Sherryl Woods. Mira, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1442-4
It’s dangerous to be the first wife of any man in Sand Castle Bay, N.C.: you will inevitably die to clear the way for one of the Castle sisters, at least if Sand Castle Bay and this lugubrious sequel are anything to go by. Public relations whiz...
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $6.50 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55166-955-7
Political murder shakes up a small Virginia town in the final installment of Woods's Trinity Harbor series (Ask Anyone, etc.). As sheriff of a community so idyllic that traffic citations are big cases and folks curse by saying "Geez-oh-flip,&
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1511-7
Woods’s 10th Chesapeake Shores contemporary (after The Summer Garden) has few surprises. Renowned songwriter Jenny Collins is having difficulties coming to terms with her mom’s happy marriage to an O’Brien. Nonetheless, a bad tabloid-splashed...
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1642-8
The 11th Sweet Magnolia story (after Where Azaleas Bloom) stars Adelia Hernandez, who has to build a new life for herself and her four children after she leaves her neglectful, unfaithful husband. That means going back to work for the first time...
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $8.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1766-1
Woods’s 12th Chesapeake Shores contemporary (after Dogwood Hill) is sweet and comforting. Now that Carrie Winters’s glamorous career and famous boyfriend are firmly in the past, she’s happy to be back together with her family in their small town on...
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Sherryl Woods, Author Mira Books $5.99 (401p) ISBN 978-1-55166-542-9
Woods, in her latest contemporary romance, redeems a silly plot contrivance with energetic pacing, snappy dialogue and an appealing romantic hero. Megan O'Rourke is a Martha Stewart clone with a whirlwind, workaholic Manhattan life. When her ornery...
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Sherryl Woods, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21485-4
There is little suspense and even less action in this talky murder mystery. The third in a series, it offers scanty background information about protagonists Molly DeWitt and Detective Michael O'Hara (readers may thus be confused by references to...
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Sherryl Woods, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21486-1
With an eye for detail that captures the essence of Cuban Miami, Woods's (Hot Money) latest offers an engaging combination of mystery, romance, travelogue and politics. In their quest to solve the mystery of his Uncle Miguel's disappearance, police...
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Sherryl Woods, Author Warner Books $4.99 (235p) ISBN 978-0-446-36405-8
In this sprightly romantic mystery, Atlanta journalist Amanda Roberts tracks down a serial killer whose final victim Roberts encountered jogging in the park only moments before her death. Roberts's relationship with former cop Joe Donelli, which...
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Sherryl Woods, Mira, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2852-0
The fourth in the series tells the story of divorcee Megan O'Brien's reunion with her husband Mick. Twelve years after their divorce, they're ready to remarry, but not all of their adult children, particularly Connor (who was especially hurt by the...
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Sherryl Woods, Author Mira Books $6.5 (408p) ISBN 978-1-55166-815-4
Set in the sleepy town of Trinity Cove, Va., Woods's newest (Stolen Moments, etc.) is a straightforward tale of love and redemption. For the first time in all her 30 years, sensible Sunday school teacher Daisy Spencer is rebelling. Having recently...
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $7.99 (389p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2845-2
Woods chooses a whimsical, sweet scenario for her sixth Sweet Magnolia contemporary romance (after 2010's Home in Carolina
). Travis McDonald, a ladies' man and washed-up ballplayer, lights in Serenity, S.C., one day and decides to stay....
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $7.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2626-7
Launching the Chesapeake Shores series, Woods (Welcome to Serenity
) creates an engrossing but overly neat family drama. Divorced financial whiz Abby O' Brien Winters takes a short trip to her hometown of Chesapeake Bay at the behest of her...
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $6.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2529-1
New York PR exec Hannah Mathews is in remission from the same disease that claimed her mother's life months before: breast cancer. She heads south in an attempt to persuade her 85-year-old grandma, Jenny, to sell the Seaview Inn, the Florida...
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $6.99 (395p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2457-7
Compulsively readable, the latest romantic drama from bestselling author Woods (Feels Like Family
) traces beautifully and honestly two suburban Miami families' emotional crises, as they face their worst fears with help from friends. When her...
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Sherryl Woods, Author . Mira $6.99 (395p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2415-7
Woods's latest entry in her Sweet Magnolias series (after Stealing Home
) is sure to please fans and entice new readers with an affinity for family stories. Dana Sue Sullivan, devastated by husband Ronnie's one-night stand with a local bimbo,
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1436-3
Bestseller Woods (the Sweet Magnolias series) launches a series about sisters juggling love and career with this bland contemporary. Emily Castle leaves her interior decorating business in Los Angeles to help her grandmother, whose North Carolina...
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1359-5
A teacher and a pediatrician have an obvious professional overlap, and making children a central concern was no doubt Woods’s intent in creating such a pairing. Unfortunately, that focus turns the ninth Sweet Magnolias novel (after Midnight Promises)
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1348-9
Sweet Magnolia fans won’t need a review, but those who don’t know Woods’s work shouldn’t start here; this sequel to 2007’s Feels Like Family depends on history for its emotional draw. Karen Ames, divorced with two kids, was won over to the idea of...
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2947-3
Characters talk incessantly about the joys and woes of marriage the latest installment in Woods's romantic Chesapeake Shores series. Heather Donovan loves Connor O'Brien and the infant son they share, but she's tired of Connor's refusal to marry her.
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Sherryl Woods. Mira, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-3133-9
Woods’s 14th addition to her beloved Chesapeake Shores contemporary family saga (after Willow Brook Road) brings past protagonist Moira’s mum, Kiera Malone, to visit from Ireland. The brusque single mother, now middle-aged, is grieving the sudden,...
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