August 2010

Winner: Licensed for Trouble

August 30, 2010

DarcyO Thank you to all who participated in the contest! Technorati Tags: Book Giveaways, Licensed for Trouble, Susan May Warren

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Book Review: Love Finds You in Victory Heights, Washington

August 28, 2010

During World War II, women played an integral role in the fight for freedom, not on the battlefields where their fathers, brothers, husbands, sweethearts, et al. were fighting, but back at home. Women left their roles as wives and homemakers, and took jobs that directly supported the war effort. In Seattle, the Boeing Plant 2 […]

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Book Spotlight: The Devil in Pew Number Seven

August 26, 2010

Today’s featured author is Rebecca Alonzo, author of The Devil in Pew Number Seven. Meet the Author: Becky Alonzo never felt safe as a child. Although she lived next door to the church her father pastored, the devil lived across the street. This tormented man terrorized her family with rifle shots and ten bombings. When […]

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Book Review and Two Giveaways: Licensed for Trouble

August 25, 2010

Susan May Warren’s third and final installment in her series about wanna-be private investigator P.J. Sugar, Licensed for Trouble, stands on its own. Even if you have not read the first two volumes, Nothing But Trouble and Double Trouble, you will find it hard to put down once you start reading. But die-hard P.J. Sugar […]

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Book Review: Escapades of Romantically Challenged Me

August 25, 2010

It takes a really funny book to get me to laugh out loud — actually guffaw and even snort a couple of times — when I’m sitting on my patio, enjoying a cool evening breeze wafting in from the Delta through my oak trees, sipping a glass of fine Lodi wine as I read. But that’s […]

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Winner: Healing with Words — A Writer’s Cancer Journey

August 23, 2010

Aik Friends and Family Thank you to all who participated in the contest! Technorati Tags: Book Giveaways, Diana M. Raab, Healing With Words — A Writer’s Cancer Journey, Pump Up Your Book

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Book Review: Paula Deen’s Savannah Style

August 18, 2010

Paula Deen’s life story is a classic American tale of unprecedented success earned after years of struggling against adversity. A Georgia native, in just over twenty years she has parlayed a $200 investment and a few modest dreams into a multi-national empire that produces hit television shows (she has four running on the Food Network […]

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Book Review and Giveaway: Healing with Words — A Writer’s Cancer Journey

August 16, 2010

When the opportunity to read and review Healing with Words — A Writer’s Cancer Journey arose, one of my best friends had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Since meeting her in 1977, she has been one of the people in my life who has always stood by me, offering unconditional love and support, as […]

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Book Review: With Friends Like These

August 11, 2010

How important to you are your long-time friendships? How well do you think you know your friends? Are you sure that you know just what kinds of behavior your friends are capable of? Do you trust them? Are you sure that they have your best interests at heart? How well do you know yourself? How willing […]

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Teaser Tuesday: The Opposite of Me

August 10, 2010

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Each week participants open to a random page in the book they are currently reading and share two (or three) “teaser” sentences from that page, being careful not to include spoilers, i.e. too much information that would ruin the experience of reading […]

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Sunday Salon: Peaceful Summer Evenings

August 8, 2010

We have had a delightful summer here in the little village of Lodi. The temperatures have been uncharacteristically mild. Usually, by mid-August, we have endured many days when the temperature has soared past 100 degrees, with the average being in the mid to upper 90’s. Air conditioners chugging throughout the neighborhood, there can sometimes be […]

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Book Review: The Perfect Family

August 2, 2010

What do you do when the life you have so carefully constructed begins to fall apart? How do you react when you learn that the future you envisioned for yourself and your loved ones is not going to materialize? How do you respond when your children’s expectations for their lives are not in alignment with […]

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