Tag: romance
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October 17, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
The climax of Roberts' vampire trilogy, and quite possibly the best of the bunch. As typical of her trilogies, Roberts offers three heroines - one per segment - one blonde, one brunette, one redhead. . . .
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January 25, 2007 07:23 PM EST --
What do you get when you write a love story that's about time travel? The Time Travelers Wife is the answer. This is a great book about Clare and Henry who are attempting to lead a normal . . .
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December 01, 2007 12:03 AM EST --
Reece Gilmore has to be Roberts' quirkiest heroine yet, especially if you count only her big titles, and not the category romances.
On the run from her memories, in search of herself, she lands . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
I am always on the lookout for a few good books. What have you read lately that is worth recommending?
For me, I just recently finished The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore and quite enjoyed. I also read . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:38 PM EST --
The latest of Nora Roberts' " in Death " books, written under the name J. D. Robb, and one of her better ones of late. Dallas and Roarke are again dealing with insecurities and persons from . . .
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January 10, 2009 03:11 AM EST --
Remember the First Chapters Romance Writing Contest? Starr Toth (writing as Starr Ambrose ) was the runner-up and her novel (on Gather, it was: Trust Me ) is now published as: Lie to Me. . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:06 PM EST --
This is a moving story of a deep, enduring love, co-reliance, shared moments. The dialect is a little hard to follow. How is it I can breeze right through Elizabethan English, but rural Southern slows . . .
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December 12, 2007 03:23 AM EST --
Dark Lover by J.R. Ward is the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Ward's vampire world is a little bit different than what we're used to seeing. For one, the vampires mostly drink . . .
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May 18, 2008 07:38 AM EDT --
You remember Meredith McGuire - the 28-year-old doctoral student in cultural anthropology who won the First Chapters Romance Writing Contest on Gather last fall.
Here is the announcement . . .
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November 11, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion
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Avon Books
ISBN: 978-0-06-157823-6
Part Gone with the Wind , part Jane Austen drama, A Silent Ocean Away has the range of an epic . . .
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December 24, 2007 09:07 PM EST --
Last night I finished "Lover Eternal" by J.R. Ward. This is the second book in her Black Dagger Brotherhood series. This book focuses on the brother Rhage. Rhage made some mistakes in the past . . .
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March 31, 2008 06:52 PM EDT --
Meredith McGuire is a doctoral student and the grand prize winner of the Gather First Chapters Romance Writing Competition that ended last October with her manuscript, The Shadow's . . .
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December 09, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
Lisa Jackson- Deep Freeze (Zebra 2005) 3.25 Stars
Jenna Hughes is a beautiful actress on the top of her game. After disaster strikes the set of film, White Out, her sister is killed. To get . . .
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October 13, 2007 10:53 AM EDT --
In 1903, Mamah and her husband had commissioned the renowned architect, Frank LLoyd Write, to design a new home for them. During the constrction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:47 PM EST --
Chaucer's medieval epic poem about love unrequited and what happens when you get what you want. In five staves, but I only got through the first and part of the second. It's not the language - . . .
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November 20, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
After playing hooky one day in 7 th grade to read Gone With The Wind , Karen White knew she wanted to be either Scarlett O'Hara or a writer. In fact, Karen's grade school teachers had encouraged . . .
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July 06, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
There's an undercurrent of tension and the foreshadowing is laid on rather thickly.
You wonder who the guardian is - her dog, her friends? Hmmmm.
The tension builds rather well. In . . .
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November 02, 2008 04:28 PM EST --
I just finished reading Pushing Up Daisies by Jamise L. Dames. This is the first time I have read anything by this author, but I enjoyed the story and would recommend it to those who enjoy contemporary . . .
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July 07, 2008 04:21 PM EDT --
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
What do a stylist, a reporter, a public relations rep, and a mortgage broker have in common? Well, in this case, they were all involved with one man, Paddy . . .
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