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Book Review: The Bone Tree by Greg Iles
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Bone Tree *Series: Penn Cage #5 Author: Greg Iles Publisher: William Morrow Books Pages: Hardcover; 804 Release Date: April 21, 2015 Source: Harper Collins Publishers and TLC Book Tours ——————————————————————— Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have previously joined Penn Cage on his journey to pin down the Double Eagles. Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story he began in his smashing New York Timesbestseller Natchez Burning with this…
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Book Review: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Bookshop on the Corner Author: Jenny Colgan Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: September 20, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours and Harper Collins Publishers ——————————————————————– Genre: Women’s Fiction / Chick Lit HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love books that are all about the love of books. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | HarperCollins “Losing myself in Jenny Colgan’s beautiful pages is the most delicious, comforting, satisfying treat I have had in ages.”—Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Secrets Nina…
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Book Review: Natchez Burning (Penn Cage #4) by Greg Iles
Media Type: Print Book Title: Natchez Burning *Series: Penn Cage #4 Author: Greg Iles Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 816 Release Date: Reprint Edition; August 4, 2015 Source: TLC Book Tours / William Morrow Paperbacks ——————————————————- Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy hard hitting, well fleshed out crime dramas with a hefty helping of historical background. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy…
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Book Review: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Another Brooklyn Author: Jacqueline Woodson Publisher: Amistad Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: August 9, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Anyone looking for a gorgeously written look at the streets of 1970’s Brooklyn. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn…
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Book Review: After Alice by Gregory Maguire
Media Type: Print Book Title: After Alice Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Hardcover; 273 Release Date: July 5, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————————- Genre: Retellings / Re-Imaginings HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have a fondness for Alice and all things Wonderland related. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found…
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Book Review: The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Eagle Tree Author: Ned Hayes Publisher: Little A Pages: Paperback; 270 Release Date: July 5,2016 Source: TLC Book Tours —————————————— Content Screening: Mild Adult Language HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are interested in gaining new knowledge of trees, and enjoy reading from the POV of a character on the autism spectrum. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls—and despite the state’s threat to take him…
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Take a copy of Blue Asylum home!
Courtesy of the lovely people at TLC Book Tours, I have one copy of Blue Asylum to share! If you missed my review yesterday, you can find it here. I am generally not a big fan of Historical Fiction, but this story truly blew me away. Thus why I am so excited to share it with you! To enter, please make sure you have a mailing address in the U.S. or Canada. Then fill out the Rafflecopter form below. Best of luck! A winner will be chosen on April 22, 2012. /*{literal}{/literal}*/ a Rafflecopter giveaway <a href=”http://rafl.es/enable-js”>You need javascript enabled to…
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Book Review: Wherever You Go
Media Type: Print Book Title: Wherever You Go Author: Joan Leegant Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pages: Paperback; 272 Release Date: July 25, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————– Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Fiction/Religious Fiction ——————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended for: Those who enjoy religious based stories full of trials, tribulations and redemption. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and mother of five who has dedicated herself to the radical West…
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Book Review: Kicking Ass and Saving Souls
Media Type: Print Book Title: Kicking Ass and Saving Souls Author: David Matthews Publisher: Penguin Group Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: July 21, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours =================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart The story of a boy from Baltimore who evolves from a safecracking, jewel-heisting, deep-sea diving, ultimate-fighting, international playboy into a globetrotting humanitarian. Stefan Templeton was born a child of extremes. The son of Ebba, an aristocratic Norwegian love child, and Roye, a militant African American philosopher, Stefan spent his early years shuffling between the discipline of his father’s…
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Book Review: Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Media Type: Book Title: Thoughts Without Cigarettes Author: Oscar Hijuelos Publisher: Gotham Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: June 2, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————— Genre: Memoir HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an honest look at this author’s life, peppered with great stories. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N Oscar Hijuelos has enchanted readers with vibrant characters who hunger for success, love, and self-acceptance. In his first work of nonfiction, Hijuelos writes from the heart about the people and places that inspired his international bestselling novels. Born in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Hijuelos introduces…