Book Review: Bared to You by Sylvia Day
BARED TO YOU By: Sylvia Day Published: April 3, 2012 **** Warning: The following review is about a book that may not appeal to everyone who reads my blog. Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness…He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never…
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THE LAST LETTER By: Kathleen Shoop Published: April 27, 2011 *** Katherine wouldn’t have believed it if she hadn’t found the letter…Katherine Arthur’s mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them…
Read More Guest Book Review: Last of the Seals by Greg Messel
LAST OF THE SEALS By: Greg Messel Published: April 23, 2012 *** This is a featured guest review by my husband, Pat. After seeing the book in my stash, he thought the book sounded interesting and so I offered the review to him. Mystery, romance and baseball in 1957 San Francisco. Sam Slater is…
Read More Book Review: Wicked Wives by Gus Pelagatti
WICKED WIVES A Novel Based On A True Story By: Gus Pelagatti Published: July 1, 2008 **** “Wicked Wives” is based on the true story of the 1938 Philadelphia murder scandals in which seventeen wives were arrested for murdering their husbands. Mastermind conspirator Giorgio DiSipio, a stunning lothario and local tailor who preys upon disenchanted…
Read More Book Review: Solomon’s Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson
SOLOMON’S OAK By: Jo-Ann Mapson Published: October 19, 2010 **** Solomon’s Oak is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meet by hosting weddings in…
Read More Book Review: One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf
ONE BREATH AWAY By: Heather Gudenkauf Published: June 26, 2012 ***** In her most emotionally charged novel to date, “New York Times” bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered. In…
Read More Book Review: The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge
THE REPLACEMENT WIFE By: Eileen Goudge Published: March 27, 2012 *** Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived more than her fair share of hardships. Her mother died when she was a young girl, leaving her and her sister with an absentee father. Now in her forties, she has already survived cancer…
Read More Book Review: The World Without You by Joshua Henkin
THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU By: Joshua Henkin Published: June 19, 2012 *** It’s July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. But this is no ordinary holiday. The family has gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings, an intrepid journalist and adventurer who…
Read More Book Review: LONE WOLF by Jodi Picoult
LONE WOLF By: Jodi Picoult Published: February 28, 2012 **** Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has…
Read More Book Review: The Promised Land: A Novel by Valerie Stocking
THE PROMISED LAND : A NOVEL By: Valerie Stocking Published: January 13, 2012 *** It’s 1966, just two years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and twelve-year-old Joy Bradford’s life is changing dramatically. Born and raised in the white suburbs of Connecticut, Joy is moving to Willets Point, Florida…
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