by Debbie Macomber
MIRA Books, 2009
My Rating: B
I think I’ve read almost all of Debbie Macomber’s stories. I get her newsletter and follow her website (especially the knitting section). So I guess you could call me a fan. It was a real treat when her publicist sent this Christmas book. Debbie always writes a Christmas story [...]
Kat Martin
Vanguard Press, 2009
My Rating: B
Kat Martin has written over forty novels – historicals, contemporaries, and romantic suspense. I’ve read her romantic suspense and loved them. When I had the chance to preview her new Christmas novel I was happy to say yes.
Ms. Martin has put together a nice little community of individual adults in [...]
by Nadia Natali
Illustrated by Marica Natali Thompson
North Atlantic Books, 2009
My Rating: B
In addition to recipes, The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook is a story about the creation of the Blue Heron Ranch and Zen Retreat Center. It’s the story of how the Natali family bought forty acres near Ojai, California and built it into a meditation [...]
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927
My Rating: B
Hercule Poirot is the star of this novel with his friend Captain Hastings as the narrator. The whole story starts with a strange man tumbling into Poirot’s rooms. He is barely able to communicate “The Big Four” before he dies mysteriously. Of course, our master sleuth [...]
Meet Carrie Host. She’s a young woman in her forties, happily married, with three children. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. The last thing she expected at this point in life was a diagnosis of cancer. But there she was, with her youngest child of ten months in her arms, down on the floor with a [...]
Laced With Magic
Barbara Bretton
Penguin Books,2009
My Rating: B
Most of you know I don’t normally read books about anything paranormal. You will be surprised that I read this book plus really like it. There are two reasons why I said I’d participate in this Blog Tour: One is that I’ve been a Barbara Bretton fan for quite [...]
UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY
by Shandi Mitchell
Harper Collins, September 2009
My Rating: B
Teodor is an immigrant farmer in Canada in 1938. He was swindled out of his homestead and put in prison for attempting to steal his own grain. Being confined to a small prison cell nearly drove Teodor mad. He’s an outdoor man, used to working [...]