Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The Anaconda Downstairs by Amy Award, 374 pages

 I can get any woman I want... and I do.

So why is the one woman who is completely off limits knocking on my door?
Someone (my meddling brothers) told her I'm the love guru.
And she wants lessons in falling in love. Just not with me.



Archie Showcase Digest #20: Archie's Halloween Special, 225 pages

 Halloween is here again and Archie and all his friends in Riverdale are ready to have a spooky good time! From trick or treating to bobbing for apples and costumes galore, you’re in for some frighteningly fun adventures!




The Memory Library by Kate Storey, 403 pages

 For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.


Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work.

But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.

Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew.

She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow…



Saturday, February 22, 2025

Still Life by Louis Penny, 306 pages

 The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force.


But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...






Caped and Fabulous by Isabel Jordan, 207 pages

 Bryn Terrell hasn't had a truly great day since supervillains popped up in her city.


What she needs is a partner. Someone with powers complementary to her own who won't trigger her imposter syndrome. Someone like...

Declan Rhoades.

Sure, he's grumpy. Rudely sexy. And he has zero interest in helping her fight crime. But he owes her one—in a big way. It was a perfect plan.

Until a snowstorm stranded her at his Fortress of Grumpitude and everything changed.

Now, she's stuck sharing a cabin—and only one bed!—with a genetically engineered, antisocial lumberjack whose only friends are a three-legged wolf and a surly beaver. (No, those aren't euphemisms for anything.)

She knows she'll eventually have to get back to her job, with or without him.

But the real question is...whatever will they do to pass the time while they wait out the storm?














Antiquarian Books: An Insider's Account by Roy Harley Lewis, 200 pages

 


Archie Showcase Digest #14: Christmas in July, 225 pages

 The tradition continues as Archie and the Gang keep cool by bringing a little festive fun into the summer time! Enjoy this hot collection of holiday stories while you lounge by the pool!