Karen Rivers' new book looks at fate, romance, and what happens after surviving something unsurvivable. Check out my review of the new book, the author Q&A, and a tour-wide giveaway.Continue Reading
Game of Secrets is full of characters that you're not sure you can trust. There's action and intrigue. The chapters fly by every time I pick it up! I can't wait to see what happens. Enter now to win a copy of this book for yourself.Continue Reading
A cute cozy mystery set in a small Depression era town. The Darling Dahlia's garden club bake pies and help solve the mysterious happenings around town. Plus, a chance to win a copy of the book!Continue Reading
Sleeping Bear Press sent me two adorable new board books by author/illustrator Jennifer Sattler. Copies of the books (plus a character sketch and tote bag) are up for grabs in a giveaway! Also, free colouring sheets!Continue Reading
A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. In parallel tales, the three women -- Louise, Florrie, Ethel -- discover that not all journeys follow a map. As they rediscover their carefree selves on the road, they learn that sometimes the paths we follow are shaped more by our traveling companions than by our Continue Reading
If you like historical fiction set in Italy, take a look at this book. It's the story of a romance between Casanova (you know the one) and a teenage girl. Now a grown woman, Caterina is reminiscing about her whirlwind love with the famous romancer, reading her old letters from him and telling the teenage girl in her charge about it.Continue Reading
Janet Benton's Lilli de Jong is a historical masterpiece, wondrously researched, gorgeously written, and psychologically intense.Continue Reading
The Life and Deaths of Blanche Nero is a story that is both elegant and disturbing, meandering and fast-paced. It is a coming of age story, but not in your typical sense. Blanche is nearly sixty and staying in Venice writing out her life story. While there she is discovering who she is and who her father was. She is learning what love is, and that it isn't quite what she thought.Continue Reading
Title: The Fortune Teller Author: Gwendolyn Womack Publication Date: June 6, 2017 Publisher: Picador Formats: Paperback; 368 Pages ISBN: 9781250099778 Genre: Fiction/Historical/Mystery FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY PAINTER COMES A SWEEPING AND SUSPENSEFUL TALE OF ROMANCE, FATE, AND FORTUNE. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering Continue Reading
It's my birthday! And I like giving (and getting) presents - so I'm doing a giveaway to celebrate.Continue Reading