"After The Storm" by Linda Castillo-Suspenseful!

    SUMMARY:  When a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself tasked with the responsibility of identifying the bones―and notifying the family. Evidence quickly emerges that the death was no accident and Kate finds herself plunged into a thirty year old case that takes her deep into the Amish community to which she once belonged. Meanwhile, turmoil of an emotional and personal nature strikes at the very heart of Kate's budding relationship with state agent John Tomasetti. A reality that strains their fragile new love to the breaking point and threatens the refuge they've built for themselves―and their...

"You Can Trust Me" by Sophie McKenzie-Sizzles!

SUMMARY: From Sophie McKenzie, best-selling and award-winning author of Girl, Missing and Sister, MissingOn a quiet, sunny Sunday morning, Livy arrives at her best friend Julia's apartment for a lunch date only to find her dead. Though all the evidence supports it, Livy cannot accept the official ruling of suicide; the Julia she remembers was loud, inappropriate, joyful, outrageous and loving, not depressed. The suspicious circumstances cause Livy to dig further, and she is suddenly forced to confront a horrifying possibility: that Julia was murdered, by the same man who killed Livy's sister, Kara, eighteen years ago. Desperate to understand the tragedies of her past and hold her unraveling...

"Blind Justice" by Ethan Cross...Heart-stopping!

    SUMMARY:    Deacon Munroe is not your average investigator. He’s intelligent, cultured, well-connected.And totally blind.Washington DC is Munroe’s city. Now it’s a city shaken to the core by the death of a high-ranking general and his wife. All the evidence suggests that the general killed his wife before taking his own life. Deacon Munroe does not trust what other people see – only what he knows is true.What Munroe soon knows is that the general's death is part of a far greater plan, a sophisticated and brutal plot to kill thousands of innocent people, including those closest to Munroe himself.But with only a small team at his aid, and just hours to stop a devastating...

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry~Read Soon!

BACK IN THE STACKS: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry BACK IN THE STACKS: I chose this classic, award-winning novel for my Bookish Libraria Blog as a "Back in the Stacks" review book this past week. It's actually, unbeknownst to me prior to my reading it, a dystopian novel about the coming of age and the coming to wisdom and understanding of a young boy in a futuristic society. A book I missed reading in school, but which my children were exposed to in their time, this is somewhat dated in spots; I felt, but held the same sort of message that we hear and see in our own world and society today through a plethora of young adult literature. That alone makes it worthy of reading! It's a...

Book Haul~New Stash and Recently Received

Here's a new crop of books that have come in recently from publishers, and a couple that I've ordered for myself.  Things have slowed down with the publishers since I took a hiatus with my illness, but now that I'm back reviewing...are picking up again.  I'm delighted to be back and able to read again. There's a mixed bag here as you'll see. One I just ordered that came in this week!  I may have already told you about it, but it bears telling again.  It's fantastic.  Published by Orbit.  Here's a summary: The Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end. Every morning, Melanie waits in her...

"Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin~The HBO Series!

SUMMARY : Based on the bestselling book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, this sprawling new HBO Drama is set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. PARTICULARS OF THIS PRODUCT : Produced by:  HBO Home Video Inspired by author:  George R.R. Martin Book...

"The Predator, The Making of a Wiseguy" by Anthony Aqua ~ Going Viral

SUMMARY : He was about to take Julie against her will. Having her body would not be the same as having her heart and mind, but Don didn't realize it at the time. Obsession takes on terrifying form in Anthony V. Aqua's The Predator. This sexually explicit cat-and-mouse game will take readers into the mind of a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Don Ricci is handsome, rich...and a psychopath. After a humiliating rejection by Julie, an old classmate, he kidnaps her at knifepoint and locks her away in a homemade dungeon. Determined to make Julie into his idealized version of the perfect "wife," Don's violently sexual encounters with his traumatized captor are interrupted...

"What Is Visible" by Kimberly Elkins ~ Fascinating...

SUMMARY : A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.  At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting America. And by age twenty, she was considered the nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance.  Not since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has a book...

Summer Reading~New Books

SUMMER READING BOOKS : This is my newest collection of books I'm planning on reading in August or before.  I'm including below a couple of pictures of more which I don't yet have in earnest, but which I've ordered.  Just about everything has a blue tinge! My head is doing better and it's getting easier to read again, so I'm excited about that.  I'm hoping as the months increase, my eyes will get better and I'll be back to my reading speed again.  I'm coming out of my slump, as well.  It feels great! So let me give you some summaries of the above books: In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his...

"One Kick" by Chelsea Cain ~ Explosive!

SUMMARY : From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set. Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America’s hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that will put her talents to the test. Trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist and bomb maker by her abductor, Kick could not return to the life of the average young girl after her release. So, in lieu of therapy, she mastered martial...