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10/08/2022

of The Half of It by Juliette Fay, author . This gorgeous book publishes April 11, 2023 from William Morrow.

One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? With humor, heart, and grace, USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner, perfect for fans of Josie Silver and Jojo Moyes.

“I’m wondering if we can be friends again.”

When fifty-eight-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous, romantic night in the woods her senior year of high school with a boy named Cal Crosby. A night she would soon work hard to forget.
Forty years, one marriage, three children, and one grandbaby later, suddenly there he is—Cal (expletive) Crosby!—right in front of her with grandchildren of his own in tow. The chance to finally get some answers and sort out what happened is within reach. But Helen would much prefer to keep that night and all the fury, hurt, and sorrow that followed tightly locked away where she doesn’t have to face it.
Cal Crosby, however, is ready to talk. He has no idea of the can of worms he’s about to open. In fact, he doesn’t know the half of it.

A warm, poignant, propulsive novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and rediscovering love when you least expect it.

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22/07/2022

of Two Wars and a Wedding by Willig

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic.

September 1896: An aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into the male-dominated field of excavation. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey erupts into open warfare, Betsy rushes to the front lines as a nurse, not knowing that the decision will change her life forever—and cause a deep and painful rift with her oldest friend, Ava.

June 1898: Betsy has sworn off war nursing—but when she gets the word that her estranged friend Ava is headed to Cuba with Clara Barton and the Red Cross to patch up the wounded in the Spanish-American War, Betsy determines to stop her the only way she knows how: by joining in her place. Battling heat, disease, and her own demons, Betsy follows Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting, where she is forced to confront her greatest fears to save both old friends and new….

Based on the forgotten true stories of two remarkable women striving to make their place in a man’s world, set against two often overlooked but dramatic periods of history, Lauren Willig spins a compelling and heartwarming story about friendship, love, and fighting for what is right.

12/07/2022

July 12, 2022 Congrats to all!

08/07/2022

of The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams by the incomparable M.J. Rose Publishing February 7, 2023. M.J. has the most gorgeous book covers! I can't wait to read!

A captivating tale of two passionate women separated by decades but united by a shared vision. One, the famous jeweler Suzanne Belperron, fighting to protect her company and rescue the man she loves. The other, a young auctioneer whose exceptional gifts reveal a secret that endangers her very life.

“Only one thing saves you, and that is not losing sight of beauty.”

Paris, 1942. Suzanne Belperron is known as one of the most innovative jewelers of her time. Elsa Schiaparelli and the Duchess of Windsor are just two of her many illustrious clients. What no one knows is that Suzanne and her dear friend, American socialite Dixie Osgood, have been helping transport hundreds of Jewish families out of France since the war began. But now, the war has come to Suzanne’s front door—the N***s have arrested her business partner and longtime lover, Bernard Herz.

New York, 1986. Violine Duplessi, an appraiser for a boutique auction house, is summoned to visit the home of Paul Osgood, a scholarly lawyer and political candidate who aspires to take over the Senate seat of his recently deceased father. Paul has inherited everything inside Osgood Manor, from the eighteenth-century furniture to the nineteenth-century Limoges china. But a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk is what calls to Violine, with the surprising but undeniable thrum of energy that can only be one thing: the gift passed down to her by La Lune, the sixteenth-century courtesan.

Since childhood, Violine has been able to read an object’s history and learn the secrets of its owners by merely touching it, but she silenced her psychometry when it destroyed her last relationship. Why has it returned now?

While inspecting the trunk, she senses it holds a hidden treasure and finds a hoard of precious jewels that provoke nightmarish visions and raise a multitude of questions. Who owned these pieces? Why were they hidden inside the trunk? Were they stolen? Could their discovery derail Paul’s campaign and their burgeoning attraction to each other?

So begins a search that takes Violine to Paris to work with the Midas Society, a covert international organization whose mission is to return lost and stolen antiques, jewels, and artwork to their original owners. There, Violine will discover both her and Paul’s surprising connections to the trunk—and to Suzanne Belperron, who silently and heroically hid an amazing truth in plain sight.

Told through Violine’s first-person account and Suzanne’s diary entries, The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams is a riveting story of magick, mystery, romance, and revenge. Inspired by the real-life legend Suzanne Belperron, it marks yet another masterpiece by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author M.J. Rose.

05/07/2022

New books 7/5/22!Congrats to all!

14/06/2022

June 14, 2022 Congrats to All

Search For Treasure by and
The Hotel Nantucket by
The Beach Trap by Ali Brady -
The Bridesmaids Union by
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
How To Fake It In Hollywood by Ava Wilder
Island Time by
Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton
Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore
Can’t Look Away by Carola Lovering

03/06/2022

The Widow by ! Publishing 12/1. Thanks !

24/05/2022

5/24/22. Congrats to all!

12/05/2022

Happy birthday ! I can’t wait for everyone to read Crazy To Leave You. Out 5/24 from

10/05/2022

Pub Day 5/10/22 Congrats to all!

27/04/2022

Get your hats and sunglasses ready- The House Guest by coming in February from ! Can’t wait!

19/04/2022

of... The Real Mrs. Tobias by Sally Koslow - Author . I have long been a fan of Sally's books. I was fortunate to read an early copy of this one. Loved it! Coming September 13, 2022 from HarperCollins HarperPerennial.

A sharply funny and big-hearted multi-generational story about the deeply complicated relationships between mothers- and daughters-in-law, told through three women who marry into the same family, a treat for fans of The Nest and Fleischmann Is in Trouble.

It’s 2015 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias—Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel’s daughter-in-law Birdie—are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another.Veronika and Mel, despite having little in common, are both psychotherapists who are more skilled at helping other people than solving their own problems. Birdie, still dealing with the culture shock of moving to New York City and marrying into the Tobias clan, is pushed to her limit when her husband gets into trouble. No amount of badgering from his steely grandmother, smart-mouthed mother, or disillusioned wife can convince him to own up to what he’s done.

Overwhelmed, Birdie bolts—along with the couple’s young daughter—to her Midwestern hometown, hoping that space, warmth and wisdom from her own feisty grandmother will help her find a path forward. And though Birdie begins to find comfort in unexpected places—a local bookstore and the arms of her old boyfriend—her absence stirs up long simmering troubles back home forcing the Tobiases to reconsider their relationships to each other, and ultimately, what it means to be a family.

Will the three Tobias-women-by-marriage ever find themselves—and a way back to one another? A timely look at how women hold families together.

05/04/2022

When life is too much, by the pool soothes the soul!

01/04/2022

Happy ! So excited to read this weekend! is just what I need! Thanks and !

31/03/2022

of The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris, Author. Publishing 9/6/22 from Sourcebooks Landmark.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold On A Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path.

As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan’s Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she’s the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay.

Yet for all her planning, Fenna doesn’t foresee being called upon by British military intelligence. Tasked with designing escape aids to thwart the Germans, MI9 seeks those with specialized skills for a war nearing its breaking point. Fenna reluctantly joins the unconventional team as an inventor. But when a test of her loyalty draws her deep into the fray, she discovers no mission is more treacherous than escaping one’s past.

Inspired by stunning true accounts, The Ways We Hide is a gripping story of love and loss, the wars we fight—on the battlefields and within ourselves—and the courage found in unexpected places.

15/03/2022

Coming 9/27/22 .. Double Exposure by Jeanneé Sacken.

Double Exposure
November 2015 – Veteran war photographer Annie Hawkins returns to Afghanistan to cover the peace talks between the government and the Taliban. Annie’s lover, U.S. Naval officer Finn Cerelli, figures she’ll be safe as long as she stays in Kabul.
Unknown to Cerelli, Annie and her TNN team have a second, secret assignment that promises to be more dangerous: a meeting with regional Taliban leaders in the militants’ stronghold far from the city. To make matters worse, Annie plans to go rogue and deliver funds to rebuild the Wad Qol Secondary School for Girls that was firebombed by the Taliban during her last time in-country.

But when Annie arrives in Wad Qol, she learns that not everyone wants the girls’ school rebuilt. She also discovers that the Taliban have increased their presence in the once peaceful Panjshir Valley, and they know exactly where she is.
Readers who love Khaled Hosseini’s powerful storytelling, Pam Jenoff’s character-driven suspense, and Suzanne Brockmann’s searing romances will devour this gripping tale of an American woman’s continuing search for redemption.

About the Author
A former English professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, Jeannée Sacken is now a photojournalist who travels throughout Asia, Africa, and South America, documenting the lives of women and children. She also photographs wildlife and is deeply committed to the conservation of endangered species through enhancement of life for indigenous peoples. She’s done her share of adventure travel as well, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro, trekking the Andes, kayaking the South Atlantic, and canoeing the Zambezi River. Always her journeys include visits to schools, whether a boarding school in the Gobi Desert, a two-room building in the desert of southern Madagascar, or a stick hut in Tanzania. She believes that with education come peace, health, and empowerment. When not traveling, she lives with her husband and three cats in Shorewood, Wisconsin, where she’s hard at work on the next novel in the award-winning Annie Hawkins Green series.

03/03/2022

79 degrees meant lunch by pool with this gem by . This book is TERRIFIC! Loving it!

21/02/2022

Such colorful ! Thanks and

18/02/2022

Best ever! Young Rich Widows coming to on 4/14/22! By ! I pre-ordered!

15/02/2022

2/15/22 Congratulations to all!

14/02/2022

Happy ’s to me! Outstanding day! So exciting!

19/01/2022

So honored/blown away that dedicated Somebody’s Home to me. Wow! Great book by a great friend!

18/01/2022

Happy pub day 1/18/22!

13/01/2022

Exclusive of.. Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer. Love this cover! This novel will publish on July 26, 2022. from Berkley Publishing Group.

A psychic on the verge of stardom who isn’t sure she believes in herself and a cynical journalist with one last chance at redemption are brought together by secrets from the past that also threaten to tear them apart.

Psychic-medium Sylvie Young starts every show with her origin story, telling the audience how she discovered her abilities. But she leaves out a lot—the plane crash that killed her parents, an estranged adoptive family who tend orchards in rainy Oregon, panic attacks, and the fact that her agent insists she research some clients to ensure success.

After a catastrophic reporting error, Thomas Holmes’s next story at the L.A. Times may be his last, but he’s got a great personal pitch. “Grief vampires” like Sylvie who prey upon the loved ones of the deceased have bankrupted his mother. He’s dead set on using his last-chance article to expose Sylvie as a conniving fraud and resurrect his career.

When Sylvie and Thomas collide, a game of cat and mouse ensues, but the secrets they’re keeping from each other are nothing compared to the mysteries and lies they unearth about Sylvie’s past. Searching for the truth might destroy them both—but it’s the only way to find out what’s real.

11/01/2022

New books 1/11/22! .dev .chamberlain.author

02/01/2022

Please join me in FB Book Salon to chat with author . Her debut novel, The Lobotomist’s Wife, is an Amazon First Reads this month!

27/12/2021

Fun and day! Rose tea and The Wedding Veil by and a custom teabag and Somebody’s Home by . I love creative book swag! Two of my favorite authors!

24/12/2021

I am reading this fabulous novel right now. It is SOOO good! And anointed it with a ⭐️ on 12/24! Congrats Grant!

23/12/2021

The Lobotomist’s Wife by Coming 2/1. I’m 35% in. Brava on a spectacular debut with the BEST COVER! Thanks for introducing us!

21/12/2021