Archive for June, 2008

SNEAK PEEK | When Did My Life Become a Game of Twister by Mary Pierce

Chapter One Twisted Sister Whoever said, “Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff,” never got a good look at my thighs. I did the other day. It was not a pretty sight. I was in the sporting goods store at the mall. I didn’t intend to go in there, but I forgot [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Try Dying

Try Dying by James Scott Bell Try Dying is only the second book I’ve read by James Scott Bell, but I can officially say I’m  a fan. The character Ty Buchanan is a lawyer like many of the characters in Bell’s books. Readers meet Ty just as he loses his fiancee in a freak accident. [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Hunted

The Hunted by Mike Dellosso Joe Saunders returns to his childhood home in Dark Hills to join the search party for his missing nephew, Caleb. When Caleb is found badly injured, news of the boy’s wounds are linked to some ferocious animal at large. Soon folks around town report seeing an African lion on the [...]

BOOK REVIEW | For Pete's Sake

FOR PETE’S SAKE by Linda Windsor When Ellen Brittingham is contracted to do the landscaping for the estate next door, she isn’t sure what to think. She instantly fell in love with the car the wealthy widower owns, but she isn’t sure what to think of the man—or his beauty queen “Barbie-doll” fiancée. Still she [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Get Cozy, Josey!

GET COZY, JOSEY! by Susan May Warren Josey Anderson is getting used to living in Moscow. She may not enjoy it, but she’s used to lugging two preschoolers and her groceries over the subway system and up seven flights of stairs. But she’s dreaming about a house, a backyard, and family nearby. She takes her [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Finding Marie

FINDING MARIE by Susan Page Davis Marie Belanger doesn’t know anything about what her Navy Lieutenant husband, Pierre, does when he serves his country, but she is dreaming of a stateside posting and starting a family. But when the Navy dependents are shipped out ahead of their spouses, Marie plans on visiting their families in [...]

BOOK REVIEW | A Proper Pursuit

A PROPER PURSUIT by Lynn Austin Violet Rose Hayes is horrified when she returns home from a woman’s finishing school to discover that her father is engaged and has divorced her mother—a woman Violet has assumed ill in a hospital all her life. Upset about the lies her father has fed her, she arranges to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Every Secret Thing

EVERY SECRET THING by Ann Tatlock Beth Gunnar has accepted a position as English teacher at her old alma mater, a boarding school in Delaware . Beth is insecure in her new position, as she is facing memories, a mystery, and old love. Beth’s old English teacher, Ted Dutton, a Vietnam Vet died during the [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Bride Wore Coveralls

THE BRIDE WORE COVERALLS by Debra Ullrick Camara Cole wants to win the mud-bog racing championship—and she’s worked hard to overcome deep prejudice against her unfortunate gender. She’s a tough girl, prepared to do whatever it takes to win in this male dominated world, hopefully both a title and respect.

BOOK REVIEW | Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear

DEATH OF A SIX-FOOT TEDDY BEAR by Sharon Dunn Ginger and her husband, Earl, are attending an Inventor’s Expo in Calamity, Nevada, where Ginger and her Bargain Hunting friends are planning on hitting the world’s largest garage sales going on at the same time. But when they get to Calamity, everything is going wrong. The [...]