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Matrimony, Inc. by Francesca Beauman From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, A Story of America Looking for Love – BOOK SPOTLIGHT
MATRIMONY, INC.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love (Pegasus Books; October 6, 2020; Hardcover; ISBN: 978-1643135786; 240 pgs; $27.95) Overview A clever, thoughtful, and funny history that reveals how the Union of states was … Continue reading
The Deepest South Of All by Richard Grant @simonschuster #nonfiction #review
Overview Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. … Continue reading
Poetic License by Gretchen Cherington @shewritespress @gosparkpoint #memoir #review
Overview At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence … Continue reading
Audible Reads for April #audible #audiobooks #audiblebooks
Hello there! I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy! I had sort of a strange month for audio books. The one I thought I would enjoy was just sort of Blah! I will start with that one…READY….HERE WE GO! … Continue reading
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Tagged Audible books, fiction, non fiction, reviews, Wrap Up
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The Unexpected Spy by Tracy Walder @stmartinspress #memoir #review
Overview When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she’d fly to the Middle … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, kindle, non fiction, reviews
Our Better Angels by Jonathan Reckford @JReckford @MacmillianUSA #review #nonfiction
Overview Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life’s challenges together. “When the waters rise, so do our better angels.”―President Jimmy … Continue reading
My November Reads #wrapup #reviews #5starreads
I hope everyone is fat and sassy after Thanksgiving. I worked that day…and even though begging some of my customers…I still did not get any dressing! Dressing is my all time favorite. Maybe next year! Y’all…I am ahead for the … Continue reading
Agent Jack by Robert Hutton @stmartinspress #review #nonfiction
Overview The never-before-told story of Eric Roberts, who infiltrated a network of Nazi sympathizers in Great Britain in order to protect the country from the grips of fascism June 1940: Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler’s army, and Britain is … Continue reading
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Tagged kindle, non fiction, nook, reviews
Crescendo by Allen Cheney and Julie Cantrell #nonfiction #review @ThomasNelson @julieCantrell
Overview A hidden story of human triumph, Crescendo takes you on the rare journey of a musical prodigy who changed an entire community forever. More than eighty years ago, a musical prodigy with a brilliant mind was born into a poor, uneducated, … Continue reading
Not for Nothing by Kathy Curtis #bookspotlight #authorinterview #memoir
An Interview with Kathy Curto Author of NOT FOR NOTHING: Glimpses Into a Jersey Girlhood There are some pretty personal insights in the pages of Not For Nothing. Did you seek your siblings’ permission to tell some of these stories? … Continue reading
