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  The Inn Boonsboro series starts with The Next Always by Nora Roberts.   She actually based this series on the real Inn Boonsboro.   The building of the inn is described in detail in this novel. Synopsis: The Montgomery brothers are working hard on the new family business the Inn Boonsboro.   They are rebuilding and refurbishing the Inn.   Their mother Justine directs the flow of the business.   One of the other businesses in the area is the local bookstore which is run by Clare Brewster a single mother of three boys.   She also has the attention of Beckett Montgomery who pursues a friendship with Clare.   Will it blossom into something more?    What will happen with the inn as it continues to grow? My Thoughts: After reading the Bride Quartet series, I was excited to read the Inn Boonsboro series.   My excitement decreased in the beginning of this novel.   I have a hard time sometimes when the author is introducing new characters and the setting.   I tend t

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Thank you to Bloomsbury and Maureen Lindley.   A Girl Like You is a bittersweet coming of age story of a young girl caught between two worlds. It gives voice to the difficulties faced by Japanese Americans that is too seldom heard. We hear many accounts of how World War II changed life in America.   However, the stories do not usually include how the war impacted the lives of minorities in America. Very little is mentioned of the internment camps that existed in America that "housed" thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans ages ranging from infants to the elderly, healthy and ailing. Angelina is the small town in California that Satori Baker calls home during the the late 1930's. The Bakers' are living on a farm that barely brings in enough money to make ends meet.   To add to the difficulties of growing up in the last years of the depression, and the angst associated with becoming a young woman, Satori is dealing with the fact that she is half Japanes

Good afternoon everyone!  First, I need to congratulate Bridget for winning a copy of The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman.  Here is our mail for this week: White Lies by Emily Harper Reflection of Queen Snow White Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen I am reading: Celeste is reading: