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  • The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living

    The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

    The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller is $1.99! Admittedly, this sounds all sorts of comforting and adorable and Miller’s books have been previous staff picks at the bookstore where I work. However, I’m always iffy on books that are positioned as women’s fiction. Do you have any experience with reading Miller’s titles?

    A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home–and that sometimes the best things are found when you didn’t even know you were looking

    When Olivia Rawlings–pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club–sets not just her flambeed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of–the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country’s longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous, sweater-set-wearing owner of the Sugar Maple Inn, offers Livvy a job. Broke and knowing that her days at the club are numbered, Livvy accepts.

    Livvy moves with her larger-than-life, uberenthusiastic dog, Salty, into a sugarhouse on the inn’s property and begins creating her mouthwatering desserts for the residents of Guthrie. She soon uncovers the real reason she has been hired–to help Margaret reclaim the inn’s blue ribbon status at the annual county fair apple pie contest.

    With the joys of a fragrant kitchen, the sound of banjos and fiddles being tuned in a barn, and the crisp scent of the orchard just outside the front door, Livvy soon finds herself immersed in small town life. And when she meets Martin McCracken, the Guthrie native who has returned from Seattle to tend his ailing father, Livvy comes to understand that she may not be as alone in this world as she once thought.

    But then another new arrival takes the community by surprise, and Livvy must decide whether to do what she does best and flee–or stay and finally discover what it means to belong. Olivia Rawlings may finally find out that the life you want may not be the one you expected–it could be even better.

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  • A Morbid Taste for Bones

    A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

    RECOMMENDED: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters is $1.99! This is book one in The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series, which I remember Sarah enjoying. Here’s what she said:

    This book and the next few books of the series got me through the scariest parts of early Quarantimes.

    On an expedition to acquire a saint’s remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder

    It is 1137, and the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint’s final resting place in Wales, where he finds the villagers divided over the Benedictines’ quest.

    When the leading opponent to moving the grave is shot dead with a mysterious arrow, some believe Winifred herself delivered the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that an earthly hand did the killing. But he doesn’t know that his plan to root out a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the waves of sin may be scandal—or his own ruin.

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  • Malfunction

    Malfunction by Nina Croft

    Malfunction by Nina Croft is 99c! I picked this one way back in January of 2020 as one of my Hide Your Wallet offerings. I’m still uncertain how much romance is in this book. If you’ve read it, please chime in below!

    Investigator, Sergeant Logan Farrell, has never been convinced the human race deserves saving. But it looks like he’s got the job anyway.

    It’s been five hundred years since we fled the remnants of a dying Earth in search of a new home. Twenty-four ships, each carrying ten thousand Chosen Ones. All sleeping peacefully…until people start dying in cryo.

    Malfunction or murder? Hopefully, the former—a serial killer in the fleet would be drastic for morale. But Logan is determined to find the truth. Unfortunately, he’s got a new partner—and he works best alone.

    Katia Mendoza, hot-shot homicide detective, has been woken from cryo to assist with the investigation. But is she really interested in solving the case, or does she have her own agenda?

    Before he can answer that question, though, they become targets themselves.

    Nothing like a few near misses with death to bring a couple together, and Logan finds himself falling for the alluring detective. But he doesn’t know that Katia is hiding a secret.

    It’s not only humans who fled the dying Earth.

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  • The Bridge Kingdom

    The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle Jensen

    The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen is 99c! This is a new adult fantasy romance that could work well for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout. Ellen reviewed it and gave it a C+, noting that while they mostly enjoyed the reading experience, the lead up to a cliffhanger ending was frustrating.

    What if you fell in love with the one person you’d sworn to destroy?

    Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil – and legendary promise. The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom controls all trade and travel between lands, allowing its ruler to enrich himself and deprive his enemies, including Lara’s homeland. So when she is sent as a bride under the guise of fulfilling a treaty of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to fracture the defenses of the impenetrable Bridge Kingdom.

    But as she infiltrates her new home – a lush paradise surrounded by tempest seas – and comes to know her new husband, Aren, Lara begins to question where the true evil resides. Around her, she sees a kingdom fighting for survival, and in Aren, a man fiercely protective of his people. As her mission drives her to deeper understanding of the fight to possess the bridge, Lara finds the simmering attraction between her and Aren impossible to ignore.

    Her goal nearly within reach, Lara will have to decide her own fate: Will she be the destroyer of a king or the savior of her people?

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  1. Bunnifur says:

    Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Assassins of Thasalon is $.99 at Amazon US. The Penric and Desdemona books never seem to go on sale, so grab it while you’ve got the chance! This is the latest book in the series, so probably not the best place to start as a lot of characters recur from previous installments, but it’s a great series and this is a fun story. Penric has been one of my comfort reads during the pandemic.

  2. Laurel says:

    I second the recommendation for Lois McMaster Bujold – all of her books are great, and there are lots of them. I have listened to most of them as an audiobook. Grover Gardner does the narration, and he does a great job.

  3. Arijo says:

    MALFUNCTION by Nina Croft sounded so good – a police investigation in space! With hidden paranormals! But it didn’t take off. The investigation was amateurish (lots of trailing strings left everywhere for the characters that they just DIDN’T PICK UP…) and on the romance side, the flirting consisted of the hero leering at the heroine’s breasts. When I was 2/3 in came a WAYR where someone else commented negatively about the homophobia in the rest of the series and I was done. DNF.

  4. Sandra says:

    Love,love,love Cadfael. The books are rarely on sale, so grab it while you can.

  5. Andrea2 says:

    The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf is $0.99 at Amazon. This is the first book in her Dark Ages series, first published in August 1988. This is one of my favorite series and I’ve managed to find copies in hardcover so they won’t fall apart when I re-read them. Joan is one of my favorite authors so I’m not exactly unbiased, but for $0.99 it’s worth checking out.

  6. Emily says:

    It’s been awhile, but I read and remember enjoying the The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living. I usually stay away from “Women’s Fiction” (also, I hate that term…it’s just fiction), but acknowledge that this is not a romance. There being a lovely romance and an HEA, but the story is more about the protagonist figuring out what she really wants out of life. Plus, the food descriptions were mouth watering!

  7. Leigh Kramer says:

    I’m a huge Louise Miller fan! She writes my kind of women’s fiction. Her books have the loveliest love stories (with HEAs) and she’s a baker by training so the food descriptions are always extra amazing.

  8. Courtney M says:

    The review for the Bridge Kingdom sums up pretty much all my issues with how that book ends. If the second book had been out I would have read it immediately because of the cliffhanger. However, when the sequel did come out enough time had passed that I couldn’t work up the enthusiasm to pick it up and read it because the feeling that stuck with me from the first book was frustration over the ending. And I can’t remember anything about the hero. Maybe once there’s a complete trilogy I’ll pick up the last two books.

  9. Star says:

    I first read the Joan Wolf trilogy beginning with The Road to Avalon when I was twelve or thirteen, and I still love the trilogy. That said, it’s definitely a problematic favourite: warning that The Road to Avalon has an Evil Gay Character in the last quarter or so of the book.

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