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Judith D Collins
- Feb 18
- 6 min
A Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani Narrator: Amanda Cordner ISBN: 9781250894588 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 02/21/2023 Format: Audio 🎧 e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert. When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misnamed Oasis Mobil
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Judith D Collins
- Jan 13
- 2 min
My Stepmother's Secret
An incredibly powerful and heartbreaking story about a family dilemma By: Emma Robinson ISBN: 9781837903269 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 04/03/2023 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR (ARC) APRIL 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverCrush It’s in that moment, I realise – I have nowhere to turn. If my precious daughters and I are going to have a roof over our heads, we have to return to my childhood home. The one I’ve not felt welcome in since my father died. The one where the woma
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Last Party
By: Clare Mackintosh Series: DC Morgan #1 ISBN: 9781728250960 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/08/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS It's the party to end all parties....but not everyone is here to celebrate. On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midni
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Judith D Collins
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey
By: Serena Burdick ISBN: 9780778333104 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 11/01/2022 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars ++ (ARC NOV 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2022 What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer’s block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn’s writing talent. When he commi
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Judith D Collins
- Oct 16, 2022
- 5 min
When We Had Wings
A Story of the Angels of Bataan By: Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, Susan Meissner ISBN: 9780785253143 Publisher: HarperMuse Publication Date: 10/18/2022 Format: Audiobook & e-book Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld My Rating: 4 Stars 🎧 (ARC) OCT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurs
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 19, 2022
- 6 min
The Matchmaker's Gift
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman ISBN: 978-1250278098 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places. Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a chil
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Deserve To Die
By: Miranda Rijks ASIN: B0B137R7JB Narrators: Jodie Harris, Zura Johnson Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 09/06/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars 🎧 SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Dom and Stacey have the perfect life. Until they meet Tamara. Brilliant, beautiful, she hides a horrifying secret. One that may destroy them all. Happily married with two wonderful children, Dom and Stacey are living the dream. He runs a successful design agency, she is finding fame
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 6, 2022
- 5 min
The Butcher and the Wren
By: Alaina Urquhart Narrator: Joe Knezevich, Sophie Amoss and Joe Knezevich ISBN: 9781666621716 6 Hours, 23 Minutes Publisher: Zando Publication Date: 09/13/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads Something dark is lurking in the Lou
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Pink Hotel
By: Liska Jacobs Narrator: Tavia Gilbert ISBN: 9781250856456 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Farrar Straus and Giroux Publication Date: 07/19/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 3 Stars ALC & ARC Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in the escalating tension between the wealthy guests and the staff, in Liska Jacobs's blistering, dark social satire, The Pink Hotel. Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck w
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 22, 2022
- 6 min
Carolina Built
By: Kianna Alexander ISBN: 978-1982163686 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 02/22/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST A vivid and moving novel based on the incredible life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary—a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina. Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own and a future for her family. When she moves to Ede
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Judith D Collins
- Jan 24, 2022
- 7 min
Greenwich Park
By: Katherine Faulkner ISBN: 978-1982150310 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 01/25/2021 Format: Audiobook Simon & Schuster Audio Narrated by: Laura Kirman My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEBUT NOVEL A twisty, whip-smart debut thriller, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house,
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 6, 2020
- 5 min
The Night Swim
Rachel Krall #1 By: Megan Goldin ISBN: 125021968X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/04/2020 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC)
In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the “gripping and unforgettable” (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.
After the first season of her
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