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Book Review: A Second Bite at the Apple by Dana Bate
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: A Second Bite at the Apple Author: Dana Bate Publisher: Kensington Books Pages: ebook, 344 Release Date: November 25, 2014 Source: Publisher/Netgalley ——————————————- Genre: Adult Fiction/Women’s Fiction HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of second chance stories Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Sydney Strauss is obsessed with food. Not with eating it–though she does that too–but with writing about the wonders of the gastronomic world, from obscure fruit hybrids to organic farming techniques. Since food journalism jobs are more coveted than Cronuts®, Sydney pays her bills working for one of TV’s biggest egomaniacs–until she’s left scrambling for shifts at a local farmers’…
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Book Review: Texts From Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations With Your Favorite Literary Characters
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Texts From Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations With Your Favorite Literary Characters Author: Malory Ortberg Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Pages: Hardcover; 240 Release Date: November 4, 2014 Source: Publisher —————————————————————— Genre: Satire / Humor HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love Classics and satire! Hilariously imagined text conversations—the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange—from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O’Hara to Jessica Wakefield Mallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of hysterical text conversations from your favorite literary…
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Book Review: Dogs Don’t Look Both Ways by Jane Hanser
Media Type: Ebook Title: Dogs Don’t Look Both Ways Author: Jane Hanser Publisher: Ivy Books Pages: Ebook; 160 Release Date: March 18, 2014 Source: Author ————————————— Genre: General Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love their pets! Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes One dog, one man, two long-distance runners. However, this chocolate Labrador Retriever, America’s favorite family dog, isn’t content to wake up early and run a mere three, six or twelve miles per day with his dad.He wants more, much more. And he pushes his mom to her limit as…
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Book Review: A Kiss of Cabernet
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: A Kiss of Cabernet *Series: A Love in Wine Country Novel Author: Pamela Gibson Publisher: Entangled: Bliss Pages: Kindle; 188 Release Date: October 10, 2014 Source: Publisher ———————————————— Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love books set in wine country, and feisty characters with big hearts. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The sweetest vintage of all is the one you can’t have… Napa Valley vineyard manager Paige Reynoso is furious. After a six-year absence, her boss—big-city entrepreneur Jake Madison—has returned, only to announce…
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Book Review: Love Thy Neighbor by Sophie Wintner
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Love Thy Neighbor Author: Sophie Wintner Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck Pages: Ebook; 199 Release Date: October 27, 2014 Source: Publisher ——————————————- Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy characters that start out broken and slowly change. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes He’s designed for delicious trouble… Interior designer Nikki Norris is at the end of her rope. She’s lost her business, and her fiancé who called off their engagement. Now she’s broke and on her own, living in a loft apartment she can barely afford. But…
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Cover Reveal: Magic of the Gargoyles by Rebecca Chastain
For most of you, it’s extremely close to Friday. The weekend is almost here! Let me ease that transition a bit with a lovely cover reveal, shall I? I have to say, when I first saw this cover I had a serious case of cover love. Magic of the Gargoyles is right up my alley, and might be up yours too. I’ll be reviewing this in a few days as well, but here it is! Someone has kidnapped a nest of helpless baby gargoyles and is using them as pentagram focuses, devouring their magic—and their lives—for a horrific, illegal power boost. Swept…
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Book Review: Debt Collector Season 1 by Susan Kaye Quinn
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Debt Collector: Season 1 *Series: The Debt Collector Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 430 Release Date: December 31, 2013 Source: Purchased —————————————————– Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of Science Fiction with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes What’s your life worth on the open market? A debt collector can tell you precisely. Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He’s just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the…
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Book Review: The Demeter Code by Russell Brooks
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Demeter Code *Series: Ridley Fox/Nita Parris Spy Series #3 Author: Russell Brooks Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 422 Release Date: July 4, 2014 Source: Author —————————————————– Genre: Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of high stakes thrillers with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRACK THE CODE AND YOU’LL SAVE LIVES…BUT KNOWING IT EXISTS COULD GET YOU KILLED. When two American embassies in northern Africa are bombed, CIA operatives, Ridley Fox and Nita Parris, are assigned to track down the perpetrators. However, when their…
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Cover Reveal: GEARS OF BRASS (A Steampunk Anthology)
Gear up for GEARS OF BRASS! A world like ours, but filled with gears of brass, where the beating heart is fueled by steam and the simplest creation is a complex clockwork device. Within this tome, you’ll find steampunk fairy tale re-tellings, as well as original stories that will send your gears turning. Welcome to the steampunk realm, with eleven authors guiding your path. *** GEARS OF BRASS is a steampunk anthology published through Curiosity Quills. It will be available for purchase on November 10, 2014. Within the pages, you’ll come across clockwork inventions and steampunk-ified fairy tale retellings. Eleven…
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Book Review: The Betrayed (Krewe of Hunters #14) by Heather Graham
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Betrayed *Series: Krewe of Hunters #14 Author: Heather Graham Publisher: Harlequin MIRA Pages: MMP; 368 Release Date: September 30, 2014 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ———————————————- Genre: Romantic Suspense / Thriller HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series, although this can be read as a standalone as well. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Sleepy Hollow isn’t so sleepy anymore… One night, New York FBI agent Aiden Mahoney receives a visitor in a dream—an old friend named Richard Highsmith. The very next day he’s sent to…