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“Coal River” by Ellen Marie Wiseman

October 21, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

I would like to thank Kensington Books via NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book. Our heroine, Emma Malloy, finds herself orphaned after her parents die in a NYC fire. Her misanthropic Aunt Ida and Uncle Otis send her a train ticket so that she can move to their Coal River, PA home. She is haunted by the past as she arrives to the place where her younger brother drowned in the ...

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“Whistling Women” by Kelly Romo

October 12, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

Thanks to Lake Union Publishing via NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Summary: Whistling Women is the story of sisters Wavey and Addie, and how their lives are torn apart and finally reconciled after too many years estranged. The majority of the story takes places during the 1935 World's Fair in San Diego, CA. Wavey has, with limited ...

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Book Review of “The Fall of Princes” by Robert Goolrick

October 7, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

I received a free copy of this book from Algonquin publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Summary: The Fall of Princes tells the tale of one man's rise and fall in the hedonistic world that was 1980's Wall Street. Money, power, greed, love, lust, sex, drugs, and alcohol provide the all of the interest once could hope for in Goolrick's latest novel. From the excess and ...

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