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“Coal River” by Ellen Marie Wiseman

October 21, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

“Coal River” by Ellen Marie Wiseman

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

October 7, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

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

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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Review of “The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: A Novel” by Matthew Dicks

August 14, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

Review of “The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: A Novel” by Matthew Dicks

Thanks to St. Martin's Press via Netgalley for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Summary: Caroline Jacobs is a responsible wife and mother. She avoids conflict and suffers in silence. Until the day that she doesn't. When the snarky, self-rightous PTO President makes a hurtful remark to a struggling mom at a PTO meeting, Caroline loses it (just a ...

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Review of “Those Girls” by Chevy Stevens

July 6, 2015 by Ann Marie Leave a Comment

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Summary: Those Girls is the story of the three Campbell sisters who have impossibly (if not implausibly) bad luck. Courtney, Dani and Jess endure a difficult life with their father after their mother has died. Though their father is often absent, he is a violent, abusive alcoholic when ...

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