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Backlist Recommendation: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
Published in 1992. Mystery. Get it: In our catalog On Overdrive (for Media on Demand patrons only) Death at La Fenice is one of those wonderful mystery series starters for a category of mystery I think of as "the setting is almost more important than the story". Authors like Martin Walker (the Bruno series) or Louise Penny (the Gamache series) have turned places into characters, and that's exactly what Donna Leon does with Venice in this book....
Bookish Conversations: Izabel and Ang talk Sarah J Maas
From time to time, when a bookish topic is provoking lots of conversation amongst us, we’ll be posting some of that discussion as a blog post. In this edition of Bookish Conversations, Readers’ Advisors Ang and Izabel discuss author Sarah J Maas... Ang: Okay, Izabel, the first thing I want to say is that I only picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) because you told me to. I mean, not in so many words, but you were a vocal proponent...
Paranormal Romance
When you think of paranormal romance (PR), you might automatically think of love with a vampire or werewolf, Twilight-style. However, PR features romantic relationships with a whole array of supernatural beings, be it a shapeshifter, ghost, angel, demon, fairie, etc. However, like a traditional romance, PR centers on the characters falling in love and there is always a happily ever after (HEA) ending. What I enjoy most about reading PR is that...
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