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Book Review: The Guilty One
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Guilty One Author: Lisa Ballantyne Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 480 Release Date: March 19, 2013 Source: Eidelweiss / Publisher ————————————————— Genre: Mystery / Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good crime thriller with an ending you won’t see coming. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N An eight-year-old boy is found dead in a playground . . . and his eleven-year-old neighbor is accused of the crime. Leading the defense is London solicitor Daniel Hunter, a champion of lost causes. A damaged…
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Author Interview: Charlotte Rains Dixon
Charlotte Rains Dixon is here on the blog today! Her novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior is a new one I’ve added to my reading list and it looks scrumptious! Best-selling novelist Emma Jean Sullivan longed for a baby for years, but after she and her husband Peter were unable to conceive, she staunchly vowed to become the standard bearer for all childless couples. And she succeeds spectacularly. At age 48 (43 according to her blog, Life, Full Tilt) Emma Jean enjoys a rabid anti-baby fan base and her novels have sold millions. But now she confronts a dilemma larger than any…
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Book Review: Untold Damage
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Untold Damage Author: Robert K. Lewis Publisher: Midnight Ink Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: April 8, 2013 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————— Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark, gritty thrillers with strong male leads. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / B&N Sometimes the darkest moments of our lives give us the brightest chance at our redemption Estranged from his wife and daughter, former undercover cop Mark Mallen has spent the last four years in a haze of heroin. And when his best friend from…
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Weekly Rewind (4/7/13)
Monday – Book Review: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls Do you love a creepy read? Are you a fan of quirky female characters and Middle Grade fiction? Well then this is a book that you definitely need to have on your reading list! Tuesday – Google Reader Alternatives! If you’re like me, and read all your blogs through a reader, you’re probably looking for a program to replace GR. Here’s my review of some of the ones I’ve tried! Wednesday – Excerpt + Giveaway for Undone: An Unraveling Novella GIVEAWAY ALERT! If you are a fan of Elizabeth Norris’…
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Blogger Backstage Pass: Karin from My Life…
It’s time for another edition of Blogger Backstage Pass! Are you always looking for shiny new blogs to follow? Do you feel like you’d just like to get to know some of the bloggers a little better? Here’s your opportunity. Each month I’ll pick a new blogger and host them here! You’ll get to see an interview with them and nab all their contact info. Also, in case you forget who they are and want to visit them, their information will be in the right hand sidebar all month. This month’s featured blogger is… Karin from My Life…! A little over…
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A guest post by Liz Gruder
Tour Link When New Orleans went under during Hurricane Katrina, I worked in the media. Martial law had been declared. Driving through the warzone, soldiers poked guns in my face as I held up ID. I saw the Xs painted on houses with a number declaring the dead. I drove to a beloved marina with boats piled up like Tinker Toys. All wildlife was dead and the seagulls had been blown away. Everything had been destroyed. I saw my husband, who had kept his boat there and loved the marina, the wildlife, and the sunsets, fall to his knees and…
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Book Review: Destiny, Rewritten
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Destiny, Rewritten Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: February 19, 2013 Source: Eidelweiss ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love smart, quirky female characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn’t even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her…
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Excerpt + Giveaway for Undone: An Unraveling Novella
Elizabeth Norris’ Unraveling series has been on my wishlist for quite a long time! That is why I was so excited to hear that the next book in the series, Unbreakable is on its way. For those of you who have already read Unraveling and are looking for a little more, Harper Teen Impulse has just put out a novella that goes between the first two books. Titled Undone, it contains three short stories to sate your taste buds while you wait for the next book. Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the…
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Google Reader alternatives!
As we all know, and are probably freaking out about, Google Reader is going away soon. I for one follow every blog I read via RSS. The great thing about that is that all you need to do is find a new RSS reader! There are plenty of them out there, each with there own strengths. I’ve made it my own personal mission to find some great alternatives, and here are my favorites: Bloglovin’ What I like about Bloglovin’ is the simplicity of it. Much like Google Reader, it streamlines your posts into one row of feeds. However what I…
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Book Review: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls Author: Claire Legrand Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 343 Release Date: August 28, 2012 Source: Library —————————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love big adventures with a darker side to them. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster—lazy…