A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren's fiction / children's literature / Contemporary / family relationships / friendship / North-CarolinaComments Off on REVIEW: Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O’Connor
Aggie isn’t expecting visitors at the Sleepy Time Motel in the Great Smoky Mountains. Since her husband died, she is all alone with her cat, Ugly, and keeping up with the bills and repairs has become next to impossible. The pool is empty, the garden is overgrown, and not a ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / England / family relationships / Historical / Small-Town / Widowed Heroine9 Comments
A widow, at an age when birthdays are best forgotten, with no children to occupy her mind, can be very lonely. Julia Dunstan knew she was more fortunate than most widows, not merely because she was prosperous—as widows go—but because she had always taken an interest in other people. And ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / England / faith / family relationships / HFN / Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite2 Comments
Rachel Holley has always dreamed of a wedding—the white dress, the fairy tale, and of course, the happily-ever-after. But when her fiancé breaks it off the night before, claiming she doesn’t love him, Rachel’s fairy tale ends in ashes. Homeless, hopeless, and feeling like her life has been completely derailed, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / family relationships / First-Person / Flavia Albia series / Private-investigatorComments Off on REVIEW: Pandora’s Boy by Lindsey Davis
A suspicious death and subsequent murder send Flavia Albia down a twisted path to expose corruption and betrayal in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery. First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be and in this environment, a very clever private informer can thrive. Flavia ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / family relationships / Georgia / law-enforcement / mortician / police / Southern Eclectic seriesComments Off on REVIEW: Ain’t She a Peach by Molly Harper
An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet—but he hasn’t bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he’s ever met. Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anything—but it seems rude to embalm them and not at least say ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / New York City / turn of the 20th century5 Comments
As a biochemist in early 1900s New York, Doctor Rosalind Werner has dedicated her life to the crusade against waterborne diseases. She is at the forefront of a groundbreaking technology that will change the way water is delivered to every household in the city–but only if she can get people ... more >
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