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Beach Read

"For the first time in years, I was going to write a book that absolutely no one was waiting for.  And I'd get to watch Gus Everett try to write a love story." January Andrews thought the world was full of happy endings.  Nothing could go wrong because there was always love and things would always end up perfect in the end.  Until the day that everything went wrong and her perception was shattered. Struggling to deal with her father's death and the secret affair he'd carried on for years, January finds herself broke and facing a deadline with no books.  Quickly running out of options, she moves into the beach house her father had shared with That Woman with only two things on her mind...write a book and sell the house.  It seems like a great plan until she realizes her next door neighbor is her super sexy college nemesis, Augustus Everett.  She quickly discovers that she isn't the only one with writers block and strikes up a deal with Gus.  He'll w...

Things In Jars

"But for now Bridie smokes her pipe and lets everything she knows, and doesn't know, and thinks she knows, wash over her.  The cast of this pantomime present themselves in the playhouse of her mind.  Bridie watches them file onstage." Bridie Devine isn't quite like the other ladies of Victorian London.  She spends her days solving mysteries.  Her latest mystery, the kidnapping of six-year-old Christabel Berwick, takes her on a journey through her past.  With the ghost of Ruby Doyle by her side, Bridie unearths secrets and legends to get Christabel back where she belongs. Things in Jars , by Jess Kidd, was my November Book of the Month pick and by far one of my favorite books this year!  I know...I say that all the time.  It's always true.  The world of literature never ceases to please and amaze me. Things in Jars  offers a nice little mix of history and folklore.  It's a mermaid tale like none I've read before.  And Bridie is...