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Desperate Spies
By: Mark De Castrique Secret Lives #3 ISBN: 9781448316700 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Badass 75-year-old retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater is back—stalking mobsters, dodging bullets, and pulling off Bond-worthy moves as she tracks down missing state secrets in this fun and pacy new installment in the Secret Lives mystery series “Ethel’s adventures will appeal to fans of Richard
Judith D Collins
2 days ago6 min read
The Christmas Stranger
By: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans ISBN: 9781668014905 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Christmas classic The Christmas Box and the #1 Netflix movie The Noel Diary comes a powerful and thought-provoking holiday story about love, loss, and the mysterious workings of heaven. Sometimes the universe sends us exactly who we need
Judith D Collins
2 days ago6 min read
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #1 By: Kim MIchele Richardson Narrator: Katie Schorr Blackstone Audio ISBN: 978-1464246524 Publisher: Sourebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition My Rating: 5 Stars + NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS THE LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S EDITION WITH DESIGNED EDGES! The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cu
Judith D Collins
2 days ago14 min read
Strangers In The Car
By: C.M. Ewan Narrator: Olivia Mace ISBN: 9781538766286 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “As wild and terrifying a ride as any thriller reader could want,” a heart-pounding thriller from the acclaimed author of The House Hunt and Safe House (Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author). Abi and Ben are driving home down foggy country roads, arguing about having had to cut short
Judith D Collins
2 days ago4 min read
The Lady on Esplanade
By: Karen White Narrator: Sophie Amoss Penguin Audio Royal Street Series #3 ISBN: 9780593549490 Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS People and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola Trenholm’s new life in New Orleans in the third novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola is ready to focus on starting over in the Big Easy. She wants to get back to w
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
Introducing Mrs. Collins
A Pride and Prejudice novel By: Rachel Parris Narrators: Rachel Parris, George Blagden ISBN: 9780316602358 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Best known as the beloved friend of Elizabeth Bennet, Charlotte Lucas finally becomes the heroine of her own story in this heartfelt and mesmerizing sequel to Pride and Prejudice. When Charlotte Lucas chooses security over romance, her eyes
Judith D Collins
3 days ago2 min read
The Bridesmaid
By: Cate Quinn Narrator: Stephanie Cannon Tantor Media ISBN: 9781464245701 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of The Clinic comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a society wedding turned deadly, for fans of The Unwedding. The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the decade. There's just one hitch. You might not make it out alive. When a celebrit
Judith D Collins
3 days ago5 min read
Where He Left Me
By: Nicole Baart Narrator: Amanda Dolan Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668066171 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say, comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed whose husband disappears, leaving her isolated in Washington State’s North Cascades. “In every world, I’d find you.” Sadie Sheridan’s new husband, Felix, a
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
Forget You Saw Her
Series: Ask for Andrea #.5 By: Noelle W. Ihli Narrators: Andi Arndt, Carlotta Brentan, Brittany Pressley Simon Maverick ISBN: 9798992716108 Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS NOV Featured QA #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat She lost her daughter once. Now, she’ll go to hell and back to find her. Seventeen years ago, Sabina made the most difficult decision of her life: giving her newborn daughter, Andre
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
The Perfect Hosts
By: Heather Gudenkauf Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Xe Sands Harlequin Audio ISBN: 978-0778305668 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS A couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly and everyone is a suspect in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest Is it a boy or a girl? They would die to know… Cordelia and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their c
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
Trust No ONe
By: Caleb Crowe ISBN: 9781837566464 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 11/02/2025 Format: 5 Stars NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS He knows her weaknesses… And just how to use them. Grace Harper spends her days finding dream homes for strangers – but her office is a nightmare she can’t escape. Bullied by younger colleagues, and on a final warning from her boss, she hates her work, but desperately needs to keep earning so she can save enough to escape to university. So when
Judith D Collins
4 days ago5 min read
The Girl in the Window
By: A.J. McDine Narrators: Tamsin Kennard, Stephanie Cannon ISBN: 9781805502937 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 11/07/225 Format:e-book & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS She looks just like me. But can I trust her? Alana: She’s outside my house again. She must think I haven’t seen her, that I don’t notice her watching me. I’m shocked by how similar we look. I have no idea why she’s here. But her arrival could change everything. Laura: I
Judith D Collins
5 days ago2 min read
His Other Woman
By: Valerie Keogh Narrator: Rose Robinson ISBN: 9781836178491 Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication Date: 11/03/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The BRAND NEW utterly heart-pounding thriller from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING author of The Wives, a must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell! Fiona Carlton has never needed a man to make her life complete. Until she meets charming, handsome, and sophisticated Richard. She is consumed, fi
Judith D Collins
5 days ago4 min read
Christmas Revenge
'Tis the season... to get even. By: AJ Campbell ASIN: B0FR3KNWRS Publisher: Code Grey Publishing Publication Date: 11/03/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS BLOG TOUR STOP NOV 7th COVER REVEAL All she wants for Christmas is… payback. After their mother is left with life-changing injuries from being attacked in their home, sisters Violet and Rose react very differently. Rose grows up seemingly well-balanced, while Violet —who witnessed the Ch
Judith D Collins
5 days ago2 min read
What She Saw
By: Mary Burton Narrators: Samara Naeymi, James Anderson Foster, Andrew Eiden, Patrick Lawlor Brilliance Audio ISBN: 978-1662516047 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 11/01/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS An investigative reporter returns to the scene of a decades-old crime to put her own unsettled past to rest in this chilling suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton. Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come t
Judith D Collins
6 days ago5 min read
You Watched in Silence
By: H. Lee Justine Narrator: Brittany Pressley ISBN: 9798874899158 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Puiblicaiton Date: 11/18/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: Currently Reading NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “Bewitching: a dark-hearted, full-blooded thriller, the sort of potent potion Riley Sager and Stacy Willingham might brew. Part psychological suspense, part is-it-or-isn’t-it horror … and altogether likely to spook you right off of social media. You might watch in silence, but
Judith D Collins
Oct 274 min read
Nash Falls
Walter Nash #1 By: David Baldacci Narrators: MacLeod Andrews, Christine Lakin, Larry Herron, Shiromi Arserio, Will Collyer ISBN: 9781538757987 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + + (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2025! When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author D
Judith D Collins
Oct 273 min read
A Different Type of Poison
Not every invitation is meant to be accepted. This one could be her last. by Liz Alterman Narrators: Anna Caputo, Rachel F. Hirsch, Leslie Howard Simon Maverick ISBN: 9798999924704 Publisher: One More Page Press Publication Date: 11/25/2025 Format: e-book & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS NOV featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats The Plot meets Disclaimer in a simmering, slow-burn domestic thriller and psychological suspense novel that explores the stories
Judith D Collins
Oct 233 min read
Good Hair Days
By: Grace Helena Walz Narrators: Natalie Duke, Reba Buhr ISBN: 978-1400345663 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Two sisters, a failing family business, and a whole lot of hairspray--Good Hair Days is a modern twist on Steel Magnolias with a little extra Dolly Parton flair. "I've really messed it all up, Georgia," Junie says. "And this time it's the shop. June's is in trouble." June's B
Judith D Collins
Oct 233 min read
ONe Little Mistake
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781837566648 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 11/09/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Some thoughts should never be shared. Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes. Social invitations vanish, her business crumbles, even her marriage st
Judith D Collins
Oct 212 min read
You'll Never Know
By: Caleb Stephens Narrators: Danny Montooth, Brittany Pressley, and Adam Verner ISBN: 9798991461016 Publisher: Thrillerscape Press Publication Date: 11/18/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson races against the clock in this pulse-pounding thriller packed with riddles, danger, and the desperate fight to save his family, perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain. They took his wife
Judith D Collins
Oct 202 min read
The House on Mountain Laurel Lane
Gold Creek #2 By: Eileen Goudge Narrator: Rosanna Pilcher Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662518140 Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Paperback, e-book, audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) NOV Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal A widow and mom of two struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future in a powerful novel about friendship, love, and taking risks by New York Times bestselling author Eileen G
Judith D Collins
Oct 189 min read
The Burning Library
By: Gilly Macmillan Narrators: Rose Robinson, Steph de Whalley Harper Audio ISBN: 9780063422919 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 11/18/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the internationally bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes a thrilling dark academic tale of murder, obsession, and ruthless ambition, set in remote St Andrews, Scotland. A deadly rivalry. A chilling secret. One woman who can decipher the trut
Judith D Collins
Oct 184 min read
Evensong
By: Stewart O'Nan Narrator: Nancy Linari Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9780802166432 Publisher: Grove Atlantic Atlantic Monthly Press Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “Stewart O’Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women.” – Susan Straight An intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their c
Judith D Collins
Oct 183 min read
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