{"id":50823,"date":"2024-02-09T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=50823"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:26:50","slug":"leap-day-leap-year-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/leap-day-leap-year-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap Day \/ Leap Year items"},"content":{"rendered":"

You would think with Leap Day coming only every four years, there would be more stories revolving around the rare event. I could only come up with four titles in our catalog. (Descriptions provided by publisher.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lucky Leap Day<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Ann Marie Walker \u2014 During a whirlwind trip to Ireland, after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. She wakes up the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and\u00a0a tin foil ring. With a flight back to LA in four hours, the best thing they can do is figure things out along the way. In LA Finn Maguire spends the nights charming his new bride– and his days going on auditions. Is their marriage the real deal– or was he just after her Hollywood connections?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Leap Year<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (DVD) \u2013 This movie from 2010 introduced me to the Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap\u00a0Day. Anna (played by Amy Adams) follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her across the country. Along the way, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Leap Day<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Wendy Mass \u2013 This Young Adult novel features a heroine Josie on her fourth Leap birthday, when she turns sixteen. Josie has a number of momentous experiences, including taking her driver’s test, auditioning for a school play, and celebrating with her family and\u00a0friends.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>A Different Dawn<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Isabella Maldonado \u2014 When the FBI\u2019s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database detects two murder incidents \u201cstaged to look like double murder suicides,\u201d FBI special agent Nina Guerrera investigates, in Maldonado\u2019s captivating sequel to 2020\u2019s The Cipher<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. The most recent occurred in Phoenix, Ariz., and the previous one happened four years before in Manhattan, both on February 29. FBI agents soon discover the existence of eight similar crimes at four-year intervals, all involving young couples with an infant or newborn child. As the agents get closer to finding commonalities among the murders and in particular the significance of leap day, things get personal for Nina as she uncovers clues to the crimes related to her entry into the foster system as a child. (Publishers Weekly review, 06\/28\/2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You would think with Leap Day coming only every four years, there would be more stories revolving around the rare event. I could only come up with four titles in our catalog. (Descriptions provided by publisher.) Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker \u2014 During a whirlwind trip to Ireland,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":50837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,1],"tags":[524,1806,490,8130,8129,104,333,408,8131,847],"class_list":["post-50823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","category-reference","tag-comedy","tag-dublin","tag-ireland","tag-leap-birthday","tag-leap-day","tag-leap-year","tag-mystery","tag-romance","tag-women-proposing","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/leap-year.jpg?fit=280%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-ddJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50823"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50831,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823\/revisions\/50831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}