I've seen tv-versions of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, but I have never
actually read the books. However, that didn't stop me from wanting to
read this book about Marilla Cuthbert, before Anne came into her and
Matthew's lives.
Marilla Cuthbert is only thirteen-years-old when Read more...
Mercy Carr and her Belgian Malinois, Elvis, are out on their usual hike in
the remote Lye Brook Wilderness when Elvis sniffs out a very unusual
finding. A baby abandoned near a shallow grave filled with human
bones. U.S. Game Warden Troy Warner and his search-and-rescue dog Read more...
PI Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is alarmed when her best friend Rose, an
undercover agent, reveals she has a stalker. Together they decided to
catch Rose's stalker, but it turns out not everything is as it seems.
However, this is just the start and they soon realize that someone is Read more...
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S
DAUGHTER is a dual storyline book about two women living 100
years separate. In 1838 Northumberland, England, Grace Darling lives
on the Farne Island where her father is the lighthouse keeper. Grace
and her father save some shipwreck survivors Read more...
A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN is a
story about the notorious Alva Vanderbilt who married a rich man to
save herself and her sisters from destitution. Once Alva Smith lived a
prosperous life, but that was until their fortune was lost. She has to Read more...
1842. Karina is stranded on Deception Island in the South Atlantic after
her husband, who is a whaling captain, is lost at sea. Her hope is that
her sister in Amsterdam will respond to her letter and send money for
her to travel to Amsterdam. But, as the days go Read more...
Now and then you come across a book that will take your breath away.
For me, THE DREAM DAUGHTER is
a book like that. I had never read anything by Diane Chamberlain before
so I didn't know what to expect. All I Read more...
BECOMING MRS. LEWIS is a book
that I have been looking forward to reading for a long time. At the same
time, I put it off because I was afraid it would not live up to my
expectations. I had previously read JOY Read more...
I have never read THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington
Irving. I have seen Tim Burton's movie Sleepy Hollow and parts of the
TV series Sleepy Hollow. So, my knowledge of the story of Sleepy
Hollow is based on that. Which made this story feel pretty different and Read more...
I've long had an interest with the Kennedy family and this book about
Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was one that I had been looking forward to
reading for a long time. Kick, the next oldest daughter of Joe and Rose
Kennedy is one of the lesser known Kennedys. Her life Read more...
It's been a year since Poppy lost her husband, Jack, who was brutally
murdered during a run through Manhattan's Riverside Park. She has
never truly gotten over his death. And stranger still is the fact that
Poppy disappeared after the funeral and later shows up in a tight Read more...
I pretty much threw myself into DEPTH
OF WINTER, the latest Longmire book, when I got a copy of it. The
best time of the year is when a new Walt Longmire book is Read more...
Helena, her husband Daniel, and their two children didn't have the
easiest start in their new house on Shetland. After they moved in the
previous owner hanged himself in the barn, and the local community is
not so welcoming. Helena has started to receive small drawings of a
gallows Read more...
Lane Fielding swore that she would never return to her hometown.
Twenty years later, after a bitter divorce has she no other choice but to
return home with her two daughters. Now she works in the local bar
and living with her daughter and her parents on the historic Fielding Read more...
1924, New York. Jenny Ball is one of a dozen burgeoning
artist invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany's distinguished
artist colony. She has always dreamed about becoming a
painter and now together with a close friend the dream is
starting to become real. Jenny wants to travel to Paris and Read more...
Investigative reporter Max Revere takes on a very personal
case. Her own mother's abandoned her when she was nine. Only
sending postcards over the next seven years before they stop
coming. The only clue Max has is her mother's abandoned car
in a small town on the Chesapeake Read more...
Andrea Cooper lives a normal life. She has a job, a place to live, although above her mother's garage, but still, it's a place to sleep. Her parents are divorced and she has a good relationship with both of them and she thinks she knows her parents Read more...
TRAIL OF LIGHTNING is the first book in the Sixth
World series. The world has drowned after a climate
apocalypse and the Navajo reservation, now Dinétah has been
reborn. It's a new world where gods and heroes walk the
land. But, it's also a world Read more...
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