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Audiobooks Listicles Listicles - Featured

3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

While trying to articulate what I loved so much about one of my favorite audiobooks of the year so far, Greenland by David Santos Donaldson, I realized that part of what makes this book so compelling is that it is full of movement. That got me thinking about other books…

Laura SacktonAugust 3, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

When We Let Go (Lake Union Publishing) is a love story for grown-ups, with all the life-stuff grown-ups must deal with — from first loves, shattered hopes and losses to family dynamics and teenaged angst. Rochelle Weinstein is good at telling stories like this. This is her sixth such novel,…

Sherri DaleyAugust 3, 2022

Thrillers

The “Breaking Bad” of Books: Gailey’s “The Guilt We Carry”

As author Samuel W. Gailey introduces one seedy character after another to a troubled teenager trying to find herself in his latest novel, The Guilt We Carry (Oceanview Publishing), one can only hope there’s a payoff down the line – for the characters and for the readers themselves. Believe me, there…

Jim AlkonDecember 10, 2018

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

You’ll Never Find a More Faithful Friend Than This (Wo)man’s Best Friend

The big friendly eyes, the smiling face with bright pink tongue ready to lick a welcome greeting, and a tail, wagging hard enough to topple a small child, all seem to ask, “won’t you be my friend?” Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog (Harper), by…

Linda HitchcockOctober 27, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Why Her? Why Not Me?” Portrays Unbelievable Grief With Remarkable Authenticity

Why Her? Why Not Me?: A Series of Deep Familial Misfortunes (Balboa Press) discloses, in the very title, that tragedy comprises the crux of the forthcoming account. Chapter one's title, “The First Traumatic Event,” also reinforces the expectation. Despite this threatening storm cloud hanging over the reader’s mind, the opening…

Judy MorenoSeptember 17, 2021

Nonfiction

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

I highly recommend reading Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us, but just make sure you have a box of tissues. Maynard finds the love of her life in her 50s, many years after being divorced and raising her children as a single mother. She and Jim, her new love, had a…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 8, 2017

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

“Shadow Music” Orchestrates a Perfect Symphony of Missing Artwork, Mafia Men and Murder

Helaine Mario’s latest suspense novel, Shadow Music (Oceanview), begins in 1985 at the border between Austria and Hungary with two women on the run: aspiring nun Donata and her best friend Tereza, both raised behind the iron curtain and seeking freedom abroad. Tereza clutches her baby daughter and her father’s…

Nikki ErlickSeptember 21, 2021

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Curl up With a Blanket and a Hot Chocolate for “Grocery Girl,” a Cozy Small-Town Romance

"This small-town story between a competent woman and an emotionally wounded newcomer will comfort fans of clean romances." —BookLife "A thoroughly enjoyable romance populated with broken and utterly endearing characters. Very enjoyable!" —The Wishing Shelf —∞— When two people with tragic pasts physically collide at the grocery store, it seems…

Nicole MaherMay 19, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Adriana Trigiani’s Dazzling Novel Portrays a Family’s Enduring Legacy in the Tuscan Hills

You may be dreaming in Italian and wishing you were a member of the Cabrelli Family before you finish reading The Good Left Undone (Dutton) by deservedly popular author, director and podcaster Adriana Trigiani. Whether you have been a fan since her first novel, The Big Stone Gap, was published…

Linda HitchcockApril 26, 2022

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

A Tender Story of Grief, Healing and a Loved One’s Enduring Presence in the Wisconsin Wilderness

Young Clare Burch was doing some fishing of her own, in debut author Laura Anne Bird’s delightful and meaning-laden middle-grade novel Crossing the Pressure Line. And while part of her quest was in fact the rare musky fish in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, that quote, from Henry David Thoreau, couldn’t…

Jim AlkonApril 8, 2022

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

This Heartfelt Children’s Book Celebrates the Devotion Between Pets and Their Humans

What is better than the love of a cat? Pets provide some of our strongest and most meaningful relationships in life. They love us unconditionally and see us through our best and worst moments. They are our best friends, and Buddy the cat was no exception. Dyanna Morrison, self-described as…

Julianna GoldflussFebruary 23, 2022

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

“Into the Wind” Inspires Readers With a Friendship That Transcends Generational Divides

Adult readers, don’t be dissuaded by the middle-grade designation for Into the Wind (One Elm Books) by William Loizeaux. Yes, the first person narration is that of Rusty, a boy in the summer before he enters the sixth grade. As such, the middle school label is appropriate. However, Rusty’s summer…

Mary Helen SheriffSeptember 30, 2021

Children's Books

“The Fixer and the Garage Door” Tells the Tender Story of a Family’s Love

So much of our society is based around the idea of the nuclear family. The archetype of the working father, the stay-at-home mother and the young children has become deeply ingrained in our culture, from family sitcoms on television to children playing house on the playground. But more and more,…

Cameron KimballMay 26, 2021

Children's Books

Finding Joy After Losing a Friend in the Touching Story “Lee and Limbo”

When I was a child, I lived just two houses down from my friend Emily, and on snow days I would bring my sled over to her house. When my parents told me that Emily was moving away, I was so sad to say goodbye — but I was also…

Cameron KimballJanuary 19, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Fragile Friendships in “The Glass Wives”

In Amy Nathan’s The Glass Wives (Saint Martin's Press), a devastating end becomes a beginning of sorts for Evie and Nicole Glass. When Richard Glass is killed in a tragic accident, Nicole is a sudden widow. But what does that make Evie, his ex-wife? Financial instability and an unknown future…

Nicole BaartAugust 2, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Ghosts of the Past in “One More Day”

When someone dies, we may wish for more time with them. Just one more day. But what if that happened? What if they actually came back?This premise launches Kelly Simmons's graceful and otherworldly suspense novel, One More Day (Sourcebooks Landmark) Carrie and her husband are mired in grief after the mysterious kidnapping of…

Sandra BlockJuly 26, 2018

3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

A Poignant Tale of Pursuing Romance in the Face of Loss and Long-Kept Secrets

The “Breaking Bad” of Books: Gailey’s “The Guilt We Carry”

You’ll Never Find a More Faithful Friend Than This (Wo)man’s Best Friend

“Why Her? Why Not Me?” Portrays Unbelievable Grief With Remarkable Authenticity

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

“Shadow Music” Orchestrates a Perfect Symphony of Missing Artwork, Mafia Men and Murder

Curl up With a Blanket and a Hot Chocolate for “Grocery Girl,” a Cozy Small-Town Romance

Adriana Trigiani’s Dazzling Novel Portrays a Family’s Enduring Legacy in the Tuscan Hills

A Tender Story of Grief, Healing and a Loved One’s Enduring Presence in the Wisconsin Wilderness

This Heartfelt Children’s Book Celebrates the Devotion Between Pets and Their Humans

“Into the Wind” Inspires Readers With a Friendship That Transcends Generational Divides

“The Fixer and the Garage Door” Tells the Tender Story of a Family’s Love

Finding Joy After Losing a Friend in the Touching Story “Lee and Limbo”

Tall Poppy Review: Fragile Friendships in “The Glass Wives”

Tall Poppy Review: Ghosts of the Past in “One More Day”

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