Title:Who Do You Love Author:Jennifer Weiner Narrator:Sarah Steele & JD Jackson Published:August 2015, Simon & Schuster Audio Length:13 hours Source:Library Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she’s intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her…
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Title:All of Us and Everything Author:Bridget Asher Narrator:Cassandra Campbell Published:November 2015, Blackstone Audio Length:10 hours 9 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible For fans of the quirky, heartfelt fiction of Nick Hornby and Eleanor Brown comes a smart, wry, and poignant novel about reconciliation between fathers and daughters, between spouses; the deep ties between sisters; and the kind of forgiveness that can change a person’s life in unexpected and extraordinary ways.…
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Title:A Certain Age Author:Beatriz Williams Published:June 2016, William Morrow Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers, brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm. As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of…
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Title:Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War Author:Heather Webb, Jessica Brockmole, Hazel Gaynor, Evangeline Holland, Marci Jefferson, Kate Kerrigan, Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig Published:March 2016, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source:Publisher On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month . . . November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and…
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Title: First Comes Love Author: Emily Giffin Published: June 2016, Ballantine Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: BookSparks In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads. Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious relationship. Josie was…
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Title:Ink and Bone Author:Lisa Unger Published:June 2016, Touchstone Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people whom others can’t see and haunted by prophetic dreams, she has never been able to control or understand the things that happen to her. When Finley’s abilities start to become too strong for her to handle – and even the roar of her motorcycle or another dazzling…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So I really pushed myself to get in the steps this week and I took 1 really long walk and got in another 10K…all in preparation for a big walk I’ll be doing in early 2017. While I haven’t officially started training for the walk – that will start in the fall – I…
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Title:The Sweetheart Deal Author:Polly Dugan Published:May 2015, Little, Brown & Company Format:Hardcover, 320 pages The poignant story of what happens when a woman who thinks she’s lost everything has the chance to love again. Leo has long joked that, in the event of his death, he wants his best friend Garrett, a lifelong bachelor, to marry his wife, Audrey. One drunken night, he goes so far as to make Garrett…
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Title:The Island House Author:Nancy Thayer Narrator:Emily Sutton-Smith Published:May 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:10 hours 11 minutes Source:Publisher The charms of Nantucket tempt a woman to leave her established life in Kansas City—but with a piece of her heart, and a love interest, in each world, she discovers she must look within to choose the right path. Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Jenny has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I’m slowly getting back to yoga…and wow – I can definitely feel the difference of not doing it for a while. My body was tight and sore afterwards. But, since I’m awful at stretching, I feel that yoga provides a little of that through some of the poses, along with some really good strength-training. …
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Title:25 Sense Author:Lisa Henthorn Published: May 2016, Sparkpress Format:Paperback, 192 pages Claire Malone didn’t mean for this to happen when she moved to New York. She just wanted to live the city life and gain experience in television writing, her dream career. It’s not like she meant to reciprocate when her married boss, Sean Vared, sent her flirty e-mails. And you can’t blame her for coming into the office on…
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Title:Saving Abby Author:Steena Holmes Narrator:Angela Dwe Published:May 2016, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:7 hours 3 minutes / Paperback, 274 pages Source:Publisher / Booksparks All children’s book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own. Yet once they give up…
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Please join me in welcoming Judith Fertig to Always With a Book. Judith’s new book, The Memory of Lemon, is out today. I’ll be reviewing this book in the coming weeks, but for now, please enjoy this spotlight on the book along with the yummy Lemon Verbena Pound Cake recipe she has graciously shared with us! Title:The Memory of Lemon Author:Judith Fertig Published:June 2016, Berkley Format:Paperback, 304 pages The…
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Today, Field of Graves, J.T. Ellison’s latest book comes out and I am so excited!!! While I’m new to the world of J.T. Ellison, after reading her last book, No One Knows, I’m a big fan, and this new book is sort of a prequel to her Taylor Jackson series, which I’ve been wanting to start reading. You may also know J.T. Ellison from her collaboration with Catherine Coulter in…
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Title:The Girl from the Savoy Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Jennifer Jones, Lucy Rayner, Paul Fox Published:June 2016, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:14 hours 20 minutes / 448 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Paperback via Publisher Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself. Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives…
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Title:Crooked Little Lies Author:Barbara Taylor Sissel Narrator:Natalie Ross Published:December 2015, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours 24 minutes Source:Publisher On a cool October morning, Lauren Wilder is shaken when she comes close to striking Bo Laughlin with her car as he’s walking along the road’s edge. A young man well known in their small town of Hardys Walk, Texas, Bo seems fine, even if Lauren’s intuition says otherwise. Since the accident two…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About As busy as I am right now with work, making the time for my walks has really helped keep me sane and I made sure to get in those walks last week…and I was at the gym at 4:30am!!! I think those Fitbit Challenges also help to push me a little bit, too –…
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Title:Everybody Rise Author:Stephanie Clifford Published:June 2016, St. Martin’s Griffin Format: Paperback, 400 pages It’s 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class are colliding in a city that is about to go over a financial precipice and take much of the country with it. At 26, bright, funny and socially anxious Evelyn Beegan is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from…
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Title:Sunshine Beach Author:Wendy Wax Series:Ten Beach Road, #4 Published:June 2016, Berkley Format:Paperback, 432 pages In this brand-new summer read by the USA Today bestselling author of The House on Mermaid Point, three women join forces to bring a historic seaside hotel back to life… There’s nothing that a fresh coat of paint and a few glasses of wine can’t fix… After losing their life savings in a Ponzi…
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Kate Morton’s latest book, The Lake House, is now out in paperback!!! I became a fan of Kate’s books when I read The Forgotten Garden, which I absolutely loved, and while I haven’t read this one, you can be sure that I will as soon as I get the chance. Title: The Lake House Author: Kate Morton Published: June 2016, Atria Books Format: Paperback, 512 pages From the New York…
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Title:After Perfect: A Daughter’s Memoir Author:Christina McDowell Narrator:Christina McDowell Published:June 2015, Audible Studios / Gallery Books Length:9 hours 55 minutes / 224 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via Publicist In the tradition of New York Times bestsellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowell’s unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family’s destruction in the…
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Title:Liar, Liar Author:M.J. Arlidge Series:Helen Grace, #4 Published:June 2016, NAL Format:ARC E-copy, 432 pages Source:Netgalley Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll’s House… Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants…
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Title:Find Her Author:Lisa Garnder Series:Detective D.D. Warren, #8 Narrator:Kirsten Potter Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours, 16 minutes Source:Publisher Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About The month of June tends to be a busy month work-wise, so I really need to make a concerted effort to fit in my walks and yoga and/or whatever strength training I’ve decided to do for the day. It’s times like this that I’m really glad my gym opens at 4:30 am because that’s when I’ll…
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Title:One True Loves Author:Taylor Jenkins Reid Published:June 2016, Washington Square Press Format:Paperback, 352 pages From the author of Maybe in Another Life—named a People Magazine pick and a “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour and USA TODAY—comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. In…
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Title:The Obsession Author:Nora Roberts Narrator:Shannon McManus Published:April 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:14 hours 19 minutes Source:Publisher The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer…
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Here are my reading stats for May! Books read: 12 Books I read: Lost Among the Living — Simone St. James (audio book) No One Knows — J.T. Ellison The Winter Girl — Matt Marinovich (audio book) The Other Girl — Lauren Willig (audio book) Don’t You Cry — Mary Kubica Fool Me Once — Harlan Coben (audio book) The Girl in the Ice — Robert Bryndza (audio book) Saving…
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