#Audiobook Review ~ While Justice Sleeps: A Novel by Stacey Abrams
2023-04-27
Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction.Read More →
#BookReview ~ I Got It From Here by Francesca Miracola
2023-04-25
A Memoir of Awakening to the Power Within ABOUT THE BOOK Growing up in an Italian American family in Queens, New York, in the ’70s, Francesca Miracola was trained from an early age to keep up appearances at all costs—but behind closed doors, her parents’ toxic marriage served as a blueprint for dysfunction. So when she met Jason Axcel at a bar as a twentysomething, she ignored all the red flags—and there were plenty ofRead More →
#BookReview ~ The Seven-Step Homestead by Leah M. Webb
2023-04-23
A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams ABOUT THE BOOK Today’s gardeners want a bit of everything—vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves multiple functions, but achieving that goal can be intimidating and overwhelming. Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more featuresRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ You Should Have Known by Rebecca A. KellerÂ
2023-04-23
She’s spent years aching for accountability from people in power. Has the time finally come to take things into her own hands?Read More →
#BookReview ~ Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon
2023-04-17
ABOUT THE BOOK She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird. Amber Jamison can’t believe she’s about to become the latest victim of a serial killer. She’s savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she is more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she’s miraculously saved by a mysterious woman . . . who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serialRead More →
#BookReview ~ The Plant Love Kitchen by Marisa Moore, MBA. RDN. LD.
2023-04-15
An Easy Guide to Plant-Forward Eating, With 75+ Recipes ABOUT THE BOOK In this easy-to-use guide, Marisa Moore, R.D., shares a flexible approach—backed by the latest nutritional science—to a more plant-forward diet that can improve your health. With step-by-step tips to transform your plate, she offers 75 delicious recipes to help you reach your wellness goals. According to the latest scientific research, eating with a plant slant and focusing on whole foods—vegetables, fruits, whole grains,Read More →
The Last Lap by Christy Hayes
2023-04-13
Author Interview, Giveaway, and Excerpt ABOUT THE BOOK A man seeking closure after the death of his estranged brother. A woman grieving her sister and best friend. A connection they never saw coming. More than the temperature heats up in USA Today Bestselling Author Christy Hayes’ unforgettable page-turning romance about two tortured souls and their collision course with love. Megan Holloway has learned a few hard truths in her twenty-eight-years. Life isn’t fair. People sheRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ The Local: A Novel by Joey Hartstone
2023-04-06
He Has Opportunity And He Has No Alibi ABOUT THE BOOK In the town of Marshall sits the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas, a place revered by patent lawyers for its speedy jury trails and massive punitive payouts. Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all of whom find work being the local voice for the big-city legal teams that need to sway a small-town jury. One of the best is James Euchre. Euchre’sRead More →
#BookReview ~ The New Mother by Nora Murphy
2023-04-05
ABOUT THE BOOK From Nora Murphy, author of The Favor, The New Mother is both relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling— a fresh new twist on motherhood and murder in suburbia. Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It’s hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it’s murder. Nothing is simple about being a new mom alone in a new house, especially when your baby is collicky. Natalie Fanning loves her son unconditionally, but being a mother was not all she wantedRead More →
The Connection Game by S.S. Turner
2023-04-03
Giveaway & Guest Post Book Details: Book Title: The Connection Game: A Novel by S.S TurnerCategory: Adult Fiction (18+), 272 pagesGenre: Literary FictionPublisher: The Story PlantRelease date: Feb 2023Content Rating: PG: There’s some violence and a small bit of profanity.Read More →
#BookReview ~ Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court
2023-04-01
by Chris Paul with Michael Wilbon ABOUT THE BOOK By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith, tragedy, and life’s most important lessons.The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel “Papa” Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in NorthRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ Beyond That, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
2023-03-27
A Captivating Story ABOUT THE BOOK As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons WilliamRead More →
#BookReview ~ Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni
2023-03-25
A Complicated Game of Twists and Turns ABOUT THE BOOK A defense attorney is prepared to play. But is she a pawn in a master’s deadly match? A twisting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family’s failing criminal defense law firm toRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ Hang The Moon by Jeannette Walls
2023-03-23
ABOUT THE BOOK Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!A LibraryReads Pick for March 2023! From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic DukeRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
2023-03-19
by Amit Katwala Paul Bellantoni (Narrator) ABOUT THE BOOK Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by a rookie detective, aRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ Sun Damage: A Novel by Sabine Durrant
2023-03-16
ABOUT THE BOOK The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. And there is no escape. In a tiny village in Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. The visitors know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger among them is Lulu, the young woman catering their stay. But Lulu is not exactly the woman on the video the guests thought they’d hired. Turns out Lulu has plenty toRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ The Soulmate: A Novel by Sally Hepworth
2023-03-11
Marriage, Betrayal, and Secrets ABOUT THE BOOK There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn’t. When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral…Did the victim jump? WasRead More →
On The Sly by Wendy L. Koenig
2023-03-07
ABOUT THE BOOK Sylvia Wilson, a bar owner in St. Louis, Missouri, arrives at work to discover the body of an ex-police officer in her locked bar. The police focus on her as their primary suspect, so she decides to launch her own investigation into the dead man and his accomplices. But when the killer sends her clear messages that she and her loved ones are on his radar, she knows it’s just a matterRead More →
#AudiobookReview ~ Go As A River by Shelley Read
2023-03-05
ABOUT THE BOOK Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land but determined to live as he chooses. Victoria’s chance encounter with Wil on a street corner profoundly alters both of their young lives, igniting as much passion as danger.Read More →
#BookReview ~ We’re All Lying by Marie Still
2023-02-27
A Page-Turner ABOUT THE BOOK How far would you go to keep what’s yours? Someone is hunting Cass. Cass lives an enviable life: a successful career, two great kids, and a handsome husband. Then an email from her husband’s mistress, Emma, brings the façade of perfection crumbling around her, setting off a chain of events where buried secrets come back to haunt her. A taunting email turns into stalking and escalates into much worse. EthanRead More →