Media From the Heart by Ruth Hill

It was on this date in 1848 that Wisconsin became the thirtieth state to be admitted into the United States.  This year is known as the year that “When America Came to Age.”  I don’t believe I have ever visited there–maybe one day I’ll see it for myself. For more info: http://famousdaily.com/history/wisconsin-30th-state.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin

When Mitchell Brannon’s beloved wife of twenty years kisses him goodbye one autumn morning, he has little idea that his life is about to change forever. Mitch returns from work early that evening, surprised Jill’s car isn’t in the garage. Her conference in Kansas City is only a few hours’ drive from their little town of Sylvia, Missouri. But her voice […]

  THE PERFECT DUKE By Dawn Ireland BLURB:   Known as The Marble Duke amongst the Ton, Garret Weston, the Duke of Kendal sets himself apart from his peers. Nothing will hinder his guilt-driven attempt to become a perfect duke.  Nothing that is, save the alluring and imaginative betrothed he’d thought dead. His intended believes-of all things-that she is a Vicar’s […]

Let me say at the outset that I am not an Ernest Hemingway fan.  I understand and appreciate the fact that he was a great author in spite of his troubled life, but I never found his writing style interesting.  Often the stories were better than the writing style.  But that is just my opinion.  On this date in 1934, […]

Summer has officially started and it’s time to get reading! Win a $25 Amazon or iTunes Gift Card  You could get this summer’s funniest read: How do you say “no” to a mob boss? When bumbling hitwoman Maggie Lee is asked by her mob boss employer to kill a cop, she wants to say no. When her sexy murder mentor, […]

Welcome to the blog tour for Jim Kraus’ latest novel, The Cat That God Sent (Abingdon Press). Readers are sure to enjoy Jim’s follow up release to The Dog That Talked to God (nominated for a CBA Book of the Year Award). {MORE ABOUT THE CAT THAT GOD SENT} Meet Petey, your not-so-average cat—on a mission from God Disillusioned young pastor, Jake Wilkerson, has […]

  Book 1: The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer  In a small town in Michigan, fifteen-year-old Sarah Cole is stuck spending the summer at her Aunt and Uncle’s with her sister, Lacey. She’s not happy with the situation until she befriends a girl named Jackie. The three girls stumble upon the ruthless murder of a reclusive neighborhood woman and […]

Dermagist has been very generous in offering to send some products to review, but also to allow us bloggers to host a giveaway for the same products!  If you missed my bloggy friends’ review,  you can see it here.  I don’t know about you, but my eyes tend to be what shows my age faster than about anything else, and […]

This was not an easy one to research today–not all sites appear to agree or give the same information.  However, it appears to be true that on this date in 1919, Glenn Curtiss flew the Curtiss NC-4 landed in Lisbon, Portugal, thus completing the first successful trans-Atlantic flight.  He had begun nineteen days before at New York, and this was […]

RENHALA BY 
AMY JOY LUTCHEN Genre: Urban Fantasy ISBN: 9780988281509 ebook, 406 pages       BOOK DESCRIPTION Kailey Rooke, timid accountant, dedicated to philanthropic work, finds herself spiraling into a deep depression after she suffers a horrifyingly odd and humiliating assault, to only discover more of these freakish assaults occurring across the globe. A chance discovery leads Kailey to a […]