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Welcome to the March edition of monthly news! The Spring Bookish Bingo started, did you join? I also shared my recipe for Beef Stroganoff . Yummy!! We had a loss in our extended family. My sisters' sister-in-law passed March 16th at 56, due to terminal stomach cancer. She is reconnected in heaven with her dad and husband. R.I.P. Gail. 💙 Celebrated my son and my dad's birthdays yesterday. My son turned 23 and my dad is in heaven so it was kinda bittersweet. Did you all have any exciting events happen? Happy Easter weekend! BOOKS: The Keeper by Ted Dekker & Tosca Lee Love, Loss And What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi (recommend) Breaching The Contract by Chantal Fernando (recommend) Maelyn by Anita Valle (recommend) MOVIES: Snatched Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (recommend)                    Ye arly Total:  14 Books & 6 Movies Book of the Month: Book of the Year:

Welcome to Week 369! Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your  eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)  *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) *Post it. *Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.  *It's that simple. Or join The Friday 56 on  Instagram ! Rules: * Grab a book and find a creative way to showcase your 56. It can be a photo of the book and the 56 in comments, or whatever you come up with. Make sure to use the hashtag  #Friday56 *Add your Instagram url to the Linky. HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND!! I'm posting early due to work. Got some classic literature for you this week! Enjoy! Check this book out at  https://amzn.to/2E5nBax Page 56 on Kindle Got some classic literature for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Mar 29, 2018 at 10:14am PDT Book Beginnings leave your

AVAILABLE NOW! Rated R 114 minutes AMAZON US    |    AMAZON CA    |    AMAZON UK Award-winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the year’s best films. A murdered girl’s defiant mother (McDormand) boldly paints three local signs with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop ( Sam Rockwell ) and the town’s revered chief of police ( Woody Harrelson ). REVIEW: Frances McDormand, you're my spirit animal. Seeing her in this movie, playing this fiercely-loving mother, I am so in awe! She was epic! Her role in this movie was epic! The emotions it stirred in me as a mother was epic! I can totally see why this is an award-winning film.  If you're a parent, ask yourself what you would do if someone harmed one of your kids. Now ask yourself if you would ever give up on getting justice for those crimes against your chil

Series: Descendants of the House of Bathory (Book #1) Category: YA Fiction, 352 pages Publisher: Howard Books Release date: May 2016 From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes a story of love, ancient secrets, and survival. Book 1 in the House of Bathory duology. When you wake up, you remember nothing. Not your name, or where you were born, or the faces of the people you knew. Just a single warning written to yourself before you forgot it all: "Emily, it’s me. You. Don’t ask about the last two years… Don’t try to remember and don’t go digging. Your life depends on it. Other lives depend on it. By the way, Emily isn’t your real name. You died in an accident. You paid extra for that." You start over in a remote place with a new name, a fresh life. Until the day a stranger tells you you’re being hunted for the sins of a royal ancestor who died centuries before you were born. You don’t believe him, until they come for you. Now you’re on the

Kindle:  3951.0 KB Print:  174 pages ASIN:  B008GGB8OW AMAZON US    |    AMAZON CA    |    AMAZON UK Maelyn was not born a princess. The king found her as a child, the lone survivor of a poor village slaughtered by Red Fever. Suddenly she became a princess of Runa Realm, the first of nine orphans adopted by the king. By her eighteenth year, Maelyn rules over Runa and a family of nine sisters. But some call the princesses frauds and imposters, a handful of urchins raised into royalty. Even Uncle Jarrod, the High King of Grunwold, seems determined to prove that Maelyn no longer deserves to be a princess. With a family losing faith in her, and a kingdom growing dangerously hostile, even Maelyn begins to wonder if she is truly a real princess. And if her riches will turn to rags once again.... The Nine Princesses novels chronicle the adventures of an unconventional family of princesses, the struggles they face in a kingdom often hostile to their humble origins, and the d

Welcome to Week 368! Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your  eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)  *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) *Post it. *Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.  *It's that simple. Or join The Friday 56 on  Instagram ! Rules: * Grab a book and find a creative way to showcase your 56. It can be a photo of the book and the 56 in comments, or whatever you come up with. Make sure to use the hashtag  #Friday56 *Add your Instagram url to the Linky. Happy weekend to you all! Check this book out at  http://amzn.to/2HTMYhK Page 55 on Kindle This week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 comes from a cute fairytale novella. A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Mar 22, 2018 at 5:30pm PDT Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56.

Kindle:  1547.0 KB Print:  130 pages Publisher:  Pocket Star (Sept. 18 2017) ASIN:  B01N199JK4 AMAZON US    |    AMAZON CA    |    AMAZON UK New York Times  best-selling author Chantal Fernando returns with a brand new series about a brigade of lawyers who, despite being bad boys at heart, always end up just on the right side of the law. Katerina Dawson knows exactly what she wants from life. And as the new associate at the top law firm in the city, she's ready to live out her dreams of becoming a criminal lawyer. But going on coffee runs and babysitting kids during the day was definitely not what she had in mind. She knows that anyone else would kill to be in her shoes, but she has to draw the line somewhere. That's easier said than done, though, when Kat has to confront her handsome boss.... Tristan Channing and Jaxon Bentley run a successful law firm together and the two partners couldn't be busier right now. When Jaxon suddenly takes a leave of abs

Welcome to Week 367! Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your  eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)  *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) *Post it. *Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.  *It's that simple. Or join The Friday 56 on  Instagram ! Rules: * Grab a book and find a creative way to showcase your 56. It can be a photo of the book and the 56 in comments, or whatever you come up with. Make sure to use the hashtag  #Friday56 *Add your Instagram url to the Linky. Happy weekend to you all! Check this book out at  http://amzn.to/2ph9h9G Page 56 on Kindle A sexy read for this week's #Friday56 #Instagram56 A post shared by Freda Mans (@fredasphotos) on Mar 15, 2018 at 5:27pm PDT Book Beginnings leave your links in the comments if you didn't join in the Friday 56. **Compensation ma