Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

By Melanie Shankle / Genre: Motherhood, Parenting & Relationships / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (226 reviews)

“There is really no better indicator you’re a mother than acquiring the ability to catch throw-up in a plastic bag, disinfect your hands, and immediately ask your friend to pass the beef jerky as you put on another Taylor Swift song and act as if nothing has happened.”

This is the type of insight Melanie Shankle offers in this quirky memoir of motherhood.

Written in the familiar, stream-of-consciousness style of her blog, Big Mama, Sparkly Green Earrings is a heartwarming and hilarious look at motherhood from someone who is still trying to figure it all out.

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Angel of Skye (Macpherson Brothers)

By May McGoldrick / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (28 reviews)

Famed Scottish warrior Alec Macpherson is drawn to lovely Fiona Drummond Stewart after he rescues her from bandits in the forest, not realizing that she is the secret illegitimate daughter of King James IV and the target of the evil schemes of the ambitious Lord Gray.

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The Fortune Quilt

By Lani Diane Rich / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (201 reviews)

“Accept the book with the amber spine.
Return the frog. Take the cab.

What the hell kind of advice is that?”

When Tucson Today segment producer Carly McKay visits the quirky artist’s community of Bilby, Arizona, to do a story on a psychic quiltmaker, she receives an odd reading… and her life falls apart in eerie harmony with what the quilt foretold. Her best friend professes his undying love; her show gets canceled; and the mother who disappeared seventeen years ago appears on their doorstep, getting instant forgiveness from the entire family… except Carly.

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The Stranger Beside You (A Thriller)

By William Casey Moreton / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (176 reviews)

How well do you really know the person in bed beside you?

Brynn Nelson is living the American dream. She has a nice home in the suburbs, a husband working on Wall Street, and two fabulous kids. But when the FBI rings the doorbell at midnight, storming her home and arresting her husband Tom for murder, her peaceful world is shattered.

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Moon Child

By J.R. Rain / Genre: Vampires, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (105 reviews)

Mother, wife, private investigator…vampire. Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire.

Now in MOON CHILD, private investigator Samantha Moon is faced with an impossible decision—a decision that no mother should ever have to make. A decision that will change her life, and those she loves, forever.

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