Synopsis Mumbai, December 2016: A young man found an ancient-looking piece of stone with strange images and Sanskrit inscriptions. A quest to know the origin of the stone brought him to the distant part of the country. Chandannagar, December 2016: A young vivacious historian woman read an old book on a century-old secret […]
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Coming Up Murder (Professor Prather Mystery) Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Camel Press (November 12, 2019) Paperback: 258 pages Everything’s coming up roses for Professor Emmeline Prather. Her scholarly book is finished, spring term is coming to a close, and her love life is blossoming. Then the festival surrounding the exhibit of Shakespeare’s […]
2019 Gratitude #Giveaway Hop ends 11.30
I love participating in this hop because it allows us to all be grateful for everything we have around us and our families and friends. For this giveaway I have a couple of books I will be sending a lucky winner: The first is a Gratitude journal/coloring book. Perfect, right?! The second […]
A Texas Kind of Christmas by Jodi Thomas, Celia Bonaduce, & Rachael Miles Genre: Historical Fiction / Anthology / Holiday Romance Publisher: Kensington Books Publication Date: October 29, 2019 Number of Pages: 336 pages Scroll down for the giveaway! It’s Christmas Eve, 1859, and everyone who’s anyone is headed to the […]
Excerpt – Blind Sympathy by Roberta Bombonato @AuthorBombonato
Synopsis Vafara is a blind composer who creates new symphonies for the world. Alone in a cabin with only her service dog, she’s not concerned in the slightest for zero cell phone reception in a secluded in the woods. This is her special time where she can be free to let her musical […]
Book Title: The Tender Birds by Carole Giangrande Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 305 pages Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Inanna Publications Release date: October 2019 Synopsis Matthew Reilly is a busy academic, a lonely priest haunted by secrets. Young Alison is the shy and devoted keeper of Daisy, a falcon which […]
Synopsis Former opera singer Emma Streat has survived the murder of her husband and the destruction of her beautiful old house. Now a full-time single mother, she struggles to move forward and make a home for her two sons. Because of her detection skills, she has become a go-to person for help―so, when her rich, feisty, […]
The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel Contemporary / Middle Grade / Multi-cultural Family Publisher: Chronicle Books Date of Publication: August 20, 2019 Number of Pages: 332 Scroll down for the giveaway! Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana’s Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad […]
I’m back with another cookbook from the Abrams Dinner Party! I am a meat eater but do have a sister that is a vegetarian and my MIL used to be vegan. So anytime I was hosting a dinner, I needed to make sure that something on the menu would be suitable for them […]
Suspect in High Heels (High Heels Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 10th in Series Gemma Halliday Publishing (October 1, 2019) Number of Pages: 200 Synopsis When Maddie Springer—shoe designer turned amateur sleuth—tags along with her mother to the Antiques Extravaganza road show, the last thing she expects to have to do is pull her mom […]