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Blue Moon Haven
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- ISBN: 9781420153613 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 268 pages ; 18 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2023.
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| Subject: | Alabama -- Fiction Drive-in theaters -- Fiction Fathers -- Fiction Single mothers -- Fiction Orphans -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Romance fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | FIC DAI (Text) | 36725000185512 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Houston Public Library | APB DAI (Text) | 35150001793118 | Adult Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Portage la Prairie Regional Library | PB DAI (Text) | 36750002495123 | Paperbacks Romance | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bowsman | Romance DAI (Text) | 35419003139185 | Adult Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Morden Library | PB F Dai v.7 (Text) | 35864002878179 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-18 |
| Rossburn | Romance DAI (Text) | 35419003139178 | Adult Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Winkler Library | PB F Dai v.7 (Text) | 35864002979464 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2023 March #2
A woman and two young children move to a small Alabama town to make a new life. Kelly Jenkins is the temporary guardian to Todd and Daisy, the young children of her best friend who died of cancer a year ago. Their dad left the children with Kelly and took off for parts unknown. Kelly loves the kids and does her best to care for them, but after losing her job in the city, the only job she can find is in the tiny town of Blue Moon, Alabama. Her new job is to revive and restore the drive-in movie theater, which has been in disrepair for decades. The drive-in is adjacent to the pecan groves of town recluse Seth Morgan. He's been living quietly after the death of his young daughter in a bicycle accident, too consumed with grief to engage with the townspeople. Kelly's new boss gives her a box of old VHS tapes to teach her the history of the movies, and coincidentally, Seth owns the only VHS player in town. The two bond together in a sweet, chaste romance while planning a fundraiser for a new projector for the drive-in. When Todd and Daisy's father returns, Kelly and Seth try to convince him that they would be better parents to the children. Author Dailey died a decade ago, and this novel penned by a ghostwriter reads as though it was pulled out of a time capsule. Even in the context of romance, the plot is dated and old-fashioned; for example, Susan Elizabeth Phillips' Dream a Little Dream (1998) centered a similar story about saving a drive-in. The book has a traditional, conservative view of parenthood and what constitutes a family. Every big problem is fixed with a pat, easy solution. Uncomfortably regressive. Copyright Kirkus 2023 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2023 March #4
Dailey's emotionally rich seventh New Americana romance (after
Copyright 2023 Publishers Weekly.Hope Creek ) sees Kelly Jenkins, 34, arriving in small town Blue Moon Haven, Ala., to assume managership of the local drive-in movie theater with two small children in tow. Kelly's been looking after Todd, 10, and Daisy, 6, since their mother, Kelly's best friend, died from breast cancer, and hopes a fresh start will do them all some good. Unfortunately, she finds the drive-in in disrepair and discovers that the promised "homey living quarters" attached to the job are really an old mobile home. Worse, while chopping down tree limbs blocking the projection screen, Kelly is confronted by an angry neighbor, Seth Morgan, who claims that the tree is part of his orchard. Despite this rough beginning, Kelly and Seth, who is grieving the death of his own daughter years before, become friends after he agrees to let her use his VCR so she can learn more about cinema history. As Kelly, Seth, Todd, and Daisy work together to restore the drive-in, Kelly becomes part of the welcoming community of Blue Haven while helping Seth heal from his sorrow. Their slow-building and strictly PG-13 romance proves heartwarming, and the cute kids only enhance proceedings. This is one to savor.(May)
