Synopsis This is no ordinary book club! When the group chooses a book, they are whisked away from reality to find themselves totally immersed in the story. The characters, the setting, and the murder all come to life. In order to exit the book, they’ll need to solve the mystery and reach […]
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Synopsis A cursed town, a kidnapped selkie…what will happen when love is on the line? Powerful selkie warrior Ronan must negotiate with a group of local sirens before war breaks out. The last thing he needs is a desperate human who steals his sealskin, intent on forcing him to help […]
CONNECTED DISCOVERING YOUR INNER GUIDES A Kid’s Guide to Navigating Their Emotions by SEEMA DESAI Illustrated by James Ballance Children’s Book / Self-Help / Mindfulness / Parenting Publisher:Â The Jai Jais Page Count: 56 pages Publication Date: February 3, 2022 Scroll down for a giveaway! […]
Synopsis In this prequel to Bitter Vintage, M.L. Grider explores events in the lives of Helen Wu and Amy Dresden prior to their adventure in 1995. While these incidents may seem at first glance unrelated, they all contribute to what makes Amy and Helen who they are. Some are funny, others tragic, but […]
THE LOVE AND HONOR SERIES by HALLEE BRIDGEMAN Scroll down for a giveaway! HONOR BOUND September 2022, 384 pages You can’t override the heart It may seem odd to seek peace by moving to a war-torn African country, but for medical missionary Dr. […]
Synopsis Nettie and Andy have been soul mates since the sandbox days. While planning their wedding, Andy deploys to South Vietnam for a year. Unable to quell her anxiety about Andy, Nettie dives into her work as a nursing intern in the emergency room. She inadvertently walks in on a nursing supervisor […]
Synopsis Indie movie director Sebastian Foster has found his niche making movies based on the award-winning novels written by his estranged mother. However, his latest film, based loosely on the tragic death of his sister as a child, opens up old wounds best left under bandages. Told in two concurrent […]
Synopsis 1863, Victorian England. Susan Mottram lives an idyllic existence until her eighteenth birthday when her father’s sudden death plunges the family into penury. To support her mother and younger sister, Susan takes employment as a teacher at a remote Yorkshire boarding school, Matterdale Hall, owned by the radical Dr. Claybourn and […]
Synopsis It’s 1967, the Summer of Love. When twenty-one-year-old guitarist Stephen Cane’s promising band falls apart, he is forced to move back home with his Christian mother. Unwilling to give up on his rock and roll dreams, however, Stephen flees to New York so he can patch things up with his former […]
Review – Exit Wounds by Annie O’Neill Stein #fiction #literary
November 10, 2022
Synopsis Born to shanty Irish on one side and Park Avenue privilege on the other, Laura navigates a turbulent childhood filled with the alcohol-fueled abuse of her volatile father and her mother’s excessive drinking. As the middle child of three girls, she assigns herself the role of her mother’s protector, who dies […]