enough to impress him and make him forgive me for everything I did when I was a teenager.

But it’s got to be a really great party.

That’s where Sa...

REVIEW: Here Be Dragons by David P. Macpherson

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A mid-life crisis, a castle gardener, an unfaithful steed, a dastardly hero, a merciless king, and a dragon that needs saving. With heroes this bad who needs villains…

When Orus graduated from the Cromalot School for Heroes he was ready for a life of glory and adventure. But after being seduced by his first damsel in distress, he quickly learns the heroing life doesn’t bring in the steady income required to raise a family.

Twenty years later, with his son all grown up and his waistband all...

DAILY DEALS: Happy Woman’s Day

Oni’s Tears by Kai Leakes $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:
He is the eater of magic. The taker of souls. An entity who wants lands to turn to dusk. The skies to turn obsidian and to rule the world through the slaughter of the paragons.

Since childhood 20-year-old Olivia Oni Lovejoy has trained with her family to keep magic in the world safe from the Big Juju Man. However, a close loss has sped up her succession as the Orisha Oya’s paragon and brought with it nothing but melancholy to her soul. Wh...

REVIEW: The Beau and the Bluestocking by Alice Chetwynd Ley

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1782, London

Alethea Newnham is a young woman with decided literary tastes, to the extent that she is called a Bluestocking by the gossips of Town.

Educated in the country by her scholarly father and raised as an equal with her brothers, Alethea finds it difficult to play romantic games when she is invited to her aunt’s house in London.

In particular, she despises the dashing and notorious Sir James ‘Beau’ Devenish – a young man overly concerned with the latest fashions, and toying with fem...

DAILY DEALS: Troubled women

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile $ 2.99

From the Jacket Copy:
Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South.

When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that...