14th Annual Holiday Shopping Guide

by Donna Huber

I love putting together the annual books to give list. It's probably why the Holiday Shopping Guide is one of the few things I started the first year of Girl Who Reads that I still do today. If you have readers on your gift list this year (or if you want to get a gift for yourself) here are some of the best books I've read this year. Surprisingly, out of the 138 books I've read so far only 6 received 5 stars, but I have a few other books that were really close to getting 5 stars so they're on this list as well.

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Unforgotten by Shelley Shepard Gray ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

An Amish romance threaded with heart-racing suspense.

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Murder in New York by Helena Dixon ~ a Review

by Donna Huber

Sipping Manhattan cocktails, strolling through Central Park and sightseeing at the Empire State building. Kitty Underhay is loving life in New York… until she stumbles across a murder!

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City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

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2 Novels of Crime Fiction To Curl Up With

by Donna Huber

My library just added a bunch of audiobooks to its digital holdings so I'm catching up on some of the books I missed earlier this year. Today I have a couple of crime fiction stories by authors I enjoy.

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Magical Girl Blues by Russell Isler ~ a Review

by MK French

Xenia Findlay survived the crash that killed her parents and best friend Bethany. She moved to Porter Valley to live with her great aunt, and she is plagued by headaches and hallucinatory visits from her dead friend. Students of Porter Valley High are disappearing, and Xenia is starting to see them along with Bethany in her visions. She starts to suspect that magic and ghosts are real, and that a monster is lurking in the shadows. She has a brand new power that might allow her to save herself and her town.

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