Author: BookBug
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The Battered Heiress Blues has already been optioned for a feature film. This is a book that will be great as a movie, maybe even better. It all depends on which angles of the story are played up. The title of the book is very appropriate. The book is about a woman’s blues, and by…
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The Defiant Governess defied my expectations and turned out to be so much more than expected. Andrea Pickens has written an absorbing, fun story that will please romance fans. Lady Jane is a force to reckon with. Motherless since a young age, she has been raised by a doting father and loving Nanny. Her comrade…
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Bella Andre’s The Way You Look Tonight introduces us to the Sullivans, a lively Seattle family with prodigal children. Debbie Macomber has made the Pacific Northwest famous with her Cedar Cove series, and after feasting on Hallmark channel’s Cedar Cove last Fall, it is easier to imagine the exotic locale that is the setting of…
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By The Sea is the story of Tess, a young Irish immigrant girl who is transported to the wealthy and opulent life of Newport in the 1890s in the lowest possible station, that of a laundry maid. Antoinette Stockenberg seems to have a thing for seaside towns. A Charmed Place was all about three friends…
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No Place for a Lady is set in remote Colorado, or the Wild West, as suggested by its subtitle Heart of the West. Maggie Brendan tells us the story of a Georgian southern belle who falls on hard times and answers her aunt’s invitation to visit her in Colorado. As events spiral out of control,…
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Country Loving has a lot of country in it, to be precise, a Devon farm in the small town of Talyton St. George. And different kinds of love – unrequited love felt by a doting boyfriend, the dutiful love a daughter feels for her sick estranged father, love between a young girl and the man…
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A Grosvenor Square Christmas by Shana Galen, Vanessa Kelly, Anna Campbell and Kate Noble is an anthology of four short stories centered around a single address, Number 3 Grosvenor Square. The house is famous for its annual Christmas ball where some sort of magic always happens, nudged along by Lady Winterson and her loyal butler. Read a…
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Lost in a Royal Kiss by Vanessa Kelly has a lot of kisses, but I couldn’t see what was royal about them. A short novella, this is a perfect feel good story for bed time. Read a Sample The story begins in the eighteenth century, 1786 to be precise. Sir Anthony Tait works in the…
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I read a print copy of The Book Thief a while ago. Quite a heavy book with illustrations and poems, I almost did not read it. Almost! The narrator of the book is Death, and the beginning seemed very morbid to me. The thought of Death sucking my soul like a Dementor, holding me in…
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Susanna and the Spy is an engaging historical novel that combines two of my favorite themes – mystery and romance. Like my recent favorite The Secret Life of Miss Anna Marsh, this book is thrilling and comforting at the same time, with just enough suspense to keep you from dozing off into dreamland. Read a…