Stacking The Shelves #117 – BB&B #67
Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about the latest additions to your library – virtual or actual, with books that are bought, borrowed, won or ARCs you will be reading soon. Bought Borrowed and Bagged is a homage to to Barron’s Books and Baubles from Karen Marie Moning’s amazing Fever series, and is hosted by Braine over at Talk Supe.
The Choices We Make by Karma Brown – Thank you Harlequin MIRA and Edelweiss.
Hannah and Kate became friends in the fifth grade, when Hannah hit a boy for looking up Kate’s skirt with a mirror. While they’ve been close as sisters ever since, Hannah can’t help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created—complete with two perfect little girls.
She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she will likely never get pregnant, Hannah’s heartbreak is overwhelming. But just as they begin to tentatively explore the other options, it’s Kate’s turn to do the rescuing. Not only does she offer to be Hannah’s surrogate, but Kate is willing to use her own eggs to do so.
Full of renewed hope, excitement and gratitude, these two families embark on an incredible journey toward parenthood…until a devastating tragedy puts everything these women have worked toward at risk of falling apart. Poignant and refreshingly honest, The Choices We Make is a powerful tale of two mothers, one incredible friendship and the risks we take to make our dreams come true.
Croc’s Return by Eve Langlais – thank you, Tantor Media!
Take one deadly bite and, bam, a man’s life is changed forever, or so Caleb discovers when a loss of control leads to him joining the military and leaving everything behind. Now that he’s back, making amends is harder than expected.His ex-girlfriend, Renny, is not interested in excuses. Caleb might have returned, but her plan is to keep him at arm’s length-only she can’t. Her son deserves a chance to get to know his father, but that doesn’t mean that Renny is letting Caleb back into her heart. Now if only her heart would cooperate.Things get dangerous when a mysterious being starts stalking the residents of Bitten Point. When the monster threatens his son, Caleb knows that it’s time to unleash his dark inner beast so he can snap at danger and take a bite out of life.Contains mature themes.
Last First Kiss by Lia Riley – thank you, Tantor Media!
Pinterest perfect. Or so Annie Carson’s life appears on her popular blog. Reality is . . . messier. Especially when it lands her back in one-cow town Brightwater, California, and back in the path of the gorgeous six-foot-four reason she left. Sawyer Kane may fill out those Wranglers, but she won’t be distracted from her task. Annie just needs the summer to spruce up and sell her family’s farm so she and her young son can start a new life in the big city. Simple, easy, perfect.Sawyer has always regretted letting the first girl he loved slip away. He won’t make the same mistake twice, but can he convince beautiful, wary Annie to trust her heart again when she’s been given every reason not to? And as a single kiss turns to so much more, can Annie give up her idea of perfect for a forever that’s blissfully real? Contains mature themes.
Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams – thank you, Tantor Media
When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flaky crust. But her pies aren’t just delicious. They’re having magical effects on the people who eat them, and the public is hungry for more.Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae makes her own wish come true by opening the Charmed Pie Shoppe. But with her old nemesis Loralyn Gaynor making trouble, and her old crush Hugh Dylan making nice, she has more than pie on her plate. When Loralyn’s fianc is found dead-killed with Ella Mae’s rolling pin-it’ll take all her sweet magic to clear her name.”
All the Way to Heaven (Fallout #1) by Becky Doughty – kindle freebie
Anica Tomlin, business major, has just learned that the man she’s been planning her future around, her Global Finance professor, already has a beautiful wife and family. Ani cashes in her graduation gift to herself a little early a trip to Tuscany but from the moment she boards the wrong train in Pisa, her plans for solitude and self-indulgence begin to unravel around her.
When a bicycle accident thrusts Ani into the skilled hands of the dashing Dr. Cosimo Lazzaro, she reluctantly accepts his invitation to recover in his family’s country villa, perched on a hilltop surrounded by the Lazzaro olive groves. But it’s been a black year for olive growers all over Italy, and generations of tradition are being put to the test like never before.
Ani is swept up in the drama of life in Tuscany, the convergence of old and new, and the passions that drive people to pursue the desires of their hearts. Just as Ani begins to get her feet under her again, an unexpected turn of events leaves her doubting the very existence of happily-ever-after, unless she can learn to trust the desires of her own heart.
Find Me (Finding Me #1) , Remember Me (Finding Me #2) and Keep Me (Finding Me #3) by Michelle Mankin – thank you, Chantelle!!
Almost forty-one-year-old Annabelle Morris, wife to multi-billionaire record label executive Charles Morris of Zenith Productions, and mother of two is at a crossroads in her life.
Separated from her husband after walking in on him having sex in the public restroom of a charity event she was hosting, she has arrived on the island of St. John alone and rejected, determined to re-evaluate her life and her marriage. She’s tired of being her husband’s showpiece while he pretends she doesn’t exist. She’s tired of trying to make their marriage work for the sake of their two teenage boys.
When she meets Johnny Lightning, a sexy but mysterious piano-playing, bearded sailor, she is tempted to break vows she has never before broken. But Johnny is much younger than her and seems to be hiding more than a few secrets of his own.
From the laid-back sandy beaches of the Caribbean to the elite circles of Dallas high society, Annabelle is forced to make critical choices.
Is a chance for happiness worth the risk of giving up the life she has always known?
Worth jeopardizing her own and possibly even her children’s future?
In the end, will she stay on her present course or brave a new and uncharted one?
Find Me, Remember Me, and Keep Me is a full and complete novel in three separate parts.
A standalone Tempest spin-off.
A Light in the Dark (Fallout #2) by Becky Doughty – I won this in NerdGirl’s random giveaway on Facebook on Saturday, Thank you, NerdGirl and Becky!
On stage, Tish Ransome sings about heartache and passion, betrayal, and about love gone wrong… but she knows very little about any of it in real life. The rockstar princess who swears like a pirate—literally—is loved and adored by family, friends, and fans alike, and her world is filled with good things, her future bright.
Behind the scenes, however, trouble is brewing. When Tom, her best friend and co-founder of the Marauders, tells her he’s leaving the band after graduation, Tish must find a new wingman to step into Tom’s hard-to-fill shoes. The moment she hears Sebastian Jeffries play, she knows he’s the one.
Yet with Sebastian comes a taste of the things Tish only writes about, and she can’t resist the lure of the tortured artist. Sebastian, likewise, is drawn to Tish’s brilliance, but like a moth that hovers too close to the flames, is he killing himself just to be near her? Can Tish save Sebastian before it’s too late, or will he pull her down into the darkness with him?
Did you get some exciting-looking books this week? Remember to leave me your link so I can check out your Stacking the Shelves and or Bought, Borrowed and Bagged post, too 🙂 Thanks for stopping by! Have a spectacular Saturday.
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I’m getting Croc Returns and Pies and Prejudice too but haven’t got them yet. They are in the next shipment. 🙂
I don’t get the Tantor ARCs shipped to me, I get them electronically, so if she sent them out at the same time – mine arrived in the next few seconds. I hope we’ll both enjoy them, Stormi!
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She use to do downloads, but then they changed to mp3’s. I don’t mind but now I have a bookshelf full of audios…lol.
She wanted to send me audio CDs, too, but when I told here where I lived, she said she’d do it another way 😀
Great haul, Lexxie! Last First Kiss is a really cute read 🙂 I hope you love all your new books! Happy reading!
I look forward to listening to Last First Kiss, Danielle 🙂 Happy reading to you, too.
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All of these look great, and I hope you enjoy them. Hmm, especially curious about Pies and Prejudice. Can’t wait to read you review for that. Happy Saturday!
I know, that title was irresistible. Food, food, food, plus the Pride and Prejudice nod 😀
A Light in the Dark and All The Ways to Heaven sound interesting. I hope you enjoy your books!
Thanks, Majanka 🙂 I look forward to all of them!
I’m so excited by my reading and buying right now! I’m so enjoying my zombiethon and just want to keep reading them! Would be nice if my reading enthusiasm lasted all year instead of last year’s multiple reading slump issues! Enjoy your books!
LOL you have a pretty long streak of zombie-books these days, Chuckles. And maybe if you mix it up every now and then with a non-zombie book, there won’t be a slump?
Great haul! I love the books that you won and were gifted. I think it is a little sweeter reading a book that you received in this manner.
I have to ask about the audiobook review copies. Where are you getting these? I am really curious even though I have an audible library that will take me years to get through.
I know, being gifted books, or winning them is definitely very sweet, Carole.
I get my audio ARCs directly from Tantor Media, not sure if there are other places to get those.
Yay for the win!! These are all totally new to me reads! Hope you enjoy each and every one of them!
My STS will be up tomorrow, so stop by then if you can!
Have a GREAT day!
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Thanks, Jessica 🙂 Have a great weekend.
Great haul! I’m thinking about picking-up “Croc’s Return”. I do enjoy Langlais, just a little unsure of that one because of the description. Not a huge fan of lovers reunited, especially if Langlais goes the way I’m thinking she does with the plot.
Happy reading!
I actually do love second chance at love stories, Samantha, so I’m really excited about this one.
Lots of great books!! I also got The Choices We Make – Hope we both enjoy it!!
It looks really good! I hope we’ll both enjoy it, too 🙂 Have a great weekend, Grace.
GREAT haul as usual Lexxie, I’ve never heard of Pies and Predjudice but the title made me giggle 🙂 I read the blurb though and it sounds really cute and fun! I hope you enjoy all of your goodies this week and happy weekend <3
I know, that’s one of the reasons I requested it, Micheline 🙂 And I’m sure to find some food quotes in there as well 🙂 Have a fantastic Sunday!
Awesome books!! The Choices We Make sounds so good – I’ll be looking forward to your thoughts on it. 🙂 Congrats on the win too! Hope you have a fantastic weekend! ♥
Yes, everything we do changes something in our lives, right? I hope I’ll enjoy it 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Lisa.
Wow, you managed to pick up some great looking books last week, Lexxie! I think I requested Last First Kiss, too! 😉 They all sound so good! I’m anxious to see what you think of them. And, of course, I hope they’ll dazzle you!
I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend, my friend!! **BIG HUGS**
I did pick up some great books this week, and I look forward to getting to read them. I get my ARCs from Tantor quickly, as I received them electronically, I hope you’ll get Last First Kiss too, then we can chat about it 🙂
*BIG HUGS*
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Have a great weekend, Lexxie! Great mix of books as always 🙂
Thanks, Braine. You, too 🙂
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Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on The Choices We Make and Find Me in particular 🙂 Nice picks!
Thanks, Lorna, I have already read the Find Me series, and I loved it!
Quite a few books in your haul are new to me. Have a wonderful weekend.
Grace @ Books of Love
There were a lot of new to me authors having their books featured on Netgalley and Edelweiss, and I wanted to try something new. I hope I’ll enjoy them.
Oh, so many awesome sounding reads! Congrats on the gifts and wins; always nice to get some free books. 🙂 The Choices We Make sounds quite good.
Yes, getting books gifted to me is so nice, because it’s just the best present ever 😀
Croc’s return does sound good even though it gave me a little titter with the croc on the cover! Hope you enjoy your new reads!
Eve Langlais’ shifters are very different, because she makes pairings that are so unlikely 😀 Like a rabbit and a bear, or a crocodile with a doe… Thanks for stopping by, Heather.
So many new ones to me! I like the look of the Langlais one, and the Mankin one. Mmm, lol. I hope you enjoy all of your new books!
Have a fabulous week, Lexxie. 🙂
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The Mankin serial was awesome, Alyssa! It’s always so nice to read about more mature characters who fall in love 😀 Thanks for stopping by.
Nice books, I like Pies and Prejudice, never saw that one before!! Have a great week!!
I can’t wait to listen to that one, Joann 😀
wow so many different books for you this week and they’re all new to me. Happy readig lexxie!
Yes, many different genres, too, that always makes me happy, Melliane 🙂
Enjoy all your new books and thanks for stopping by The Cover Contessa
Thanks, Brooke 🙂
The Choices We Make sounds good, I hope you enjoy. Have a great upcoming week.
I agree, Brandi 🙂 Thanks for stopping by.
I thought Find Me sounded good too. Yay for sexy beards.
It was so good, Jennifer! I really enjoyed it!
I haven’t heard of any of these but happy reading!
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Thanks, Tsuki 🙂 Have a great week!
Some of the titles seemed really great! Interesting haul and I do need to check out some of them 😛 Thanks for sharing Lexxie!! Have a great reading week!
Thanks, Natasha 🙂 Have a great week!