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Showing posts with label #WintersRespite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #WintersRespite. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 January 2016
A WINTER'S RESPITE READ-A-THON WRAP-UP 2016 21.1.16
[plus doing 10 + 11th of the 12 week course]
Sunday, 25 January 2015
WINTER'S RESPITE: IT'S ALL ABOUT TEA and READING!
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Canadian author, Murray Pura writes at the top of his game in this family saga, 
At a car boot sale in
Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset.
They decide to share it -
and form a friendship that impacts their lives.
Jenny can't wait to marry Dan. Then, after years of silence, she hears from the woman who could shatter her dreams.
Maggie has put her broken heart behind her and is gearing up for the biggest event of her career - until she's forced to confront the past once more.
Alison seems to have it all: married to her childhood sweetheart, with two gorgeous daughters. But as tensions mount, she is pushed to breaking point.
Dealing with friendship and families, relationships and careers, life’s highs and lows, The Vintage Teacup Club is women's lit storytelling with plenty of surprises along the way.
and form a friendship that impacts their lives.
Jenny can't wait to marry Dan. Then, after years of silence, she hears from the woman who could shatter her dreams.
Maggie has put her broken heart behind her and is gearing up for the biggest event of her career - until she's forced to confront the past once more.
Alison seems to have it all: married to her childhood sweetheart, with two gorgeous daughters. But as tensions mount, she is pushed to breaking point.
Dealing with friendship and families, relationships and careers, life’s highs and lows, The Vintage Teacup Club is women's lit storytelling with plenty of surprises along the way.
to which I also added sources for audiobooks.
A poignant
Christmas novella about a young woman, daughter of a deceassed actress, desperate for a place to belong, who finds
herself in London a few days before Christmas, looking for the father she never
knew.
Miranda Carson's search for her father takes a turn she never expected when she finds herself in London with only a few feeble clues to who he might be. Unexpectedly welcomed into a family that doesn't recognize her, and to whom she's quickly growing attached, she faces a terrible decision. Should she reveal her true identity and destroy their idyllic image of their father? Or should she carry the truth home with her to San Francisco and remain alone in this world?
Miranda Carson's search for her father takes a turn she never expected when she finds herself in London with only a few feeble clues to who he might be. Unexpectedly welcomed into a family that doesn't recognize her, and to whom she's quickly growing attached, she faces a terrible decision. Should she reveal her true identity and destroy their idyllic image of their father? Or should she carry the truth home with her to San Francisco and remain alone in this world?
Whatever choice she makes
during this London Christmas will forever change the future for both herself
and the family she isn’t ready to leave. Lyrical writing unique characters, and a well-crafted story kept me entranced and easily led me on to part 2, Engaging Father Christmas.
Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane
Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The
Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent
Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe
for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a
celebratory mood:Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been
banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas
Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody
in England really wanted.Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane’s fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlor games, and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
Place an unpolished lawman
named Nicholas Brentwood as guardian over a spoiled, pompous beauty named Emily
Payne and what do you get? More trouble than Brentwood bargains for.
She is
determined to find a husband this season.
He just wants the large fee her
father will pay him to help his ailing sister.
After a series of dire mishaps,
both their desires are thwarted, but each discovers that no matter what, God is
in charge.
Margaret Feinberg's Feb 3rd release ~
Give a list of 4 books you
read last year that you’d recommend to others — and why.
How would you respond?
Tough question when last year's total came in at 130 reads!
Here are 4 I'd recommend :
Born of Persuasion by Jessica Dotta - audio version especially as the narrator, Amanda McKnight adds incredible realism with her Brit accents. The suspense of this historical romance is edge of seat intensity.
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A Lady's Honor by Laurie Alice Eakes - whose writing keeps me glued to the pages
from opening to ending. National Reader's Choice
Award for Best Regency novel
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For fellow Jane Austen fans - The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen by Shannon Winslow
who knew how to keep a secret and surprise this reader with an ending of delight.
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Death By The Book by Julianna Deering
A winsome, debonair sleuth with the personality to win readers and skills to solve extreme murder cases all set in the English countryside... What more could I ask?
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