Books by Robyn Carr and Complete Book Reviews
Robyn Carr. Mira, $8.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1772-2
Carr fills her seventh visit to Thunder Point (after The Homecoming) with a charming cast of characters and a tender love story. Grace Dillon—formerly known as champion ice skater Izzy Banks—moves to the small Oregon town and buys a small flower...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $8.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1749-4
This sweet (but occasionally sour) contemporary is the ninth novel set in the tiny Oregon hamlet of Thunder Point (after A New Hope). Single mother Lin Su Simmons, a hardworking and somewhat impoverished nurse, is doing her best to keep herself and...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $8.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1787-6
Carr continues her romance series set on the Oregon coast with a smoothly written story of two people who find healing and love after bad marriages. Ginger Dysart, still recovering from her baby’s SIDS death, punches farmer and professor Matt...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1885-9
Carr takes a break from her Thunder Point series to explore the mountains of Colorado in this contemporary, which is filled with set pieces that ring true but largely fail to excite. Talented neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan, reeling from personal and...
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Robyn Carr. Harlequin/Mira, $7.99 mass-market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1644-2
The captivating sixth installment of Carr’s Thunder Point series (after The Promise) brings up big emotions in the tiny coastal Oregon hamlet. Hometown boy Seth Sileski left in triumph with a football scholarship and went on to play in the NFL—until
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1681-7
The prolific Carr (A Summer in Sonoma) explores the implosion of the marriages of four women with painful secrets living in the same neighborhood, in this juicy deliberation on getting your groove back amid domestic chaos, hormonal imbalance, and...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1967-2
Bestselling author Carr follows a woman who marries a multi-millionaire schemer (who commits suicide after being caught) and ends up as a nearly penniless widow. Emma Shay Compton is unsympathetic in the public eye—though she did nothing wrong and...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6895-3
Bestseller Carr (The Wanderer) falls short with this novel of a woman who pivots from a mid-40s divorce to a surprising new romance. Lauren Delaney is extricating herself from marriage to a surgeon who has spent 24 years inflicting emotional, verbal,
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1300-7
The 17th in Carr’s Virgin River series (after Bring Me Home for Christmas) is sweet but lacks dramatic tension despite what should be a compelling premise. Leslie Petruso arrives in Virgin River, Colo., to escape an unpleasant ex-husband determined...
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Robyn Carr, Mira, $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2870-4
Carr (the Virgin River series) brings four high school friends together in a slow-moving but charming story set in beautiful Northern California. Cassie is sick of searching for Mr. Right and ending up with Mr. Very Wrong. Julie wishes she didn't...
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Robyn Carr, Mira, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2921-3
Carr's 11th Virgin River novel (after 2010's Moonlight Road) reads less like a story and more like a history book. Chapters of background lead to more chapters about horse colic, the characteristics of hoarders, and posttraumatic stress. Interesting
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Robyn Carr, Author Mira Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-545-0
When novelist Gabby Marshall dies, she leaves a letter asking her four closest friends, all writers, to organize her literary remains. In the process, they take refuge from their own lives in Gabby's cozy home in Sacramento, Calif. Unsentimental...
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Robyn Carr, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-316-12979-4
Tortured by a love they cannot deny but must conceal from their feuding families, raven-haired beauty Anne Gifford and her dashing knight Dylan de Frayne are caught up in the Wars of the Roses, England's 15th century struggle for the throne. Though...
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Robyn Carr, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (425p) ISBN 978-0-312-03837-3
Set in 19th-century Philadelphia, this complex historical romance follows three generations of women in the Main Line Armstrong family as they are propelled into independence by the men, good and bad, in their lives. Emily, the mother of two girls,...
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Robyn Carr, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-07034-2
The veteran author of historical novels ( Woman's Own ), Carr now moves into the psychothriller genre with a seamless suspense novel that guarantees readers edge-of-the-seat drama. After Jackie Sheppard's 11-year-old son is killed in a car accident,
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Robyn Carr, Author . Mira $6.50 (377p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2042-5
Drawing on her husband's experiences as a pilot and executive in the commercial airline business, Carr (Down by the River
, etc.) spins a detailed but none too compelling tale focusing on the career ups and downs of pilot Nikki Burgess. After...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1599-5
Carr’s fourth contemporary set in Thunder Point, Ore. (after The Hero), is enjoyable and heartfelt. FBI agent Laine Carrington nearly died during a deep undercover stint at an Oregon cult commune. She returns to the area to reclaim part of the life...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1447-9
Carr takes a detour from her bestselling Virgin River books with this solid contemporary series start. Henry “Coop” Cooper Jr. heads from Virgin River, Calif., to the tiny Oregon hamlet of Thunder Point after learning his longtime Army buddy has...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1385-4
In this heartwrenching Christmas tale—the 20th installment in Carr’s bestselling Virgin River series, after Sunrise Point—two damaged souls find healing together. Med student Angie LaCroix had her whole future mapped out before the car accident that
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Robyn Carr, Author, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92932-9
Veteran historical novelist Carr moves into the psycho-thriller genre with a seamless suspense novel of obsessive love. Literary Guild selection in cloth. (Feb.)
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Robyn Carr. MIRA, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1188-1
The middling latest from Carr (A Family Affair) follows a Nevada celebrity chef and her friends across the rocky terrain of their love lives. Marni McGuire, 57, has nurtured her culinary empire for decades. Twice married—first to an abusive man who...
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Robyn Carr. Mira, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7783-8834-0
Carr is a master of charming small-town ambience, and the 21st romance in her Virgin River series (after My Kind of Christmas) does not disappoint. Suspense novelist Kaylee Sloan leaves her Southern California home and heads up the coast to hunker...
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