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Finished one of the two challenges I did this year! I really enjoyed finding books that fit these prompts.

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Daphne and her fiancé Peter have the perfect life. Until Peter suddenly breaks up with her for his best friend Petra, and Daphne realizes she didn't have a perfect life after all. In a town she moved to for Peter, where she doesn't know anyone other than Peter's friends, the only person she has to lean on is Petra's ex-boyfriend Miles. She re-evaluates everything she thinks about friendship, family, and who she really is.
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I really enjoyed this book! I have a hard time finding audiobooks I like, but this is the 2nd one by J. Ryan Stradal that I've listened to and really liked.

Edith and Helen are sisters who have a falling out, and this is the story of how even though their lives diverged, they both ended up in the business of brewing beer.

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This was my least favorite in the series so far. Lady Georgiana goes to America with her mom, visiting New York, Nevada, and California. Chaos ensues, of course. I found the mystery on the ship more interesting than the mystery once they got to America, and wish the entire story had focused on the ship.
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Mullaby is a town with secrets and regrets. It pushes people away and pulls them back. When Dulcie's daughter Emily arrives in Mullaby looking to understand where she came from, she tries to piece together the mysteries of the town.

Sarah Addison Allen is one of my favorite authors!
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Juniper hosts a Thanksgiving dinner, and one of the guests is poisoned. After some investigation, it appears that Juniper might have been the target. Or was she?
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I really liked this story of three Sisters, who were named for Shakespeare characters, and grew up quoting Shakespeare, as their dad is a professor of Shakespeare. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to keep reading it, since their mom is fighting breast cancer, but her cancer journey was so eloquently written about and the experiences were described so correctly, that it felt like a hug of acknowledgement and support throughout the story.

When former actress Cryptessa is killed with the stake of the "Do Not Tresspass" sign from her yard through her heart, one of her neighbors is a suspect. But, all of them had recent arguments with Cryptessa, so it could have been any of them.

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This has been my absolute favorite book of this series so far! It was a very Agatha Christiesque whodunit mystery with our favorite characters Georgiana, Darcy, Belinda, and Queenie.
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This is Lucy Grealy's beautifully written memoir about being diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma as a child and the innumerable chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and other treatments she endured growing up and into adulthood. It is a very sad story about the terrible hardships she endured, but the way she writes makes you want to keep reading.
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