#BookReview for “The Color of Ice” by Barbara Linn Probst ~ 5⭐️

Summary: Set among the glaciers and thermal lagoons of Iceland, and framed by the magical art of glassblowing, The Color of Ice is the breathtaking story of a woman’s awakening to passion, beauty, and the redemptive power of unconditional love.  The stunning new novel by the author of award-winning novels Queen of the Owls and The Sound Between the NotesContinue reading “#BookReview for “The Color of Ice” by Barbara Linn Probst ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview & #AuthorInterview for “The Paris Library” by Janet Skeslian Charles ~ 5⭐️

Summary: An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller—based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II—The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).  Paris, 1939:Continue reading “#BookReview & #AuthorInterview for “The Paris Library” by Janet Skeslian Charles ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview for Patricia Sands’ new novel, “The Secrets We Hide” ~ 5⭐️

Summary: The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife, Hana, in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition worsens, Kaito’s life becomes absorbed in protecting and caring for her and their daughter, Kiana.Continue reading “#BookReview for Patricia Sands’ new novel, “The Secrets We Hide” ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview, #AudibleReview, #Interview & #Giveaway for Jamie Gehring’s “Madman in the Woods” ~ 5⭐️

Summary: A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, sharing their Montana land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder–and Gehring’s investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of herContinue reading “#BookReview, #AudibleReview, #Interview & #Giveaway for Jamie Gehring’s “Madman in the Woods” ~ 5⭐️”

#BookTour, #NewRelease & #BookReview (#Tissues) for Alison Ragsdale’s “The Child Between Us” ~ 5⭐️

Summary: My beautiful girl, you are my missing piece. You came into my life and changed everything, placing your warm little hand in mine, and looking up at me with your sky-blue eyes, so full of hope. Little did we know what lay ahead, but for a while at least, we had each other… WhenContinue reading “#BookTour, #NewRelease & #BookReview (#Tissues) for Alison Ragsdale’s “The Child Between Us” ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview: Goodbye, Orchid by Carol Van Den Hende ~ The Write Review Top Book of 2020, Annie Award Finalist & 5⭐️

Published: October 1st, 2020 Summary: Rising from ashes is hard. Giving up the one you love is harder. Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an entrepreneur who has built an agency with a heart almost as big as his own. To add to his good fortune, he’s falling for Orchid Paige, the beautiful half-Asian marketer who’sContinue reading “#BookReview: Goodbye, Orchid by Carol Van Den Hende ~ The Write Review Top Book of 2020, Annie Award Finalist & 5⭐️”

#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Germany 🇩🇪, Israel 🇮🇱 & LA, USA 🇺🇸 : Do Not Disclose by Leora Krygier ~ 5⭐️

Published: August 24th, 2021 by She Writes Press Summary: Leora, a juvenile court judge, wife, mother, and daughter, is caught in the routine of work, taking care of her family and aging parents. But she’s also a second-generation Holocaust survivor. It’s an identity she didn’t understand was hers until she accidentally discovered a secret fileContinue reading “#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Germany 🇩🇪, Israel 🇮🇱 & LA, USA 🇺🇸 : Do Not Disclose by Leora Krygier ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Long Island, NY, USA 🇺🇸 Blush by Jamie Brenner ~ 5⭐️

Published: June 22, 2021 Summary: From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the trashy novels of a bygone era just might hold the key to saving their family’s coastal winery–and to finding the love that’s eluded them. For decades, the lush vineyards and majesticContinue reading “#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Long Island, NY, USA 🇺🇸 Blush by Jamie Brenner ~ 5⭐️”

#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Germany 🇩🇪 & USA, NY 🇺🇸: Circumference of Silence by Jacquie Herz ~ 5⭐️

Summary: It’s been a week since the funeral, and Mali is at her mother’s Manhattan apartment ready to pack it up—at least that’s what she thinks—until she discovers a manila envelope, propped up against the back of her mother’s desk, and filled with a mass of unsent letters. Her mother’s handwriting on the lined notepaperContinue reading “#BookReview & #StampYourPassport for Germany 🇩🇪 & USA, NY 🇺🇸: Circumference of Silence by Jacquie Herz ~ 5⭐️”

#NewRelease & #BookReview: “The Season of Lights” by Gregory Erich Philips ~ 5⭐️

Date of Release: Sunday, April 18th, 2021 Summary: Passion, ambition and escape in the colorful artistic underworld off-Broadway, Cammie, a dancer in her mid-thirties, has just landed her first part in a show since coming to New York City. Yet the tug of familial obligation and the guilt of what she sacrificed to be thereContinue reading “#NewRelease & #BookReview: “The Season of Lights” by Gregory Erich Philips ~ 5⭐️”