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What Writers Read: Jo Piazza
The Sicilian Inheritance is an adventure filled with food, wine, gorgeous landscapes and just the right amount of kicking the patriarchy's ass.
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What Writers Read: Kate Clayborn
The Other Side of Disappearing is for fans of angsty, character-driven contemporary romance.
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What Writers Read: Charlotte Stein
In When Grumpy Met Sunshine, now they’ve got to fake kiss and fake touch and fake everything, while catching real feelings and way too much searing hot…
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What Writers Read: Jenny Holiday
Romance novels teach us about what’s possible when we strive to be our best selves and can also be balm for troubled times.
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What Writers Read: Julie Chavez
Everyone But Myself is for all the nurturers and for anyone who's felt alone in their struggles with anxiety or depression
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What Writers Read: Carrie Sun
Private Equity is for anyone interested in themes of money, power, family, and identity; and for anyone who might be questioning their own relationship…
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What Writers Read: Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
A Fire So Wild is for anyone who cares about the climate crisis and questions how they can build a meaningful life in a world on fire
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What Writers Read: Laura Piper Lee
Hannah Tate is a messy, millennial new mom who's trying her hardest to live the life she thinks she should--and failing miserably at it
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What Writers Read: Hannah Bonam-Young
Next of Kin is a great fit for readers who enjoy found-family, forced proximity, and a grumpy-but-secretly-a-sweetheart-hero
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What Writers Read: Laurie Frankel
Family Family is about adoptions that are complex and wanted and varied and hard and wonderful and normal
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What Writers Read: Kyla Zhao
Valley Verified is for anyone who has experienced stepping out of their comfort zone and getting slammed with imposter syndrome
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What Writers Read: Andrew J. Graff
True North is a story of a river, and a marriage on the rocks
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