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On this episode of MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS, Laura Mills-Alcott welcomes mystery author Maryann Miller who reads an excerpt from her latest mystery, ONE SMALL VICTORY.  Life can change in just an instant. That's the harsh reality that Jenny Jasik faces when her son is killed in an automobile accident, but never in her wildest dreams did she ever expect to be working undercover as a member of a drug task force. She is, after all, just a Mom. In the course of her work, she discovers that she is capable of much more than running a household and managing her floral shop.

For more audio book excerpts and author interviews, visit our website at http://www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net  and for book previews, reader events, author websites and more try http://www.TheRomanceClub.com

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Category: Family -- posted at: 2:29 PM
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This week Laura Mills-Alcott features an excerpt from Karen Rose Smith's THE DADDY PLAN on MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS. Veterinarian Sam Barclay's broken heart hasn't yet mended from his last serious relationship.  His father had raised Sam and his two brothers on his own.  Sam has always respected and admired his father, wanting to be a dad himself some day.  But those dreams ended with his ex-fiancee's betrayal.  Dependable, stay-in-the-background veterinary assistant Corrie Edwards has flown under Sam's radar except for one stunning New Year's Eve kiss a few months before he met his fiancee.  Now when Corrie appears at his retreat in the Minnesota woods and asks him to become a sperm donor, Sam has to make a decision.  If Corrie does becomes pregnant, he definitely is not going to walk away from his child.  But Sam has to put betrayal in the past to find happily-ever-after with Corrie.
 
Read more excerpts from Karen Rose Smith's books at http://www.TheRomanceClub.com/authors/karenrosesmith and read more book previews from other authors, find contests, and enter reader events at http://www.TheRomanceClub.com. And for more audio excerpts and author interviews, visit our website at http://www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net
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Category: Books -- posted at: 11:31 AM
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This week, host Laura Mills-Alcott brings readers an excerpt from the award winning novel, THE GRAIL KING by Joy Nash. So turn your speakers up, sit back and listen along with us.

The Holy Grail of legend unites a Druid hermit and the daughter of his enemy in The Grail King, a lushly sensual tale of magic and betrayal. Follow the magical Holy Grail and its Druid Keepers two centuries before King Arthur. Owein, a cursed Druid Seer, lives alone in the ruins of a mountain village. When Clara arrives seeking aid, Owein’s first impulse is to turn her away--until he discovers she seeks a Druid Grail that could be the key to his people's salvation...or their destruction.

For more audio excerpts and author interviews, visit our website www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net. And for Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction, Non-Fiction author sites, contests, reader events and more, check out www.TheRomanceClub.com 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 6:08 PM
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In this episode of MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS, join us for an audio reading of an excerpt from bestselling author Dawn Calvert's HIS AND HERS - you're going to love this book! 
TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT...  Sitting in her favorite coffee shop, Jane Ellingson realizes a frappucino can't fix a broken heart. She used to have a cool job, a best friend, and a fiance—and she lost them all in one really bad day. Hey can she have a do-over? How about a whole new life?  ...WHAT YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT  But Jane is about to get a second chance when she finds a stone that comes with a wish. With nothing to lose, Jane figures she'll go for it—and suddenly she finds herself in Victorian England, meeting the dashing Curran Dempsey. Before long she's smitten—and completely unable to stay in her corset. In fact, she feels just like the heroine in a romance novel, madly in love with a man who's too fabulous to be real...and too sexy to give up. 
For more audio excerpts, visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net 
For Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction and Non-Fiction books, authors, excerpts, contests and reader events, visit www.TheRomanceClub.com
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Category: Books -- posted at: 4:34 PM
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This week on MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS, Laura Mills-Alcott features an audio excerpt from bestselling author Susan Crandall's PITCH BLACK. In an effort to give her newly adopted teenage son, Ethan, a fresh start, Philadelphia journalist Madison Wade relocates to a small Tennessee town. Ethan's past casts him as suspect in a crime, and the secrets Madison uncovers as she tries to clear her son brings danger from unexpected places and puts her at odds with the local sheriff -- a man who has been trying to win her heart. 
 
For more audio excerpts and author interviews, visit http://www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net.  And for Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction and Non-Fiction authors, contests, reader events and book previews, go to http://www.TheRomanceClub.com
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Category: Books -- posted at: 4:23 PM
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This week on MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS, we are pleased to present an excerpt from JUDITH ROCHELLE'S paranormal suspense ALWAYS ON MY MIND.

As teenagers Faith Wilding and Mark Halloran discovered they could communicate telepathically. For most of their lives it’s been their private way to send messages, especially when a long weekend brought home the realization that their friendship had become something far more complex. But Faith is busy building a career as a successful author of political thrillers and Mark, a Special Operations team leader, is concerned with the covert missions he leads. Now someone has betrayed their latest mission, most of his team has been killed and Mark has been captured. His telepathic messages to Faith are his only chance for help. But powerful forces want to sweep the whole episode under the rug and will do anything to make that happen—including killing Faith. 

For more audio excerpts and author interviews visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net and to read Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction and Non-Fiction excerpts, participate in reader events, and more, go to www.TheRomanceClub.com

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Category: Books -- posted at: 11:36 PM
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Laura Mills-Alcott welcomes cozy mystery author Kate Collins to MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS, and Kate reads from her latest installment in her bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series, "Acts of Violets".
Welcome to Bloomers Flower Shop, owned and operated by Abby Knight, a feisty, fearless young florist with an eye for flowers and a nose for murder. Abby can't seem to help herself when she senses injustice. She just has to get involved, with disastrous, and often hilarious results. Throw in her zany family and her two assistants, Grace and Lottie, and add a dash of a hunky ex-Army Ranger/bar owner named Marco, and you get non-stop action, fun, and mysteries that will keep you guessing to the end.

You can also read an excerpt from "Acts of Violets", and all the other books in the Flower Shop Mystery series, at www.KateCollinsBooks.com
For more mysteries: www.FictionWeb.com and for romanace, women's fiction and non-fiction: www.TheRomanceClub.com. Join us at www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net for more audio excerpts and author interviews.
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Category: Books -- posted at: 3:43 PM
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In this episode, bestselling author HEATHER GRAHAM reads to us from her book THE DEATH DEALER!

Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer. Now a new menace is stalking the streets of New York. The media are buzzing about the Poe Killings, a string of homicides mirroring the author's macabre stories. Almost without exception, the victims have been members of a literary society devoted to the master of crime fiction—and Genevieve's own mother may be next. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, Genevieve turns to P.I. Joe Connolly, her rescuer, her friend and…? She wants him to be much more, but he's been avoiding her since her ordeal, and she can't seem to get close to him.  Joe isn't sure there even is a case. But as the body count rises and their investigation leads them miles from Manhattan, he has to admit that there's a twisted new serial killer at work. Even more unsettling is the guidance Joe is receiving from beyond the grave. People he knows to be dead—his cousin Matt and Matt's fiancée, Leslie—are appearing to him, offering new clues and leads, and warning him of terrible danger ahead. But not even otherworldly intervention can keep Genevieve and Joe's new nightmare from becoming terrifyingly real—and putting them squarely in the crosshairs between this world and the next.

For more author readings and interviews, visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net. And for Romance, Mystery, Mainstream and Non-Fictiion excerpts, author websites, contests and reader events, visit www.TheRomanceClub.com

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Category: Books -- posted at: 3:32 PM
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 Much Ado About Books presents a reading from bestselling author Amanda Stevens' new thriller

THE DEVIL'S FOOTPRINTS by Amanda Stevens

THE FOOTPRINTS WERE ETCHED IN THE SNOW FOR MILES, PASSING THROUGH WALLS AND CROSSING RIVERS...APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE AS THOUGH NO BARRIER COULD STOP THEM. In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow...only to reappear seventy years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune. Years after her sister's unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had "appeared" to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister's murder. The past bleeds into the present when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's home, the crime scene desecrated by cloven footprints.

For more audio excerpts, author interviews and book fun visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net  For Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction excerpts, reader events, contests and more visit www.TheRomanceClub.com

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Category: Books -- posted at: 3:16 PM
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Much Ado About Books presents a literary special feature, Les Miserables, broadcast in 7 episodes! "So long as these problems are not solved, so long as ignorance and poverty remain on earth, these words cannot be useless..." These words set forth the sould and spirit of one of the world's greatest masterpieces. Out of the depth of his pity for the suffering of mankind, Victor Hugo drew a compelling story - one that will live so long as bewildered humanity shall continue to grope toward the light. "The Bishop" is the first of seven broadcasts adapted for radio by Orson Welles.

Visit our website www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net and browse authors, books excerpts and more at www.TheRomanceClub.com

 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 9:31 AM
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Historical author Amanda Elyot visits Laura and Much Ado About Books, and reads from her book "Too Great a Lady: The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton".  For more book talk visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net. For Romance, Mystery and Mainstream fiction authors and book excerpts, visit www.TheRomanceClub.com  Subscribe FREE at http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss

 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 1:04 PM
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Contemporary author LESLIE CARROLL reads to listeners from her new book HERSELF. You can purchase a copy of HERSELF from Amazon or your local bookstore! For more book talk radio, visit www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net  or subscribe FREE http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss 

 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 2:55 PM
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Host Laura Mills-Alcott welcomes veteran movie reviewer and author Betty Jo Tucker to Much Ado About Books. Betty Jo reads an excerpt from her highly acclaimed autobiography, "Confessions of a Movie Addict"!

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Category: Books -- posted at: 2:45 AM
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We're going through the archives again, and replaying this MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS interview with New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon from 2006.

Stay tuned for all new interviews with bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon, Virginia Henley, Gaelen Foley, Mary Jo Putney and more! 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 4:56 PM
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Author Shirley Tallman reads from her historical mystery THE RUSSIAN HILL MURDERS!  Subscribe FREE to Much Ado About Books at http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss/Books and visit our website at www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net . Subscribe to ALL our shows http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss

Read - Romance, Mystery, Women's Fiction, Mainstream Fiction, Non-Fiction, and more at The Romance Club www.TheRomanceClub.com (and be sure to enter our Spring Into Romance event May 21-June 20, 2006 - we're giving away over $1000.00 in books and prizes!)

 

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Category: Books -- posted at: 12:55 PM
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Barbara Luddy stars as Pam, a young woman in search of a job. Olan Soule stars as Andy, a real expert in publicity. Enjoy this romantic comedy.

For more romantic shows like this one visit our website www.iWRNRadio.com/theater/romance.htm or subscribe FREE http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss/Romance%20Theater

Read romance - contemporary, historical, romantic suspense, and more at The Romance Club www.TheRomanceClub.com (and be sure to enter our Spring Into Romance event May 21-June 20, 2006 - we're giving away over $1000.00 in books and prizes!)

 

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Category: Romance Theater -- posted at: 2:31 PM
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Liz (Lucille Ball) and George are in the kitchen having breafast, and Liz is happy because tonight she and George are going to the Starlight Roof with their friends the Rickys. Then George tells her Mr. Atturbury and Mr. Forsythe, members of the board of directors at George's bank, are coming over, so she'll have to cancel her plans to go dancing...  For more comedy, visit www.iWRNRadio.com/theater/comedy.htm - and if you love romantic stories visit www.TheRomanceClub.com

 

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Category: Comedy Theater -- posted at: 1:13 PM
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Britt crosses paths with an old acquaintance who was once a gunslinger, but who now has seemingly settled down and sworn off violence. The town thinks he's a coward, and a land-hungry rancher who's determined to get a hold of his land intends to use that cowardice against him, and Britt Ponsett lends his old friend a hand... for more western radio, visit www.iWRNRadio.com/theater/western.htm and for historical and western fiction, browse the books at www.TheRomanceClub.com

 

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Category: Western Theater -- posted at: 9:13 AM
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You are there... March 6, 1836. An unforgettable moment in Texas history... the Alamo. This broadcast is based on historical fact and quotations.  For more history www.iHistoryRadio.com  and if you love reading historical fiction www.TheRomanceClub.com

 

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Category: History -- posted at: 8:16 AM
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When the Somaliland Diamond is stolen, the insurance company hires Richard Rogue to find the thief. First stop on the trail, the country estate of wealthy gem collector James E. Lee, the man who owned the Somaliland Diamond and the man who filed the insurance claim... For more mystery visit www.iWRNRadio.com/theater/mystery.htm and if you love to read a good mystery visit www.FictionWeb.com

 

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Category: Mystery Theater -- posted at: 11:01 AM
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