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Book Review – Mags And The AARP Gang by Nancy Lynn Jarvis

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Mags And The AARP GangNancy Lynn JarvisFile Size: 2368 KBPrint Length: 266 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 0983589127Publisher: Good Read Publishers; 1 edition (November 14, 2013)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00A946G3C Margaret Sybil Broadly Benson, known to her friends as Mags, is 83 years old, and she has a nice routine to her senior-style …

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Book Review – Live Free or Die by Max Gordon

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Live Free or DieMax Gordon File Size: 361 KBPrint Length: 207 pagesSimultaneous Device Usage: UnlimitedPublisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (March 1, 2014)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00J4BK7D6 BOOK BLURB: When travel writer Katherine “Kit” McCormick honestly reviews her life, she can give it just three stars out of five, until a freak accident catapults her out …

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Writing by the Numbers and Playing by the Rules

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Today’s Wednesday’s Guest is Stanley Schatt who is here to share about how his mystery, Silent Partner, came to be. Sometimes we writers to like to give a bit of the backstory. We are all influenced by other writers whose books we enjoy, and the story ideas don’t always come out of thin air. I …

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Monday Morning Musings

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I thought I would try a little different format for my Monday offerings. I’ve been accused of never wanting to change a thing – not even to move a sofa in my living room – so I am just showing some folks how versatile I can be. WHAT I’M READING: Several books on tap for …

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Tokens And Talismans

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Please help me welcome Elizabeth Hein as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. She is going to talk about the importance of some of the tokens we may hold dear. In honor of Lara, the central character in Elizabeth’s book, How to Climb the Eiffel Tower, I thought we would have some tea as we sit back and …

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Book Review – “How to Climb The Eiffel Tower” by Elizabeth Hein

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How to Climb The Eiffel Tower Elizabeth HeinPrint Length: 256 pagesPublisher: Light Messages Publishing (October 1, 2014)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00K5E0O6Q The author hooked me with the opening sentence: “Ellery Cancer Center protruded from the hospital’s facade like a glass tumor.” This is how Lara Blaine, the central character, begins her journey through …

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What Burlesque Shows and Mystery Writers Have in Common

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Please help me welcome Dorothy Johnston as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. She is a mystery author who lives and works in Australia – one of the places I would really love to visit – and she is here to tell us a bit about some of the research she has done for her series, which concluded …

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Book Review – The Fourth Season by Dorothy Johnston

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The Fourth SeasonDorothy Johnston File Size: 759 KBPrint Length: 229 pagesPublisher: Wakefield Press (November 20, 2013)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00GTDEYD6 This is a beautifully written mystery with a strong literary feel to the style. There were many places where I highlighted the text so I could go back and savor the use …

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Book Review — The Hardest Thing in This World by Nicole Eva Fraser

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The Hardest Thing in This WorldNicole Eva Fraser Second Wind Publishing ISBN: 978-1938101595 (paperback)ASIN: B00G5LFLAC (for Kindle)Publication date: October 11, 2013248 pages BOOK BLURB: Sexy, smart-mouthed Melody Sawyer is an underachiever, a home health care nurse with good intentions and a chip on her shoulder. Her troubled daughter Renee recently dropped dead at age 24, …

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Book Review – Incense & Peppermints by Carole Bellacera

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Incense & PeppermintsCarole Bellacera File Size: 656 KBPrint Length: 456 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 149735563XSold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00K1MSANG BOOK BLURB: On a snowy February day in 2011, 62-year-old Cindy Sweet receives a Facebook message from a dead man—Warrant Officer Ryan Quinlan who supposedly died in Vietnam forty years earlier. He’d been …

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