A Paris All Your Own edited by Eleanor Brown

July 16, 2017

After Eleanor Brown researched her own book, The Light of Paris, she wondered why people love Paris so much. And, she was surprised to see how many female, heterosexual, white women, bestselling authors, had written about Paris. So, she went to seventeen other women...

Calamity at the Continental Club by Colleen J. Shogan

July 15, 2017

I never saw an amateur sleuth so eager to investigate a crime as Congressional staffer Kit Marshall. Colleen J. Shogan’s Calamity at the Continental Club, the third Washington Whodunit, provides D.C.’s buildings for Kit’s playground as she and...

Winners and Give Me a D Giveaway

July 14, 2017

Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Jennifer H. from Indianola, IA won Ten Dead Comedians. Edited Out by E.J. Copperman will go to Pat S. from Farmington, NM. This week, I’m giving away ARCs by authors whose last name begins with D. Hannah...

What Are You Reading?

July 13, 2017

While I’m in the middle of reading for Library Journal right now, I did find the time to read a nonfiction picture book that I bought. It’s so good that I’m planning to use it when/if I read to my class of third graders again this year. Suzi...

The Bookshop at Water’s End by Patti Callahan Henry

July 12, 2017

Mimi, the bookseller at Title Wave, the bookstore in Watersend, South Carolina, welcomes readers to her bookstore, a place as magic as the river. The characters revolve around the bookstore, the beginning and end of the story, a place of secrets and answers in Patti...

Murder in Mayfair by D.M. Quincy

July 11, 2017

Fans of Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances or Charles Finch’s Charles Lenox mysteries will want to try D.M. Quincy’s debut historical mystery, Murder in Mayfair. The wit, clothing and setting brings Regency London to life in a mystery with satisfying...