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Marguerite by the Lake

The Rise and Fall of a Dream Author: Mary Dixie Carter Marguerite is more brand than person. She lives in a stately home, perched on a cliff above a glistening lake. The grounds are expertly tailored, with Marguerite’s signature roses spreading rich perfume among the isles of flowers and trees, the winding paths, the breathtaking vistas. But is all this really Marguerite’s work, or is Phoenix, her gardener, the one truly responsible for the carefully executed vision, for the details that go into Marguerite’s Instagram posts and gardening books, for Marguerite’s unending success, for the fact that Marguerite is a by-word [...]

2025-05-05T11:44:13-07:00May 5th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Queen’s Musician, The

Forbidden Love and a King's Schemes Author: Martha Jean Johnson Anne Boleyn stole the scene at court – until she lost her head. All these hundreds of years later, she still captivates us; her story – a grand rise and a horrible, bloody fall – fill both our history books and our lurid imaginations. What’s not to love? A forbidden romance. A thwarted, egotistical king wanting an heir. An ambitious, beautiful young woman wanting to rise in the world and willing to do anything – absolutely anything – to make it happen. A kingdom divided between them. Man and church warring [...]

2025-04-14T19:03:26-07:00April 14th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Quiet Life, A

“We live so much of our lives without telling anyone.” Author: Ethan Joella Three lives, going on separately, are each occluded by the unrelenting pressure of grief. One winter, as the ice shines on the road and the cold seeps into the bones, three strangers find each other through the twists of fate. Together, they start to discover the next steps in a life that will not end, no matter how much they wish that it had. It’s weird to say that Ethan Joella’s A Quiet Life is cozy when the themes – death, pain, grief, separation, betrayal – are so [...]

2025-04-12T09:24:00-07:00April 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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