Month: January 2012
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False Dawn by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was incredibly prolific and talented. She’s best known for her Saint-Germain vampire series, and False Dawn is one of her many standalone sci-fi novels. False Dawn takes place in a post-apocalyptic 21st century in northern California. A woman named Thea is running from a band of vagrant…
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Too Wilde to Tame by Janelle Denison
In Too Wilde to Tame, Mia Wilde lives up to her name in more ways than one. She’s sassy, she dances with strangers at clubs, and she enjoys competing in wet t-shirt contests. But don’t be fooled everyone, this is just a front. Mia is actually the kindest, sweetest, most…
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Death of a Maid by M.C. Beaton
Death of a Maid is the 22nd book in the Hamish MacBeth mystery series by M.C. Beaton. When nosy, annoying, and meddlesome maid Mrs. Gillespie becomes the victim of a violent crime in the small town of Lochdubh, constable Hamish MacBeth is assigned the case, of course. While investigating, he…
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Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood is the 1st book in the Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop. In a world with three different Realms, women rule as Queens and witches, and men are secondary in hierarchy to women. One night, a fortune teller in one of the Realms has visions of…
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The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy
The Legacy of Eden is the first novel by Nelle Davy. It’s about the legacy of a farm and estate in Iowa named Aurelia. The books opens in present day New York. Meredith Pincetti receives a letter about the estate of Aurelia farm, which was being managed by her cousin,…
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The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
The Lions of Little Rock is the 2nd book by Kristin Levine. It takes place in 1950s Arkansas, when segregation was a hot topic. It’s 1958 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Marlee is starting her 1st year of junior high. In the midst of a time when segregation is causing…
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Special Agent’s Surrender by Carla Cassidy
Special Agent’s Surrender is the 4th book in the Lawmen of Black Rock series by Carla Cassidy. But it reads fine as a standalone novel, you don’t necessarily need to read the other ones first. In Special Agent’s Surrender, on a cold, snowy winter evening, Layla West is attacked by…
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Aaron, Approximately by Zachary Lazar
Aaron, Approximately is the 1st novel by Zachary Lazar. It’s an entertaining, dark, and funny coming-of-age story about Aaron Bright—a young man who struggles with adolescence and young adulthood after he watches his father die in a freak skydiving accident. Aaron Bright often feels as if he lives in his…