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Oh Christmas Tree
Like millions of families, we decorate our Christmas tree each holiday season. What began as an annual event became a vast, breakable...
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Reality Home Schooling
Like many home enthusiasts, I’m a fan of HGTV and now Magnolia Network. For those interested in home remodeling, decorating, or interior...
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The Invincible Miss Cust
The Invincible Miss Cust, based on the real-life of Aleen Isabel Cust, might be historical fiction, but it’s a story destined to make...
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First Blood
On the first day of her new assignment, Detective Inspector Kim Stone makes her way to her new Detective Chief Inspector’s office with no...
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The Woman Underwater
That morning was like any other. Victoria Sands rushed her two boys through breakfast and out the door to school and blew a kiss to her...
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A Jar of Pennies
Jesse Grinder was born with few options, and life went south from there. He’s from country stock who toil in forestry, eat, sleep, go to...
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Hog Wild
The growing tribes of feral hogs spreading across the 450-square-mile Texas Cross Barr cattle ranch are about to get a snout full of...
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The Floating Girls
Twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker has a severe case of boredom and loneliness. Growing up at the end of a dirt road in Bledsoe, Georgia,...
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For Those Who Are Lost
With the Nazi invasion of Guernsey immanent, residents scramble to get their children off the island and to the safety of mainland...
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How to Train Your Husband
Little Lessons Every New Bride Needs to Learn My husband often jokes with friends that he wants to return as one of our dogs when he...
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Five Books to Pull from the TBR file For Your Vacation
Summer is the perfect time to delve into your To Be Read pile, and I have five superb books to share with you from mine. From a royally...
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Well-Dressed Husbands
Let’s be honest. There is nothing sexier than a husband who has just mowed the lawn. Or cleaned out the garage. Or rearranged the...
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The Physicists’ Daughter
It’s 1944, and Justine Byrne is thrilled by the opportunity to step away from her mind-numbing war-time assembly line job and use her...
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The Romance of Packing
Planning what to pack for our upcoming summer trip to England would be easier if I knew all my careful, neat folding wouldn’t end up a...
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Two Little Girls
One Heart-Wrenching Choice Choose which one dies—a horrific nightmare for any mother of more than one child. In Two Little Girls, the...
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The Distant Dead
I discovered bestselling author Lesley Thomson’s remarkable Detective’s Daughter series a few years ago by chance. I should have also...
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The Windsor Knot
As celebrations marking Queen Elizabeth’s platinum anniversary as monarch begin, it’s the perfect time to discover S.J. Bennett’s new...
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Hattie Rose Has Earned Her Wings
Preparing for our first Christmas together 30 years ago, I asked my husband what kind of topper he’d like for our tree. His response told...
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Salute to My Neighborhood Heros - Dallas Fire Station 17
I was delighted when asked to write a small profile of Lakewood's neighborhood fire station. In part, of course, because it's my...
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First Impressions
After A Gloomy 2020, Refreshing Our Home’s Entry Is A Step In The Right Direction To Welcome Back Guests Our neighborhood, considered the...
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Riptide Galveston
Celebrating My Love Affair With Galveston Island . . . The United States Coast Guard Station With Guardsman Joseph Ayotte, CS1 While in...
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Riptide Galveston
Celebrating My Love Affair With Galveston Island. . . Waterman's Restaurant - Dinner, Cocktails And A Killer View Waterman's Restaurant...
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Riptide Galveston
Celebrating My Love Affair With Galveston Island . . . Christmas on The Strand - Where It's Always Christmas I began collecting Christmas...
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Riptide Galveston
Celebrating My Love Affair With Galveston Island . . . Star Drug Store – The First Drug Store in Texas A brass plaque marks the height of...
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Riptide Galveston
Celebrating My Love Affair With Galveston Island . . . The Stewart’s Mansion - Home to Pirates and Philanthropists - With Shirley Roane,...
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Summer Chills
As summer temperatures heat up, it’s the perfect time to kick back with chilling mysteries from some of crime fiction’s best: Julia...
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The Missing Piece...
The time we spent homebound with our families during the pandemic gave us an unexpected puzzle to solve: a newfound love of jigsaws. And...
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Where Does the Time Go?
We look at our grandchildren and ask, “Where does the time go?” I think I may have found it. Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy...
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Of Mutts and Men by Spencer Quinn
Since the Chet and Bernie mysteries are told in Chet’s point of view, my mom’s letting me, Miss Lizzie, take over the keyboard for this...
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The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton
There’s something unusual about Vira. The young golden retriever, rescued from a near-death experience, isn’t your average lucky dog. The...
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When Should Outdoor Decorations Come Down?
Every neighborhood has one of those, the neighbor who leaves their outdoor Christmas holiday decorations up until after Valentine’s...
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Q&A: Roberta Isleib/Lucy Burdette
Have months of isolation and the prospect of hibernation season left you longing for a winter escape that includes suntan lotion, frosty...
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Silent Bite by David Rosenfelt
All semi-retired defense attorney Andy Carpenter wants is the holiday family cruise he’s on to be over–that and to stay retired. While he...
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Q&A: Lisa Black
Any mystery fan has to love an author who announces, “Murder is my day job.” In the case of New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black,...
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Q&A: Jenny Milchman
The Second Mother is the newest offering from Jenny Milchman, USA Today bestselling author of psychological thrillers. With her first...
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Q&A: Rhys Bowen
When newlywed Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself at loose ends, that can only mean trouble for the star of author Rhys Bowen’s Royal...
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Q&A: Craig Johnson
There’s great nostalgia associated with the lawmen of the Old West. Today, whether they’re riding into town on horseback or, say,...
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Firewatching by Russ Thomas
Firewatching had three things to recommend it before I’d reached page one. First: it’s a murder mystery set in a bucolic English village,...
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Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
Being a career journalist, I’m usually leery of novels about reporters. I’ve picked up too many written by someone who’s never been on...
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Q&A: S.C. Perkins
When the 900-page family saga, Roots, was published in 1976 by Alex Haley, a nationwide fascination with discovering one’s ancestors...
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Muzzled By David Rosenfelt
I hit the jackpot when I picked up David Rosenfelt’s new book Muzzled. The fast-paced page turner has all the ingredients for a perfect...
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Q&A: Karen Dionne
We think of nature as beautiful, life affirming, and inspiring. However, Karen Dionne, author of the No. 1 international bestseller, The...
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Q&A: Peter James
When the Charterhouse school poetry prize was won in 1967 by teenager named Peter James, the real winner was the reading public. Today,...
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Author Q&A: Liv Constantine
One of the scariest lines ever seen on a book jacket comes courtesy of Liv Constantine’s The Wife Stalker: It says, “All She Wants is the...
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The Librarian Did It
Librarians have a lot to answer for. It’s because of them I embarked on a life of crime. Growing up in a tiny, rural South Texas farming...
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Q&A: Steven James
How does a former children’s entertainer and professional storyteller become a bestselling author of adult suspense? Being a “natural...
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Summer Staycation Reads
Great stories from Catriona McPherson, Charles Finch, Jess Montgomery and Anne Perry Although we’re all trying to stay at home as much as...
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Q&A: Allison Brennan
A chat with thriller author Allison Brennan obliterates writers’ excuses about not having time to exercise their craft. The New York...
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Life’s a Shell Game
We live in a world that strives for perfection. The fashion, business and technology, cosmetics, lifestyles and, of course, sports...
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The Gift of Kindness
We spend our lives accumulating. This collecting is an essential part of our memory-building process. There are items from school...
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