Happy Book Birthday to Death and Other Holidays! Rating: 4/5 Vogel’s debut work of fiction is the story of a young woman coping with the death of her stepfather and going about her life for a year after his death. I didn’t catch the main character’s name, but it really felt as if I was
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/death-and-other-holidays-marci-vogel/Review: Never Let Go
Synopsis: As a forensic genealogist, Willow Anderson is following in her late grandfather’s footsteps in her quest for answers about a baby abducted from the hospital more than twenty years ago. The case may be cold, but things are about to heat up when someone makes an attempt on her…
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Synopsis: As far as Thea Michener is concerned, it’s time for a change. With her husband murdered and her much-anticipated baby stillborn, there is nothing left for her in Ladreville. Having accepted a position as Cimarron Creek’s midwife, she has no intention of remarrying and trying for another child. So when…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/review-a-tender-hope/Monday Mini-Reviews 11/12
I have a confession to make. I haven’t finished reading any of my books that I have for review. But, I have read several other things that I want to share with you in this week’s episode of Monday Mini-Reviews! Taste of Marrow – Sarah Gailey Taste of Marrow is the second and final book…
Read More from: http://candidceillie.com/monday-mini-reviews-11-12/Review: Governess Gone Rogue
Synopsis: Dear Lady Truelove… My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he’ll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats… Lady Truelove may be London’s most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/review-governess-gone-rogue/Review: A Duke Changes Everything
Synopsis: In the first novel in Christy Carlyle’s sizzling Duke’s Den series, three men, intent on making a fortune, discover irresistible opportunities . . . Nicholas Lyon gambled his way into a fortune and ownership of the most opulent, notorious gentlemen’s club in England. But when Nick’s cruel brother…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/review-a-duke-changes-everything/It’s Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel (Book Review)
This book was sent to me by Penguin Life in exchange for my honest opinion. 08.02.2018 / Penguin Life / Non Fiction / Hardback / 320pp / 978-0241976388 Target Audience: Readers who want a better understanding of emotions and how repressing or ignoring emotional impulses have serious ramifications. Those who enjoy a good self-help book.……
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Rating: 2/5 I listened to this book on audio, and I have to say, it was weird. I felt like I had no idea what was going on the entire time despite reading the synopsis and hearing someone describe it. That being said, the premise was definitely intriguing. February 1862, and President Lincoln’s son Willie
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/lincoln-in-the-bardo-george-saunders/Review: Gather & Make
Synopsis: Gather & Make is an award winning, newly published, one-of-a-kind book. The book provides step-by-step instructions for activities that encourage lively engagement with plants. Three easy-to-create, affordable activities are featured for every month of the year. Each activity in Gather & Make is carefully selected to harmonize with the…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/11/review-gather-make/Book Review: Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (5/5)
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study
Read More from: https://bbmorganblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/book-review-stalking-jack-the-ripper-by-kerri-maniscalco-5-5/Review: A Seat by the Hearth
Synopsis: Priscilla Allgyer knows she cannot leave the past behind. But can love lead her toward the promise of healing? Priscilla Allgyer left the community to escape the expectations of Amish life. Now, years later, she is forced to return—along with her six-year-old son—to the place she thought she’d left…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/review-a-seat-by-the-hearth/Top Five – Non-Fiction Books I Can’t Wait To Read Again [Repost]
Welcome to my NF November Re-post here on Always Trust In Books. I am focusing on re-reads at the moment as I have been dying to get back to some great previous reads for both fiction and NF. This post is my non-fiction re-reads list for this year and there are some fantastic reads on……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/top-five-tuesday-non-fiction-books-i-cant-wait-to-read-again-top5-topfivetuesday-reread-revisit-science-technology-psychology-memoir/The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl ~ Issa Rae
Rating: 4/5 I have watched most of Issa Rae’s show Insecure over the years, and love her sense of humor and insight. So when I saw she had a book, I knew I wanted to hear it on audio. I was not disappointed. This is a fun essay collection, designed to get people to think
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/the-misadventures-of-awkward-black-girl-issa-rae/Review: Pruning the Dead
Synopsis: Post-retirement aches and pains can’t prevent sixty-five-year-old Lilly Jayne from keeping the most manicured garden in Goosebush, Massachusetts. But as a murder mystery blooms in the sleepy New England town, can a green thumb weed out a killer? With hundreds flocking to her inaugural garden party, meticulous Lilly Jayne hasn’t…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/review-pruning-the-dead/Review: Murder Flies the Coop
Synopsis: One would hardly call them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together–solve murders . . . Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/review-murder-flies-the-coop/Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George
This book was sent to me by Portobello Books in exchange for my honest opinion. 08.02.2018 / Portobello Books / Non Fiction / Paperback / 384pp / 978-1846276125 Target Audience: Non-fiction readers who strive for a better understanding of the world and its many workings. Those interested in medicine, biology, global politics and real world……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/nine-pints-a-journey-through-the-mysterious-miraculous-world-of-blood-by-rose-george-rosegeorge3-grantabooks-nonfictionnovember-ninepints-rosegeorge-grantabooks/I Might Regret This Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson (Book Review)
This book was sent to me by Virago Press in exchange for my honest opinion. 30.10.2018 / Virago Press (Little, Brown) / Non Fiction / Hardback / 320pp / 978-0349010861 Target Audience: Readers who enjoy Broad City and comedy in general. Also readers who appreciate raw emotion, honest life experiences and facing problems head on.……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/i-might-regret-this-essays-drawings-vulnerabilities-and-other-stuff-by-abbi-jacobson-book-review-abbijacobson-viragobooks-nonfictionnovember-imightregretthis-abbijacobson-personal-virago/An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good ~ Helene Tursten
Rating: 3/5 This noir short story collection follows an elderly woman named Maud. She has lived in her building for 88 years of her life with her mother and sisters before they died. When the apartment building was bought by her landlord, she received a contract to live there rent-free for the remainder of
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/an-elderly-lady-is-up-to-no-good-helene-tursten/Review: Exclusive/A Touch of Heaven
Synopsis: Exclusive When little-known writer Taylor Scott is granted two weeks to interview a famous reclusive author, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. So is the chance to rekindle her friendship with Mike Greene, who happens to be the author’s assistant. But as feelings deepen and time winds down, Taylor will…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/review-exclusive-a-touch-of-heaven/Review: The Highlander Who Protected Me
Synopsis: Lady Ainsley Matthews, heiress and darling of the ton, was expected to make a magnificent match. Instead she’s hiding on a remote Scottish estate, terrified that her vicious former fiancé will use her pregnancy to force her into marriage. One man can help her—Royal Kendrick, son of a distinguished Highland clan. Though…
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