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A Retro Write: Yes We Can! Our favorite Activist Heroines

ByCaroline Russomanno 06/19/202106/19/2021

originally published on February 3, 2017 Women have a long history of standing up for their beliefs, and there are great romance novels starring heroines doing just that. American and British suffragettes (or suffragists), Civil Rights activists, lawyers, writers, organizers, and military rebels – you’ll find all of them here, and more. Let these ladies…

“I couldn’t put it down…” What was YOUR last unputdownable read?

ByCaz Owens 06/04/201806/04/2018

The unputdownable read… it’s kind of the holy grail of books, isn’t it? That book that hooks you in on the first page and doesn’t let you go until the last; the book you enjoy so much that you can’t stop turning the pages even as you wish you could read more slowly because you…

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Maggie and Shannon Talk Mysteries…

ByMaggie Boyd 06/01/201806/01/2018

Sales figures for books in the digital age can be tricky. That’s because independently published e-books can sell quite well without making a great deal of money for the author or affecting print sales at all. And that matters because ebook sales continue to decline, which means print sales continue to lead market trends. When…

Coming Soon… June 2018

ByCaz Owens 05/14/201805/14/2018

Difficult as it is to believe, we’re heading into June and looking ahead to summer – and it’s time for AAR staffers to take a look at upcoming releases and choose the ones we’re most excited about reading over the next few weeks. Just a reminder that this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list…

Coming Soon… May 2018

ByCaz Owens 04/29/201804/29/2018

When it comes to the books AAR staffers are most looking forward to reading in May, there’s a huge consensus of opinion; we can’t wait to read Lucy Parker’s Making Up, the third in her London Celebrities series, and Someone to Care, book four in Mary Balogh’s series of books about the Westcott family. Ms….

Coming Soon… March 2018

ByCaz Owens 02/22/201802/22/2018

We are excited about March! There are new releases from Alisha Rai, Simone St. James, Penny Reid, Anna Lee Huber and Patricia Briggs, to name but a few. The AAR staff has picked the contemporary romance, mysteries, thrillers, paranormals, YA, women’s fiction and historicals we are most looking forward to. Here’s hoping our “Coming Soon”…

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The Best of 2017 – Shannon’s List

ByShannon Dyer 12/19/201712/18/2017

2017 has turned out to be a stellar reading year for me. Sure, I’ve read my share of duds, but I’ve also read some truly remarkable novels. In no particular order, here are the ones I’ve loved most. Keystone by Dannika Dark I first discovered Ms. Dark’s work back in 2014, and…

Coming Soon… November 2017

ByCaz Owens 10/16/201710/18/2017

It’s not all that often that there’s a hands-down favourite when it comes to a post like this, but a new book from Loretta Chase is a red-letter day on any romance reader’s calendar and many of us here have put a big red circle around 28th November, which is when her latest release, A…

Coming Soon… September 2017

ByCaz Owens 08/25/201708/24/2017

While we AAR staffers have fairly diverse tastes on the whole, there are some books and authors that pull us together for various reason – we like the authors, we like their writing, we like their storytelling – and into genres that sometimes we don’t read very often. This month, the big draws appear to…

The Book Blind Taste Test – Pick a book… any book…

ByKristen Donnelly 07/14/201707/16/2017

I have always loved libraries, but I admit I had fallen out of the habit of using my local one recently. One of my dear friends is a middle school librarian and she (appropriately) shamed me a bit for it, telling me the best way to make sure libraries stay around and keep their funding…

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