ABOUT A RIVER OF TEARS, THE RIVER OF HOPE Title: A River of Tears, the River of Hope Genre: School & Teaching/Inspirational Author: Orit Rehany Publisher: AuthorHouse EBook: 151 pages Release Date: December 17, 2013 A River of Tears The River of Hope centers on the saga of the Two Torah Scrolls, and of an fluent and thriving community living peacefully for 2600 years […]

Faith Departed (Remnants Book One) by Elizabeth Maddrey Starting a family was supposed to be easy. Twin sisters June and July have never encountered an obstacle they couldn’t overcome. Married just after graduating college, the girls and their husbands remained a close-knit group. Now settled and successful, the next logical step is children. But as the couples struggle to conceive, […]

  Title:   Compass North Author:  Stephanie Joyce Cole Published:  December 2013 Publisher:  Champagne Book Group Word Count:  81,000 Genre:  Women’s Fiction, Romance, Mystery/Thriller Content Warning:  Minor Violence Recommended Age:  16+ Synopsis: Meredith slips into a new identity and a new life in a small town in Alaska, she discovers it’s not that easy to leave behind the baggage from her […]

  BLURB:   Bullet wounds, torture and oppression aren’t the only things that keep a man—or a woman—from being whole.   Debt. Honor. Pain. Solitude. These are things wounded war veteran Adam Wegener knows all about. Love—now, that he is not good at. Not when love equals a closed fist, burns, and suicide attempts. But Adam is one who keeps […]

  Contemporary Romance/Chick Lit Date Published: December 2012 For the last fifteen years, Rose “Manny” Mankowski has been a very good girl. She turned her back on her youthful fancies and focused on her career. But now, at the age of 45, she’s questioning her choices and feeling more and more disconnected from her own life. When she’s passed over for promotion and […]

How to Seduce a Band Geek (How To #2) by Cassie Mae Release Date: 05/06/14 Swoon Romance Summary from Goodreads: Sierra Livingston’s got it bad for her sister’s best friend, Levi Mason—the boy who carries his drumsticks in his pocket, marches with the school’s band, and taps his feet to whatever beat runs through his head. Sierra racks her brain for ways […]

Title: Learning to Like Yellow: Lessons From My Mother Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: K.E. Wass Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 192 pages Release Date: February 18, 2014 No human being is a blank slate. We all have a story, a past, and a shared history. Lolo is the matriarch of a large family struggling to exist in a harsh world while protecting a potentially damning secret. This […]

BLURB: (book intended for 15+)   Seventeen year old Sinta Allen has one objective, to get from Tallahassee, Florida to her mother in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seems simple enough right? Wrong. Hostile aliens have invaded Earth—and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that we’re losing the fight. While the aliens bring devastation and destruction and take people away […]

Praise for Empower: Fight Like A Girl “Even non-girls will feel empowered by these stories about ordinary, flawed characters finding their own strengths. Highly entertaining and original.” – Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase and King City, whose mother lost her hearing to lupus. Women of TV have united against lupus! Presenting Empower: Fight Like A […]

This is kind of bending the rules, but I realized I never listed this book for the Just For Fun Challenge.  I’m a bit behind due to not getting my April book finished.  Since it’s catch up month, here I go! The Selection by Kiera Cass My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, where do I begin? I remember when […]