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 The Burning of Isobel Key by Jen McConnel  Contemporary New Adult paranormal fiction  Paperback, 288 pages* Published September 14th 2012 by BrightFish Press Purchase:  Amazon When Lou travels to Scotland, she’s a mess. She’s twenty-six, unemployed, and unsure of herself. It doesn’t help that she’s traveling with Tammy, her best friend, who is everything Lou is not. At first, the trip pushes Lou towards the brink of depression, but then she meets Brian, a handsome local tour guide. When Brian tells the tourists about the countless witches burned in Scotland, Lou starts to listen. And when she discovers information about Isobel Key, one of the victims of the seventeenth century, Lou finds renewed purpose. Lou has begun exploring the Neo Pagan faith, a dramatic shift from her wealthy Catholic upbringing. Despite her fears of being too “hocus pocusy”, Lou turns to her new faith as she struggles to unravel the mystery ...

Reader Girls is happy to once again participate in the third and final week of the  WinterHaven Sleigh Tour hosted by WinterHaven Books . This week, we are posting our favorite Children's, Winter or Christmas story. To see who else is on the sleigh, go to  WinterHaven Sleigh Tour  for a list of participating blogs. This week we are posting our favorite Christmas or winter story. We chose one that is not only a classic but is the epitome of the holiday season. A mean old miserly man is given the opportunity to right the wrongs he made in his life and just may become a better person from it. There is no other story which captures the true meaning of Christmas to us than Ebenezer Scrooge. Our favorite Christmas story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. London 1843 few know any leisure, and Christmas has all but been forgotten... ...Enter Charles Dickens and his "Ghostly little book," in which he invents the modern concept of Christmas Spiri...

The Boys of Summer (Book 1 Summer Series)  by CJ Duggan New Adult contemporary romance Purchase: Amazon It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in thefront door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him ... Toby Morrison.  Quiet seventeen-year-old Tess doesn’t relish the thought of a summertime job. She wants nothing more than to forget the past haunts of high school and have fun with her best friends before the dreaded Year Twelve begins.  To Tess, summer is when everything happens: riding bikes down to the lake, watching thefireworks at the Onslow Show and water bomb fights at the sweltering Sunday markets.  How did she let her friends talk her into working?  ...