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A Promised Land
A Promised Land is the first of two Presidential Memoirs from Barack Obama. I’m Canadian, Obama wasn’t my President, but I admired him in many ways. At the same time, I always felt like expectations of Obama as a Presidential candidate and President-Elect were nearly messianic and impossible to fulfill, especially given the deep ideological and political divide that exist in the U.S. I listened…
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The Hope We Hold by Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo
The Hope We Hold by Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo
I just finished listening to The Hope We Hold, read and written by Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo, with the assistance of a ghost writer. The Vuolos are two of the stars of TLC’s recently cancelled show, Counting On. Jeremy and Jinger each recounts a few stories from their youth in alternating chapters, and then share the story of their courtship and first couple of years of marriage together. The…
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A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County #3)
A Faint Cold Fear (Grant County #3)
Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues — and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal — but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don’t add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally…
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The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off…
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Kisscut (Grant County #2)
Kisscut (Grant County #2)
Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton–the town’s pediatrician and medical examiner–finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider…
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The Beginner Genealogist
If you are just starting your research as resident family historian, you may have no idea where to start. There are so many services and websites available now that it can be overwhelming. Additionally, some websites work better for certain ethnicities than others. So keep in mind that I am writing this post from the perspective of a white person with Western European ancestors. My favourite…
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Keeping Ancestors Straight
If your family is anything like mine, you have three, four, five generations in a row with the same damn name. Our families weren’t imaginative back then were they? I got super tired of flipping back and forth between family member profiles on ancestry, trying to make sure I have the right generation, or crosschecking facts to see if a new one makes sense. Some I came up with this little trick…
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Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. The Auzellos are the mistress and master of the Ritz, allowing the glamour and glitz to take their minds off their troubled marriage, and off the secrets that they keep from their guests–and each other. Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters…
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Blindsighted (Grant County #1)
Blindsighted (Grant County #1)
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer’s twisted work becomes clear. Sara’s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation — a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another…
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Family History Research
I have always been passionate about family history and research, but it isn’t a subject that I have really touched upon on this website. It has been consuming most of my free time during lockdown though, so I decided I would start to share my passion for it, as well as the tips and tricks I’ve discovered along the way. This page will be my new home for this type of content, keeping it separate…
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The End of Her by Shari Lapena
The End of Her by Shari Lapena
It starts with a shocking accusation… Stephanie and Patrick are recently married, with new-born twins. While Stephanie struggles with the disorienting effects of sleep deprivation, there’s one thing she knows for certain – she has everything she ever wanted. Then a woman from his past arrives and makes a shocking accusation about his first wife. He always claimed her death was an accident – but…
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Decluttering Online
Bored? Quarantined? Procrastination pro? My fellow kindred spirits, join me! I should be getting ready to move but I don’t want to think out that right now. Too much going on in my head. So instead, I am going to start decluttering online, where I can sit on the couch and watch a movie at the same time. Cue a Mission Impossible marathon. It is so much easier for me to think clearly when my mind…
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Reckless Road (Torpedo Ink #5)
Reckless Road (Torpedo Ink #5)
While Gedeon “Player” Lazaroff is one of Torpedo Ink motorcycle club’s roughest members, he’s also one of the calmest. Little rattles Player, except for the times his gift gets the better of him. When that happens, he has to just lie down in the dark and hope for the best. But on a night when he’s on the verge of losing it, he meets a woman who manages to soothe his fractured mind. Zyah is a…
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Saving Justice by James Comey
Saving Justice by James Comey
James Comey, former FBI Director and bestselling author of A Higher Loyalty, uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the US justice system. James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he’s had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good…
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Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her…
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Love Without Borders by Angela Braniff
Love Without Borders by Angela Braniff
A wife and mom, Angela Braniff and her husband oversee a house full of laughter and love thanks to their eight children—all from varying backgrounds—who range in age from twelve to newborn. The Braniff household includes their two biological daughters, Kennedy, 12, and Shelby 10; Rosie, 7, who was adopted from China with special needs; Noah, 7, adopted from Congo; Jonah 5, adopted domestically,…
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Last Breath (The Good Daughter 0.5)
Last Breath (The Good Daughter 0.5)
The fantastic prequel to The Good Daughter, the stunning new standalone from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Will Trent and Grant County series. Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home – and after that shocking night, Charlie’s…
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