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Letters to the End of Love by Yvette Walker

There’s somewhere, isn’t there, between the  bones and the flesh – not quite the mind, not quite the soul, where  we keep those feelings we can’t bear to have, but there we must keep  them, because they make us who we are. As the title suggests, this novel consists of a collection  of letters all

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The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

While fighting the Napoleonic wars in Spain, Nicholas Falcott,, Marquess of Blackdown, suddenly disappears from the battlefield. He wakes to find himself in a hospital in  London, in 2003. He soon discovers that he is not alone in this predicament. There are other time travellers and a governing organization called The Guild. The Guild helps

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Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

When I tell her about the expression “MILF”, she thinks it’s hilarious.  There’s no French-language equivalent.  In France, there’s no reason why a woman wouldn’t be sexy just because she happens to have children.  It’s not uncommon to hear a Frenchman say that being a mother gives a woman an appealing air of plenitude (happiness

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Hidden by Marianne Curley

This story is told from both the perspectives of Ebony, a violet eyed teenager who until recently was home schooled and has never left the valley her parents farm is located on, and Jordon, a tough kid in foster care who has had one too many things go wrong in his young life.  When these two meet

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March 4, 2013 2:31 pm
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Even the Dogs: A Novel by Jon McGregor

On a dismal winter’s day, somewhere in the midlands, the police discover a decaying corpse in a derelict apartment. This is Robert. And so begins our journey through the underbelly of lower class England. Robert is a raging alcoholic whose wife and daughter left him years ago. His apartment has become a sanctuary for a

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Skylark by Meagan Spooner

About once a year I hear about a book and for some reason I decide I most desperately have to read it and I build it up into the most awesomest book ever.  Then I read the book and am thoroughly and incredibly dissapointed with it.  Last year it was The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. 

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Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle

I had high hopes for this novel, it was Young Adult, it had time travel and Shakespeare all things that make up a “me” kind of book.  Unfortunately my high hopes were dashed and fairly early on I might add – this book was unfortunately a very light read, without much substance and the actual

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Timeless by Alexandra Monir

“Sixteen long years of unbearable waiting. I can’t do it anymore. She was supposed to return—she always did—and now I see the cruelty in this helpless waiting, living at the mercy of Time. Dragging through the days, I ask myself why I bother when I know that the one place I can find her isn’t

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Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

“Who am I?” My first spoken words. “No one,” she said. “Nosoul.” In a world of 1 million souls that have been reincarnated countless times over the span of 5000 years, on one fateful night the temple flashed dark during the birth of a baby girl.  Instead of a normal reincarnation, no one they know

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