by Nicole | Nov 7, 2011 | Book Reviews
In honor of National Recycling Week – don’t even ask how I know that – I’m recycling a few of my old blogs. It was time to dust them off and make them work for their keep. Over the past two years, I’ve read countless books, but I only...
by Nicole | Oct 26, 2011 | Book Reviews
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See Description: A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. My Review: What a breathtaking ride...
by Nicole | Oct 25, 2011 | Book Reviews
Description: An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to Montana… She is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic. He is a preacher living...
by Nicole | Oct 4, 2011 | Book Reviews
Nightingale Esther Lange doesn’t love her fiancé—she’s trapped in an engagement after a mistaken night of passion. Still, she grieves him when he’s lost in battle, the letters sent to her by the medic at his side giving her a strange comfort, so much that she strikes...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2011 | Book Reviews
Description: Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the...
by Nicole | Sep 29, 2011 | Book Reviews, Writing
2011 Genesis Winners Contemporary Fiction Katy Pistole Contemporary Romance Mary Curry Historical Fiction Johnnie Alexander Donley Historical Romance Sarah Ladd Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Dianna T. Benson Romantic Suspense Renee Ann Smith Speculative Fiction Matt Jones...
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