What I Am Reading Now – The Candlestickmaker by Dennis McDougal

Rub a dub dub Three men in a tub And who do you think they be? The butcher, the baker The candlestickmaker And all of them lost at sea. Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young American sailors form an unlikely bond. Each has fled [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Clutter by Donna Butler

Katrina Reece Warren, affectionately known as Kitty, had the perfect career, followed by a gorgeous wedding and a blissful honeymoon. She and Malcolm, her handsome, successful husband, have only just begun to enjoy life in their exquisite Victorian dream home when tragedy strikes. As her devastating loss causes Kitty to hoard and shut out those [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – The Chicken Thief by Fiona Leonard

Alois is the Chicken Thief, an intelligent young man struggling to find his way in a southern African country wracked by political unrest and a crumbling economy. A chance encounter gives Alois the opportunity to make some fast money, and hopefully improve his future. However, his assignment goes horribly wrong and he unexpectedly finds himself [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – The Buried Covenant by Shawn P Keenan

Being hardheaded is a common character flaw, but most teenagers can’t crack a concrete curb with their skull. And while a skilled skateboarder appears to defy gravity, he can’t keep water from pouring out of an upturned cup. Unintentionally tapping into latent powers has brought Jayke Wolff to the attention of the Aduro, an ancient [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Across Eternity by Aris Whittier

Born a genius; education, wealth, and prestige came easy to Logan Richards. Actually, there wasn’t much that Logan couldn’t learn or acquire. However, he knew there was more to life than money and power. Logan was determined to find the woman who he’d dreamed of his entire life and know what it was like to [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – The Gamble of the Godless by Dave Maine

Avin del Bors has a problem. His brother Drew has run off to fight in a war against the wolves, even though the wolves weren’t responsible for the vicious attack against the humans on the Free Plains. Avin’s companions—the warrior Ax, one-armed sorcerer Jocen, plucky owl Ulkia, drug-addled cheetah Summon the Wind and raccoon stand-up [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Voice by Joseph Garraty

Local rock band Ragman is finally taking off. Stephanie Case’s flamboyant performances and scorching guitar work have started attracting crowds, and singer John Tsiboukas–aka Johnny Tango–is delivering the best performances of his life. After months of playing to dead rooms, it looks like success is at hand. The thing is, there’s something wrong with Johnny’s [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Where’s Unimportant by Daniel Shortell

Jack Addington is stuck. A carefree life wandering the globe has morphed into a monotonous existence working for an oppressive Manhattan-based software company peddling products which destroy the lives of decent people. Jack struggles through soul-sucking affairs with despotic executives and eccentric scientists by mentally projecting himself out of the present and into past adventures. [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Hidden by Shalini Boland

Hidden (Marchwood Vampire Series) is a paranormal romance that spans the centuries from modern England to 19th century Paris and ancient Cappadocia. The novel begins in gritty urban reality, but soon descends into horror, romance and historical adventure. Sixteen-year-old Madison Greene is in foster care until one day she inherits a fortune and a house [...]

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New Arrival and What I Am Reading Now – Stop Looking for a Husband: Find the Love of Your Life by Marina Sbrochi

Another new arrival to the house and I must thank Marina Sbrochi for sending her book to me – thanks, Marina! I finished another book the same day as this one arrived and decided to pick this one up, therefore it is not just a new arrival but also what I am reading now.  Stop [...]

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New Arrival and What I Am Reading Now – Letters to Juniper by Peggy Tibbetts

Many thanks to Peggy Tibbetts for one of the latest additions to my bookshelf in the form of Letters to Juniper – thanks, Peggy! It just so happened I finished a book and was able to pick this one up pretty much right away and so this is also what I am reading now. If [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Six Clicks Away by Bonnie Rozanski

As miraculous as our wired world may be, everything connected to everything else eventually shows its downside. A rumor, a virus, a financial crisis – these days, they all cascade throughout the world in record time. SIX CLICKS AWAY tells the story of a single ripple through a tangled web, and how one person can [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Suckers n Scallies (formerly ‘Sucka!’) by Kate Rigby

Loss and loneliness in childhood lead introvert middle-class Kit Ramsay into forbidden friendship and taboo territory with Liverpool tough boy, Terry Dacosta. Violence and deprivation in Terry’s childhood, drive him to aspire to a life like Kit’s. Their early experiences in 60s and 70s Liverpool are to have far-reaching effects on their adult lives and [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Beatrice Munson by Lorena Bathey

  See, I didn’t lie, told you I would pick up Beatrice Munson sooner rather than later!! In Vista Heights, the women of the neighborhood have started to look like their homes, varying shades of beige. Lost in this world of suburbia, Marissa Lyons learns her high school nemesis has bought the house right across [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Seaview Terrace by Kate Rigby

The arrival of a charismatic neighbor splits apart a small dysfunctional community. Alliances change, lovers become estranged and the catalyst remains forever unknowable in Kate Rigby’s short-listed novella. “Suddenly Hassan laughs, a warm infectious laugh which utterly transforms him. ‘What fun. Come on. Entertain the Shah. Some more names.’ And Mark finds himself admitting Hassan [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Spoilt by Joanne Ellis

Passion turns to envy. Love to murder. One way or another, everyone is spoilt. A sadistic serial killer is stalking the streets, carving his hate into the bodies of beautiful, young women. When her best friend goes missing, a distraught Chelsea meets Lucas, a detective on the case who is struggling to remain focused, as [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Searching for Grace by Carol Henderson & Heather Tovey

This family memoir describes a woman’s search for her birth mother. Despite all Heather’s efforts while growing up, the truth was denied. She invented macabre reasons for the total secrecy, so frightening she kept them hidden. Searching for Grace combines Heather’s vivid and often amusing memories of childhood in 1920s London with the story of [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Indefensible by Pamela Callow

When Elise Vanderzell plummets from her bedroom balcony one gorgeous summer night, her children awaken to a nightmare. Their mother is dead. Their father is charged with her murder. Lawyer Kate Lange knows all about nightmares. She’s survived the darkest period of her troubled life and the wounds are still raw. Now she’s been handed [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – Dragon’s Heart by Nicki J Markus

All her life, Laoise has longed for adventure and daydreamed her days away. But the time for dreaming is past. Deep in the bowels of the earth a dragon wakes and the fate of her people and the entire world now rests in Laoise’s hands. Can she and her guide, Bearach, complete their quest to [...]

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What I Am Reading Now – All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust

“All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song brims with amplitude and vitality. By virtue of her unsentimental warmth of spirit, Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet’s emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable, from [...]

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