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Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons Series: A Rose Gardner Mystery, Book 2 Author: Denise Grover Swank Genre: mystery romance Published June 29th 2012 Summary:  When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she’s lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she’s picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an ominous vision she had in the men’s restroom proves the defendant is innocent. And there’s not a cotton picking thing she can do about it. Or is there? As if things weren’t bad enough, Rose’s older sister Violet is going through a mid-life crisis. Violet insists that Rose stop seeing her sexy new boyfriend, Arkansas state detective Joe Simmons and date other men. Rose is done letting people boss her around, but she can’t commit to Joe either. Still, Rose isn’t about to let the best thing in her life slip away.   Ab...

We welcome Karen Pokras Taz back to our blog today. Karen is the author of the Nate Rocks series and today we host a tour for the second book in this middle grade series, Nate Rocks the Boat . The author has a guest post, shares an excerpt, and is also holding a giveaway. Nate Rocks the Boat by Karen Pokras Toz Genre: Middle Grade Format: paperback, 142 pages; ebook Published April 20th 2012 by Grand Daisy Press (first published 2012) Summary: With fourth grade finally winding down, 10-year-old Nathan Rockledge is looking forward to a fun and relaxing summer at home with his friends. That is, until his mom decides he has to go to overnight camp with his annoying older sister. When his best friend Tommy decides to tag along, Nathan thinks maybe his summer won’t actually be so bad. After all, he does get to be away from his mom's awful cooking for an entire six weeks. Amongst Color War competitions, a flaky counselor, and a bully named "No-Neck,” Nathan turns t...