Television’s Female Spies and Crimefighters by Karen A. Romanko

June 23, 2016

I love a good reference book that deals with the field of crime fiction. Former librarian (Her bio says that. I think once a librarian, always a librarian.) Karen A. Romanko’s book covers 600 Characters and shows from the 1950s through August...

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

June 22, 2016

It seems as if I’ve been talking about and anticipating Vinegar Girl for months now. The Hogarth Shakespeare project has today’s bestselling novelists writing modern retellings of Shakespeare’s works. Anne Tyler took on one of my favorite plays,The...

This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick

June 21, 2016

I don’t know when a nonfiction book has hit so close to home for me. Perhaps it’s because I’m a “Mover”, one of those people who pack up and move for one reason or another. For me, it has been jobs – in Upper Arlington, Ohio; Huron,...

Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon

June 20, 2016

Are you familiar with the term “new adults”? It refers to twenty-somethings, on their own, making major life decisions. Hannah McKinnon’s Mystic Summer is definitely for that audience. Maggie Griffin is perfectly happy with her life in Boston....

Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts

June 19, 2016

A Sorcerer, a traveler through space and time, an immortal, a mermaid, a seer, and a lycan (a werewolf). If I added, all walk into a room, it would sound like a joke. Instead, it’s the team that comes together to defeat the darkness and find three stars in Nora...