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Book Blast | Unbreakable Texas Women

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    UNBREAKABLE TEXAS WOMEN By JOANNE KUKANZA EASLEY NEW COVER REVEAL SYNOPSIS SWEET JANE She ran from her mother's life. Then she had to go home and face it. By six, Janie already knows what most children never have to learn: vodka doesn't just make Mama mean — it destroys everything it touches. Growing up in the dust and hard living of 1950s Odessa, Texas, she vows she'll never become her mother. At sixteen, she runs, hitchhiking west just as the Summer of Love begins — chasing freedom, and finding instead the same old patterns of pain in new places.  Seventeen years later, Jane looks like she's won. She's sober, married to a psychiatrist, working toward her graduate degree — a life rebuilt from the ground up. But when news of her estranged mother's death pulls her back to Odessa, the past she's spent two decades outrunning finally catches her. Old wounds. Buried truths. A discovery that forces her to question everything she believed about the woman who r...

Book Talk | The New Year's Man

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                                                          THE NEW YEAR’S MAN By Michael Scott Clifton Romantic Fantasy / Romantic Comedy Publication Date: September 11, 2026 Landry LeBlanc has everything he wants: a luxury condo, a fast-rising legal career, expensive taste, and an ironclad rule against falling in love. Relationships, to him, come with expiration dates—and New Year’s Eve is his favorite time to end them. But when Landry takes his latest girlfriend to the mysterious Fairy Lights Brasserie, his perfectly controlled life comes apart in spectacular fashion. One brutal breakup later, he finds himself face-to-face with Stella: a cigar-smoking, wand-wielding fairy godmother with questionable fashion sense, a faulty temper, and a mission to thaw his hardened heart. Stella has one simple plan: make Landry fall in love. Landr...

Book Talk | Yesteryear

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When I started seeing people post about this book, I kind of wanted to read it, but I also didn't have the highest hopes for it, so I wanted to borrow it from my local library in case I just wasn't into it so I could easily give it back. Well, it's pretty backed up at all the library branches and there's so many holds, so I went to Half Price Books, who usually has 20% off new and popular titles, and what would you know, I found it in the used section for half-off. It was a steal, because in the end, I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would.  About the Author Caro Claire Burke received her Master's in Fine Arts from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the co-host of Diabolical Lies, a politics and culture podcast. Yesteryear is her first novel.   About the Book Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemad...

Book Talk | The Long Game

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It's been too long since I, and the majority of readers and viewers, first learned about the Heated Rivalry universe. When it came out, I watched all of season one, bought the corresponding book, bought a t-shirt, and joined online forums dedicated to Shane and Ilya. I've been reading quite a few other books and when I found out I would be traveling alone for a work conference ( see my Tampa blog ), I knew this would be the perfect time to enjoy the second book of the Heated Rivalry series. Here's a little book talk for Rachel Reid's The Long Game . About the Author Rachel Reid is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Game Changers hockey romance series, as well as the standalone hockey romance novels Time to Shine and The Shots You Take. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it’s looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.    About the Book " Ten years. That’s how long Shane Holl...

Book Talk | Buried Dallas–Fort Worth: A Photographic Journey through North Texas Cemeteries

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 When another Tui Snider book came up on the docket for the Lone Star Literary Life bloggers group, I signed up to review almost immediately. Since reading and reviewing her book 6 Feet Under Texas for the first time in 2020, I've been a Tui Snider fan. Her historic and niche books are something different and more than just another coffee table book. Here's my book talk of  Buried Dallas–Fort Worth: A Photographic Journey through North Texas Cemeteries   by Tui Snider. About the Author  Tui Snider is an author, speaker, photographer, YouTuber, podcast host, and musician who researches historic cemeteries and symbolism, offbeat Texas travel, overlooked history, and haunted lore. As she puts it, “I used to write fiction–but then I moved to Texas!”  Snider’s best-selling books include Understanding Cemetery Symbols , 100 Things to Do in Dallas-Fort Worth Before You Die , Paranormal Texas , and many more. Snider has several books in progress and enjoys connec...

Book Talk | The Frequency

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THE FREQUENCY By Randall D. St. Claire Mystery/ Speculative Thriller/ Thriller/ Suspense/ History   Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: July 21, 2026 SYNOPSIS ════════════════════════════════════ ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .   ︶⊹︶︶୨୧︶︶⊹︶︶⊹︶︶୨୧︶︶⊹︶︶⊹︶︶୨୧︶︶⊹︶︶⊹ He didn’t expect his life to change in a single moment. He didn’t expect it to ask anything in return. Bronx Rousselle built his small life on purpose: a pawnshop in northern Minnesota, a few familiar faces, no debts he couldn’t count, no relationship anchors. Friendship, i n his experience, always came with a cost—and Bronx never owed much to anyone. Humor helped. If he laughed hard enough at trouble, it often lost interest. Then something finds its way into his hands. Old. Hidden. Mystical at first glance. Powerful enough to draw attention from people who don’t ask—they take. Curiosity bleeds into pursuit, and luck demands a toll. As it stretches from the American Midwest to the froze...