Monthly Archives:: December 2019

Dec 29 2019
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2020 Reading Challenges

2020 Reading Challenges

Now that Amelia is a bit older, I feel like I’ll get to read more in 2020. At least, I’m hoping so! Anyhow, I feel like I can sign up for challenges for 2020 because I should be able to finish them. 🙂 Here are the challenges I’m planning to do in 2020. I’ll be keeping track on this page. Are you participating in any reading challenges in 2020? Let me know!

2020 New Release Challenge
This challenge is hosted by Unconventional Bookworms. You can click the image to head over to the sign-up post for more information on the challenge and to sign up. I’m signing up for Level One: New Release Newbie: 1-30 books per year.

New Release Newbie

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Dec 28 2019
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Christmas in Bear Ridge by Sarah Wagner

Christmas in Bear Ridge by Sarah Wagner

Christmas in Bear Ridge by Sarah Wagner

Sometimes it takes a little magic, and a Christmas wish, to see beyond tomorrow, but it takes love to see forever.

Bear Ridge is the cutest little town that no one can remember. It gathers magic like faerie dust to a wand, especially at Christmas. Toni Bell hasn’t believed in magic since her parents died. She’s been on her own for more than a decade, driving from town to town, job to job, gig to gig, living out of her truck turned tiny home, making a point to never get attached. She’s on her way to the West Coast for New Year’s Eve, and plans to be on the road for Christmas, hoping to …

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Dec 27 2019
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A Teddy Bear for Christmas by Meg Macy

A Teddy Bear for Christmas by Meg Macy


A Teddy Bear Cozy For Christmas

Who wouldn’t love to see a cuddly, soft, sweet teddy bear under the tree? Or a book, which is even better, with a teddy on the cover! The third cozy in my Shamelessly Adorable Teddy Bear mystery series from Kensington Publishing was released a few months ago – just in time for your holiday reading fun. But I have to admit my cozy series has a dark side. I mean, teddy bears … and murder? How did that come about?

Once I decided to write a cozy series, I researched all the different themes. Plus I’d been collecting teddy bears for years before my daughter was born. Ever since I saw a Paddington Bear at …

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Dec 16 2019
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Southern Harm by Caroline Fardig

Southern Harm by Caroline Fardig

Southern Harm by Caroline Fardig
A Southern B&B Mystery Book 2
Alibi • November 12, 2019

A little Southern charm never killed anybody—until now—in an enchanting cozy mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Southern Discomfort and the Java Jive novels.

After solving a murder at a local restaurant, Quinn Bellandini just wants to get back to her comfortable life running her grandfather’s B&B in Savannah, Georgia, with her sister, Delilah. But those plans get buried when Quinn and her new boyfriend, Tucker Heyward, dig up an old skeleton while doing some landscaping in his aunt Lela’s backyard. Before long, Lela becomes the prime suspect in the thirty-three-year-old unsolved murder of a high school homecoming queen.

Tucker is devastated. But Quinn’s conscience won’t …

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Dec 14 2019
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Starlight by P.S. Malcolm – Blitz & Giveaway

Starlight by P.S. Malcolm – Blitz & Giveaway

StarlightP.S. Malcolm(Starlight Chronicles)Published by: Parliament HousePublication date: December 10th 2019Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

A treaty upholds the peaceful lands of Ersarence— who have suffered from the spilt blood of their humble goddess, Titania, which stains the hands of the ruthless Urenphians.

Julian Rancewood— a small town delivery boy— wishes he could afford to save his dying mother. He never imagined a larger life for himself until he meets Adrina Hesfetter, the village seamstress’s daughter.

After striking a deal with the elusive King’s advisor and joining the royal army, he finds himself helping to search for a missing, unknown heir. Against all odds, Adrina and Julian soon meet again within the palace walls.

When Julian discovers Adrina’s fire magic— an impossibility …

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Dec 13 2019
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Murder In Montague Falls by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton & Patrick Thomas

Murder In Montague Falls by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton & Patrick Thomas


 
 
Murder in Montague Falls
by Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, Patrick Thomas
on Tour December 1-31, 2019

Synopsis:

WHITE HOT THRILLS! PITCH BLACK DEEDS!
3 TALES OF TEENS TACKLING THEIR DARKEST RITES OF PASSAGE

Acclaimed storytellers Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, and Patrick Thomas each present an original novella brimming with enough danger, intrigue, and murder to get readers’ blood pounding and hearts racing.

In Colchamiro’s RED INK, a paperboy with an overactive imagination witnesses a brutal killing on his route—or has he taken his fantasy spy games a step too far?

In Hatton’s THE DEVIL’S DELINQUENTS, a trio of teenage misfits in pursuit of success, power, and revenge practice amateurish occult rituals… with deadly consequences.

In Thomas’s A MANY SPLENDID THING, a sultry high school teacher …

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Dec 12 2019
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Secret Admirer’s Christmas Wish #2 by Dariel Raye

Secret Admirer’s Christmas Wish #2 by Dariel Raye

Secret Admirer’s Christmas Wish #2Dariel RayePublication date: November 10th 2019Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

When a former ugly duckling and the former class heart-throb come together as adults, they find out they have more in common than they realized.

Glenda Shaw knows firsthand what it’s like to be an ugly duckling, and now, she is roped into helping to organize her tenth-year class reunion. The speaker this year is none other than Hunter Teegs, the object of her dreams since their sophomore year in high school. She’s a dedicated social worker with a heart the size of Texas, but her hectic schedule doesn’t allow much time for dating or entertainment.

Hunter Teegs is a self-made financial powerhouse with a boatload …

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Dec 11 2019
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No Way to Die by P.A. De Voe – Spotlight & Giveaway

No Way to Die by P.A. De Voe – Spotlight & Giveaway

No Way to Die by P.A. De Voe
A Ming Dynasty Mystery Book 2

Through mystery and intrigue, No Way To Die transports the reader into the complex and engaging world of early Ming China.

When a peddler finds a partially mutilated body of a stranger, the unlikely duo of a young scholar and a local women’s doctor once more join forces to discover who killed him and why. In probing the highly gendered world of early Ming China, unanticipated questions surface, complicating their investigation.

As their case rapidly transitions into the unexpected, they find all roads leading away from the victim, forcing them to consider alternate routes. Was the death the result of inexorable bad karma and beyond their purview, or merely …

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Dec 10 2019
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Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle – White Chocolate Mocha Latte + Giveaway

Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle – White Chocolate Mocha Latte + Giveaway

Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle
A Coffeehouse Mystery Book 18
Berkley • December 3, 2019

From Cleo Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Shot in the Dark and Dead Cold Brew, comes a delicious new entry in the “fun and gripping” (The Huffington Post) Coffeehouse Mysteries.

When coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi awakens on a bench in Washington Square Park, she has no idea she’s been missing for days, or that her friends and family have been frantic with worry. Now that she’s back, everyone is overjoyed, including a handsome NYPD detective who claims to be her fiancĂ©. But to Mike Quinn’s crushing distress, Clare doesn’t remember him, or much of anything about the last fifteen years of her life.

Clare’s missing memory …

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Dec 09 2019
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A Fatal Fondness by Richard Audry – Spotlight & Giveaway

A Fatal Fondness by Richard Audry – Spotlight & Giveaway

A Fatal Fondness by Richard Audry
A Mary MacDougall Mystery Book 4
Conger Road Press • November 6, 2019

It’s September 1902, and Mary MacDougall has fulfilled her greatest dream—opening her own detective agency. But the achievement doesn’t come without complication.

Mary’s father insists that an older cousin come to work with her—as both secretary and minder. Jeanette Harrison pledges to keep the plucky sleuth away from danger, as well as from her unsuitable suitor Edmond Roy. This arrangement, embarrassingly, makes Mary the only detective in the state with a chaperone.

The new agency’s first cases hardly seem to portend danger or significance. There’s the affair of the nicked napkin rings…the problem of the purloined pocket watch…and the matter of the four filched felines.

Mary …

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