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Weekly Top 10 Historical Romance Books

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, In : Weekly Top 10 Lists 
Rounding up of this week's Top 10 historical romance books:

1) Rainwater, Sandra Brown

The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, an...
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Weekly Top 10 All-Time Favourite Books Round-up

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Saturday, November 14, 2009, In : Weekly Top 10 Lists 
It has been a while since I've done a review of our latest arrivals, so here's a quick round up of this week's Top 10 all-time favourite books:

1) The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.

Born in the Uni...
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Weekly Top 10 Favourite Romance Books

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, In : Weekly Top 10 Lists 
Here are this week's Top 10 favourite romance books:

1) An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon (Book 7, The Outlander)

Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

Jamie Fraser, former Jacobi...
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Tempt Me at Twilight, Lisa Kleypas (Book 3, Hathaways)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Sunday, October 4, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:

He was everything she'd sworn to avoid ...
Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal - only to find that her new husband offers his passion, but not his trust.

And she was everything he needed ...
Harry was willing ...

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Latest Romance Arrivals Recommended: Aug 25 - Sept 4

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Thursday, September 10, 2009, In : New Arrivals 
Here are the latest arrivals in our catalog for Aug 25 - Sept 4:

Dark Slayer, Christine Feehan (Book 20, Carpathians)
Ivory - a rare Carpathian female - has been protected by her brothers for most of her life. But once she frees the mage Razvan from his prison cave, they must flee together, enemies of Carpathian hunters as well as vampires. Ivory senses that Razvan is more than he appears to be, and she vows to go against the entire Carpathian race to help him, risking both their lives in orde...
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A Duke of Her Own, Eloisa James (Book 6, Desperate Duchess)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:


A duke must choose wisely . . .


Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly—and his choices, alas, are few. The Duke of Montague's daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.


After all, no other woman really qualifies. Lisette, the outspoken daughter of the Duke of Gilner, cares nothing for clothing or decorum. She's engaged to another man, and doesn't give a fig for s...


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