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Men and Dogs: A NovelAuthor: Katie CrouchThis flashframe novel extends a photograph of one event in a family’s life that changes the entire family forever.The Legare family’s routines and activities are determined by their larger than life father, Buzz Legare. A doctor, Buzz Legare has presence. On April 6, 1985 Buzz’s small fishing vessel is found drifting out to harbor, with the family dog still in the boat, hungry and baffled. Buzz Legare is declared drowned by accident.Leaving behind ... continue reading...

Miracle Girls #4: Love Will Keep Us Together: A Miracle Girls NovelAuthors: Anne Dayton and May VanderbiltEvery once in awhile, a book comes along that makes you feel warm – hopeful – happy.  Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt gift us with “Love Will Keep Us Together”, a coming of age novel starring four incredible teens – Riley McGee, Christina, Ana and Zoe.  Going into their senior year at high school, learning how to leave each other and trust themselves and just being girls who make mistakes – ... continue reading...

Deliver Us from EvilAuthor: David Baldacci Baldacci delivers his criminal best in "Deliver Us From Evil".  Shaw, who works for an organization that takes down the evil guys and sends them to court, is tracking an ex-Nazi war criminal and psychopath named Evan Waller.  Shaw runs into another group targeting the same monster as Waller is vacationing in Provence.  Reggie, one of the field agents for a covert group that assasinates men like Waller meets Shaw while Shaw is pursuing the killer ... continue reading...

The 9th Judgment (The Women's Murder Club)Authors: James Patterson and Maxine PaetroThis Patterson/Paetro novel is the newest in the Women’s Murder Club Series. Sargeant Lindsay Boxer and Rich Conlon, her partner at SFPD Homicide are faced with 3 cases – simultaneously. One is a car burglar named Hello Kitty by the press. The second is the murder of Casey Dowling, a famous movie star. And the third, a psychopath who goes by the lipstick signature WCF is murdering mothers – and their infants ... continue reading...

The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival KitAuthor: Therese Borchard As I sit on the phone moaning to Broad Z about the blogger’s life – overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwhelming, - I reach for “The Pocket Therapist”. This little book has 144 “vignettes” of wisdom (the last lesson – DON’T FORGET TO HAVE FUN). I figure at $50.00 a session – what I would pay for a therapist – that’s a lot of money saved! (I am so impatient I don’t have the sense to figure out the calculator on the computer so I ... continue reading...