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Top Picks for Kids Christmas Books

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Top Picks for Kids Christmas Books

Light up a child's day with a charming, family-friendly, holiday book by bestselling author Janice Garden Macdonald.  5 Star Reviewed by Amy Louise Hill for Readers’ Favorite I Heard Christmas Whisper by Janice Garden Macdonald is a holiday-themed picture book for young children. Does your child love Christmas? Then this book will become their new favorite. A little dog can feel Christmas in the air and soon realizes that a Christmas tree is following him. The dog decides to take care of it and hopes it will stay around forever. But unfortunately, the dog learns that the tree has to go away,...

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Atomic Sunset: a quirky new mystery book by what's her name ...

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Alien Librarian Snatches Atomic Sunset — No Late Fees on Mars

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Alien Librarian Snatches Atomic Sunset — No Late Fees on Mars

 If you’ve been waiting for a sign from the universe, this is it. Aliens have landed in Radio Springs — or at least, they’re stocking up on reading material before heading home. I caught them mid-abduction of Atomic Sunset (see photographic evidence below). Can't blame them. The soda's radioactive, the librarian’s suspicious, and the donkeys are smarter than half the town. So if you’re looking for a weird, witty, small-town mystery with a dash of government cover-up and a possibly psychic coyote… grab your copy before the mothership runs out of cargo space. Atomic Sunset by Janice Garden Macdonald writing...

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Desert Heat and Sharp Turns

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Desert Heat and Sharp Turns

 This is an adult mystery book! (writing as J.G.Macdonald) Sometimes the best reviews are the ones that surprise you. One recent reader wrote: "Radio Springs is the kind of book that sneaks up on you—quirky, smart, and full of desert heat and sharp turns. At first, it feels like a cozy mystery with a touch of road trip charm, but it quickly veers into something far more bizarre and addictive." And honestly? I couldn’t ask for a better summary. Atomic Sunset (yes, that’s the real title) started as a story about a woman stranded in a dusty town off Route...

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Welcome to Radio Springs

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Welcome to Radio Springs

Ts is an adult mystery title (writing as J.G. Macdonald) Where the soda’s suspicious, the donkey has a fan club, and Jane just wants to photograph some lizards. Jane Dougherty never meant to stay long in Radio Springs. She was heading through the Arizona desert with a camera and a plan—stop for a day or two, snap some wildlife photos, maybe help her cousin catalog lizards for a biology grant. Instead, she ends up in a town that feels like a time warp on the fritz. There’s a suspicious librarian, a mechanic with too many maps and a sheriff who's itching...

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