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Name of Book: Gold Digger Author: Rebecca Rosenberg ISBN:  B07P6VXF97 Publisher:   Lion Heart Publishing Part of a Series: Silver Dollar will be sequel Type of book: 1880s, Colorado, silver mining, wealth, love, money, reputation, moving, gold, greed, community, building Year it was published: 2019 Summary: One look at Baby Doe and you know she was meant to be a legend! She was just twenty years old when she came to Colorado to work a gold mine with her new husband. Little did she expect that she’d be abandoned and pregnant and left to manage the gold mine alone. But that didn’t stop her! She moved to Leadville and fell in love with a married prospector, twice her age. Horace Tabor struck the biggest silver vein in history, divorced his wife and married Baby Doe. Though his new wife was known for her beauty, her fashion, and even her philanthropy, she was never welcomed in polite society. Discover how the Tabors navigated the worlds of wealth, pow...

Name of Book: Winter Frost Author: Lauren Carr ISBN:  B07LF7TJ85 Publisher: Acorn Books Part of a Series: Chris Matheson Series Type of book: Crime, cold case, Washington, crossover to other series, mystery, thriller, government, CIA, FBI, secrets, secret files Year it was published: 2019 Summary: It all started with a chance encounter in the city with Blair, his late wife. Chris Matheson and the Geezer Squad, working under the guise of a book club, dig into the events surrounding his late wife’s supposed death halfway around the globe. A state department employee shoots himself in the back three times. A CIA operative goes missing. A woman is targeted by an international assassin three years after being declared dead in a terrorist attack overseas. Nothing is as it seems. In his most personal cold case, Chris fights to uncover why the state department told him that Blair, the mother of his children, had been killed when she was alive. What had she unc...

Name of Book: The Southern Side of Paradise Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey ISBN: 978-1-9821-1662-0 Publisher: Gallery Part of a Series: Peachtree Bluffs Trilogy Type of book: Georgia, Peachtree Bluffs, sisterhood, motherhood, secrets, family, friends, unexpected changes, love, dreams vs desire, marriage, happiness Year it was published: 2019 Summary: From internationally bestselling author and “rising star of Southern fiction” (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author) Kristy Woodson Harvey comes the third novel in her Peachtree Bluff series, in which a secret threatens the tight-knit bond between a trio of sisters and their mother. With the man of her dreams back in her life and all three of her daughters happy, Ansley Murphy should be content. But she can’t help but feel like it’s all a little too good to be true. Meanwhile, youngest daughter and actress Emerson, who is recently engaged and has just landed the role of a lifetime, seemingly has the...

Name of Book: The Girls Author: Emma Cline ISBN: 978-0-8129-9860-3 Publisher: Random House Book Type of book: California, 1960s, teenage angst, looking for love in the wrong places, cult, crime, murder, life, control Year it was published: 2016 Summary: Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does no...

Name of Book: What We Do For Love Author: Anne Pfeffer ISBN: 978-1-7338220-0-8 Publisher: Self published Type of book: California, teenage pregnancy, reliance, art, money, day by day, modern day Year it was published: 2019 Summary: "If Lorelai Gilmore of Gilmore Girls was dropped into a thriller, it might resemble this appealing novel." --Kirkus Reviews Winner of Chick Lit category -- 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Thirty-eight-year-old Nicole has given up on finding love. The single mother prefers to focus on a few things that she cherishes--her sixteen-year-old son Justin, her friends, and her art. When she convinces a major museum to show a piece of her work, and she thinks her career has finally turned a corner, her son brings home a girl, Daniela, to spend the night. Daniela's parents have thrown her out of the house: she is pregnant with Justin's child. Shattered, Nicole feels she has no choice but to take the girl in. She find...

Name of Book: The Carrion BIrds Author: Urban Waite ISBN: 978-0-06-221688-5 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: 1990s, New Mexico, pointless, violent, bloodbath, mystery, cartel, drugs, family, chase, action Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Set in a small town in the Southwest, a soulful work of literary noir rife with violence, vengeance, and contrition from a fresh voice in fiction-the author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living Life hasn't worked out the way Ray Lamar planned. A widower and father who has made some tragic mistakes, he's got one good thing going for him: he's calm, cool, and efficient under pressure, usually with a gun in his hand. A useful skill to have when you're paid to hurt people who stand in your boss's way. But Ray isn't sure he wants to be that man anymore. He wants to go home to Coronado, New Mexico, to see the twelve-year-old son he hopes will recognize him. He wants to make a new life far from...

Name of Book: Vintage 1954 Author: Antoine Laurain ISBN: 9781910477670 Publisher: Gallic Type of book: 2017, 1954, relatives, France, 1954 France versus 2017 France, nostalgia, finances, humor, time travel, aliens, wines, mixology, romance Year it was published: 2019 Summary: 'The very quintessence of French romance...' The Times When Hubert Larnaudie invites some fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink an exceptional bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The following morning, Hubert finds himself waking up in 1950s Paris, as do antique restorer Magalie, mixologist Julien, and Airbnb tenant Bob from Milwaukee, who's on his first trip to Europe. After their initial shock, the city of Edith Piaf and An American in Paris begins to work its charm on them. The four delight in getting to know the French capital during this iconic period, whilst also playing with the possibilities that time travel allo...

To be honest, I feel as if I am still coping with a few things that went wrong in my life. I also am beginning to think that it might be time to become a bit more involved in my dream projects: travel through 50 states and time travel, which might happen. Wish me luck. Book Tours/Spotlights:  What we do for love by Anne Pfeffer (June 6th, 2019) The Revolutionist by Robert Tucker (June 10th, 2019) Winter Frost by Lauren Carr (June 11th, 2019) Burton Blake by Robert Tucker (June 20th, 2019) Eternally Artemsia by Melissa Muldoon (June 25th, 2019) Possible Reviews: Alice and Gerald; A Homicidal Love Story by Ron Franscell The Carrion Birds by Urban Waite The Girls by Emma Cline Wunderland by Jennifer Cody Epstein The Southern Side of Paradise by Kristy Woodson Harvey Promised Land by Martin Fletcher The Exile by Gregory Erich Phillips Planned Reads: The Shame Factor; Heal Your Deepest Fears and Set Yourself Free by Stephan...

The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani SR: June 5th, 2019 FR: A House Divided-Pearl S Buck SR: March 11th, 2016 FR: N/A The Summer of Ellen- Agnete Friis SR: May 21st, 2019 FR: June 21st, 2019 All the Winding World-Kate Innes SR: May 29th, 2019 FR: June 21st, 2019 Eternally Artemisia-Melissa Muldoon SR: May 30th, 2019 FR: What we do for love-Anne Pfeffer SR: May 21st, 2019 FR: June 5th, 2019 Milady-Laura L Sullivan SR: July 1st, 2019 FR: The Revolutionist- Robert Tucker SR: May 21st, 2019 FR: June 28th, 2019 Burton Blake-Robert Tucker SR: July 1st, 2019 FR: Nonfiction: Tree of Souls-Howard Schwartz SR: February 10th, 2014 FR: N/A The Shame Factor; Heal your deepest fears and set yourself free-Stephan B. Poulter, PhD SR: July 1st, 2019 FR: