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Book Review and Giveaway: The Good Father

April 28, 2012

Synopsis: Travis Brown thinks that things can’t possibly get any worse for him and his four-year-old daughter, Bella. He’s about to find out how wrong he is. Travis has lived his entire life in Carolina Beach and can’t imagine life anywhere but by the shore. He has also never lived on his own. After taking custody […]

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Guest Post and Giveaway: A Kid and His Books

February 17, 2012

It is my pleasure to welcome author Spencer Seidel back to Colloquium today. Spencer’s first novel, Dead of Wynter, a tautly constructed mystery thriller that keeps readers guessing about the Wynter family’s numerous secrets until the very last page, was a great success last year. His second thriller, Lovesick, deals with a case of murder that […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Legacy of Eden

February 6, 2012

Synopsis: Meredith, along with her two older sisters, Claudia and Ava, has not visited her childhood home, Aurelia (latin for “Golden”), in over a decade. A scuptor, Meredith resides in New York City, but has received word that the family farm her grandmother, Lavinia, so cherished will now be put on the auction block to […]

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Book Review: Little Did I Know

October 11, 2011

Synopsis: Sam August is about to graduate from college and he has a big dream. He has found an old, rundown theater in Plymouth, Massachusetts that is available for rent where he, assisted by some of his college friends, could produce and direct five musicals — Cabaret, Funny Girl, Anything Goes, Company and The Fantasticks […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Claim of Innocence

September 27, 2011

Synopsis: Valerie Solara insists that she is innocent. Charged with murdering one of her two best friends, Amanda Miller, by poisoning Amanda’s food, Valerie’s trial is just beginning. But Martin Bristol, a renowned local criminal defense attorney who is lead counsel on the case, has taken ill. His granddaughter and partner, Maggie, has asked Izzy […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Dead of Wynter

May 10, 2011

Synopsis: Alice Wynter left her familial home in Redding, Maine many years ago and never looked back. She married Gerald Dunn, a successful Wall Street lawyer, created an equally successful career of her own in advertising, and settled into life in Chatham, New Jersey. She thought that by physically distancing herself from the painful memories […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: The Midwife’s Confession

May 7, 2011

Synopsis: How well do you know your closest friends? Do you know much about their professional pursuits? Do you know their quirks and eccentricities? More importantly, do you know the ways in which their quirks and eccentricities impact their daily lives and the way they function in the world? Do you know to what lengths […]

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