B Reviews / Book Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / Hanukkah / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York City / Small-Town / upstate New York4 Comments
Sarah Goldman loves Hanukkah, and she’s thrilled to be appointed as vice chair of the Hollowville Hanukkah Festival. So when the festival is threatened with cancellation, she comes up with an idea: a new slogan and advertising campaign topped off with a metal menorah large enough to fill the center ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren / children's fiction / family relationships / fathers and daughters / middle grade / mothers and daughters / Post WWII / second chance at love / Small-Town / Texas / widow4 Comments
For fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own—her father’s return home. Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother—the best matchmaker in ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1950s / Drumberley series / family drama / family relationships / farming / Historical / Post WWII / Scotland / Small-Town1 Comments
James Dering and his new wife Rhoda are returning from their honeymoon, and Jock and Mamie Johnstone are delighted to welcome them to their new home on a neighbouring farm. But Mamie’s concern proves justified, and Rhoda, a talented painter who has chosen marriage over art, finds rural Scotland lonely ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / F ReviewsContemporary / hotelier / Scotland / security / Small-TownNo Comments
It turned out hell was a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Oh, sure, the locals called it Invertary, but Agnes Sinclair knew better—the town even had an old woman everyone called Satan. If that wasn’t a sign she was in hell, she didn’t know what was. All Agnes had ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / novella / Small-Town2 Comments
Dear Shannon Stacey, One Christmas Eve is the second novella in your Cedar Street series and features Zoe Randall, the cousin of the female lead in the first book, One Summer Weekend. I haven’t read the first book and it’s not necessary to do so (thought I think I’d enjoy ... more >
Book Reviews / D Reviewscorruption / law-enforcement / NetGalley / romantic-suspense / Small-TownComments Off on REVIEW: One Tough Cowboy by Lora Leigh & Veronica Chadwick
LAW AND ORDER. For as long as Samantha can remember, Hunter—a man as strong as steel, with a heart of gold—has been her hero. It came as no surprise to Samantha when she found out that the ranch-hardened cowboy who always protected her from bullies went on to become the ... more >