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SUMMARY:Blog Tour: Rites & Wrong - April 28\, 2021
DESCRIPTION:Santa Fe police detective Pascal Ruiz becomes disenchanted with his job after solving the high-profile theft of a Stradivarius violin. That is until the captain asks him\, off the record\, to look into the disappearance of his niece’s boyfriend\, Bobby Pilot.Pilot\, staying out at Diamond Tail Ranch south of Santa Fe while his girlfriend has a part in a TV western\, has been struggling to write an article on the Penitentes\, a religious order known for its Holy Week reenactments of Christ’s last day on earth\, while he also prepares for the upcoming Easter procession to Chimayó. Ruiz finds Pilot alive but unconscious in an abandoned pueblo\, clothed in a Jesus costume and tied to a cross.He suspects the Penitentes and believes the costume is one recently stolen from a Santa Fe Opera storage building. But the pueblo is on the San Felipe Reservation\, not in Ruiz’s jurisdiction. Tribal police take over the case\, and Ruiz attempts to wheedle his way in by befriending the tribal police captain. In his desperation to link the two cases\, he crosses the line and puts his career in jeopardy. \nAbout the Author \nHolly Harrison is a writer and author of the new novel\, Rites & Wrongs. Although she has been a writer all her life\, spelling never came easy for her. As a youngster she wrote books in her head as she walked to the bus stop and at night she whispered made up stories to her sister after the lights were out. She came to New Mexico to attend graduate school but soon became enamored with the land and people. Now retired from the university\, she devotes herself full-time to writing mystery novels. The Land of Enchantment provides a multicultural landscape to unfold crimes and misdemeanors. She lives near Old Town Albuquerque with her husband\, Phil\, and their two Scottish Terriers. When Harrison is not writing she is riding her Swedish Warmblood\, Soleil\, in the Bosque near the Rio Grande.
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SUMMARY:Blog Tour - Libertie
DESCRIPTION:Named One of the Most-Anticipated Books of 2021 by:\nO\, The Oprah Magazine\, The Millions\, Refinery29\, Garden & Gun\, Publishers Lunch\, BuzzFeed\, The Rumpus\, BookPage\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more. \n“Pure brilliance. So much will be written about Libertie—how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling\, how it spins the past to draw deft circles around our present—but none of it will measure up to the singular joy of reading this book.”\n—Mira Jacob\, author of Good Talk \nThe critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You\, Charlie Freeman returns with Libertie\, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully\, and only\, herself. \nComing of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn\, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her purposeful mother\, a practicing physician\, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie\, drawn more to music than science\, feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else—is there really only one way to have an autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that\, unlike her mother\, who can pass\, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island\, she accepts\, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman\, Libertie struggles with where she might find it—for herself and for generations to come. \nInspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States and rich with historical detail\, Kaitlyn Greenidge’s new and immersive novel will resonate with readers eager to understand our present through a deep\, moving\, and lyrical dive into our complicated past. \nAbout the Author: \nKaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel\, We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times\, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, the Wall Street Journal\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Greenidge lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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SUMMARY:Book Tour - Still Moving: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:WHO DO WE BECOME when we’ve lost the things that defined us? When Linda Durham shuttered her internationally acclaimed art gallery after thirty-three years\, she found herself navigating a sea of bewilderment. Risk-taking had long been the tour de force of her life. But had she failed\, or had she succeeded? Change always comes at a price.\n\nThrough delicious and dark\, scintillating and salacious true tales of planned and accidental intersections with the exotic and quixotic\, Durham pits her real self against her ideal self in a lifelong journey as serpentine as the Mobius strip her father made for her more than seven decades ago. \n\nOn stage and off\, Durham creates and is created by story. Raven spirit tattoos on both shoulders\, wanderlust in her eyes\, she danced in ceremony with tribal Kachin women\, chanted “Free Gaza” from aboard the seized Audacity of Hope ship\, was cured by a Voodoo priest in a Haitian cemetery\, slogged through the tempestuous lands’ end at Tierra del Fuego\, and breathlessly summitted Kilimanjaro. Everywhere this around-the-world traveler wandered\, she chased the ghosts of her own ignorance and arrogance\, culled clarity from confusion\, and dug herself out from the crushing numbness of defeat.\n\nDurham unabashedly pulls back the curtain on loves lost and found and on a life lived richly and openly amid fair fields and foreign wars\, in places sacred and profane. Her incurable optimism gives inspiration and voice to the struggles of women worldwide\, empowers those of us who feel derailed by a world out of control\, and frees us to open the door to love.\n\nAbout the Author:\n\nLinda Durham’s professional and personal life centers on art\, artists\, global travel\, and humanitarian causes. She is the founder and director of Santa Fe’s Wonder Institute\, which sponsors art exhibitions\, lectures\, workshops\, and salons focused on discovering and implementing creative solutions to contemporary social and cultural issues. For more than three decades\, Durham promoted New Mexico-based artists as the hands-on owner of a contemporary art gallery with seven exhibition locations through the years: six in Santa Fe\, and one in New York. In 2012\, the New Mexico Museum of Art acquired her extensive gallery archives.\n\nA prolific writer and speaker\, she has been guest lecturer or workshop presenter at Brigham Young University\, the University of Wisconsin\, Ohio Wesleyan University\, Yale University\, the Sundance Institute\, the College of Santa Fe\, Santa Fe Community College\, and the New Mexico Museum of Art. For her seventieth birthday\, Durham circumnavigated the world in seventy days\, meeting Indigenous women\, educators\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, and peace activists\, and planting “Seeds of Peace” in gardens\, schoolyards\, and parks in South Africa\, Lesotho\, Madagascar\, Thailand\, Myanmar\, and Hawaii.
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SUMMARY:The Perfect Guests
DESCRIPTION:Emma Rous\, the USA Today bestselling author of the delightfully scandalous and deliciously twisted novel The Au Pair (2019)\, returns with another captivating story set in a grandiose gothic estate. This January\, prepare to be shocked by THE PERFECT GUESTS (Berkley Trade Paperback; January 12\, 2021)\, which tells the story of Raven Hall\, a rambling manor off the coast of England\, and the two girls who find themselves trapped in its deadly web of secrets. \nIn 1988\, Beth Soames arrives at Raven Hall for the first time. Fourteen\, orphaned\, and alone\, Beth is eager to gain the acceptance of the Averell family who lives there. She finds them unexpectedly warm and friendly\, and she soon becomes good friends with their daughter Nina. Before long\, Beth starts to feel like she’s truly a part of their family… until they ask her to help them with a harmless game—and nothing is ever the same. \nIn 2019\, Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet. After yet another failed audition\, her agent tells her about a gig with a new murder mystery company looking to host a trial run of their game. No audition\, all expenses paid\, and an excellent paycheck. All she has to do is pretend to be a guest at a weekend party. She is sent a suitcase of clothing\, a dossier outlining the role she is to play\, and instructions. Though the instructions are strange\, she needs the money\, and when she sees the stunning manor she’ll be staying at\, she figures she’s got nothing to lose. \nIn person\, Raven Hall is even grander than she’d imagined—even with damage from a fire decades before—but the walls seem to have eyes. As day turns to night\, Sadie starts to feel that there’s something off about the glamorous guests who arrive\, and as the “game” begins\, it becomes chillingly apparent their unseen host is playing with the lives of everyone there…including hers. \nAbout Emma Rous\n\n\nHi\, I’m Emma Rous and I took a scenic route to becoming a writer. \nI lived in several different countries as a child – England\, Indonesia\, Kuwait\, Portugal and Fiji – and I grew up with a passion for stories and animals. I studied zoology and veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge\, and I worked as a veterinary surgeon for eighteen years\, which I absolutely loved. But the older I got\, the more I appreciated talking to my clients and listening to their life stories\, and these fascinating conversations helped to fuel my long held ambition to write fiction. Eventually\, in my early forties\, I took a break from my vet job and wrote The Au Pair\, which became a USA Today bestseller and was published in eleven countries in ten languages. My second novel\, The Perfect Guests\, is due out in January 2021. \nI live near Cambridge in England with my husband\, our three sons\, and our rescue dog and cat. I try to write the sort of stories that I like to read\, so I hope you enjoy them too.
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SUMMARY:Blog Tour: Tropical Deception
DESCRIPTION:With some $200 million sunk into a real estate development plan in Kauai\, the investment partners have a lot to lose if Peter Roosevelt succeeds in stopping the project for the sake of preserving Hawaii’s rich and exotic environment. When Roosevelt is found dead in his home\, a suspect is quickly arrested—and becomes the latest challenge\, and one of the toughest\, for Honolulu’s top criminal defense attorney\, Pancho McMartin. \nThe main obstacles in proving Wayne Takei innocent are tough to overcome: His gun is the murder weapon\, and he has no alibi to help clear his name. Lies and deception quickly plague the proceedings\, with Pancho and his team running out of time to save their client from life in prison\, in this fourth novel of David Myles Robinson’s increasingly popular legal thriller series. \nThe parallel plot lines follow Pancho’s progress on the case along with the background movements of a slew of suspicious characters\, keeping the suspense high as the evidence begins to stack up but substantial proof remains just out of reach. \n  \nAbout the Author\n \n\n\nwww.davidmylesrobinson.com \nDavid Myles Robinson has always had a passion for writing. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s\, while in college\, Robinson worked as a free-lance writer for several magazines and was a staff writer for a weekly minority newspaper in Pasadena\, California\, called The Pasadena Eagle. However\, as he himself admits\, upon graduating from San Francisco State University\, he decided against the ‘starving writer’ route and went to law school\, at the University of San Francisco School of Law. It was there that he met his wife\, Marcia Waldorf. After graduating from law school in 1975\, the two moved to Honolulu\, Hawaii and began practicing law. Robinson became a trial lawyer\, specializing in personal injury and workers’ compensation law. Waldorf started at the Public Defender’s office and eventually became a District Court and ultimately a Circuit Court judge. \nUpon retiring in 2010\, Robinson completed his first novel\, Unplayable Lie\, which was published in 2010. He has since published five more novels. Tropical Lies\, Tropical Judgments\, and Tropical Doubts are all legal thrillers set in Honolulu. The Pinochet Plot and Son of Saigon are best described as suspense/thrillers. \nRobinson and Waldorf divided their time between Honolulu and their second home in Taos\, NM for seven years before finally deciding to see what it’s like to be full-time mainlanders again. They now live in Taos\, where Robinson can pursue his non-writing passions of golf\, ski\, and travel. \n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Strawberry Roan Growing Up in the Shadow of Hermits Peak
DESCRIPTION:Strawberry Roan is one woman’s search for meaning in a world of competition\, isolation and passion. Her family is loving and supportive but her father’s pressures become her own. She becomes a horsewoman\, a breeder and raiser of horses\, a kind of equine princess who must always win competitively against girls somehow better equipped than she. In time her life pursuits lead her towards doctoring and she becomes a neurologist with a driving ambition to help people who are on the edge. Sadly\, the pressures here are complex and so is her unraveling marriage. She wins only by rugged individualism and the absolute will to win. It’s a triumphant story as well as a dramatic one\, laced with lovely descriptions of ranch life and the backwoods beauty of northern New Mexico.. \n  \nAbout Judy Beil Vaughan\n\n\nJudy Vaughan grew up in Northern New Mexico on the family horse ranch\, detailed in her New Mexico memoir\, Strawberry Roan\, published in 2020. She left the family ranch for boarding school in Colorado and then attended Carleton College and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She has composed stories since childhood\, and began to hone the craft of writing after forty years practicing medicine. She lives in Elk Grove\, California\, and writes stories featuring horses and the southwest.
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SUMMARY:Blog Tour - A Golden Fury
DESCRIPTION:“A vivid ride through eighteenth century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners. Utterly enchanting.” – Emily A. Duncan\, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints\n\n“Cohoe transmutes the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone into a dark\, intoxicating tale of ambition\, obsession\, and sacrifice. Prepare for a magic that will consume you.” – Rosamund Hodge\, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beauty and Bright Smoke\, Cold Fire\n\nIn her debut novel A Golden Fury\, Samantha Cohoe weaves a story of magic and danger\, where the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone will haunt you long after the final page. \nThea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone—whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold—but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp\, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness. \nWhile combing through her mother’s notes\, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. With the threat of a revolution looming\, Thea is sent to live with the father who doesn’t know she exists. \nBut there are alchemists after the Stone who don’t believe Thea’s warning about the curse—instead\, they’ll stop at nothing to steal Thea’s knowledge of how to create the Stone. But Thea can only run for so long\, and soon she will have to choose: create the Stone and sacrifice her sanity\, or let the people she loves die. \n  \nAbout the Author: \nSamantha Cohoe writes historically-inspired young adult fantasy. She was raised in San Luis Obispo\, California\, where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood of beach trips\, omnivorous reading\, and writing stories brimming with adverbs. She currently lives in Denver with her family and divides her time among teaching Latin\, mothering\, writing\, reading\, and deleting adverbs. A Golden Fury is her debut novel. \n  \nSamantha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/smcohoe \n  \nSamantha’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthacohoe/ \n  \nWednesday Books Twitter: https://twitter.com/wednesdaybooks \n  \nWednesday Books Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wednesdaybooks/ \nBuy link for A GOLDEN FURY: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/a-golden-fury/
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SUMMARY:Guide presents a reading corner
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