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This year will mark the sixth in our bookish Christmas ornament series created by the same company that makes the official White House Collectible ornaments.
Our 2025 ornament will be this darling Bookmas design! Isn’t it adorable? And doesn’t it represent all of us booklovers at Christmastime? LOL.

🎄 You can get the ornament on its own here:

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🎄Or you can get it as part of our Christmas Party Package:

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🎄 It will also come in December’s Brenda Novak Book Box, of course. You’ll want to grab the December box the minute we list it because they always go quickly! To be sure you get in on the fun, subscribe to the Brenda Novak Book Boxes today:

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Our annual Christmas Party takes place on December 11th via a Facebook live video at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET on the Author Brenda Novak Facebook page.

There will be an autographed copy of our August read, A SUMMER FOR THE BOOKS by Michelle Lindo-Rice! This craft in a box will include all the materials you need to create a book brick (there will be a transfer image if you aren’t a confident painter, as well as paints with an outline, if you are) along with two darling 16 oz plastic cups that read “Do not disturb if I am reading or crafting” one you can use for for a drink and one you can use to clean your brushes. You can paint your brick on your own (all instructions will be included) or with us at August’s Book Group Meeting! You can put them in your garden or use them as darling bookends!

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Join me in Sacramento April 11th-12th, 2026 to be transported to Italy and celebrate my new release MEET ME IN ITALY! We’ll be having an Italian cooking demonstration, eating the food mentioned in MEET ME IN ITALY, going wine tasting, attending a book signing (with some surprise guests), goodie bags and so much more!

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There will be an autographed copy of our July read, THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN by Marie Bostwick (unless you switch to THE SUMMER THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING by Brenda Novak)! This box will also contain a 20 by 30 in doormat that reads, “Probably reading,” a delicious snack and a surprise item!

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Over 70 hours runtime!

The Dundee, Idaho series is a small town contemporary romance series. The audio collection consists of the eight full-length books That One Night, Falling for You, First Love Second Chance, Say You Love Me, Meant for You, Finding You, Just the Two of Us, and The More I Love You.

The audio collection is available online from Amazon, Apple Audiobooks, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Kobo, and Libro.fm.

She returned to prove her father’s innocence, but there’s no telling what she’ll find…

It’s been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison for the murder of three victims. Now she’s back in Virginia to talk to the man who destroyed her life, never expecting that there’s more to the story of what happened that fateful night…

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Build-your-own package to get beach ready!

You could get a 6 ft by 8 ft. striped beach blanket, any of Brenda’s beach reads, a cute brown floppy beach hat, nail kit, seashell magnets and/or a pink insulated wine mug!

Brenda’s Beach Reads:

• THE SUMMER THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
• THE SEASIDE LIBRARY
• TOURIST SEASON
• SUMMER ON THE ISLAND
• THE BOOKSTORE ON THE BEACH
• ONE PERFECT SUMMER

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FYI: We have orange and pink “Beach Ready” bags left, the blue one sold out.

1. EDDIE WINSTON IS LOOKING FOR LOVE by Marianne Cronin
2. LAST TWILIGHT IN PARIS by Pam Jenoff
3. THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND by Patti Callahan Henry
4. THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MIRA by Sonali Dev
5. …

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THE BANNED BOOKS CLUB will be available from September 17, but you can already read the first two chapters on Brenda’s website. Enjoy!

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