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Jane Austen, Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley
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Miss Truelove Beckons is here!
As promised, in time for Valentine’s Day, here is Miss Truelove Beckons:
When Truelove Becket���s betrothed went missing in a naval battle, she vowed never to marry unless she found someone she loved as much. In the seven years since then, the quiet vicar���s daughter has lived a simple and contented life helping the poor people of he
r village. But now another man has asked for her hand in marriage
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Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries, #1)
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Revenge of the Barbary Ghost (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries, #2)
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2009
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Curse of the Gypsy (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries #3)
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Lord St. Claire's Angel
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1999
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The Viscount's Valentine
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Awaiting the Moon
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2006
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A Rogue's Rescue
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2002
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A Scandalous Plan
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2003
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The Debutante's Dilemma (Classic Regency Romances Book 16)
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2003
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The Last Days of a Rake
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2010
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Ken Follett is always reliable and I have loved his Pillars of the Earth series. Circle of Days was enjoyable, if pedestrian. I enjoyed reading it, but it wasn't so compelling that it kept me from other things. I did enjoy the historical aspects of it ...more |
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"I truly don't know where to begin with this one. Kin feels like going home with a camera and a mirror. Rodenberg definitely has a great combination of intimacy and distance to paint this story with painful, loving honesty.
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"This book is a beautiful portrayal of the struggle to find oneself in a world that thinks it already knows who you are. Shawna Rodenberg is not just a survivor, she’s a fighter and a rebel, and she rebels by loving a universe that isn’t always kind."
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First up a confession: I've never read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. I've read ABOUT it, with all of its strengths and limitations. I will probably read it at some point. But for all I've read about it, Kin feels like it would be the female antidote, ...more |
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To be honest, I have avoided James Joyce for a long time because his work has a reputation for being difficult. I know that I have read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but that was back in the mists of time when I was doing university. So I a ...more |
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“one should never miss any opportunity to combine kindness with friendship.”
― Revenge of the Barbary Ghost
― Revenge of the Barbary Ghost
“up and she fell instantly silent. St. Claire glanced from Elizabeth’s frosty glare to August’s troubled gaze. He felt Celestine’s”
― Lord St. Claire's Angel
― Lord St. Claire's Angel
“Love without honesty must be a hollow thing, worth little and easily shaken.”
― Curse of the Gypsy
― Curse of the Gypsy
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“And now here beside this gray churning river I should have been the one who got shot, but there I still stood, and still I wanted life.”
― Underground Airlines
― Underground Airlines
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Aug 14, 2012 12:24PM
Hi, Donna, Great to know you. Thanks.
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