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More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson
A perusal of the back of More of This World or Maybe Another, a novel in stories, doesn’t offer up character names or any of the details typically emphasized in book descriptions. It makes simple statements about four people who are coming to...
The Demon of River Heights, by Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase
Nancy Drew and her friends, cousins George and Bess, are in the shooting a movie produced by film students from the neighboring college. After a incident in the park, Drew and her friends notice that the students have gone missing and she wonders i...
What The Witch Left, by Ruth Chew
Katy and Louise and Louise are playing at Katy’s house after school one day when Louise discovers a locked drawer in a bureau Katy’s room. Katy’s mother uses the chest of drawers to store things and Katy is not supposed to go into...
Dragon House, by John Shors
When Iris’s father dies she promises him him that she will travel to Vietnam to finish work on plans that he had to open a center for street children. Though at the time her primary motivation is to comfort a dying man with whom she has had a t...
Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, by Margaret Mascarenhas
Irene and Lily are best friends. Lily grows up the adored child of older parents while Irene’s family life is less than ideal or stable. Trouble with boys leads the girls to be separated when Lily’s stricter parents send her to schoo...
In A Perfect World, by Laura Kasischke
At 32, Jiselle McKnight has been a bridesmaid no less than six times, so when her co-worker, a sexy airline pilot, starts to woo her and wants to marry her, she is more than happy to overlook a few things to become the next Mrs. Mark Dorn. Doubts pla...
Hidden, by Tobias Hill
Having fled his hometown, school and his spectacularly failed marriage, Ben Mercer has retreated to the tiny town of of Metamorphosis, Greece, where he whiles away the hours living simply as a grill worker in a meat shop and working on his thesis on ...
Locked In, by Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone is a highly sucessful private investigator from humble origins who has managed to cobble together a wonderful family, and several loyal and dedicated employees and colleagues who will do just about anything for her. Sharon is a vibran...
Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
As a young girl, Grace Brisbane is attacked and dragged from her tire swing by a pack of wolves. Though she is bitten, she is saved from from serious injury and death when a wolf with odd yellow eyes steps in to save her from the others. Over the nex...
Green Books Campaign: Daniel O’Thunder, by Ian Weir
This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today more than 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Ideally publishers will want to consider the benefits of getting greener and readers will start ta...
The Story of A Marriage, by Andrew Sean Greer
Pearlie and Holland are childhood sweethearts from Kentucky who have found each other again after being separated when Holland went off to war. Holland is a troubled man when he returns and though his elderly spinster aunts try to warn Pearlie that...
Tell Me Something True, by Leila Cobo
Gabriella Richard is twenty-one years old, a classical pianist, gorgeous, and since her mom died when she was four years old, used to getting her way. Her father, a wealthy and well-known player in the movie industry, has always wanted her to grow...
31 Hours, by Masha Hamilton
When Carol Meitzner wakes up in the middle of the night she is as sure as anything that her son, Jonas, is in danger. Even though she tries to keep calm and give her 21-year old a healthy amount of space in which to live his life and make his own de...
Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane
Son of a fisherman, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has never been that comfortable on the water, yet on the water is where he finds himself as he crosses over by ferry to Shutter Island with his new partner Chuck Aule. There, the two will investigate t...
And A Dead Guy In A Pear Tree, by Leslie Kelly
“Even through his coat, he could feel her heat.” Holly Cavanaugh is living with her grandparents and helping them run the local bed and breakfast out of their home. The business isn’t much of a success and she is relying upon a w...
A Change In Altitude, by Anita Shreve
Margaret and Patrick fly to Kenya with the expectation of an exciting adventure. They have been married for a few short months and Patrick, who has been granted permission to conduct his studies in Kenya in exchange for operating free clinics across...
The Day The Falls Stood Still, by Cathy Marie Buchanan – Review & Giveaway
Bess Heath is just seventeen years old at the time her world irrevocably changes. She leaves the prestigious Loretto Academy at the end of her junior year knowing that she will never return, and in a manner in which she has not been accustomed in h...
City of Refuge, by Tom Piazza
SJ Williams and his family have lived in New Orleans all of their lives. Their roots and ties in the community are very strong. All that SJ has left of his immediate family is his sister Lucy, who has struggled over the years with drug and alcoho...
Time of My Life, by Allison Winn Scotch
Time of My Life, by Allison Winn Scotch is Recommended. Jill Westfield should be happy with her life. She has the home of her dreams, a loving albeit distracted and insanely busy husband, and a beautiful toddler whom she adores. But lately, it̵...
Wife of the Gods, by Kwei Quartey
Wife of the Gods, by Kwei Quartey is Recommended. Darko Dawson is a Detective Inspector living in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. Though he has the career that he has longed for as a child, a loving wife, and an adorable six-year-old son, Darko i...
Lovehampton, by Sherri Rifkin
Lovehampton, by Sherri Rifkin is Recommended. When Tori Miller’s boyfriend dumps her in the cab ride home from her best friend’s wedding she is devastated and undergoes a severe downturn. She has no life to speak of for the next two yea...
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
Kindred, by Octavia Butler is A Must Read. Dana and Kevin Franklin are a young married couple, both writers, who have finally started making enough money from their writing to support themselves. They buy a new house in a small suburb of Los Angele...
Shimmer, by Eric Barnes
Shimmer, by Eric Barnes is A Good Read. Robbie Case is the head of Core, a multi-million dollar company that he unwittingly founds with his cousin Trevor. Dealing in selling blue boxes full of high technology that greatly improves the speed and flo...
Wait For Me, by An Na
Wait For Me , by An Na is Recommended. Supposedly Mina has everything going for her. She is an honor student on the verge of attending her senior year of college after which she plans on attending to Harvard; but is she? These are the thi...
The Blue Notebook, James A. Levine
The Blue Notebook, by James A. Levine is Highly Recommended. Batuk is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a brothel on Common Street in Mumbai, India. The bright points in her life are her best friend, Puneet, a male prostitute living a few “ne...
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins is A Must Read. Just a note: If you plan on reading The Hunger Games skip this review for now. As the second book in The Hunger Games Trilogy begins, Katniss Everdeen has settled into the victory village, now neighbo...
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon, by Grace Lin
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon, by Grace Lin is Highly Recommended. Minli is a little girl living with her parents in a small hut near Fruitless Mountain. She wonder why Fruitless Mountain is so barren and desolate, and enjoys the wonderful stor...
The Castaways, by Elin Hilderbrand
The Castaways, by Elin Hilderbrand is Highly Recommended. Greg and Tess McAvoy have drowned in a sailing outing that they have undertaken to celebrate their twelfth wedding anniversary. Greg was not a very experienced sailor and Tess wasn’t a...
This Just In! Fear The Worst, by Linwood Barclay
What’s It About? Your daughter doesn’t come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one’s seen here. But it’s worse than that. No one’s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is ...
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is published by Scholastic Press and is Highly Recommended. Bad things have happened in the North America and the only thing left is the nation of Panem, the Capitol of 12 districts which they have subdued and now...
