Rounding up of this week's Top 10 historical romance books:  1) Rainwater, Sandra BrownThe 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... Continue reading ...
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 KingsolverIn 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... Continue reading ...
Here are this week's Top 10 favourite fantasy books:  1) A Touch of Dead, Charlaine Harris (Book 19, Southern Vampire)New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris has re-imagined the supernatural world with her 'spunky' (Tampa Tribune) Southern Vampire novels starring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Now, for the first time, here is every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written - together in one volume. Stories include 'Fairy Dust,' 'One Word Answer,' 'Dracula Night,' 'Lucky,' an... Continue reading ...
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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Sunday, October 4, 2009,
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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 ...
Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Monday, September 14, 2009,
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Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints foun...
Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Thursday, September 10, 2009,
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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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Thursday, September 3, 2009,
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In the #1 New York Times bestseller Moscow Rules, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him alive... Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the "gold standard" of thriller writers (Dallas Morning News), a "master writer of espionage and intrigue" (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of "some of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Friday, August 28, 2009,
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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... Continue reading ...
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