Summary: If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors
made by his family’s company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire
hometown, it might be vanilla—sweet, inoffensive, and pleasantly
predictable. At forty-three, Ted is convinced there’s nothing remotely
remarkable about him, except perhaps his luck in having landed handsome,
charismatic Giles as a husband.
Then Giles suddenly leaves him
for another man, filling his social media feed with posts about #newlove
and adventure. And Ted, who has spent nearly twenty years living with,
and often for, another person, must reimagine the future he has happily taken for granted.
But
perhaps there is another Ted slowly blossoming now that he’s no longer
in Giles’s shadow—funny, sassy, more uninhibited. Someone willing to
take chances on new friendships, and even new love. Someone who’s been
waiting in the wings too long, but who’s about to dust off a long-ago
secret dream and overturn everyone’s expectations of him—especially his
own. . .
(Pub Date: Jun 04, 2024)
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[Blog Tour] THE GOOD ONES ARE TAKEN
THE
GOOD ONES ARE TAKEN
Author: Taj McCoy
ISBN: 9780778305422
Publication Date:
Publisher: MIRA
18.99 US | 23.99 CAN
April 14, 2024
[Review] The Deepest Lake - Andromeda Romano-Lax
Summary: Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter’s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen?
When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America’s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion—and find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter’s literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid—and controversial—memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules’s disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlán a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?
The Deepest Lake is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother’s grief. (Pub Date: May 07, 2024)
April 7, 2024
[Review] Canto Contigo - Jonny Garza Villa
Summary: In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High
School’s Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive
first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made
out with, and almost hooked up with one of the cutest guys he’s ever
met.
Now eight months later, Rafie’s ready for one final win. What he didn’t plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his group while dealing with the loss of the most important person in his life—his beloved abuelo. Another hitch in his plan: The Selena Quintanilla-Perez Academy’s Mariachi Todos Colores already has a lead vocalist, Rey Chavez—the boy Rafie made out with—who now stands between him winning and being the great Mariachi Rafie's abuelo always believed him to be. Despite their newfound rivalry for center stage, Rafie can’t squash his feelings for Rey. Now he must decide between the people he’s known his entire life or the one just starting to get to know the real him. (Pub Date: Apr 09, 2024)
Now eight months later, Rafie’s ready for one final win. What he didn’t plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his group while dealing with the loss of the most important person in his life—his beloved abuelo. Another hitch in his plan: The Selena Quintanilla-Perez Academy’s Mariachi Todos Colores already has a lead vocalist, Rey Chavez—the boy Rafie made out with—who now stands between him winning and being the great Mariachi Rafie's abuelo always believed him to be. Despite their newfound rivalry for center stage, Rafie can’t squash his feelings for Rey. Now he must decide between the people he’s known his entire life or the one just starting to get to know the real him. (Pub Date: Apr 09, 2024)
April 3, 2024
[Blog Tour] The Book of Thorns
The Book of Thorns
Author: Hester Fox
Publication Date: April 2, 2024
ISBN: 9781525812019
Publisher: Graydon House, Trade paperback original
Price (US) $18.99
April 1, 2024
[Review] Summers at the Saint - Mary Kay Andrews
Summary: Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it. Plus, her greedy and unscrupulous brother-in-law wants to make sure she fails. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help—including the daughter of her estranged best friend—Traci has one summer season to turn it around. But new information about a long-ago drowning at the hotel threatens to come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair.
Traci Eddings has her back against the pink-painted wall of this beloved institution. And it will take all the wits and guts she has to see wrongs put to right, to see guilty parties put in their place, and maybe even to find a new romance along the way. Told with Mary Kay Andrew’s warmth, humor, knack for twists, and eye for delicious detail about human nature, Summers at the Saint is a beach read with depth and heart. (Pub Date: May 07, 2024)
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