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Queen’s Musician, The

Forbidden Love and a King's Schemes Author: Martha Jean Johnson Anne Boleyn stole the scene at court – until she lost her head. All these hundreds of years later, she still captivates us; her story – a grand rise and a horrible, bloody fall – fill both our history books and our lurid imaginations. What’s not to love? A forbidden romance. A thwarted, egotistical king wanting an heir. An ambitious, beautiful young woman wanting to rise in the world and willing to do anything – absolutely anything – to make it happen. A kingdom divided between them. Man and church warring [...]

2025-04-14T19:03:26-07:00April 14th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Quiet Life, A

“We live so much of our lives without telling anyone.” Author: Ethan Joella Three lives, going on separately, are each occluded by the unrelenting pressure of grief. One winter, as the ice shines on the road and the cold seeps into the bones, three strangers find each other through the twists of fate. Together, they start to discover the next steps in a life that will not end, no matter how much they wish that it had. It’s weird to say that Ethan Joella’s A Quiet Life is cozy when the themes – death, pain, grief, separation, betrayal – are so [...]

2025-04-12T09:24:00-07:00April 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Hidden Pictures

“When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Author: Jason Rekulak Mallory is 18 months sober and desperately looking for a new start in life. Her sponsor has potentially landed her a lucrative position as a live-in nanny with the Maxwells. Caroline Maxwell, the mother, knows Mallory’s history, and she is willing to forgive, especially when she realizes that Mallory might be able to help five-year-old Teddy let go of his morbid obsession with his dead imaginary friend, Anya. Ted Maxwell, however, is another matter. He will be a hard sell. It’s touch and go [...]

2025-03-30T15:46:38-07:00March 30th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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