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A pitch perfect beach read!
If you’re a mega-fan of 90s rom-coms, you and Waiting for Tom Hanks (June 11; Berkley Romance) by Kerry Winfrey are M-F-E-O. Made For Each Other. It’s a supercute (and totally self-aware) homage to the genre, with nods to everything from…
I spent last week in a food photography workshop at Santa Fe Photography Workshops taught by Tracy Benjamin of Shutterbean. I rolled into town on the night of the Game of Thrones finale (solid WiFi FTW!) and got ready for four days of making and editing pictures. Our group of six ended up being the…
Over Memorial Day weekend, I picked up a bottle of Trader Joe's Ghost Chile BBQ sauce. No one was quite sure how spicy it was, it's subjective anyway, so I got the Kansas City BBQ sauce as a backup plan. The good news is, I'd call it medium. It does build up on you, so…
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I absolutely adored THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT , Misa Sugiura's new book out June 4. It’s the novel with a Japanese American main character that I wish existed when I was teen….
While first generation American stories are dominating shelves, Misa Sugiura breaks away from the…
SUPERFAN, Sarina Bowen's hotly anticipated next novel set in the Brooklyn Bruisers world, is set to release on June 25. We've got the cover reveal and a first look at an excerpt from Silas and Delilah's story. From the glimpses we've gotten in past Bruisers books, I never imagined Silas in a hipster beanie, but…
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Sweet, sexy, funny....and honest. Melonie Johnson hits her stride in Smitten by the Brit.
Maybe it's partly because of our current obsession Harry and Meghan, but I loved SMITTEN BY THE BRIT, book 2 in Melonie Johnson's Sometimes in Love series. But after meeting Bonnie and Theo in…
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Ice Cream Lover, Jackie Lau’s latest romance, pairs grumpy hero Drew with Chloe, a bi-racial Chinese Canadian woman who is opening an ice cream shop in her mother’s memory. Drew’s ex left him at the altar, then wrote a thinly veiled self help book/memoir called “Embrace Your Inner…
The Hanamaulu Cafe, a local icon on Kaua'i, closed in 2014, after being in business for more than 80 years. But its famed fried ginger chicken lives on. The Internet has several versions of Hanamaulu Cafe chicken, but this recipe is the one that was passed on to me when I got married. As happens…
Over the last couple of weeks I've been taste testing canned rosé, but if you don't or can't drink alcohol, Trader Joe's has a lovely new sparkler to fill your glass with this summer: Trader Joe's Sparkling Watermelon Juice ($3.99 for a 4-pack). Made with 100% juice, each 8.45 oz. can has 60 calories and…
I know it’s going to be a long summer of delicious reading, but you’ve got to pace yourself. Take advantage of May and get warmed up with these five novels perfect for sunny days at the pool, your next weekend away or when you get an hour to yourself for once.
May Must Reads…
