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Book Spotlight: While We Were Watching Downton Abbey By Wendy Wax

WHILE WE WERE WATCHING DOWNTON ABBEY By: Wendy Wax Published:  April 2, 2013 Mass Market Paperback: December 31, 2013 Fiction Many women are spending their Sunday nights watching Downton Abbey and I am one of them.  I’ve been reading WHILE WE WERE WATCHING DOWNTON ABBEY by Wendy Wax and even though I am not quite…
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Book Spotlight and Author Guest Post: Sweet Nothings By Janis Thomas

SWEET NOTHINGS By: Janis Thomas Published: July 2, 2013 Fiction One of the books in my stack of “must reads” is SWEET NOTHINGS by Janis Thomas.  It sounds like a perfect, fun weekend read and I can’t wait to get to it. Below you can find out more about the book as well as check…
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Book Review: Perfect By Rachel Joyce

PERFECT A Novel By: Rachel Joyce Published:  January 14, 2013 Fiction The British author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY has written her newest novel, PERFECT. In PERFECT, we are taken to an English village in 1972, and an 11-year old boy finds out from a friend that the government is adding two seconds…
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Book Review: Starry Night By Debbie Macomber

STARRY NIGHT By: Debbie Macomber Published: October 8, 2013 Fiction I told you about this book in October, HERE. I knew that I would want to save it for the week of Christmas to read because I knew it would be light, romantic, and put me in the mood for Christmas. Carrie Slayton is the…
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Book Review: The Holdout By Laurel Osterkamp

THE HOLDOUT By: Laurel Osterkamp Published:  September 9, 2013 Fiction I was contacted by the author and asked to review her newest book, THE HOLDOUT.  Fans of the Reality TV Show, SURVIVOR will be drawn into the Osterkamp’s version in her new novel.  Since I am a huge SURVIVOR Geek, I was eager to read…
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Children’s Book Review: The Christmas Cats Chase Christmas Rats By Constance Corcoran Wilson

THE CHRISTMAS CATS CHASE CHRISTMAS RATS By: Constance Corcoran Wilson Illustrated By: Gary McCluskey Published:  October 22, 2013 Children’s Fiction The Christmas Cats are at it again is Book #2 of the Christmas Cat series.  In the first book, THE CHRISTMAS CATS IN SILLY HATS, children learn that it is best to get along with…
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Book Spotlight: Torn Blood By David J. Bain

TORN BLOOD By: David J. Bain Published: October 24, 2013 Fiction I can’t possibly read every single book that comes into my inbox.  But, some books are intriguing enough that I want to tell you about them, even if I don’t read them.  Even though this isn’t my usual type of book, I found the…
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Book Review: Family Interrupted By Linda Barrett

FAMILY INTERRUPTED By:  Linda Barrett Published: April 4, 2013  Contemporary Fiction As part of the PUMP UP YOUR BOOK book tour, I had the privilege to read FAMILY INTERRUPTED by Linda Barrett.  For other insights on the book, you can click HERE and read reviews from other bloggers. FAMILY INTERRUPTED is my first read by…
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Book Review: Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline

ORPHAN TRAIN: A NOVEL By: Christina Baker Kline Published: April 2, 2013 I had been hearing how wonderful this book was, but I didn’t realize how wonderful until I began reading it.  If I could have shut out the rest of the world and read it in one sitting, I would have.  ORPHAN TRAIN shifts…
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Children’s Book Review: An Ordinary Toad’s Extraordinary Night By Joanne McGonagle

AN ORDINARY TOAD’S EXTRAORDINARY NIGHT By: Joanne McGonagle Illustrated by Rachael Mahaffey Published: May 17, 2013 This is the story of a young toad named Andrew, pondering whether his life would be more interesting had he been hatched a frog. Andrew decides to take his first solo hop to ask his grandpa some questions about…
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Stacie's bookshelf: read-in-2023

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood
Food Fight
Spare
Foster
This Time Tomorrow
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Save What's Left
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Golden Hills
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Favor
Small Things Like These
This Is How I Lied
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish: Book 1
Audrey L and Audrey W: True Creative Talents: Book 2
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
It Is Well With My Soul: My Story
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Book Lovers
A Girl Called Samson
Finn and the Feline Frenemy
The Levee
The Golden Spoon
Only the Beautiful
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
The Sisters Sweet
Fish in a Tree
This Tender Land
Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine
The Great Gilly Hopkins
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Beyond the Point
The Family
Hamnet
The Bookstore Sisters
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
The Cactus
Black Cake
Ban This Book
Passing
I'm Glad My Mom Died
These Precious Days: Essays
Evidence of the Affair
The Night Travelers
Out of the Corner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Day in December

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