Tag Archives: Kelly Ferjutz

Hip Check (New York Blades)

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Dierdre Martin Berkley Sensation, $7.99, 352 pages What happens when a real ‘man’s man’ suddenly finds himself in the ‘single-father’ role to his orphaned 8-year-old niece? Esa Saari is a professional hockey player who plays as hard off the ice as …

The Paris Wife: A Novel

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Fiction
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By Paula McLain Ballantine Books, $15.00, 352 pages Paris in the 1920s must have been unlike almost any other place that ever existed, with the possible exception of the gathering in Geneva in 1816 of Lord Byron, the Shelleys and Byron’s doctor, …

Mrs. Queen Takes the Train: A Novel

March 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Fiction
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By William Kuhn Harper, $25.99, 384 pages This book is an absolutely charming fantasy, perfect for any adult reader who is an Anglophile. Of course, one doesn’t really need to be either an adult or an Anglophile to appreciate it, but I rather think …

A Notorious Countess Confesses: Pennyroyal Green Series

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Julie Anne Long Avon, $5.99, 384 pages Nearly all the young unmarried misses in Pennyroyal Green have a *tendre* for their Vicar, Adam Sylvaine. He, however managed to maintain a degree of independence from the young ladies. And then, …

The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit

February 28, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Biography & Memoir
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By Michael Cannell Twelve, $14.99, 336 pages In racing terminology, the limit is that perfect speed for a given situation. If a certain corner may be taken safely at 100 mph, then that is the limit for that corner.  99 …

Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London

February 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:History & Current Events
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By Nigel Jones St. Martin’s Press, $35.00, 464 pages If you need a wonderful gift for any Anglophiles of your acquaintance, I’m quite certain that nothing could please them more than a copy of this gorgeous book. It’s a ‘Wow!’ for sure. …

Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls)

December 20, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Sheila Roberts Harlequin MIRA, $7.99, 400 pages This is the third small-town story I’ve read in the last three months. It must be a new sub-genre of romance, and I think it’s a winner! The common denominator in all three stories …

Ruined by Moonlight

November 29, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Emma Wildes Signet Eclipse, $7.99,  336 pages Here we have two young ladies, cousins; one is married, the other betrothed. Neither of them are currently deliriously happy, desirous of being so. The married Alicia, Lady Heathton, is in love with her …

Murder Most Austen: A Mystery

November 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Mystery
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By Tracy Kiely Minotaur, $25.99, 304 pages Tracy Kierly has surely set the cat amongst the pigeons in this, her fourth Jane Austen-inspired contemporary mystery novel. This witty and charming episode takes place in Bath! England, that is, where Ms. Austen herself …

A Fool’s Gold Christmas

November 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance, Uncategorized
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By Susan Mallery Harlequin, $16.95, 320 pages The inhabitants of Fool’s Gold, Calif., are so sweet they must have a built-in immunity to tooth decay! But how refreshing to read a story in which people are nice to each other and continually …

To Whisper Her Name: A Belle Meade Plantation Novel

November 20, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Fiction
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By Tamera Alexander Zondervan $14.99 480 pages To Whisper Her Name is an excellent melding of real people and places with believable fiction. It could very well have happened just this way — even if it didn’t.  There are so many …

Death in the Floating City: A Lady Emily Mystery

November 20, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Fiction
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By Tasha Alexander Minotaur Books $24.99 320 pages Ahhh. Venice. Especially in the later Victorian era was a favorite getaway for upper-class British folks. When Emma Callum, a former schoolmate of Lady Emily, finds her father-in-law murdered, and her husband …

Scandal Wears Satin

September 28, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Loretta Chase Avon, $7.99, 384 pages This extraordinary compendium of early Victorian costume is cleverly disguised as a swashbuckling adventure story. That story then develops into an elegant, sophisticated sting, starring the middle of the three Noirot sisters, Sophy, and …

Catching Fireflies

September 24, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Sherryl Woods Mira, $7.99, 384 pages Bullying has become the topic du jour, it seems, reflecting only too well the prominence of this once hidden activity; and about time, too! One of the better books on the topic is this …

Along Came a Duke: Rhymes With Love

September 24, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Elizabeth Boyle Avon, $7.99, 384 pages This would be a great book to take on a cruise. In case you should become stranded on a desert isle, this would make a dandy companion. You could read it over and over …