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Do you enjoy short fiction? If you’re not sure, you may find this is the perfect place to dip into a new experience! Krys Lee’s Drifting House is a collection of short stories set in both Korea and the US; her work “explores love, identity, war, and the homes we make for ourselves.” The publisher is offering a [...] Did you enter to win Taylor M. Polites’ The Rebel Wife? Click over to this post on my Giveaways page to see if you’re one of the three lucky winners!
Hee-hee, no, this isn’t an instruction manual, it’s a wonderful novel set in Reconstruction Alabama. The “rebel wife” is Augusta “Gus” Branson, who proves herself to be a strong heroine who shatters many of the long-standing myths about the South. To read more about the novel and the author, and to enter to win a copy [...] I hope you enjoyed reading snippets of Anna Lefler’s very funny lexicon for the contemporary woman, The CHICK-tionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know. If you entered the giveaway for a copy of the book, head over to this post on my Giveaways page, to see if you’re the winner. Thanks to Adams Media [...] Anna Lefler is funny! I enjoy reading her blog, Life Just Keeps Getting Weirder, and follow her updates on twitter. For those who can’t get enough of her wry writing, her tongue-in-cheek The CHICKtionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the Words Every Woman Should Know will keep you and your girlfriends smiling. Pop over to this post on [...] Did Erin Blakemore’s guest post catch your eye the other day? The Spotlight on Bookstores post about Black & Read bookshop and “the dusty joy of discovery” she finds there? You have the opportunity to read more of Erin’s writing – and to discover some literary heroine’s (and for those you’ve already discovered, to nod your [...] Aw, she’s adorable, isn’t she? Meet Traffy, who forever changed the lives of Megan and Ian Rix when she came into their lives on Christmas Day. This is a “heartwarming true story of loss, love, and the real meaning of family.” To read more about the memoir, and to enter to win a copy of The Puppy That [...] Did you enter to win Sarah Bird’s The Gap Year – a novel about a mother and navigating that last contentious year of high school (and all the pre-college woes that accompany it)? If so, click over to this post on my Giveaways page, where I’ve announced the winner. Did you read Sarah Bird’s wonderful Spotlight on Bookstores post about BookPeople in Austin, Texas? If you did, you got a taste of her fun writing style – her great ability to tell a story while making the reader part of the action.
I love a novel that takes me away to another time, another place … a novel that teaches me not only about a culture that is different from my own, but one that shows a similarity between the cultures. Samuel Park’s novel, This Burns My Heart, is an epic love story that takes place in postwar [...] |
 
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