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Death Warden: Grave Spirits MC Debbie Cassidy Publication date: May 27th 2022 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Reverse Harem, Romance Death waits for no one, unless you’re a necromancer, in which case he might stop for a cup of tea and a chat. I didn’t ask to be a necromancer, and I certainly didn’t ask to be saddled with a magical amulet holding an ancient big bad at bay. I got both. All I want to do is steer clear of trouble, write horror novels, and hang with my talking cat. But the spell on my amulet is weakening, and the only way to sustain it is to pick up and go to Frostgate—a city built on a powerful convergence of ley lines. The plan is to lay low and wait for a revelation that’ll lead me to my conduit, my perfect match, to help me to sustain the spell on the lock. But there is no laying low at Grave Spirits MC. No avoiding the burning stares of the hellhound Vice President, the icy cool assessment of the undead Sergeant at Arms, or the warm amber gaze of the hellhound...

  Publication Date:  January 29, 2019 Format:  paperback Genre:   AA Satire Fiction Publisher:  One World Length:  323  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis “ You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before. ” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it. In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a bir...

Dark Blue Waves Kimberly Sullivan Publication date: May 27th 2022 Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance, Time-Travel, Women’s Fiction When you wake up in Bath, England two hundred years in the past, how far can a love of Jane Austen get you? Janet Roberts dreams of an academic career in literature, so she can hardly believe her good fortune when she’s accepted into a Jane Austen graduate seminar in Bath, England. Settled in Georgian splendor among her seminar colleagues, Janet and her classmates live, eat and breathe Jane Austen. An accident interrupts this idyll when Janet regains consciousness in her own room—back in Regency England. For a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, this should be a dream come true. But Janet quickly learns there’s a world of difference between scholarly knowledge of the written page and maneuvering real life as a reluctant time traveler. Her burgeoning friendship with Emma Huntington eases her entrée into nineteenth-century society. However, ...

I found more great gifts on Etsy! I love Etsy for unique gifts.   1.   Intuitively Chosen Tarot Card Bookmarks, gifts for book lovers, holographic with tassels, tarot reading, bookish gifts, Mother’s Day gift  - If you have a love of the spiritual and are a book junkie like me these may peak your interest.  I haven't been buying bookmarks because I mostly read on kindle but my wife has started up my book buying habit again so not I'm in the market for some neat bookmarks.  2. Library Card Pillows - these are small but so damn cute I may need to buy a few - I received a bed pillowcase like this and its one of my favorites but I can't find any others so I may have to go with these.  3. African American Women Book Marks - I love these as most book marks feature white people or animals these have great quotes and are beautiful!  4. Book Hangover Mug - Who doesn't enjoy a good cuppa while reading...and these mugs come in the perfect sizes...I will b...

  Publication Date:  March 22, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   MM Romance Publisher:  Wild One Press Length:  385 pages Buy:    Kindle | Paperback  Synopsis Sometimes love is where you least expect it, and sometimes it's right where you left it . Widower, Max Hartwell, is barely keeping it together, being a single dad, managing his law firm, and navigating life's chaos. Life after loss is too difficult for surprises, which is why Max would be lost without his reliable best friend and neighbor, Jack. Best pitcher in the MLB, Jack Spears, is at the top of his game. He has it all, except for the one thing he wants most, which happens to be the one thing he can't have if he doesn't want his private life to overshadow his career - love. Whe...

  Publication Date:  June 5, 2018 Format:  paperback Genre:   Native American Lit Publisher:  Vintage Length:  292  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Kindle Synopsis Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.  Hailed as an instant classic,...

The Archer Brothers Series Heidi McLaughlin Publication date: May 20th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance The Archer Brothers Here with Me A mission gone wrong Choose Me Brothers torn apart Save Me A race against time Here with Us A new beginning Choose Us A life changing decision Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: (Here with Me) “EVAN, I THINK WE’RE finished for today.” My head lifts quickly as I meet her gaze. There is a look of pity masking her smile. She can pity me. It’s understandable. If I were in her shoes I’d pity the person I am right now. I chance a look at the clock and see that I still have a few more minutes. Maybe she feels how broken I am and needs time to regroup or find someone else to fix me. “Okay,” I say hesitantly. I’m not sure I want to go through this again with another doctor, and definitely not a military one. The doc folds the page of her notepad over and slides it into her ...

  Publication Date:  April 29, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  David Ledoux Publisher:  Harper Audio Length:  35 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes  The Bone Tree Mississippi Blood —an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.  Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American ...

Midnight Blaze Anya Summers (Dungeon Singles Night, #8) Publication date: July 26th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance All she wants is to help her best friend. Tessa’s bestie has been dying for a night of ecstasy with a certain sexy doctor at The Eros Pit. When Tessa winds up with the doctor’s marker at the singles night event, she swaps. There’s no harm in it, not when she knows her best friend will get to have the night of her dreams. Except Tessa ends up with a Dom she wants nothing to do with – Cooper Livingstone. Danger surrounds him. The sexy alpha is a total badass, fighting wildfires on the front range. He’s potent. Makes her body come alive in ways she has never experienced before. It worries her how much she craves his wicked brand of lovemaking after a single night. Cooper lives and breathes his daredevil lifestyle. For him, there is nothing like coming up against Mother Nature’s wrath – that is, until Tessa winds up in his bed. Underneath her serene façad...

Publication Date:  May 4, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Sci Fi Narrators:  Ray Porter Publisher:  Audible Studios Length:  16 hours 10 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts...

  Publication Date:  January 29, 2013 Format:  paperback Genre:   Womens Fiction  Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:  480  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of  Afterlife , has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite author...

The Irish Wanders Shannon O’Gorman (Rose Hawthorne, #2) Publication date: March 16th 2022 Genres: Adult, Cozy Mystery Rose Hawthorne is a celebrity author in her early seventies, who dislikes the spotlight but has a penchant for Hermes scarfs, round violet sunglasses, and old colonial hotels. One day, she receives a strange letter asking her to visit Newgrange, Ireland and look for something that has been hidden there for a thousand years. She asks her granddaughter to accompany her, but she hadn’t expected Samantha to continually be posting photos of their progress on her Instagram account. An encounter with an old love and an unexpected discovery leads Rose further and further into the past, and she finds must make a hard decision about her future. Don’t miss this second book in the Rose Hawthorne series! Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: She linked her arm around his as they walked, a natural move. She was allowed to do it. It felt right. Rose was drawn towards Bill. H...

Publication Date:  March 2, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dystopian Fiction Publisher:  Vintage Length:  418  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Audiobook  Synopsis Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.  Klara and the Sun  is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? Review:  I completely understand the ...

If you are like me you love to wander through bookstores. I love the smell of new and old books.  Wandering through unique bookstores is a passion.  Even when I travel and may not speak the language I still find myself wandering into bookstores despite not being able to read anything in the store. I found this great list of unique book stores that may help you find something new in your area.  While doing even more perusing I found this list as well and have already made my new trip list to some of these! Have you been to any of these? 

Sirens and Leviathans C.D. Britt (The Reign of Goddesses, #2) Publication date: May 10th 2022 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy Goddess of the sea Head of the Zephyr Maritime Administration. Spymaster. Amphitrite has always lived in the shadows of her sisters, but the shadows are where she does her best work. Living two lives was always easy enough for the Goddess; from being a pirate ship captain chasing secrets instead of gold to an upstanding government official. She has worked alongside her spies and sirens for centuries, guarding both the sea and Halcyon. But a war has started against the Titans, and the darkness taking over the sea is now more than she can handle alone. West Murphy has been the golden heir all his life, making selfish choices and surrounding himself with disposable people. That was until the night an act of violence forever changed his life. Now, feeling betrayed by everyone he knows, he considers himself a hollow shell of a man with no true purpose. Unt...

Publication Date:  February 22, 2019 Format:  paperback Genre:   Crime Fiction Publisher:  Our Noir Publishing Length:  401  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis DIG UP THE PAST. PAY THE PRICE. For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean's daughter Amy, only five at the time, has been plagued by dream-like memories of a violent killing, and it is assumed that the murder she has seen is her mother's. But as Amy's veracity as a witness is put to the test, Louis and Joe realize that the details of her vision...

Publication Date:  January 29, 2013 Format:  paperback Genre:   Womens Fiction  Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:  480  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis When a tabloid exposes her personal life, a bestselling author reconnects with a man from her past to unearth the secrets behind her sister's murder. Bellamy Lyston was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's most devastating moments. Now, eighteen years later, Bellamy has written a sensational bestselling novel based on Susan's murder, ...