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Book Review: Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
Where to start? Dade presents a romance novel based on GoT fanfic that should have stayed on the AO3 platform. That being said, Spoiler Alert is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by Isabelle Rutther,… Continue reading
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Book Review: Lost Roses Lilac Girls #2 by Martha Hall Kelly
Kelly’s prequel to Lilac Girls tells the story of Eliza Ferriday, a New York socialite travelling to St. Petersburg with her friend Sofya, when she becomes aware that war is imminent and returns to the States, but feels guilty to leave her friend and her family behind. Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanov reigning… Continue reading
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Book Review: Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
Grunwald brings the magical element of Stonehenge to New York’s Grand Central Station in the Manhattanhenge phenomenon when the sunrise or sunset perfectly aligns with the east-west streets of Manhattan, creating a stunning visual effect as the sun peeks between the skyscrapers, an event occurring twice a year, close to the winter and summer solstices.… Continue reading
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Book Review: Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
Winters brings together all the famous rom-com tropes into this quirky read, available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook is read by Laura Hobson, who delivers smooth narration throughout; however, her attempt to differentiate the voices to individualize the characters is somewhat lacking.… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Summer Deal Wildstone #5 by Jill Shalvis
The Summer Deal, book five in Shalvis Wildstone’s series, can be read as a standalone and is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook, at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook narrated by Erin Mallon is fantastic as she smoothly transitions between all the characters flawlessly. In this easy Continue reading
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Book Review: Liliac Girls Woosley-Ferriday #1 by Martha Hall Kelly
Kelly’s debut novel, published April 5, 2016, is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or audiobook formats, at your local library, or through the Libby App. The structure of the book is triple points of view alternating between the three main characters: Continue reading
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Book Review: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
Fortune brings a fun summer read that will appeal to fans of Christina Lauren or Abby Jimenez. Fortune’s latest book, This Summer Will Be Different, published May 7, 2024, is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated… Continue reading
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Book Review: Three Sisters by Heater Morris
Three Sisters, the last in the Tattooist of Auschwitz series, was published on October 5, 2021, and is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by Finty Williams, who mimics Morris’ clinical writing style in her narration,… Continue reading
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Book Review: Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
In Morris’s follow-up novel of the The Tattoosist of Auschwitz she makes it clear that while the story is based on actual events in Cecília Kováčová ‘Cilka Klein’ life, it still a novel of fiction weaving together facts and reportage with experiences of women survivors of the Holocaust and the experiences of women sent to… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Morris’s debut as an author provides readers with the memoir of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew forcibly transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1942, and how his perseverance kept him and others alive during the atrocities and horrors surrounding them. The book is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as… Continue reading
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