If you don’t like vampires or “women in jeopardy” stories, or you’re tired of time travel and men in kilts – try one of these romances set in a small town. Olivia is peeved when soap opera star Noah Falcon roars back into Cricket Creek, Kentucky. He’s determined to show Olivia he’s not just playing around [...]
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Many novels use flashbacks and the voices of different characters to tell a story, but there is a kind of historical novel which goes even further–novels that unfold in two or more time frames, contemporary and historic. Frequently the historic narrative sets the stage for some mystery to be solved or family issue to be [...]
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The fiction librarians in Popular Culture have spent the last seven months updating and revising the Favorite Fiction booklists and we’re finally done! We’ve added links to the library catalog, so you can check availability and request titles, and we’ve also added series information to many of the lists. Looking for Amish inspirational fiction? There’s a [...]
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Real-life writers of the ’20s and ’30s star in new and upcoming mysteries. Ernest Hemingway, known for living large, is also a fictional sleuth in Michael Atkinson’s Hemingway Cutthroat. Ernest is covering the Civil War in Spain when he learns an old buddy has been murdered. While investigating, he finds time to start work on For [...]
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Looking for a scary story to get you in the mood for Halloween? He is Legend, a tribute to bestselling horror author Richard Matheson, is a collection of original stories set in Matheson’s own fictional universes, including sequels, prequels, and companion stories to I Am Legend, Hell House, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere in Time, [...]
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Get inspired by new inspirational historical fiction. In Where Hearts Are Free by Golden Keyes Parsons, it’s 1687, in the burgeoning town of Philadelphia, and for seven years, Bridget Barrington has admired Philippe Clavell who works as an indentured servant for her father. He rejects her request for Philippe as a suitor as he has none [...]
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If you like a little humor with your romance, check out Jennifer Crusie’s new novel Maybe This Time. North Archer, Andie Miller’s ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already–and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting [...]
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There seems to be no slowing down when it comes to new urban fantasy. In A Taint in the Blood (Shadowspawn #1), S.M. Stirling, a New York Times bestselling author, makes his first attempt at urban fantasy. Adrian Phoenix, author of The Maker’s Song series featuring FBI special agent Heather Wallace, stays in New Orleans [...]
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One of the best things about historical thrillers is that they can be set in any time period, and in any location. Rome, 1492. Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy. Navigating a web of [...]
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Behind every great man there’s a great woman. Sometimes it’s a wife or a mother, and sometimes, as in the courts of England’s King Edward III and King James II, it’s a mistress. The Countess & the King by Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Catherine Sedley, the Countess of Dorchester. Born to wealth [...]
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