WWII romance books for readers who want a love story with their history: The Bronze Horseman, The Invisible Bridge, The ...

I knew I needed to make a list of my favorite novels set in retirement communities. I read one, and suddenly, I had read so ...

Every year, Kirsten and I love to find new ways to celebrate books for summer and knew books set on an island would be ...

Louse Penny is a master of mystery. Her plotlines are brilliant, and her characters are memorable. The Black Wolf is the twentieth book in the Three Pines series and the second in a two-book story arc ...

This year, I read a number of books that I loved with a clear antiheroine. These characters are flawed and should be unlikable, yet somehow, I was laughing out loud. I knew I needed to make a list of ...

I love a family drama book, but there is something even more captivating about multigenerational novels. I love seeing multiple generations together, connected in some way. Sometimes the generations ...

Kirsten and I recently had a discussion about speculative fiction novels and what constitutes speculative fiction. It turns out that this is a long-running debate in the literary community. We wanted ...

Small Town Romance Novels have become very popular in the past few years. Kirsten and I love them! There is something so cozy about letting go of the stresses of big cities and getting to know the ...

Harper Graham’s Maple Falls series started with The Cinnamon Spice Inn. But my first introduction to the Maple Falls series was actually The Spiced Cocoa Cafe, which I read for our Christmas roundup ...

Laurie Gilmore shot to the bestseller list with the first book in the Dream Harbor series, The Pumpkin Spice Cafe. With so many books in that series, and the start of Laurie’s second series, Maple ...

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For the past few years, when Christmas rolls around the first new book I reach for is whatever Jenny Bayliss has written. Her Christmas novels are filled with heartfelt emotion, difficult topics, and ...