Meet Ndidi, the high school teacher and adoring wife. Blissfully married for seven years, a single question brings her world crashing down. Grant, Ndidi’s loving husband, is his mother’s only child. Unable to stand up to his relatives, he devises a plan to keep his family together. Omorose, Grant’s mother, is determined to leave no [CONTINUE READING]
Apr 142011
Mar 162011
What if you could return to the road not taken? Happily married with a young son and another child on the way, Quinn Braverman has the perfect life. She also has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternative reality exists in which she made the opposite choice-not [CONTINUE READING]
Feb 242011
“Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.” When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about [CONTINUE READING]
Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she’s betrothed to a Beast. Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. And rumor also has it that a wound has left the earl immune to the charms of [CONTINUE READING]
Can mysterious matchmaking booksellers bring two lonely hearts together in time for Christmas? In a sleepy, snow-covered city, Cora Crowder is busy preparing for the holiday season. Searching for a perfect gift, a fortuitous trip to Warner, Werner, and Wizbotterdad’s (a most unusual bookshop) leads to an unexpected encounter with co-worker Simon Derrick. And the [CONTINUE READING]
Van Liere’s seasonal confection (following The Christmas Hope) finds 60-year-old Gloria Bailey doing informal good works for needy cases seven years after her husband died, and her youngest son, Matthew, disappeared without a trace at age 17. With infinite good nature, Gloria fends off the complaints of her crabby widow neighbor, Miriam, annoyed by the [CONTINUE READING]
Just 9 more days until Christmas morning, can you believe it? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was always one of my favorite Christmas tales to read each year. No matter how many times I’ve read it or watched it on TV, I never get tired of it. Enjoy today’s Thursday Book Trailer with A [CONTINUE READING]
DOWNTRODDEN SERVANT OR GRACIOUS LADY? When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn’t recognize her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he’d once helped years before. The life Verity’s now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking solution–he will set her [CONTINUE READING]
Inspired by the beloved classic The Little Mermaid, THE MERMAID’S PENDANT is amodern fairy tale about growing up and discovering who you are – and what you believe in. At times lyrical, this is a fantastic journey filled with magic, myth, romance, and adventure. Four years after John Wilkerson claimed the mermaid Tamarind for his [CONTINUE READING]
The producer of An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David’s new mission is to help America’s overwhelmed families sit down to a Family Dinner, and she provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so. Laurie David speaks from her own experience confronting the challenges of raising two teenage girls. Today’s parents have lots to [CONTINUE READING]
Oct 182010
Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host this month being Avis at She Reads and Reads. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who are [CONTINUE READING]
Staying in is the new going out. Media like The New York Times and ABC News report a return to old-fashioned, low-cost game night, and retailers have seen sales of games rise 20 percent in the last year. Now comes The Ultimate Gamebook for Grown-ups, an extraordinary collection of more than 300 games for friends [CONTINUE READING]
