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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: THE DADDY PLAN by Karen Rose Smith

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:31:00 GMT

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: THE GRAIL KING by Joy Nash

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:08:00 GMT

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, Oweinâs 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.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: His and Hers by Dawn Calvert

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:34:00 GMT

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 fianceâand 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 itâand suddenly she finds herself in Victorian England, meeting the dashing Curran Dempsey. Before long she's smittenâand 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.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: PITCH BLACK by Susan Crandall

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:23:00 GMT

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Excerpt Judith Rochelle's ALWAYS ON MY MIND

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:36:00 GMT

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 itâs 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 happenâincluding killing Faith.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Kate Collins reads from ACTS OF VIOLETS

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:43:00 GMT

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

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: The Death Dealer by Heather Graham

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:32:00 GMT

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 fictionâand Genevieve's own mother may be next. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, Genevieve turns to P.I. Joe Connolly, her rescuer, her friend andâ? 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 deadâhis cousin Matt and Matt's fiancÃe, Leslieâare 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 realâand 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

MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: The Devil's Footprints by Amanda Stevens

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:16:00 GMT

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.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Les Miserables, episode 1

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:31:00 GMT

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.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Amanda Elyot reads from "Too Great a Lady"

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:04:00 GMT

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Leslie Carroll, HERSELF

Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:55:00 GMT

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Betty Jo Tucker reads from Confessions of a Movie Addict

Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:45:00 GMT

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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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Interview with Sherrilyn Kenyon replay

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:56:00 GMT

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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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: The Russian Hill Murders, by Shirley Tallman

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:55:00 GMT

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

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Snipped in the Bud by Kate Collins (reading)

Wed, 2 May 2007 18:36:00 GMT

Kate Collins reads from her cozy mystery "Snipped in the Bud", part of her bestselling Flower Shop Mystery series!

Visit Kate and read excerpts from all the books in the series at www.KateCollinsBooks.com. And find more Mystery authors at www.FictionWeb.com

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Heather Graham interview replay

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:10:00 GMT

This journey into the archives produced our 2005 interview with New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, who also writes as Shannon Drake. Heather was boarding a plane during this live interview (and a week later when she guest hosted, she was in the middle of a hurricane!) Enjoy this replay, and read more about the book Heather talks about in this interview - "Ghost Walk" - at The Romance Club www.TheRomanceClub.com Subscribe FREE at http://booktalkradio.libsyn.com/rss and visit our website at www.LaurasMuchAdoAboutBooks.net

Much Ado About Books: Vicki Hinze reads from her new book HER PERFECT LIFE

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:29:00 GMT

Bestselling author Vicki Hinze joins host Laura Mills-Alcott, and reads from her latest release, "Her Perfect Life"!

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Lisa Gardner interview replay

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:22:00 GMT

We've unlocked the archives and are rebroadcasting some older shows that were initially broadcast on another network. This episode is Laura Mills-Alcott's interview with NY Times bestselling author LISA GARDNER!

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Avon historical author Melody Thomas

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:43:00 GMT

This week, Laura Mills-Alcott replays her 2005 interview with Avon historical author Melody Thomas, whose latest release is "Wild and Wicked in Scotland".

Coming soon, all new interviews with today's bestselling romance, mystery, and mainstream authors, including Gaelen Foley, Virginia Henley, Diana Gabaldon, Mary Jo Putney and more!

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Eleanor Sullivan, Mystery Author

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:08:00 GMT

Laura Mills-Alcott chats with bestselling mystery author Eleanor Sullivan about her Monica Everhardt nurse mystery series.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Dearly Depotted, by Kate Collins

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:53:00 GMT

This week, host Laura Mills-Alcott features an excerpt and reading of Kate Collins' cozy mystery "Dearly Depotted", part of Kate's Flower Shop Mystery series! www.KateCollinsBooks.com

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Picking Up the Pieces by Tammy L. Boulds, Prologue

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:17:00 GMT

Listen to the prologue of Tammy L. Boulds' latest book "Picking Up the Pieces" (read by author Vicki Hinze) - and stay tuned for Chapter One!

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BOOKS: Picking Up the Pieces by Tammy L. Boulds, part 2

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:16:00 GMT

Chapter One of Tammy L. Boulds' "Picking Up the Pieces" (read by author Vicki Hinze).

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