Library Haul This Week...I Went Aground!

 I know, right?  That Nalini Singh book "Tangle of Need" just leaps off the picture!  I became a fan of hers when I was thrust into reading a copy of one of her books a couple of years ago on Netgalley, I think.  She is, (and I quote Booklist here) "The alpha author of paranormal romance."  Her men are to DIE for and I'm really not even into the whole thing, believe me.So, when I was perusing the new books in fiction...

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WINNERS! January Giveaways..

  It's time to announce the winners of our January Giveaways. Here they are!  "The Forgotten Queen"   Lara "A Thing Done"  Cyn "Alaina Claiborne"  Rhonda     "This Cake Is For The Party"  Suzie    Thanks to everyone who entered, and to the winners for the month. Stay tuned for more giveaways in the month of February! And thanks so much...

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"Burning Embers" by Hannah Fielding ~ Hot & Sultry!

 SUMMARY : Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naïve twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. She's leaving the life she's known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritance--the plantation that was her childhood home--Mpingo. On the voyage from England, Coral meets an enigmatic stranger to whom she has a mystifying attraction. She sees him again days later on the beach near Mpingo, but Coral's childhood...

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"Blackberry Winter" by Sarah Jio ~ Won't Disappoint Her Fans!

/  SUMMARY: In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter--taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs to work the...

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Oh, Mr. Darcy!! 200th Anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice"

 Please tune in here for a play list of the following book whose 200th Anniversary it is today....and tonight.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/pride-and-prejudice-the-p_n_2566724.htmlThanks to Huffington Post!Enjoy...  :]             Oh, Mr. Darcy....  sigh....  Go to Alyssa Goodnight's blog for more exciting blog stops on her Anniversary...

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"The Painted Girls" by Cathy Marie Buchanan

 SUMMARY :A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris.1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week,...

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Book Haul of the Week! And my new iPad...

 This was a busy week of buying for me.  I was searching the web for books and adding to my new iPad!!  I had the book bug, for sure.  Some books are still on the way, and I look forward to sharing some new audiobooks I've been reviewing this week, as well. Let me tell you I have been putting off purchasing an iPad for a couple of years.  See my new one in the red cover on the right above.  The last time I bought...

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"Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith ~ Stunning Thriller!

 SUMMARY : In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent. Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and...

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Giveaway!! "The Forgotten Queen" by D.L. Bogdan~Scotland's Queen

 SUMMARY: From her earliest days, Margaret Tudor knows she will not have the luxury of choosing a husband. Her duty is to gain alliances for England. Barely out of girlhood, Margaret is married by proxy to James IV and travels to Edinburgh to become Queen of Scotland.Despite her doubts, Margaret falls under the spell of her adopted home. But while Jamie is an affectionate husband, he is not a faithful one. And nothing can guarantee Margaret’s...

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