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  • Magnate

    Magnate by Joanna Shupe

    RECOMMENDEDMagnate by Joanna Shupe is $1.99! This historical romance takes place in the Gilded Age of New York, which is a pretty cool setting. Redheadedgirl read this one and gave it a B:

    TL;DR: NEEDS MORE GROVEL.

    There really wasn’t a moment like that, and that was frustrating. That was VERY frustrating. So I have to knock this down to a B. All that said, the story made me care about the kind of people who I detest in real life, and I love the setting very much. The next book is Elizabeth’s brother’s book, and I kind of can’t wait to see what makes him turn into a good person.

    New York City’s Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. But for one millionaire, the business of love is not what he expected…

    Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. He loathes the city’s “high society” types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all that.

    Elizabeth Sloane’s mind is filled with more than the latest parlor room gossip. Lizzie can play the Stock Exchange as deftly as New York’s most accomplished brokers—but she needs a man to put her skills to use. Emmett reluctantly agrees when the stunning socialite asks him to back her trades and split the profits. But love and business make strange bedfellows, and as their fragile partnership begins to crack, they’ll discover a passion more frenzied than the trading room floor…

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  • That Perfect Someone

    That Perfect Someone by Johanna Lindsey

    That Perfect Someone by Johanna Lindsey is $3.99! This is the tenth book in the Malory-Anderson Family series. Fans of Lindsey seem divided on this book. Some felt it didn’t live up to Lindsey’s previous romance, while others disagreed and thought this was another great romance. If you’ve read this one, what do you think?

    Returning to the “wickedly witty, lusciously sensual” (Booklist) world of her beloved Malory family, #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers away on a seductive adventure in which a detested marriage contract turns childhood enemies into passionate lovers.

    Nine years ago, Richard Allen fled England and his controlling father. Determined to live his own life, he took to the sea and settled in the Caribbean, joining a band of treasure-hunting pirates and adopting the persona of a carefree, seductive Frenchman named Jean Paul to guard the secrets of his past. When he slips back into England to carry out an urgent task, Richard becomes infatuated with a married woman, Georgina Malory. But his reckless attempt to woo Georgina at a masked ball turns out to be the worst mistake of his life because it brings him face to face with another beautiful woman.

    Thrilled that her solicitors have finally come up with a way to free her from her betrothal contract to the Earl of Manford’s son who abandoned her years ago, heiress Julia Miller is ready for the marriage mart and hopes to find that perfect someone at her friend Georgina’s ball. Charmed by a masked Frenchman who gives her her first kiss, she can’t help but pursue this mysterious man—until she makes a shocking discovery. Now, to avoid falling into a ruthless nobleman’s trap, Julia must enter a risky, intimate charade with a man she never believed she could love.

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  • A Wilder Rose

    A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

    A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert is $1.99 at Amazon as a Kindle Daily Deal! This is literary historical fiction about Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, based on Lane’s diaries and Wilder’s letters. The author explores their relationship, and the reasons why Lane’s involvement in her mother’s publishing career was concealed. If you know of a Little House of the Prairie fan or you really like historical fiction, this book might make you a happy reader indeed.

    In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane—world traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writer—returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother and daughter, life seemed good.

    Then came the Crash. Rose’s money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression darkened the nation. That’s when Laura wrote her autobiography, “Pioneer Girl,” the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest—the eight remarkable books that followed—is literary history.

    But it isn’t the history we thought we knew. For the surprising truth is that Laura’s stories were publishable only with Rose’s expert rewriting. Based on Rose’s unpublished diaries and Laura’s letters, A Wilder Rose tells the true story of the decade-long, intensive, and often troubled collaboration that produced the Little House books—the collaboration that Rose and Laura deliberately hid from their agent, editors, reviewers, and readers.

    Why did the two women conceal their writing partnership? What made them commit what amounts to one of the longest-running deceptions in American literature? And what happened in those years to change Rose from a left-leaning liberal to a passionate Libertarian?

    In this impeccably researched novel and with a deep insight into the book-writing business gained from her own experience as an author and coauthor, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery.

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  • Dragon Soul

    Dragon Soul by Katie MacAlister

    Dragon Soul by Katie MacAlister is $2.99! This is the third book in the Dragon Falls paranormal romance series. Several readers called this romance a “madcap adventure,” which sounds all sorts of fun. However, others thought this was, well…weird, and that the hero was the book’s saving grace. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.

    NOTHING BURNS HOTTER . . .

    Sophea Long knows that escorting her octogenarian client to Europe will be an adventure. Mrs. P has a habit of stealing anything shiny, and the former “hoochikoo dancer” is a lot faster than she looks. But Sophea hadn’t counted on Mrs. P leading her right into the arms of a smoldering, dark-haired stranger who kisses like a dream. If only he’d give up all this nonsense about Sophea being some kind of dragon…

    THAN THE FIRE INSIDE

    There’s a reason Rowan Dakar is known as the Dragon Breaker. The last thing he needs is to fall for a woman who literally sets him aflame every time they kiss. After all, he has a mission-one that will finally free him of dragonkin for good. He can’t afford to be distracted by the funniest, most desirable woman he’s ever set eyes on. But no prophecy in the world can ever stop true love . . .

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  1. Meg says:

    As a huge Laura fan, I bristle at those who claim that Laura would have never published without Rose’s “rewriting.” She always had natural raw talent, as evident in her farm journalism writings, The First Four Years, the two books that released her “On the Way Home” diary and the “West From Home” letters. I think Rose definitely was a great editor, and like in any editorial process, there was some sort of collaboration and rewriting. As noted by a biographer, “Little House in the Big Woods” and “These Happy Golden Years” are largely Laura’s raw copy.

    The summary of “Wilder Rose” just makes it seem like Laura wasn’t publishable at all, and that simply wasn’t true.

  2. Christine says:

    @Meg, I agree. In “Pioneer Girl” which was just published a couple of years ago, they reprint Laura’s first drafts she wrote by hand when she first thought of writing down her life. While some things were surely changed,tweaked and added to, no one can say it isn’t significantly like what was published later as Little House In The Big Woods and Little House On The Prairie. As you say, Laura did her share of writing on her own including her work for newspapers and the two books you mentioned. I think Rose was a great editor for her mother but at that point her writing had stalled and she needed her mother’s work as much if not more than Laura needed her.

  3. Kasi says:

    As for Magnate, I’m reading it right now and it is good…but it’s hard to read about ruthless millionaires in New York at this time of year (even though the hero in this story is self made). I’m bummed that the election won’t get out of my head when all I want to do is lose myself in a book. Perhaps I just need more blue collar heroes.

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