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BOOK REVIEW: The Injustice of Valor by  Gary Corbin

BOOK REVIEW: The Injustice of Valor by Gary Corbin

Valorie (Val) Dawes, a rookie cop, has been on duty less than two years and has already fired her weapon multiple times—with two fatalities. As a rookie, she faces the usual harassment of any younger cop by older policemen as well as the rampant sexism in her...

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BOOK REVIEW: The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley

BOOK REVIEW: The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley

In The Shadowy Horses, author Kearsley weaves together past and present in a dark gothic mystery. Archaeologist Verity Grey is in Scotland for a job interview and ends up staying, though her boss—Peter Quinnell, an infamous archaeologist—is eccentric, if not crazy,...

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BOOK REVIEW: Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

BOOK REVIEW: Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

Helena Echlin’s Clever Little Thing is a devourable psychological thriller full of plot twist after plot twist, lie after lie. Echlin keeps the tension up through tight prose that reveal the main character, Charlotte’s, state of mind, a woman walking on the edge yet...

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BOOK REVIEW: Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum

BOOK REVIEW: Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum

I recently read The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, a nonfiction book that deals with with America’s part in the race towards atomic weaponry across the US and Europe but doesn’t handle the human...

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BOOK REVIEW: In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani

BOOK REVIEW: In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani

In the Country of Others is about Mathilde, a young Catholic French woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Muslim Moroccan soldier who is fighting in France during World War II. She moves to Morocco when he is released from his military service. Briefly they live...

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New Artsy Bookish Giveaway – With $10 Amazon Gift Card

New Artsy Bookish Giveaway – With $10 Amazon Gift Card

I had so much fun doing a big, beautiful, artsy bookish giveaway haul last month, I've decided to do it again! This time, I'm upping the ante by including a $10 Amazon gift card in one of the prize combos. It's only on for eight days, so enter while you can... Good...

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BOOK REVIEW: The Injustice of Valor by  Gary Corbin

BOOK REVIEW: The Injustice of Valor by Gary Corbin

Valorie (Val) Dawes, a rookie cop, has been on duty less than two years and has already fired her weapon multiple times—with two fatalities. As a rookie, she faces the usual harassment of any younger cop by older policemen as well as the rampant sexism in her...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley

BOOK REVIEW: The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley

In The Shadowy Horses, author Kearsley weaves together past and present in a dark gothic mystery. Archaeologist Verity Grey is in Scotland for a job interview and ends up staying, though her boss—Peter Quinnell, an infamous archaeologist—is eccentric, if not crazy,...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

BOOK REVIEW: Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

Helena Echlin’s Clever Little Thing is a devourable psychological thriller full of plot twist after plot twist, lie after lie. Echlin keeps the tension up through tight prose that reveal the main character, Charlotte’s, state of mind, a woman walking on the edge yet...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum

BOOK REVIEW: Tangles by Kay Smith-Blum

I recently read The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, a nonfiction book that deals with with America’s part in the race towards atomic weaponry across the US and Europe but doesn’t handle the human...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani

BOOK REVIEW: In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani

In the Country of Others is about Mathilde, a young Catholic French woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Muslim Moroccan soldier who is fighting in France during World War II. She moves to Morocco when he is released from his military service. Briefly they live...

read more

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