Sharp Edges on 1998 Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, a connoisseur of beauty…and naturally inclined to tackle even the most difficult tasks on her own. As the director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove… Read more »
Category: Book Reviews
Great World Religions: Christianity
Great World Religions: Christianity Series: Great World Religions Also in this series: Great World Religions: Judaism As the world’s largest religion, with more than two billion members, Christianity is “one of religion’s great success stories,” notes Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, himself a former Benedictine monk. But Christianity is more than… Read more »
Family Tree (Susan Wiggs)
Family Tree on Aug. 9, 2016 Pages: 368 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads For readers of Kristin Hannah and Jodi Picoult comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A… Read more »
Once a Rancher (Linda Lael Miller)
Once a Rancher Series: Carsons of Mustang Creek #1 on April 1, 2016 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Always a Cowboy, Forever a Hero The Carsons of Mustang Creek: three men who embody the West and define what it means to be a rancher, a cowboy and a… Read more »
Death at the Day Lily Café (Eckel)
Death at the Day Lily Café Series: Rosalie Hart #2 Pages: 288 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Murder at Barclay Meadow Rosalie Hart has finally opened the café of her dreams. Decked out with ochre-tinted walls and stuffed with delicious organic fare, the Day Lily Café is everything… August 8, 2016 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★½
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Witch: Midsummer Night’s Mischief
Midsummer Night’s Mischief Series: Wiccan Wheel Mystery #1 on July 26, 2016 Pages: 352 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads As the Summer Solstice approaches in idyllic Edindale, Illinois, attorney Keli Milanni isn’t feeling the magic. She’s about to land in a cauldron of hot water at work. Good thing she… Read more »
Cold War SF/F: The Warlock in Spite of Himself
The Warlock in Spite of Himself Series: Warlock #1 on (originally published 1969 by Ace) Pages: 283 Add to Goodreads Rod Gallowglass is a man of science who does not believe in magic. Gramarye is a world of witches and warlocks. Of strange abilities and phenomena. A world where society… Read more »
Death in Alaska: Deadly Fate by Heather Graham
Deadly Fate Series: Krewe of Hunters #19 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Phantom Evil, The Hidden, Heart of Evil, Haunted Destiny, Darkest Journey, Dying Breath, Echoes of Evil, The Summoning, The Seekers, The Unholy, The Dead Heat of Summer, The Unforgiven, The Forbidden Alaska—the final frontier? When Clara… Read more »
7th Blogoversary Giveaway #3: The Dragonriders of Pern
The Dragonriders of Pern on orig. published 1978 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Dragonflight To the nobles who live in Ruatha Hold, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands…. Read more »
TOUR: Read to Death (Moran)
Read to Death Series: Read ‘Em and Eat #3 on July 5, 2016 Add to Goodreads The national bestselling author of Caught Read-Handed revisits Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where the proprietors of a local bookstore café occasionally take a stab at solving murder… At their seaside Read ‘Em and Eat… Read more »