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Exploring Love and Ghosts in a Small Town
Read more: Exploring Love and Ghosts in a Small TownSoul Searching by Lyla Sage (Sept 30, 2025) Thank you, @prhaudio @thedialpress and @authorlylasage for the #gifted advanced listening copy! #prhaudioinfluencer Collins Cartwright left Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming years ago with no intention to return. Then her twin sister calls with disturbing news that a developer is sniffing around their parents’ property, including the family antique…
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Love Walked In: A Bookstore Rivals Romance
Read more: Love Walked In: A Bookstore Rivals RomanceLove Walked In by Sarah Chamberlain (Sept 2, 2025) I loved Sarah’s 2024 release, The Slowest Burn, and so I was anxiously awaiting this one! Mari Cole’s life is singularly focused on bookstores. She is uniquely skilled at reviving struggling indie shops and getting them back on track. Does she have friends? No. Does she…
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The Ruling Class Review: Political Intrigue in YA Fiction
Read more: The Ruling Class Review: Political Intrigue in YA FictionThe Ruling Class by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Out Sept. 4, 2025 – originally published as The Fixer in 2015)Thank you @libro.fm and @bloomsburybooksus for the #gifted advanced listening copy! Tess Kendrick has always lived a quiet life with her grandfather, but when his health declines, she’s uprooted to Washington, D.C., to live with her older…
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Exploring Love and Self-Discovery in Overdue by Stephanie Perkins
Read more: Exploring Love and Self-Discovery in Overdue by Stephanie PerkinsOverdue by Stephanie Perkins (Oct 7, 2025) Thank you @naturallystephperkins @saturdaybooks and @macmillan.audio for the #gifted advanced listening copy! Twenty-nine-year-old librarian Ingrid Dahl has been with her boyfriend Cory for eleven years, but when her sister gets engaged after just two years, Ingrid and Cory finally ask themselves: why haven’t we taken the next step?…
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Exploring Romance and Quirkiness in We Met Like This
Read more: Exploring Romance and Quirkiness in We Met Like ThisWe Met Like This by Kasie West (Sept 16, 2025) Thank you @kasiewest, @saturdaybooks, and @macmillan.audio for the #gifted advanced listening copy of this book that quickly became a new favorite! #macaudio2025 Margot Hart is an assistant at a literary agency who lives and breathes romance novels – but she still hasn’t found her own…
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Exploring Grief and Romance in Elissa Sussman’s Novel
Read more: Exploring Grief and Romance in Elissa Sussman’s NovelTotally and Completely Fine by Elissa Sussman (July 8, 2025) Thank you @dellromance and @prhaudio for the free advanced reading and listening copies! #prhaudioinfluencer Lauren Parker has endured more loss than most: she lost her father as a teen, and later, her husband as an adult. Now, she’s navigating single motherhood with a moody teenage…
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