Category: All Book Reviews
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Sandcastles and Second Chances by Lianne James: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2023 Blurb: At forty-nine-years-old, it’s safe to say life didn’t turn out the way Lucinda Flowers hoped it would. Her husband ran off with her sister-in-law, and her grown children don’t come around much. When her sister, Sharon, calls with bad news, Lucinda boards a plane back…
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Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go To Funerals by Sharon J. Mondragon: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: In a small town where gossip flows like sweet tea, bedridden Mary Ruth McCready reigns supreme, doling out wisdom and meddling in everyone’s business with a fervor that would make a matchmaker blush. When her best friend, Charlotte Harrington, has her world rocked by a…
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Where the Birds Call Her Name by Claire van Rynn: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: Broome 2023: When Saskia’s free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn’t make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beginning to feel restrictive. Then she finds clues in the van about her mother’s mysterious…
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Castle of the Winds by Christina Baehr: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2024 Blurb: At Midsummer’s Eve, the Red Dragon will choose his bride. Following this mysterious invitation, Edith sets off on a quest to the Castle of the Winds to find a lost family of dragon keepers in the mountains of Wild Wales. But all is not as…
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Fragile Designs by Collen Cobble: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2024 Blurb: Family secrets can be the most dangerous of all. When Carly Tucker’s police-officer husband is killed during a home break-in, she knows that her side hustle finding the antique treasures at flea markets isn’t enough to support her and their infant son, Noah. So her…
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Midnight on the Scottish Shore by Sarah Sundin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: The only way Cilla van der Zee can survive the German occupation of the Netherlands is to do the unthinkable–become a spy for the Nazis in Britain. She soothes her conscience with a plan to abandon her mission and instead aid the Allies. Her scheme…
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2000 Blurb: Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don’t stand out–under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes–for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion…
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Peak by Roland Smith: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2007 Blurb: After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he’s left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. But Peak quickly learns that his father’s renewed…
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The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Blurb: Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same. New York City,…
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What Happened to the McCrays by Tracey Lange: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Blurb: When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him: his father,…
