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    Summer's List

    July 14, 2015 - By 

    Summer’s List by Anita Higman Moody Publishers River North ISBN 9780802412324 Women’s Fiction, Romance   Description and background Life hasn’t been easy for Summer Snow. She spent what should have been her carefree 20s selflessly caring for her ailing parents and denied herself the dream in her heart to run her grandmother’s bookstore. If you asked her, she would say she’s mostly happy — but she knows she’s missing something — and her grandmother’s love doesn’t fill that aching part of her heart that longs for love and romance. Now that she’s broken off her engagement with a rising politician, Summer…

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    Mama's Boy : Currently Reading

    July 10, 2015 - By 

    Mama’s Boy ReShonda Tate Billingsley Gallery Books July 7, 2015 Book Description When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s powerful family drama MAMA’S BOY—a novel as timely as today’s headlines. The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core: a white police officer is fatally shot in a scuffle with three black youths—and a cellphone video captures Jamal Jones, the sixteen-year-old son of esteemed Reverend Elton Jones, escalating the tragic encounter. Now, as the national spotlight shines on a town already rife with racial tension,…

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    Nightlife Series: Currently Reading

    May 5, 2015 - By 

    Not the usual genre I read but enjoyable all the same – the Nightlife Series : NIGHTLIFE: NIGHT TERRORS “Thrilling, edgy, and scary as hell, Nightlife is an outstanding debut and––along with Justin Cronin’s The Passage and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels––it’s also one of the most original takes on the vampire novel I’ve ever read.” —Jason Starr, Bestselling Author of The Pack Matthew Quinn Martin first terrified horror fans with NIGHTLIFE (Pocket Star EBooks; October 2013; $5.99), the captivating story of two unlikely monster hunters determined to save the city of New Harbor from the Night Angels—bloodthirsty creatures that feed…