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IT TAKES TWO TO MANGO BY CARRIE DOYLE

6/30/2022

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It Takes Two to Mango is book one in the Trouble in Paradise cozy mystery series. While it was a rough start for me I ended up really enjoying this tropical mystery.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Series: Trouble in Paradise #1
Pages: 290 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
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It's all fun in the sun until there's a murder in paradise

After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decides she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps—what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island.
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However, paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question leaving her old life behind. But when a client is found dead in the jacuzzi of Casa Mango—a property Plum manages—she knows she's really in a jam. With a killer loose on the island Plum will have to deal with a stonewalling police chief, a string of baffling clues, and a handsome Director of Security to solve this deadly case!

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MARY JANE BY JESSICA ANYA BLAU

5/18/2022

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​Simply put, this is the perfect beach read. From the minute I started reading to the moment I finished I felt like the sun was shining on my shoulders. 
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 11, 2021
Genre: Historical Fiction (70s). Coming of Age. 

Series: None.
Pages: 335 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased.
Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.

The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and ​

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THE HOMEWRECKERS BY MARY KAY ANDREWS

5/14/2022

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I've been a longtime fan of Mary Kay Andrews and haven't been disappointed with her books ever! She writes amazing beach reads and they always have their own little twists!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Mystery. 

Series: None.
Pages: 442 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Publisher. 
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Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love.

Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss’s son at twenty, and became a widow at twenty-five. Now, she’s passionate about her work, but that’s the only passion in her life. “Never love something that can’t love you back,” is advice her father-in-law gives her, but Hattie doesn’t follow it and falls head-over-heels for a money pit of a house. She’s determined to make it work, but disaster after disaster occurs, and Hattie’s dream might cost Kavanaugh & Son their livelihood. Hattie needs money, and fast.

When a slick Hollywood producer shows up in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers
, cast against a male lead who may be a love

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THE SUMMER PLACE BY JENNIFER WEINER

5/10/2022

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Jennifer Weiner brings her characters to life in this moving portrait about families and the secrets they keep.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 10, 2022
Genre: Women's Fiction. Family Drama. 

Series: None.
Pages: 406 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Publisher.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdownable novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.

But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling

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