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Deja Vu, Recalibrating, Pyramid Schemes & Narcissists

More satisfying romances from an array of talented authors who love love to help offset the real-life ethical and moral horrors shared in a riveting memoir.

[3 trade paperback books arranged face-up atop a closed piano, from left to right: Pugs & Kisses, When Javi Dumped Mari, All's Fair in Love and Pickleball] 

Pugs & Kisses by Farrah Rochon 
contemporary adult romance 
Hachette Book Group, July 2025 

Evie's juggling a lot personally and professionally. Can the man who ghosted her years ago earn her forgiveness and regain her trust enough to work with her to achieve her personal and professional goals? Revealing those answers offers readers a charming tale of wooing. 


When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa 
contemporary adult romance 
G.P. Putnam's Sons, June 2025 

In the decade since they became college besties, Mari and Javi have decisions to make. WIll they jeopardize the shaky stability of the status quo or risk their hearts and the future of their friendship for the chance of something more? Emotional complexity, laughs, and vulnerability ensue. 


All's Fair in Love and Pickleball by Kate Spencer 
contemporary adult romance 
Forever, June 2025 

Two people with things to prove to themselves team up for business and end up of finding pleasure and love.   


How to Sell a Romance by Alexa Martin 
contemporary adult romance 
Berkeley Romance, July 2025  

This laugh-aloud romance between dedicated kindergarten teacher Emerson and investigative reporter Lucas spoofs the challenges of teaching, adulting, parenting, and hustling to make a liveable salary with insightful precision. The heat between Emerson and Lucas smokes. 

 

[2 hardcover books arranged face-up atop a closed piano, from left to right: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, A Memoir; It Takes a Psychic] 

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, A Memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams 
non-fiction memoir 
Macmillan, March 2025 

Beginning with a quote from The Great Gatsby, a prologue, a timeline rendered in 48 chapters, and an epilogue, this disturbing, but unsurprising saga of the corruption of good intentions reveals the answers to these questions and more: What happens when innovation focuses only on its possibilities and not its consequences? What happens when the people who control a business entity grow too large and powerful and influential, making it nearly impossible to hold them accountable for the harms they cause and enable? 


It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle 
contemporary adult paranormal romance 
Penguin Random House, June 2025 

Leona and Oliver's teaming up to solve mysteries and vanquish mentally unstable villains offers readers this author's signature mix of intrigue, danger, dust bunnies, and intimacy of the emotional and physical kinds. 


This week's BAC (Book Acquisition Compulsion) Issues  
[a bookstack of 6 trade paperback books; the 3 on the bottom showing only the edges of the bottom pages; the 3 on the top showing their spines, from top to bottom: Zom Rom Com, He Falls First, One Death At a Time] 

Always wishing you good health, peace of mind, joy & worthwhile reads! 


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