-
I (accidently) read SEVEN books in SEVEN days – AUGUST reading wrap up
This week I unintentionally read seven books in seven days! It was a nice break from my last update when I only got four books read over the course of a week and a half but some weeks are just like that. Here’s my thoughts on the books I read: THE BOOKS Let me know if you read anything interesting this week!
-
Uncategorized
Blood for Blood
Author: Ryan GraudinSeries: Wolf by WolfThere would be blood. Blood for blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. For the resistance in 1950s Germany, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun. Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: The world has just seen her shoot and kill Hitler. But the truth of what happened is far more complicated, and its consequences are deadly. Yael and her unlikely…
-
Uncategorized
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
Authors: Jay Cooper, Maureen Johnson"In the England of murder mysteries and TV detectives, no destination is deadlier than a quaint country village, and you never know you're in a murder village until it's too late. No attraction or local character is safe--whether in the pub for a pint, or on the manicured grounds of the local estate for a shooting party, bodies can turn up anywhere! Danger lurks around every cobblestone corner. If you are foolish enough to make…
-
Uncategorized
Floriography
Author: Jessica RouxFloriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th century, especially in Victorian England and the U.S., when proper etiquette discouraged open displays of emotion.…
-
Uncategorized
A Rumored Fortune
Author: Joanna Davidson PolitanoTressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the…
-
Uncategorized
The Nature of Small Birds
Author: Susie FinkbeinerIn 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives. Though her father supports Mindy's desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he'll lose the…
a community for readers
