Reading in White Bear Lake

  • Review: Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work and Never Get Stuck–Jon Acuff

    Title: Do Over Author: Jon Acuff  (Author Website) (Facebook) Genre: Nonfiction/Business & Economics Narrator: Jon Acuff Publisher:  Blackstone Audio, 04/07/15 Length:  8.5 hrs • 7 CDs• 1 MP3 CD • Unabridged About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff has drawn millions of online fans who love his refreshing mix of…

  • Review: The Silent Sister–Diane Chamberlain

    Title: The Silent Sister Author: Diane Chamberlain (Author Website)  (Facebook) Genre: Adult Fiction Narrator: Susan Bennett Publisher:  Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (October 7, 2014) Length:  10 CD’s / 11.5 hours Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older…

  • Review: We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

      Title: We Are Not Ourselves Author: Matthew Thomas Narrator: Mare Winningham Unabridged Length: 20 h, 51 m Published by Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014 Genres: Adult Fiction, Literary Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program   About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens,…

  • REVIEW: Gooseberry Island by Steven Manchester

    Title: Gooseberry Island Author:  Steven Manchester (author website) Publisher: Story Plant, The; Reprint edition (January 6, 2015) Pages: 300 pages Source: From Author About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) They met at the worst possible moment…or maybe it was just in time. David McClain was about to go to war and Lindsey Wood was there at…

  • Review: Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

    Title:  Illumination Night Author: Alice Hoffman (Author Website) (Facebook) Genre: Adult Fiction Narrator: Suzanne Toren Publisher:  Blackstone Audio,  June, 2014 Length: 7.8 hours Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program About the Book: (From AliceHoffman.com) Set on Martha’s Vineyard, here is a stunning novel that brings that beautiful island to vivid life – a novel that weaves…

  • Review: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

      Title:  Everything I Never Told You Author: Celest Ng (Author Website) (Facebook) Genre: Adult Fiction Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Publisher:  Blackstone Audio,  June, 2014 Length:  10 hours Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program About the Book: (from Good Reads.com) Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of…

  • Review: Little Mercies by Heather Gunderkauf

    Title: Little Mercies Author: Heather Gunderkauf (author website) Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (June 24, 2014) ISBN-10: 0778316335 Pages: 320 Source:  Netgalley.com About the Book: (from Goodreads.com) In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences… Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen…

  • Coming Soon to a Bookshelf Near You: August Edition

    I hoped to blog to you from the deck, but the heat got to me and I had to retreat into the house.   It has now rained and hopefully cooled down a bit, so hopefully my evening will be spent reading on the deck. As a book blogger, I am able to request, read and…

  • Review: Walking on Water by Richard Paul Evans

    Title: Walking on Water (Book 5) Author: Richard Paul Evans (Author Website) (Facebook) Genre: Adult Fiction Narrator: Richard Paul Evans Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio, May, 2014 Source: Audiobook Jukebox‘s reviewer program About the Book: (from Good Reads.com) In this fifth New York Times bestseller in the Walk series, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen…

  • Review: The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarity

    Title: The Husband’s Secret Author: Liane Moriarity (author website) Genre: Adult Fiction Publisher:  Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam; 1st Printing edition (July 30, 2013) Pages:  416 Source:  Kindle book purchased for book group About the Book: (from publisher) At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read My darling Cecilia,…

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