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I run a virtual book club for seniors, volunteering for a non-profit (check it out and see if you’d like to help, or consider participating in the national village movement closer to your home), and we take turns picking out the books we read. One of the advantages this has ... more >
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Truffles the Kitty Four years ago Danielle Crull rescued a kitten in the woods. She didn’t realize she’d just found a new employee – one who is routinely named “Employee of the Month” (every month) at the children’s eye center that Crull owns. Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses ... more >
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Dear Readers, As a child, I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. It’s considered a classic novel and is the story of children beginning to blossom as they bring a locked, abandoned garden to life. I was introduced to Burnett via a serialized reading of Little Lord Fauntleroy that ... more >
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For fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own—her father’s return home. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother—the best matchmaker in ... more >
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Dear Ms. Kleypas, Devil’s Daughter begins with Phoebe, Lady Clare (daughter of Sebastian and Evie from Devil in Winter) on her way to her brother Gabriel’s wedding. Phoebe is widowed and the mother of two young boys. Phoebe’s late husband, Henry, was her childhood best friend, and frail. Phoebe loved ... more >
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Dear Ms. Rolls, Not long ago, I saw that Kelly (Instalove) had read and recommended your new Harlequin Historical, His Convenient Marchioness. I wasn’t familiar with your writing but Kelly mentioned that she enjoyed the book and that it had a fifty-year-old hero, and between those two factors, I decided ... more >