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ARC Review | Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Title: Lone WomenAuthor: Victor LaValleGenre: Horror, Historical FictionPublishing On: March 28, 2023Publisher: One WorldSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 304 Synopsis: Blue skies, empty landβ€”and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk …

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ARC Book Review | Dust Child by Nguyα»…n Phan QuαΊΏ Mai

Title: Dust ChildAuthor: Nguyα»…n Phan QuαΊΏ Mai Genre: Historical FictionPublishing On: March 14, 2023Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving novel that tells the intertwined stories of an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian manβ€”all of whom are forced to …

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Top Ten Tuesday: My Spring 2023 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Spring 2023 To-Read List! Hello Readers! I hope today’s TTT finds you well. Our weather has been up and down here in …

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My March 2023 TBR

Hello Readers! How is it already the fifth day of March?! I’m late with my TBR, but I did share My Trope-ical Readathon TBR on the first day of the month and it included all the books here, as well. For my monthly TBR, I’ll only be including those books I’m determined to read—mostly ARCs. …

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Top Ten Tuesday: My Winter 2023 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Winter 2022-2023 To-Read List! Hello Readers! I’ve been on a bit of an unplanned blog hiatus as we’ve been traveling. I promise …

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ARC Review | Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win by Susan Azim Boyer

Title: Jasmine Zumideh Needs a WinAuthor: Susan Azim BoyerGenre: Young Adult, Historical FictionPublished On: November 1, 2022Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: A fresh spin on the cult-classic Election meets Darius the Great Is Not Okay in Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win when an international incident crashes into a high school election, and Jasmine is caught between doing the right …

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Review | Signal Moon: A Short Story by Kate Quinn – Including an Excerpt & Giveaway

Title: Signal MoonAuthor: Kate QuinnGenre: Historical FictionPublished On: August 1, 2022Publisher: Amazon Original StoriesSource: digitalPages: 57 Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye comes a riveting short story about an impossible connection across two centuries that could make the difference between peace or war.Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young …

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ARC Book Review | Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Title: Black CakeAuthor: Charmaine WilkersonGenre: Literary, Historical FictionPublished On: February 1, 2022Publisher: Ballentine BooksSource: digitalPages: 400 Synopsis: In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past–a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends …

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ARC Book Review | The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

Title: The Last House on the StreetAuthor: Diane Chamberlain Genre: Historical FictionPublished On: January 11, 2022Publisher: St. Martin’s PressSource: digitalPages: 352 Synopsis: From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter’s husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she …

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