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Spend less time searching for new fiction and more time reading it as I watch for newly-released genre fiction in the Kindle Store so you don't have to. Outstanding new releases in romance and western fiction include:

Romance

Trading Christmas by Debbie Macomber. Mira, 2011. Print length: 363 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $5.72. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. First published in 2004 as When Christmas Comes.

"Charles Brewster, history professor, curmudgeon and resident of Boston, wants to avoid Christmas altogether. He figures a prison town should be nice and quiet over the holidays - except he's thinking of the wrong Leavenworth! Through an internet site, Charles and Emily arrange to swap houses for the holiday. So Emily goes to Boston - and discovers that her daughter has gone to Florida. And Charles arrives in Leavenworth to discover that it's not the prison town - it's Santa's village! Meanwhile, Emily's friend Faith Kerrigan travels to Leavenworth to visit her and instead finds Charles the grinch. Then Charles's brother, Ray, shows up at his home in Boston to discover that he isn't there - but Emily is. Through all the mix-ups and misunderstandings, amid the chaos and confusion, romance begins to emerge in unexpected ways." - Publisher.

It's a Waverly Life by Maria Murnane. Amazon Publishing, 2011. Print length: 277 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (24 reviews). Kindle edition $4.99. Please note: this title is also available as a free loan from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library if you subscribe to Amazon Prime. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Readers first met the irrepressible Waverly Bryson in Perfect on Paper, and now the woman dubbed by fans as 'the American Bridget Jones' is back in a sequel packed with friendship, heartache, and romance. In It’s a Waverly Life, the formerly heartbroken singleton is now happily enmeshed in a new relationship, a new job, and a new decade. Her career as an advice columnist is taking off, and the future of her fledgling greeting-card line is bright. Of course, where Waverly goes, drama is sure to follow, and this time is no exception. Her broken engagement to former fiance Aaron Vaughn has left her gun-shy when it comes to love, putting strain on her long-distance relationship with handsome Jake McIntyre. And when her best friends McKenna and Andie both make life-changing announcements, Waverly fears she is being left behind..." - Publisher.

SEAL of My Dreams by Jami Alden et al. Bell Bridge Books, 2011. Print length: 396 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (14 reviews). Kindle edition $7.99. All proceeds from sales of this book go to the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans’ medical research. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Honor, duty, courage, passion...the men of the Navy SEALs are a special breed of hero, and in these novellas by eighteen top romance authors the SEALs are celebrated not only as symbols of devoted service to their country but as the kind of men every woman wants to love, and in these stories by eighteen top romance authors the SEALs are celebrated not only as symbols of devoted service to their country but as the kind of man every woman wants to love. They’ll rescue a damsel in distress and her lap dog, too. They’ll battle hometown dramas and international bad guys. When it comes to giving away their hearts, they’ll risk everything." - Publisher.

The Christmas Quilt by Patricia Davids. Love Inspired, 2011. Print length: 220 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $3.82. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Years ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer's marriage proposal a secret. Then Gideon left their Amish community. Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness. She's also busy guarding her heart against love. Until Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts. Will the quilt - a patchwork promise of rediscovered love - bring Gideon and Rebecca back together again?" - Publisher.

The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway. Montlake Romance, 2011. Print length: 386 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (29 reviews). Kindle edition $4.99. Please note: this title is also available as a free loan from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library if you subscribe to Amazon Prime. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Determined to prove her worth as a budding archeologist, Ginesse Braxton vows to solve one of the world's greatest mysteries - to find the location of the lost city of Zerzura. Unfortunately, no man dares take the risk of escorting the resolute young scholar across the open desert. But on her way to Egypt, Ginesse engages in a daring deception - she will switch places with Mildred Whimpelhall, who is traveling to meet her fiancé. Cynical adventurer Jim Owen will do anything to escape the dark secrets of his troubled past. Betrayed by the woman he loved, scorned by proper society, he agrees to carry out a danger-fraught task: escort Mildred Whimpelhall across a lawless desert to her intended. But Jim is about to learn that 'Mildred' isn't exactly what she seems..." - Publisher.




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Westerns

High Country by Willard Wyman. University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. First published in 2005 and now available in a Kindle edition. Print length: 370 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (15 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"The packer’s business is guiding mule trains into mountains where wagons can’t travel. It’s a life of danger, long days, and low pay. But for those wedded to the wilderness and inaccessible high country, it is the only life there is. During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. High Country follows Ty through this apprenticeship and into World War II... Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp. Wyman brings you so close to the packer’s life you smell the leather, sweat, and oil." - Publisher.

The Long Shooters by Daniel C. Chamberlain. Solstice Publishing, 2011. Print length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (27 reviews). Kindle edition $0.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Colorado, 1877. In the grinding death mill of the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, in the closing days of the Civil War, a Union sharpshooter - a 'long-shooter' named Ballou - emerges as the best sniper in a war where wholesale slaughter became the norm. After the war, he disappears. Samuel Roark is a small-time rancher and part-time lawyer. When a hidden marksman of uncommon skill murders his son, the death leaves Samuel on the brink of total madness. Roark’s wife Sarah, a woman of strength, grace and startling beauty is now both emotionally and physically exhausted by the tragic circumstances that have beset her family. After discovering her husband’s quest for revenge, she does everything in her power to prevent what she fears will ultimately destroy him. Matthew Shaw is a known manhunter and soldier of fortune that people call on when they’re willing to pay someone else to deal with obstacles in their lives. Now Shaw finds himself caught between a job he truly believes in, and a very good reason to walk away..." - Publisher.

Dark Horse by Colby Jackson. The Book Place, 2011. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (3 reviews). Kindle edition $2.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"When beautiful Lizzie Payton showed up in Shooter's Cross with the magnificent black stallion Satan, Sam Blaylock's friend Duane Beatty fell for her - hard. What Duane didn't know was that Lizzie had trouble dogging her trail, trouble that would put Duane and all his friends on Rancho Diablo in danger and wind up in a blistering shootout in the streets of Shooter's Cross!" - Publisher.

Revenge of Eagles by William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle Books, 2011. First published in 2005 and now available in a Kindle edition. Print length: 292 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $4.61. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"Falcon MacCallister couldn't duck his father's legacy as a shootist in the Wild West - and he's never tried to. A man who lives between two worlds, Falcon has a reputation of his own - and it's about to plunge him into a different kind of war. On a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon is ambushed. But the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a beautiful young Indian woman returning from school in the East. While Falcon has a choice to walk away, a violent conflict is erupting among the natives. The dead woman was the daughter of a powerful chief with links to Geronimo and Cochise - and a tinderbox has been ignited..." - Publisher.

Murder at Thumb Butte by James D. Best. Queen Beach, 2011. Print length: 240 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (7 reviews). Kindle edition $5.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.

"In the spring of 1880, Steve Dancy travels to Prescott, Arizona to gain control of a remarkable invention. But on his first night in the territorial capital, his friend, Jeff Sharp is arrested for a midnight murder at Thumb Butte. Dancy launches a personal investigation to find the real murderer, only to discover the whole town wanted the victim dead. For help, he turns to another old friend and associate, Captain Joseph McAllen of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Can Dancy discover the true killer before his friend stretches a rope on the courthouse square?" - Publisher.
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