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ARC Book Review | What Could Be Saved by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz

Title: What Could Be SavedAuthor: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Genre: Literary, Historical FictionPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Atria BooksSource: digitalPages: 460 Synopsis: An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC, in 2019 about an expatriate child who goes missing, whose family is contacted decades later by a man claiming to be the vanished …

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ARC Book Review | The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

Title: The Perfect GuestsAuthor: Emma Rous Genre: MysteryPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Berkley BooksSource: digitalPages: 400 Synopsis: The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novel—about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game. 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years …

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ARC Book Review | Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler

Title: Enjoy the View (Moose Springs, Alaska #3)Author: Sarah Morgenthaler Genre: RomancePublished On: January 19, 2021Publisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaSource: digitalPages: 352 Synopsis: A grouchy mountaineer, a Hollywood starletAnd miles of untamed wilderness…What could possibly go wrong? Former Hollywood darling River Lane’s acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she agrees to film …

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ARC Book Review | I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

Title: I Want to Be Where the Normal People AreAuthor: Rachel Bloom Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, HumorPublished On: November 17, 2020Publisher: Grand Central PublishingSource: digitalPages: 256 Synopsis: In the vein of Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, and Amy Poehler, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, …

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ARC Book Review | Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

Title: Invisible GirlAuthor: Lisa Jewell Genre: Mystery, ThrillerPublished On: October 13, 2020Publisher: Atria BooksSource: digitalPages: 368 Synopsis: The author of the “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears.  Owen Pick’s life …

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ARC Book Review | The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke

Title: The Lost Love SongAuthor: Minnie Darke Genre: RomancePublished On: October 13, 2020Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digitalPages: 384 Synopsis: This is the story of a love song . . . And like any good love song, it has two parts. In Australia, Arie Johnson waits impatiently for classical pianist Diana Clare to return from a world tour, …

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ARC Book Review | Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morgenthaler

Title: Mistletoe and Mr. Right (Moose Springs, Alaska #2)Author: Sarah Morgenthaler Genre: Romance, HolidayPublished On: October 6, 2020Publisher: Sourcebooks CasablancaSource: digitalPages: 352 Synopsis: How the moose (almost) stole Christmas. Lana Montgomery is everything the quirky small town of Moose Springs, Alaska can’t stand: a rich socialite with dreams of changing things for the better. But Lana’s …

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ARC Review | Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy by Reid Forgrave

Title: Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy Author: Reid Forgrave Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 288 CW: Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, animal death Synopsis: “A monumental achievement of deep reporting and expert storytelling.” —Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino “I …

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Blog Tour | A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black

Title: A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 15, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physical, digitalPages: 304 Synopsis: “Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys.”—Peggy Orenstein, …

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