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Book Reviews / DNF ReviewsArmy / Contemporary / PTSD / Texas / War / Military / wounded souls2 Comments
She’s his last case, he’s her fresh start—two troubled ex-soldiers find new purpose and a second chance at love in this new contemporary western romance from award-winning author Kaki Warner. Lieutenant KD Whitcomb had mapped out her career from West Point to the Pentagon. But when an injury under questionable ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / female detectives / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Historical / historical mystery / murder mystery / murder-investigation / organized crime / Private-investigator4 Comments
In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it’s time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands — in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Comedy of ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsastronauts / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments
8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / Asian heroine / baby (non secret) / epistolary / First-Person / infidelity / London / novella / POC / POC author / South-Asian / Writer11 Comments
For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr. She’s perfectly happy making a living by churning out articles on what the well-dressed woman is wearing. But when she pillories one of London’s leading literary luminaries in a scathing review, she may have made ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / friendship / picture booksNo Comments
“There’s a magic that’s yours, and it’s like nothing else. It’s something you share just by being yourself. It’s hard to define, but I know that it’s real. It’s something my head and my heart simply feel.” This is a book for a friend you appreciate, one who matters more ... more >
Miscadoption / animals / cats / children / dog / Military3 Comments
Truffles the Kitty Four years ago Danielle Crull rescued a kitten in the woods. She didn’t realize she’d just found a new employee – one who is routinely named “Employee of the Month” (every month) at the children’s eye center that Crull owns. Truffles, now famous for her glamorous glasses ... more >