Slow Dance

 Fiction by Rainbow Rowell

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In 2006, Shiloh goes to her friend Mikey's second wedding. She didn't go to his first one, because it was all the way in New York, but this one is right here in Omaha. She hasn't seen Mikey much since they graduated from high school almost fifteen years ago, because she's not good at keeping up with people. But she goes to the wedding, and she dresses up, although she'd not admitting to herself that who she really wants to see is Cary. Cary is the boy she hasn't seen or spoken to since she was nineteen, but she has never stopped thinking of him.

This was a truly lovely romance story. Rainbow Rowell writes the most realistic characters and the best dialogue. I recommend this book!

I also read recently by this author: If The Fates Allow

Deep Freeze

Amazon Prime Fiction by Lisa Jackson. 

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Movie star Jenna Hughes decides to relocate to a small town in Oregon in order to get her daughters (and herself) away from the Hollywood scene after a bitter divorce. But she doesn't realize that an obsessed fan is stalking her...

This book was all right, I guess, but a little over the top in believability. It ended in a cliffhanger to try to hook me on the next book in the series but I think I decline. Still, it WAS free.

I also read by this author: Wicked Ways

I also read (FREE) from Amazon Prime Kindle Fiction: Room for Another

As Long as We Both Shall Live

 Fiction by Joann Chaney

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In 1995, Matt Evans was married to Janice, but the young couple was off to a rocky start. Only a year after their wedding, Janice was dead. Although the police suspected Matt had killed her, there was no proof.

Over twenty years later, Matt and his wife Marie have two college-aged daughters and seem quite content. In 2018 the couple take a hike together and Marie falls off a cliff. Has Matt Evans killed another wife, or is there something else going on?

This was an exciting thriller with several surprises!

Down the Darkest Road

Fiction by Tami Hoag. 

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It’s been almost four years since sixteen-year-old Leslie Lawton disappeared, and less than two years since Leslie’s father was killed in a car accident. Now Leslie’s mother Lauren and her younger sister Leah are trying to make a fresh start in a new town, away from Santa Barbara and the man Lauren believes killed Leslie. His name is Roland Ballencoa and he is still walking free because the police have no evidence to charge him. But then Lauren sees Ballencoa in her new town….

This was pretty good thriller. It's part of a series (#3), although it didn't make me feel like I had missed too much backstory. I will look for another one by this author.

The River We Remember

 Fiction by William Kent Krueger

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It’s 1958 in the small town of Jewel, Minnesota, when Jimmy Quinn is found dead in the Alabaster River. Nobody in town much liked Jimmy, although he was probably the richest man there, and Sheriff Brody Dern would like to call the death an accident to avoid any trouble. Unfortunately it becomes apparent that Jimmy Quinn was likely murdered, and that trouble is unavoidable.

This was a good story with great characters. I didn’t love the ending.

I also read by this author: This Tender Land

The Dreamers

 Fiction by Karen Thompson Walker

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This was a strange book about an outbreak of a previously-unknown sleeping sickness that began on a college campus in a small California town. It was good but not great.

Alice Isn't Dead

 Fiction by Joseph

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Keisha's wife Alice disappeared, and eventually was presumed dead by everyone except Keisha, who refused to believe it. Then Keisha set out to find Alice and prove that she was still alive.

This is an interesting premise, and I liked the beginning of the book. Then it got weirder and darker and I didn't like it anymore.  Then it got even weirder and darker; I gave up about halfway...