Book Title: A Life Less Ordinary Author: Victoria Bernadine Genre: Chick Lit/Contemporary Fiction Hosted by:Book Enthusiast Promotions Synopsis For the last fifteen years, Rose “Manny” Mankowski has been a very good girl. She turned her back on her youthful fancies and focused on her career. But now, at the age of 45, she’s questioning her […]
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Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre:Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer’s current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is […]
Synopsis It may not be armed robbery, but the illegal business of fraudulent car accidents is a multi-million dollar racket, involving unscrupulous medical providers, personal injury attorneys, and the cooperating passengers involved in the accidents and who also receive a portion of the illegal proceeds. What makes good people turn to crime—any type of […]
Synopsis Described as “one of the best coming of age novels of the Twentieth Century,” Theodore Weesner’s modern American classic, The Car Thief is poised for a new generation to discover. It’s 1959. Sixteen year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn’t know why. His divorced, working class father grinds […]
Son of War, Daughter of Chaos Aislynn is accustomed to watching for the enemy. Her parents instructed her from the time she was young to look for the signs: people with greater than normal strength, eyes that can glow green, and have the ability to jump long distances. Over the years, Aislynn has come […]
“A Native’s Tongue is about a young man trying to find his way in the world. He struggles to keep the woman he loves while entangled in the sex, drugs, and tragedy of Los Angeles. It was inspired by real events,” says Dennis. Love and tragedy collide in Dennis’s poignant new novel, A Native’s Tongue. […]
Retarded Girl Raised in Dog Pen by Lauren Leigh is a spellbinding murder mystery that offers a sympathetic look at the struggles faced by individuals with disabilities. Publication Date: March 15, 2014 Genre: Fiction / Mystery Publisher: Sartoris Literary Group Synopsis Baby is every adoptive parent’s nightmare—blind, paralyzed from the waist down, unable to speak, and […]
The Husband Maker by Karey White Charlotte’s a girl with nicknames. She may not love being called Charles or Chuck, but the hardest nickname to take is the one she was given in college, the one that’s followed her now for too many years. They call her “the husband maker” and sadly, it fits. Every […]
Today my book club was lucky enough to have author Julie Kibler visit and talk about her book, Calling Me Home. Overall everyone in our group loved the book and was bawling at the end. There are so many issues discussed her and it is hard to believe how citizens acted just 70 years ago […]
Spotlight: Manroot by Anne Steinberg @ANSteinberg
July 10, 2014
Synopsis Manroot is the evocative and stirring story of a lonely town in Missouri, and a young woman named Katherine who discovers a mystical side to herself that she’d never known existed. Anne Steinberg weaves together fantasy, romance, and a young girl’s coming of age into a darkly magical story. In the spring of 1939, […]