Category: All Book Reviews
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The Wandering Season by Amie K. Runyan: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2025 Blurb: Veronica Stratton, a specialty food broker with a business riding close to the margins, visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park for Christmas. With the holiday comes a DNA test from her younger sister and an engagement ring from her longtime boyfriend. The test confirms…
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These Is My Words by Nancy Turner: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 1998 Blurb: A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author’s own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path…
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The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2009 Blurb: When her mother moves them from the city to a small town to open up a cupcake bakery, Penny’s life isn’t what she expected. Her father has stayed behind, and Mom isn’t talking about what the future holds for their family. And then there’s Charity,…
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Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2019 Blurb: Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an…
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It Started With Goodbye by Christina June: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2017 Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she’s stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF’s gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her…
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To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2018 Blurb: Savannah is dreading being home alone with her overbearing mother after her sister goes off to college. But if she can just get through senior year, she’ll be able to escape to college, too. What she doesn’t count on is that her mother’s obsession with…
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Exiles by Jane Harper: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2022 Blurb: At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of…
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Swipe by Evan Angler: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2012 Blurb: Everyone gets the Mark. It gives all the benefits of citizenship. Yet if getting the Mark is such a good thing, then why does it feel so wrong? Set in a future North America that is struggling to recover after famine and global war, “Swipe”…
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First Love, Second Draft by Becca Kinzer: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: April 2025 Blurb: Rom-com writer Gracie Parker hasn’t written a bestseller since she and her husband, a major league baseball star, divorced five years ago. On thin ice with her publisher—and with a looming deadline—Gracie couldn’t have picked a worse time for a painful injury that has her…
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Roadside Assistance by Amy Clipston: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2011 Blurb: Emily Curtis is used to dealing with her problems while under the hood of an old Chevy, but when her mom dies, Emily’s world seems shaken beyond repair. Driven from home by hospital bills they can’t pay, Emily and her dad move in with his…
