Welcome to my Fan Girling with Narelle podcast and YouTube show. In this episode, I’m talking about why I recommend WELCOME TO THE HONEY B&B by MELODY CARLSON to readers who like Contemporary Fiction novels. Here are the links to my book recommendations for Melody Carlson’s books that I mention in the episode. Book Recommendation …
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Book Recommendation – Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody Carlson
Book Description: When life feels like it’s closing in around you, sometimes the solution is to open the doors wide and invite others in . . .Jewel McKerry is on the brink of unraveling as she heads home to Oregon to help care for her father who has early-onset dementia. Her thirteen-year-old daughter is upset …
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Book Recommendation – Tea with Elephants by Robin Jones Gunn
Book Description: Ever since they met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica 20 years ago, Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It’s the …
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Book Recommendation – The Christmas Tree Farm by Melody Carlson
Book Description: When Madison McDowell returns from several years teaching overseas, she has high hopes of picking up where she left off at her family’s Christmas tree farm in Oregon. But between damage from a recent wildfire and the neglect due to her sister Addie’s unwillingness to invest, the farm is in sad shape. In …
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Book Recommendation – How the World Turns by Jenny Glazebrook
Book Description: What do you do when your world is turned upside down? Ella Glade has chosen never to compete with her beautiful, talented half-sister Verity. Unfortunately, Verity spends their childhood and teenage years turning sibling rivalry into a sport that Verity must win at all costs. When loss and disappointment leave Ella broken-hearted, she …
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Book Recommendation – Just for the Summer by Melody Carlson
Book Description: Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather’s fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after …
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Countdown to Christmas: Day 4
It’s Day 4 in my Countdown to Christmas Reading Journal. Today I’m sharing my electronic journal entry for Potato Flake Christmas by Cathe Swanson. My book recommendation for Potato Flake Christmas can be found at the following link: https://www.narelleatkins.com/book-recommendation-potato-flake-christmas-by-cathe-swanson/
Book Recommendation – The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh
Book Description: She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness. Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn’t exist in her life—and never will. As a university researcher, Isadora keeps to herself as much as possible. She avoids …
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Book Recommendation – The Shell Collector by Nancy Naigle
Book Description: Two years after her husband’s death, Amanda Whittier has two children to raise alone, an abandoned dream of starting a business, and a fixer-upper cottage by the sea. She has no room in her life for anything else and little interest in moving on after losing the man she loved. Paul Grant is …
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Book Recommendation – A Quilt for Christmas by Melody Carlson
Book Description: Christmas should be celebrated with family. But for Vera Swanson, that’s not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one–until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town, Fiona enlists Vera’s help, and when she …
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