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Slow Cooker Freezer Meals Part One
So in the past few years, I’ve developed a very co-dependent relationship on my slow cooker. I’ve come to love and adore it and I have no idea what I would do without it. A few years ago, Organized SAHM held an online cooking day where people prepped meals and froze them. I did almost a month’s worth of meals in about 10 hours. It was glorious. Those meals, because many of them had leftovers, worked for nearly eight weeks. I was completely in love with freezing and prepping meals! Now honestly, working for so long on the meals (that long long day I mentioned above) is really hard for…
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Review: Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb
Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb Genre: Mystery/Sci Fi Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons Date: September 15th, 2015 Eve Dallas had a great vacation. Who wouldn’t when you get to spend it on a private island with your incredibly hot husband? But it doesn’t take long for her to get back into the swing of things when a dead body crops up on her watch. And this time it’s an accomplished and well loved musician who had nothing in his life that should bring him to such a gruesome and nasty death. This was a wrong place at the wrong time sort of murder. And for Eve Dallas, when it…
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Review: All The Difference by Leah Ferguson
Will she or won’t she? Every time someone proposes, you can practically hear the tension in the air wondering if this is going to be the moment that makes or breaks his (or her) life. The bigger question to me is what would happen either way. If she says yes, will her life turn out perfect? Or if she says no – is she better off? These are the questions that are examined in All the Difference by Leah Ferguson. Molly knows that she has some major decisions in front of her. The little pink line on the pregnancy test has proven to her that a lot of her future…
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Review: Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl Genre: YA Publisher: Marvel Press Date: Will release October 13, 2015 Natasha Romanoff is the living, breathing definition of lethal. Raised in a program designed to turn children into weapons, she has never known family or understood a normal child’s life. Ivan made her that way. Years later, as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., she uses her exceptional skills to make the world a better, safer place. Removing Ivan from the equation is a mission she has no intention of failing. What she didn’t expect, was to find another young red-headed girl being trained by Ivan. From that moment on, nothing goes the way…
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Review: The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher Genre: Sci Fi Publisher: Roc Date: September 29, 2015 Captain Grimm is well known throughout the Spires. He’s a man whose name speaks for itself. Unfortunately, it doesn’t speak the truth. A battle seasoned veteran, Grimm is a man who nearly always does what is right, but an unfortunate turn of events in the past has tarnished his reputation nearly beyond repair. When his airship, Predator, comes under fire and becomes nearly irreparably damaged, he’s not sure what he’s going to do. But then an offer from the Spirearch of Albion allows him the opportunity to join a small, handpicked team…
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Review: The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff
Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Mira Date: July 28, 2015 Adelia Montforte didn’t want to leave Italy, but with war breaking out and the Jewish people growing ever more afraid for their lives, her parents forced her onto a boat with no luggage, no money, and little hope of ever seeing them again. For anyone this would be terrifying but for a teenager struggling to figure out who she is, it was devastating. In America, her life is anything but settled. She barely knows the relatives she’s living with and she understands that taking her in wasn’t something they were necessarily happy about…