On my own, I would never, ever have picked up Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. However, it was this month’s selection in Jessica’s online book club, Booking It, so after some internal struggles I did order it from the library. You see, it’s not my style. A frumpy, has-been governess, looking desperately for a [...]
adult fiction
Review: The Discovery by Dan Walsh
Michael Warner, an aspiring writer, inherited his grandfather’s Charlestown estate…and that included the study where his famous grandfather had written his blockbuster novels. Not only that, but Michael, his sister Marilyn, and the rest of his family also inherited millions. Marilyn, for one, was not satisfied. She was upset that the will had contained no clues to [...]
Review: The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck
Charlotte, owner of a bridal salon, can’t seem to get around to choosing her own wedding dress. Her fiancé Tim is having a hard time getting down to wedding preparations as well. When Charlotte spends $1000 on a trunk at an auction, Tim is very upset. But what is hidden in that trunk, welded shut? [...]
Review: Chasing the Sun by Tracie Peterson
Life in Texas during the Civil War was hard enough for motherless Hannah Dandridge and her little brother and sister even without the Indian raids. Hannah’s father had gone to visit her ailing grandmother, so responsibility for the children and the family ranch fell on her shoulders. Herbert Lockhart, her father’s partner, was doing [...]
Review: Prize of My Heart by Lisa Norato
Early one 1815 morning Lorena Huntley met a stranger in her father’s ship yards. The same morning, Captain Brogan Talvis encountered a skinny scullery maid, and five year old Drew felled a giant with his slingshot, just like David felled Goliath. So begins this heartwarming story of Captain Talvis hunting for the son his late wife had given [...]
Review: A Lancaster County Christmas
When she was at the doctor’s to renew her sleeping pill prescription, Jamie Fitzpatrick met bubbly Danny Riehl, an Amish six year old. He and his dad were there with his mom, Mattie, who had recently miscarried the first baby she’d conceived since Danny’s birth. When Danny forgot his handmade owl whistle at the office, [...]
Review: Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist
Luke Palmer, an undercover Texas Ranger hunting for a notorious train robber, is stationed to the small town of Brenham as a telephone repair and salesman. The switchboard operator, Georgie Gail, a beautiful, opinionated birdwatcher, does not appreciate her new boss. She has her own ideas about many things including train robbers, having met the [...]
Review: Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
Addicted to reading novels, Alice Grace Ripley lost her boyfriend because her nose was always in a book. The very next day, due to Depression era cutbacks, she lost her dream job at the library. Rather than stay home and face small-town gossip, Alice decided to hand-deliver a shipment of donated books to a tiny town in eastern Kentucky [...]
