By Katherine Center ** Publication Date 13 August 2019 ** Cassie is a 20-something firefighter in Austin, Texas. She has climbed the ranks with her fearless, yet level-headed approach to being a firefighter. Originally destined for medical school, she first became and EMT and then moved on to being a paramedic when she realized how …
Month: July 2019
By Elizabeth MacNeal ** Publication Date 13 August 2019 (US) ** In Victorian London live twins – Iris and Rose. They work in a doll factory. Rose sews the clothes for the dolls, Iris paints them. Often the dolls are created to imitate a child, living or dead. Rose was struck by smallpox which renders …
By Graham Norton ** Publication Date 13 August 2019 ** I’ve loved Graham Norton’s talk show for years. He’s such an interesting character and funny too. What I never expected was that he would be a brilliant novelist. In fact, I didn’t even realize it was the same Graham Norton when I started this book. …
By Karen Hawkins ** Publication Date 30 July 2019 ** Charming is a perfect description for The Book Charmer. This lovely novel tackles trust, pain, and love in the town of Dove Pond, NC. Grace Wheeler and her sister Hannah have been bounced from home to home. They’re about to land at the one last …
(Anderson & Costello Thrillers) By: Caro Ramsay ** Publication Date 6 July 2019 (US – previously published in the UK) ** Apparently I’m very late to the Caro Ramsay party. This is book #9 in the Anderson & Costello series. Where have I been hiding? Police procedurals set in Scotland, these are crime thrillers that …
By HG Parry ** Publication Date 23 July 2019 ** Did you ever want to be able to have tea with one of your favorite book characters? Or visit a street in Victorian London? In The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, you can do those things. Dr. Charles Sutherland is an English literature professor with …
By: Sarah Haywood Susan Green is a perfectly rational, perfectly uptight woman facing a mid-life crisis – pregnancy. Her neatly designed and ordered life is not going to be disrupted by this however, not until her mother dies. Suddenly all messy hell breaks loose in her life. While I found this book quite enjoyable, I …
By Justin Kuritzkes ** Publication Date 09 July 2019 ** I’ll be honest. I’m not super hard to please when it comes to entertainment. I like most everything I read or watch or listen to. I have a diverse range of likes, very few dislikes. Famous People just didn’t do it for me. The writing …