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Book Details: Book Title: Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies by Evy Journey Category: Adult Fiction, 240 pages Genre: Literary / Women's Fiction Publisher: Sojourner Books Release date: December 2017 Tour dates: Feb 1 to 16, 2018 Content Rating: R (Two bedroom scenes) Book Description: Cooking a wonderful meal is an act of love. An act of grace. A gift that affirms and gives life—not only does it nurture those who partake of a meal; it also feeds the soul of the person who creates it. These are lessons Gina learns from her mother. Gina is a young woman born to poor parents; a nobody (her words) who wants to taste life outside the world she was born into and her passion for cooking is all she has to help her do so. She gets lucky when she’s chosen to cook at a Michelin-starred restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area where she finds a world of a privileged class with money to spare for dinners that cost hundreds of dollars. A world of new friends and new challeng...

Title : HELLO, MY LOVE Author : Evy Journey Publisher : Sojourner Books Pages : 317 Genre : Contemporary Women’s Fiction In this modern-day tale inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , bright, beautiful law student Elise Halverson looks forward to a promising career. Falling in love is low in her priorities. Well-known playboy Greg Thorpe is engaged to be married when he meets Elise. He finds her so unlike the women he used to date and he’s deeply intrigued. Distrusting the image she has of him, Elise avoids him. But Elise’s parents invite Greg to their frequent dinner parties. There, Greg and Elise butt heads. She’s surprised to find that, behind his rich playboy persona, he’s intelligent and engaging. The night before his wedding, they give in to their mutual attraction. Although Elise expects nothing more from that night, Greg is in for trouble. His jilted fiancée strikes back, intent on revenge. Two years later Greg and Elise get a second ch...

Inside the Book Title : HELLO, AGNIESZKA Author : Evy Journey Publisher : Sojourner Pages : 273 Genre : Women’s Fiction   Elise thought she knew her mother. Agnieszka Halverson is a caring woman, a great cook, and an exceptional piano player; but living in a secure, predictable world, she’s also a little dull. Her world is devastated when her oldest son attempts suicide, and Elise finds her mother has a past—both sweet and bitter—that she must now reveal to explain the suicide attempt. A past rich with a passion for music and shattered dreams, betrayal of a sweet but tragic first love, second chances and renewed hopes. Born to immigrant parents weighed down by their roots, Agnieszka takes solace in learning to play the piano, taught by a sympathetic aunt who was a concert pianist in Poland before World War II. But when her aunt betrays her and her parents cast her aside for violating their traditional values, can Agnieszka’s music sustain her? Can she, at eighteen,...