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message 1: by Gwennie (last edited Aug 13, 2011 08:36PM) (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) Link to the poll
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/52...


Like usual, I'll take the first 15 book nominations before creating the voting poll. Here are our guidelines.

1. The book has to be in that months genre selection.
2. If nominating a book in a series, it must be the first book in the series.
3. Each person can only nominate one book.
4. The book has to be available in print as well as ebook.

Let nominations commence!


message 2: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) It looks like that one is in the middle of a series?


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message 4: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) YAY!!! Another one of my favorites! The Sherbrooke Bride is one of my favorite Historical Romances!


message 5: by Alycia (new)

Alycia Wendy F wrote: "It looks like that one is in the middle of a series?"

Opps! I didn't know that. I was looking on my phone. I'll erase it and nominate a different book.


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message 8: by Lisa P (new)

Lisa P I would like to nominate...

Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss


message 9: by Brette (new)

Brette (brettemaeve13) I nominate Lady of Conquest by Teresa Medeiros


message 10: by Dianne (last edited Aug 08, 2011 11:39PM) (new)

Dianne (des03) | 30 comments I nominate Bonnie Dee. A Hearing Heart

Is 1901 still classified as historical?


message 12: by Susinok (new)

Susinok My personal favorite, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. It's on sale for Kindle for 99 cents right now. It's hillarious!

Lord of Scoundrels (Scoundrels, #3) by Loretta Chase


message 13: by Lisa P (new)

Lisa P Susinok wrote: "My personal favorite, Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. It's on sale for Kindle for 99 cents right now. It's hillarious!

Lord of Scoundrels (Scoundrels, #3) by Loretta Chase"


Thanks Susinok. I just ordered it...sounds great!


message 14: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) I bought that one a while ago, it sounded good.

I see it's the 3rd in the series, but Goodreads says that the series is 'loosely linked' and doesn't need to be read in order.

I'll go ahead and accept this one. Thanks Susinok!


message 15: by Scarlett (new)

Scarlett Rains | 1 comments Wendy...is it OK to post a book I authored? Or is that just shameless self-promotion. :) Heh! I just noted the Group Rules to the right there...very catchy. :) No problem, I admire MANY authors in this genre. One of my favorites is, Let Sleeping Rogues Lie (Sabrina Jeffries).


message 16: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) THank you Scarlett.

I'd love you to post your book in the promitional folder, unless you have.


message 17: by Susinok (new)

Susinok Lord of Scoundrels totally stands on it's own. You do not need to read the rest of the series, though Dain shows up in book 4, The Last Hellion.


message 18: by Marcella (new)

Marcella (marcella6) | 886 comments I nominate Tempting Eden by Margaret Rowe


message 19: by Elke (new)

Elke (ejurca) I nominate When Harry Met Molly (Impossible Bachelors, #1) by Kieran Kramer


message 20: by Tina "IRead2Escape" (last edited Aug 11, 2011 08:40AM) (new)

Tina "IRead2Escape" (tinar1121) I nominate The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley by Susanna Kearsley.


message 21: by Alycia (new)

Alycia There are some good ones. I few I read and a few I want to read.


message 22: by Leea (new)

Leea I second the Winter Sea, I've heard great things about it!


message 23: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) The winter Sea looks great.

I think we're at 13 in this thread, so I'll accept 2 more nominations. I'm posting the polls tomorrow when I get home from work.


message 24: by Alycia (new)

Alycia Leea wrote: "I second the Winter Sea, I've heard great things about it!"

Me too!


message 25: by Victoria (new)

Victoria (flame_2712) | 11 comments Still accepting nominations?
I nominate Silence in the Mist by Leah Marie Brown. i found it really good.


message 26: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) I counted wrong! We have 13 books, and Nominations are closed.

I'm going to the movies in a bit, and have some family plans, but I'll get the polls up this evening.


message 27: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) The link to the poll is in the first post.


message 28: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) THank you for all your voting!

Our winner for November is The Winter Sea!

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley


message 29: by Susinok (new)

Susinok Looking at the descripiton, I wouldn't call this a Historical Romance. It's contemporary with time travel.


message 30: by Leea (last edited Aug 19, 2011 01:31PM) (new)

Leea Haha!! I better go look...


"A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical novel...Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book."
-Bernard Cornwell


message 31: by Laura (new)

Laura | 131 comments I read this a couple of months ago, very good!!


message 32: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) As long as the primary part of the book is in the past then I'd say it counts as historical.

Especially if you look at the synopsis of the other versions of this book, like this one...

It is 2008 and Carrie McClelland can't hit the right note for her next novel, but an unplanned detour in Scotland, and a stop at the castle that inspired Count Dracula, sets her on a different path; a path that took her back in back exactly 300 years, to that same castle, and to a rebellion doomed to failure. Alternating between the contemporary setting and the past, The Winter Sea takes us at every turn into little known worlds; historical footnotes writ large, a history of Scotland and the Jacobite rebellion of 1708 and the possibility of genetic memory. Historical fiction at its best and Susanna Kearsley at hers, The Winter Sea evokes the writing of Thomas Raddall, Daphne Du Maurier, and Mary Stewart.


message 33: by Alycia (new)

Alycia I'm looking forward to reading it. I think it's a time slip novel.


message 34: by Gwennie (last edited Oct 24, 2011 06:06AM) (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) Remember that November starts our Group Read of The Winter Sea.

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

I'm really looking forward to this one!


message 35: by Dee (new)

Dee (austhokie) i'm reading this right now as a group read for another group and its really good - the beginning is a tad slow, but gets better


message 36: by D.G. (new)

D.G. I already have the book on my iPad but I don't know when I'll start.


message 37: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) I've heard such good things about it. It's been on my to read list for a while.


message 38: by ~Leslie~ (new)

~Leslie~ (akareadingmachine) I'm so excited to read this one. I've had it on my nook for awhile and just never got around to it. Sounds really interesting.


message 39: by Leea (new)

Leea I'm also excited, I love these group reads. They are so much fun!


message 40: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer (sadstrumpetjenny) I looved this when I first read it, so I am definitely going to reread along with the group.


message 41: by Gwennie (new)

Gwennie (blessedwannab) Wonderful!


message 42: by Carol (new)

Carol Kerry-Green | 4 comments I love this book, definitely historical with a bit of modern thrown in for good measure :)


message 43: by Dee (new)

Dee (austhokie) I just finished this up yesterday, so I can't wait to talk about it with you guys


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