November host: Kathy at BermudaOnion
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After seeing numerous tweets and blog reviews about The Art Forger I bought the audiobook.
Goodreads synopsis: On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the eye. Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting–a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum–in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.
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Goodreads synopsis: Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Emily Giffin are sure to fall in love with Katherine Center’s most heartwarming and engaging novel yet-about how even losing the most important thing in your life can help you find yourself again.
After the sudden loss of her husband in a car crash, Libby Moran falls on hard times-so hard, in fact, that she’s forced to move in with her hyper-critical mother. There, sleeping on the pull-out sofa so her two children can share the guest room, she can’t stop longing for the life she had. So when a letter arrives from Libby’s estranged aunt offering her a job and a place to live on her goat farm, Libby jumps at the opportunity. But starting over is never easy. With an aunt who is nothing like she imagined, a shaggy farm manager with a tragic past, a psychic at the feed store who claims to be able to contact the dead, and a bully at her daughter’s school, country life isn’t at all what Libby expected. But it also offers her what no other place can: A chance to define the good life for herself. A chance to piece together the mysteries of her own past. A chance, even, at love. And, finally, a chance to bring herself, and her family, back to life.
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Goodreads synopsis: At Madeline’s Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past: Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband’s affair. Ava Catalina is mourning the love of her life and helping her young son grow up without his father. Local plumber Yvonne Tate is smart, beautiful, and new to Avalon, but finds that despite a decade of living life on her own terms, the past has a way of catching up—no matter where she goes. And Frances Latham, mother to a boisterous brood of boys, eagerly anticipates the arrival of a little girl from China—unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of foreign adoption.
Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie’s guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon’s residents come to terms with their past and make bold decisions about their future. But when the group receives unexpected news about their steadfast leader, they must pull together to create something truly memorable.
What was in your mailbox?
I think I would go for the lost husband 🙂
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I’ll go for all three of them. Nice in very different ways.
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I like the look (sound?) of The Art Forger. It’s got a beautiful cover! Have a great week 🙂
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OH, I’ve so lusted after The Art Forger. Enjoy!!! The Avalon Ladies should get here soon. I won it from LT. Have a wonderful week, Mary.
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I have the first 2 Mary, so I’m hoping we both like those. Enjoy the 3rd title as well.
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I really want THE ART FORGER…ENJOY!!
THE LOST HUSBAND looks good too. 🙂
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Mailbox Monday
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They all look good, but my eye is on The Art Forger, which I am dying to read! Hope you enjoy them all.
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I just got the Art Forger audio too! The Lost Husband is new to me and looks good. have a good week!
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Oh, you have some fabulous books! I have thoroughly enjoyed everything by Katherine Center, so The Lost Husband just went on my list. Enjoy!
Here’s MY MONDAY MEMES POST
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The Lost Husband would break my heart. I hope you enjoy all your new books!
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Nice books, Mary. The Art Forger is on my list and I can’t wait to read it!
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I’m anxious to read Katherine Center’s newest book. I really enjoy her books. I’ve got the Avalon one as well. It sounds quite good. Enjoy Mary!
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All the wonderful reviews of The Art Forger make me want it too. I put in a hold request at the library, and hopefully I’ll get it soon! Here’s my Mailbox Monday Post.
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All of these look good, and as usual, beautiful covers. I’ve been reading great things about The Art Forger too.
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Gorgeous titles! Hope you enjoy them all.
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These boosk all sound great Mary. Thanks for brining them to our attention. I received a book I won from a blog I visit everyday. The Trouble with cowboys by Melissa Cutler. She is a new to me author and I am looking forward to reading her book. From the library I received A Season of Angels by Thomas Kincade and Katherine Spencer. I think this was one of the last books he was working on before he died.
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I’ve been seeing The Art Forger around a lot lately! Hope you love it and your other new reads!
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Interesting covers and titles.
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Thanks for stopping by my site! Enjoy your books!
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The last two look like books I would LOVE!
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I love the scrapbooking cover.
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I do want The Art Forger and this is the first I’ve heard of The Lost Husband so now I need that one too. ::sigh:: 😉
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They all look good to me! I hope to read The Art Forger soon.
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All three of your new books sound really good! I hope you enjoy them.
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I have the Art Forger here too, and I can’t wait to read it! You’ve got some great books there!
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I like the Art of the Forger book cover. I hope you enjoy all your books!
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Such a great selection though I don’t think I could read The Lost Husband.
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I’ve enjoyed two of Katherine Center’s books, so I can’t wait to see what you think of this one!
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Great mailbox. I got The Art Forger too. The Lost Husband looks interesting. I love the cover!
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The Lost Husband sounds like an emotional read but I can’t wait to see what you think of The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, I’ve been eyeing it off.
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I love the sound of all three of these. I do have a copy of the Scrapbooking Society on my Kindle! Enjoy!
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