Tag: books
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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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The Golden Years Glitch by Judy Smith
Author: Judy Smith ASIN: B0DLWC5MW9 Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publication Date: May 6 2025 Print length : 336 pages Genre: Women’s Fiction Book Description (from Amazon.ca) The Golden Years Glitch follows 70-year-old firecracker Andi Parker, a successful businesswoman, devoted mother and so-fun grandmother. She is also looking forward to her golden years with her sexy silver fox husband,…
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Interview with Judy Smith
Q. Can you share the inspiration behind the Golden Years Glitch? Specifically how you came up with names and the storylines? A. Now, I must admit this was a bit of a revenge novel. Some of what happened to Andi, the protagonist, occurred in my life. I found out that my partner of many years…
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Rabbit Moon by Jan D. Payne
Book Description (Amazon.ca) They say you can’t go back home, but Marin Sinclair, end-of-life doula, doesn’t expect her life to be in danger when she answers a mysterious plea for help from a long-ago friend and returns to Dinetah, the Navajo Nation. Her past there holds memories she is reluctant to confront, but what about…
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Not Quite a Scandal by Bliss Bennet
Book Description (Amazon.ca) Outspoken Quaker Bathsheba Honeychurch knows how difficult it is for an unmarried woman to successfully champion political change. Her solution? Wed best friend Ash Griffin as soon as he comes of age and begin remaking the world. But when Ash’s urbane, aloof cousin arrives with inconceivable news, Sheba’s future dreams are suddenly…
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The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen
Book Description (Amazon.ca) Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement…
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Sister Lumberjack
Book Description (From Amazon.ca) Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left…
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