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Review of three children’s Halloween picture books
1-5 years old 20 pages Publisher Tommy Nelson Pub Date Jun 10 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK This silly interactive story features a grumpy dog who is not thrilled about Halloween: costumes, surprises, and chocolate. Yuck! Follow the directions to help Cocoa find the perfect doggy treat and avoid tricks in this funny board book. MY THOUGHTS Everyone loves…
Two Black History Month Reads: A Woman of Endurance and Walking in Tall Weeds
350 pages Publisher Amistad Publication date April 12, 2022 ABOUT THE BOOK Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to…
Black History Month Read: The Light Always Breaks
384 pages Publisher Harper Muse Publication date July 5, 2022 ABOUT THE BOOK As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.’s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another—but the danger of a relationship between a…
Valentine’s Day Read: The Fall Risk: A Short Story
81 pages Amazon Original Stories Pub Date Mar 01 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day in a funny and improbably romantic short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer. It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, and Charlotte and Seth are not looking for romance. Armed with emotional-support…
A Wager with the Matchmaker: An Arranged Marriage American Historical Romance Novel Set in 1800s St. Louis (A Shanahan Match)
352 pages Publisher Bethany House Publishers Publication date May 6, 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK After her brother’s entanglement with an Irish gang threatens their family’s safety, Alannah Darragh flees St. Louis and her troubled past, seeking refuge as a maid for the affluent Shanahan family. Alannah’s resolve to avoid romance is tested by the undeniable…
Hearts in Circulation: A Christian Contemporary Fall Rom-Com Book-about-Books with Forced-Proximity, Grumpy-Sunshine, and Pen-Pal Romance (Checking Out Love)
304 pages Publisher Bethany House Publishers Publication date November 18, 2025 ABOUT THE BOOK Can a rundown bookmobile be the vehicle that brings two unlikely hearts together?Little Creek’s bookmobile is more of a death trap on wheels than a vehicle of literary delights, and circulation librarian Hayley Holt is afraid it’s going to careen down…
Valentine’s Day Read: Sunday at the Sunflower Inn: A Heartwarming Texas Love Story (A Honey Creek Novel)
320 pages Publisher Zebra Publication date April 26, 2022 ABOUT THE BOOK Jessica Ann McKenzie—“Jam” to everyone in Honey Creek—has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to every couple in town on Valentine’s Day is a reminder of another dream, one she’s just about given up on.…
Black History Month Read: The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
413 pages Publisher Amistad Publication date February 8, 2022 The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murderand a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah…
Black History Month Read: Things Past Telling: A Literary Epic of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – One Woman’s Fierce Survival from Africa
337 pages Publisher Amistad Pub Date Mar 15 2022 ABOUT THE BOOK Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable woman’s journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland. Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace—a.k.a “Momma Grace”…
Nonfiction: The Bull in the Darkness and the One-Eyed Dog: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian
184 pages Publisher Lyons Press Publication date May 15, 2023 ABOUT THE BOOK Amazon link Dr. Robert Sharp tells remarkable, highly readable, and true stories of a country vet’s encounters with animal patients of all kinds, their equally unusual if not unique owners, and the flavorful rural settings they inhabit. The Bull in the Darkness…
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