CONTEST: Win a $300 Home Depot gift certificate (or $300 USD via Paypal) and a copy of Brood X

Welcome to the Brood X $300 Home Depot Gift Card Giveaway! Hosted by Giveaway Promote. Sponsored by author Michael Phillip Cash. Are you prepared for the invasion of Brood X? It's here and you need to get ready! Nothing will stop this 17 year swarm from happening....

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Review and GIVEAWAY: Replacement Child

Replacement Child, by Judy L. Mandel. I never met my sister, Donna. My other sister, Linda, was burned nearly to death. I was conceived as the salve on the burns, to fill the abandoned chair at the gray Formica table. My place in the family was cauterized by the flames. This...

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A Shade of Blood

A Shade of Blood, by Bella Forrest. Sensing how deeply she had begun to mean to me, I was unable to keep myself from voicing out what was going through my mind. I knew it was selfish of me to ask it of her, but the words flooded out of my lips before I could second guess them. "Sofia,...

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Guest Post: Judy Mandel, author of Replacement Child

*I will have a review of Replacement Child up next Wednesday, April 24th, as well as a giveaway of the book. Meanwhile, enjoy this guest post from the author of Replacement Child, Judy Mandel. About the book: Judy Mandel is the replacement child for her sister who was killed...

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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, by David Sedaris. I'm a huge fan of David Sedaris's books, and this one was no exception, although it was a little more bizarre than his usual fare. He has a preface that says that some of the chapters will be written like fiction - from the...

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Entering the Blue Stone

Entering the Blue Stone, by Molly Best Tinsley. The masks had been peeled away. Impatient mother. Passive-aggressive wife. Perennial outsider, suspicious and critical. Woman besieged by fear. All those past selves had vanished. Maybe they'd died with our father. Maybe Chris...

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Review and CONTEST: Lost in Suburbia

Lost in Suburbia: A Momoir. How I Got Pregnant, Lost Myself, and Got My Cool Back in the New Jersey Suburbs, by Tracy Beckerman. I know I had been cool once ... I don't remember all that clearly what made me so cool except I have this vague recollection of wearing a lot of...

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Call of the Vampire

Call of the Vampire (The Vanderlind Castle series, #1), by Gayla Twist. I drove about two blocks before I got the shakes so bad I had to pull over. What was I doing? I'd just invited an admitted vampire to meet me at my house. That was insane. I had gone completely insane....

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The Loop

The Loop, by Shandy Lawson. "Maggie?" "Mmm." "I'm sixteen years old. I don't want to die in a Walgreens." She smiles, sad and sweet. "It won't be the first time, Ben. And hey" - she lets go of my arm and takes my hand - "maybe this is the one. Maybe we get it right this...

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