tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480357035081499252024-03-13T14:17:44.602-07:00romanticbooks-librosromanticosI am an avid reader of all kind of books. I love romance, a good thriller and cooking, travelling and gardening books. I love travelling! I enjoy cooking a lot,and working in my garden as well.Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-17088225295546205692012-03-06T10:05:00.000-08:002012-03-06T10:05:16.966-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>In London Willa's family is in the middle of the struggle for women's suffrage. In India: was Willa, with her pains and her memories. For neither willa, nor Seamus would ever forget what had happended in Africa. They had been climbing the Kilimanjaro when a boulder hit Willa and she fell. Seami carried her to the base, but when he reached the villa, one of her legs had to be amputated. And she never forgave Seamus Finnegan for that loss. Eight years after that, she is climbing mountains and she has a wide knowledge of the Himalayas, she has surveyed, mapped and photographed more than any westerner had ever done. She is still in love with Seamus but will they be reunited again?</b></span></div>Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-39336565486444269812012-03-06T09:41:00.000-08:002012-03-06T09:42:45.417-08:00GENTLEMEN PREFER NERDS, by Joan Kilby<img src="http://www.netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/6361/images/gentlemen_prefer_nerds.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">**** <b>Nice easy read</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Maddie maloney is a gemolotist and a nerd who discovered a pink diamond worth twenty millon dollars, but when she was curved over her microscope, a stranger came into the jewelery shop and warned her about a jewel thief called Chameleon. The stranger's name is Fabian Montgomery and they are going to have quite an adventure together, trying to catch the chameleon while escaping from the police.</b></span>Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-2393922541383729892012-03-06T09:24:00.002-08:002012-03-06T09:24:18.120-08:00GRAVE MERCY, by Robin LaFevers<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Grave Mercy is written in the first person of Ismae Rienne who was raised as the daughter of a turnip's farmer but was in fact the daughter of Mortain, the god of death. She was brutally beaten by her father until he sold her to Guillo as his wife, but he was no better. She was saved by a herbewitch who took her to the Convent of Saint Mortain. By the way they had to take a boat to reach the Convent, I imagine it was Mont St. Michel. A convent in a small island, very near the beach which is now a tourist place and a convent.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Piper was duped once, seven years ago, when she met her sons father, who was married with three kids! She is not going to fall for Eric's charms... Or is she?</b></span>Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-57394156704243901532012-02-27T12:11:00.001-08:002012-02-27T12:11:22.805-08:00A DIXIE CHRISTMAS, by Sandra Hill<img alt="A Dixie Christmas" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AfsvPjW7L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-46,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>***</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Lauren Vaughn introduced her sister to the man she has a crush on. And now they are in their bachelorette party in a ski center and she is lonely and bored. But then she glimpses a man with a black handkerchief in his pocket and she remembers the hanky code, but she is not sure what the left pocket meant. So, Mr fantasy man comes to her table and starts talking to her. Jamie finally takes her to his suite and never wants to let her go.</span><br />
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all I want to say this is my first Marie Force book. I didn't
read the first Fatal book, so I was lost at times with some of the
characters. I loved Senator Nick Cappuano and D.c. Police
Liutenant Sam Holland and the other couples as well. Terry
O'Connor and Lindsey McNamara's, Jeannie Mc Bride and Michael,
Freddy Cruz and Elin, Gonzo and Christina... There is a lot of
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Sam are back from the honeymoon in Bora Bora when the murders
started. And they also discovered there were thinly veiled
death threats mixed with their wedding cards, thousands of them! They
arrived at HQ, at Nick's office, at home... so there was a lot of
work to do. Sam and Nick are in danger and so are many people
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>An English baron wants to buy Rocky Rhodes' father golf course so he can put up a textile machinery factory. Her boss, senator Rupert Warren put her at Lord Wollham's disposal until the problem is solved. There is a conflict of interest... and there is the fact that Rocky doesn't want to go to Last Chance for the Watermelon festival. How is she going to solve Lord Wollham's problem without drowning in his scotch whisky color eyes? The town is lovable. The characters too. You will enjoy this love story.</b></span></div>Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-80903582406998972492012-01-25T10:21:00.000-08:002012-01-25T10:25:30.812-08:00EATING FREE, by Manuel Villacorta<img src="http://www.netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/31149/images/g0245eatfree80x120.jpg" />****<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I love this book, it shows you how to eat what is good for you and loose weight in the way. It's very interesting to know about the ghrelin hormone, how it spikes if you don't eat every three hours, how to control your hunger and the best of all: the shopping list! </span></b>Grahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06501104008441226808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148035703508149925.post-60926744748478933352012-01-25T10:06:00.000-08:002012-01-25T10:06:59.034-08:00THE HUNTER/FARMER DIET SOLUTION, by Dr. Mark Liponis<img alt="The Hunter/Farmer Diet Solution" src="http://www.netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/2725/images/hunter_farmer_cover_resize_ng.jpg" />*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">**** I love it! After you read the first chapters you will be able to know whether you are a hunter or a farmer. For me it was 100% farmer, so I'm starting with the farmer diet, which is very healthy, so if I loose weight, it will be great! Very interesting book with all the explanations you need to know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This is my first book of Patricia C. Wrede's series about the world of Lyra. Lyra is a magical place that is shared by four races, the Shees, the Wyrds, that are creatures very similar to cats, Neiras and humans. The center of the main continent sank, mountains rose and fell...</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Georg Forster, founder of the Österriche Nationalistische Verteidgungs Front Partei ( a neo nazi party), was found dead in what seems a crash accident, but his succesor, Anton Hessler, claims he was murdered by the mossad. Kommisar Franz Waldbaer was ordered to investigate, since the crash occured 20 km. from the border of Austria, in Germany, and</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> Kommissarin</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> Frau Sabine Reiner from Innsbrück, since Forster was Austrian and was leaving Austria as it happened. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Funny situations about the idyosincrasy of Austrian people and the beliefs of Kommisarin Sabine, who is a very feminist woman, and also about who is to lead this investigation, plus where they should meet, (München or Innsbück) leading Waldbaer to think that austrian people had an inferiority complex because Austria used to be a very powerful empire and was now only a tourist destination. Sabine thinks he is chauvinistic and he is not a very good host since he provided her with coffee in a ceramic mug which was less than robustly cleaned, while she invited him with strudel and coffe from Julius Meinl (a coffee shop with 150 years of history). She is always against his meeting places, such as the Bier Garten. :-)</b></span></div>
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