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May Newsletter
Hi there, This month, I wanted to do something a little different. Instead of sharing the same books you’re probably seeing everywhere, I started paying attention to the ones that aren’t always front and centre but are just as meaningful. The kind of books you come across more quietly and once you read them, they…
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Bye to Mass Market Paperbacks
Are they disappearing or just changing? Lately, I’ve been noticing something, not in a big obvious way, but in small moments. Scrolling through new releases, I am seeing more trade size paperbacks or hardcovers first. There is also a lot of people talking about audiobooks replacing their reading time and seeing way more e-readers in…
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✍️ A Writer’s Life: The Quiet Work Behind the Words
There’s a quiet side to writing that most people never see. It isn’t the finished book sitting on a shelf, or the moment someone turns the final page. It isn’t even the excitement of publishing or sharing your work with the world. A writer’s life exists mostly in the in-between. It lives in early mornings…
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Echoes of Forgotten Places by Helen Wand
Book Description (Amazon.ca) The year is 1897. Julianna Lampert and her eight children depend on the family working the farm—recently cleared soil on land so rugged and windswept it defies their very existence. Join the family’s journey, from grieving their father’s passing and the death of their baby brother, to the arrival of Frank, who…
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One More Mountain
Fleeing Iran for America by Mansur Nurdel with Jeannette Moninger Book Description (from Amazon.ca) This book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all. Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and political persecution. In 1988, I was one…
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Tangled Secrets: A Gabi Espinosa Mystery
Description (from Amazon.ca) Turner’s Crossroads, where nothing happens… Until it does. Reeling from her husband’s murder, librarian Gabriela Espinosa took her young daughter and sought refuge in the perceived safety of her tiny hometown in the Florida Panhandle. Six years later, the murder of her best friend shatters her sense of security and threatens the…
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