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When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (November 3, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-0451227980
Back-of-the-book blurb: Police officer Jessica Villareal has always played by the book and tried to do the right thing. But now, she finds herself approaching midlife divorced, estranged from her daughter, alone, and unhappy. And she’s wondering if she ever made a [...]
Congrats to commenter #30, Marie, who is the winner of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge.
For this giveaway I asked you to tell me what you like to order at a coffee shop; Marie’s answer:
I don’t get to the coffee shop very often but when I do I look [...]
Being a collector of trivia and the minutia of details that might not interest everyone, I began taking note when I noticed books and book discussion groups were being mentioned more and more in some of the popular fiction I’ve read over the past six months or so.
What does it mean? Does it set a [...]
Hey, it’s January 5 … do you know what that means?! My kids are back in school after almost two weeks off for winter break! If you hear a happy roar coming from New England, it’s only me kicking up my heels
It also means all kinds of New Year’s resolutions (I didn’t make [...]
I am so pleased that Jennie Shortridge offered to write a guest post for She is Too Fond of Books! I reviewed Jennie’s most recent novel, Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe here. In this essay, she tells about the powerful message that women readers can send to publishers. Jennie shares some [...]
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (May 6, 2008 )
ISBN-13: 978-0451223883
Back-of-the-book-blurb: When she learns that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino’s perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She [...]
Raise your hand if you’re swearing off the rest of the Halloween candy starting this morning! I’m sending bags of it into the office with my husband (OK, there’s a small stash I’m stowing in our storage freezer … don’t tell the kids!). My healthy attitude will get a boost this morning because I’ll be [...]
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