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Thanks to Brianne Beers of Hachette Book Group, I am giving away one copy of each book to one lucky winner.

Description for Going Cowboy Trouble:

Faith Aldridge wants answers. Bramble, Texas is the only place she can find them . . . as well as Hope, the identical twin sister she never knew she had. But the townsfolk reckon that shy city-girl Faith is really her long-lost sister Hope, back in Bramble at last. And they’re fixin’ to do whatever it takes to heat things up between her and Hope’s long-time flame, Slate Calhoun. If that means rustling her car, spreading rumors like wildfire, and reining in some explosive secrets, well, there’s no way like the Lone Star way . . .
But Slate’s no fool. The woman in his truck may look like Hope, yet the way she feels in his arms is altogether new. He’s determined to keep this twin in his bed and out of his heart. Trouble is, the real Hope is headed home, and she’s got her own designs on Slate. If Faith wants to avoid heartbreak, she’ll have to show a certain ruggedly handsome cowboy that this crazy-impossible love is worth fighting for.

Description for Make Mine a Bad Boy:

Hope Scroggs is finally ready to get hitched. After years of sowing her wild oats, the former head cheerleader and homecoming queen has returned to Bramble, Texas, to marry her high school flame. But her perfect wedding plans are stomped to smithereens when her adoring cowboy two-steps down the aisle with someone else. Now Hope is stuck with the one man from her past she can’t shake: Colt Lomax, an irresistible bad boy whose sultry kisses are hotter than the Panhandle in August . . .

Colt lives for freedom and the open road; he never gets attached, never looks back. Still, he can’t forget the night of passion he once shared with Bramble’s sweetheart–a night he wouldn’t mind repeating. So, he piles on the Texas charm to tease the feisty beauty back into his bed, while she tries her darnedest to resist. But something unexpected is about to tie their fates together . . . and oh, baby, will it ever!

Katie’s Website:  www.katielanebooks.com

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House Arrest by Ellen Meeropol

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on May 12, 2011
Posted in Books Read in 2011  | 3 Comments

Emily Klein is a home care nurse.  For the most part, she really likes her job, going to visit people in their homes to care for them.  However, her new assignment is different.  She wants to get out of it but her boss won’t budge.  So now she has a new patient, Pippa Glenning, she is a pregnant cult member under house arrest for the death of her daughter during a Solstice Ceremony. 
 

“The morning after last year’s solstice, the family had searched for the toddlers in the blowing, drifting snow.  All day they hunted and the next and the next, taking turns staying with the twins.” Pippa- Page 27
There are two cult members in jail for the death, awaiting trail and Pippa is left with trying to keep the household going without them. She was a 16 years old runaway when one of the cult members, Francie,  found her and brought her home to the cult.  It was the first time she ever felt acceptance.
Pippa and Emily grow to trust each other and even have a kind of friendship.  However, what Pippa asks her to do to cause her to lose her job.  As the pregnant woman of the cult this year, she is expected to dance for Isis at the Solstice Ceremony.  She needs to find a way to leave home to do this and want Emily to help her.


Emily has other issues going on in her life as well.  Her father was arrested and put in prison while she was a child.  Her mother eventually commits suicide and leaves Emily with her aunt.  She has been running away from this her entire adult life.  It all comes to a head when her grandfather dies and she is expected to go home to face her extended family including her aunt. 
She also lives with her cousin with a daughter with Spina Bifida, Zoe.  Emily is always home by the time Zoe gets home from school to care for her.  She loves Zoe like she’s her own daughter.

Will Emily risk her career and even face possible arrest to help Pippa beat the house arrest to attend the Solstice Ceremony?  I highly recommend you read this book to find out.

This is a book chalk full of well developed and quirky characters.  The plot and subplot are well thought out and richly developed.  House Arrest is a compelling book that kept me reading until the last page. I truly did not want this book to end.  This is Ms Meeropol’s first novel, I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

4.5/5

I won a advance readers copy of this book from Rose City Reader.
Did you review House Arrest?  I would love to read your thoughts on it!  Please leave a link in the comments and I will post it here.


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It is 1906, New York City and 16 year old Prudence Galewski takes a job as an assistant to the Head Epidemiologist, Mr. Soper.  Prudence has always been interested in science and feels very fortunate to land a job in the field.   It is practically unheard of for a woman to get such a job.  In fact, some of the men in the lab give her a hard time.

Soon after starting her and Mr. Soper start investigating a new outbreak of Typhoid.  They visit the different families who have the dreaded disease and write down all of the different foods they have eaten and take samples from their septic systems.  Soon Prudence finds a food that links all of the families, peach ice cream.  It turns out that they all have a cook who has worked for all of them, who made the peach ice cream for them.

It was recently discovered by a scientist that disease could be carried by a healthy person.  The person doesn’t get sick but can pass the illness on to others. 

“The challenge ahead of us is to find this elusive cook and test her for the typhoid germ by examining her body fluids.”
The cook, Mary Mallon has moved around a lot but Prudence and Mr. Soper finally tracks her down.  She refuses to get tested, she can’t understand how she could make people sick when she, herself is not sick. 

Mary Mallon was a real person who was to become known as Typhoid Mary. Julie Chibbaro takes a piece of history and runs with it.  She developed her main character Prudence well and we see her learn and grow.  As I read the story I kept thinking to myself, “you go girl, show people that not all women should be chained to a house with no other aspirations.”

Deadly is geared for young adults.  It deals with issues of disease, feminism, and family.  It also explores ethical issues.  I think it would make for  great discussion for a young adult book club.  Though there is science in the book, it is well explained in fairly simple terms.  I highly recommend it!

5/5

Julie Chibbaro held a giveaway of this book herself and I was fortunate enough to be one of the winners.

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