Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Reading - Along Came Trouble

 
Along Came Trouble by Sherryl Woods
 
 
Trinity Harbor's sheriff Tucker Spencer has seen some action . . . but finding an almost-naked woman asleep in his bed leaves him speechless. Especially because this same woman -- Mary Elizabeth Chandler -- broke Tucker's heart six years ago by marrying a charismatic Virginian politician.
Now her philandering husband has been shot dead and Mary Elizabeth needs Tucker's help. She needs Tucker . . . period. But can he forgive her -- and will he want a future with her once murder and mayhem are behind them?
Seems everyone in town has an opinion about their top cop's reunion romance, including Tucker's father, King Spencer, who's determined to manage his love life -- even as he mismanages his own. But Tucker's not listening. He needs to clear Mary Elizabeth's name . . . and maybe even save her life.
 
 
 

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Reading - Hostage

Hostage by Willo Davis Roberts

A Junior Fiction

 
Kaci enjoys reading mysteries and adventure stories as long as there are other family members around and especially when she has a big blwl of popcorn nearby.  Sometimes, though, she longs for a little excitement and wonders what it would be like to have a real adventure.
 
Kaci is feeling this way at the time her family moves to a house in a new development that is supposed to be safer than their old neighborhood.  She likes everything about the new place except the nosy neighbor next door, Mrs. Banducci.  She's a pain, always asking too many questions.  She's around the morning Kaci come shome from school to get special medicine for her allergy attack, and her questions are about the deliveries made that morning to Kaci's house.  What were they?  Kaci doesn't know.  She also doesn't know, when she gets to her front door, why it is open.  No one is supposed to be home.
 
Although she doesn't realize it right then,  this is the start of Kari's big adventure.   The new development, it turns out, is not so safe after all.  A neighborhood where Mrs. Banducci is probably the only person home all day is ideal for thieves who want to break in and steal - thieves who don't care what they do to you when they find you in a house where they don't expect you to be.  Karci's adventure is one that can even make her value Mrs. Banducci.
 


Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Reading - Walking on Water (the 5th Journal of The Walk Series)

Walking on Water by Richard Paul Evans
 
 


There are 5 books under The Walk Series :
1st - The Walk
2nd - Miles to Go
3rd - The Road to Grace
4th - A Step of Faith
5th - Walking On Water
 
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen’s daring cross-country journey—a walk across America, from Seattle to Key West, with only the pack on his back—has taught him lessons about love, forgiveness and, most of all, hope.

Now Alan must again return west to face yet another crisis, one that threatens to upend his world just as he had begun to heal from so much loss, leaving him unsure of whether he can reach the end his journey. It will take the love of a new friend, and the unexpected reappearance of an old one - for Alan to find the determination he needs to continue to Key West, where he hopes to end his journey and begin a new life.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Reading - A Step of Faith (The 4th Journal of The Walk Series)

A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans


 
There are 5 books under The Walk Series :
1st - The Walk
2nd - Miles to Go
3rd - The Road to Grace
4th - A Step of Faith
5th - Walking On Water
 
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen is a broken man. Leaving everything he knows, he sets out on an extraordinary cross-country journey; with only the pack on his back, he is walking from Seattle to Key West—the end of the map.

Along the way, Alan begins to heal, meeting people who teach him lessons about love, sacrifice, and forgiveness. But in St. Louis, Alan faces another life-changing crisis, and now the journey is in jeopardy.
 
The people he meets as he walks the dusty southern back roads have lessons to teach Alan about accepting love.  He just has to have faith that life can be worth living again - and that the woman he rejected will be willing forgive him.
 
 

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Reading - The Road to Grace (the 3rd Journal of The Walk Series)

The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans


 
  
There are 5 books under The Walk Series :
1st - The Walk
2nd - Miles to Go
3rd - The Road to Grace
4th - A Step of Faith
5th - Walking On Water
 
Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, left behind everything he knew and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey.
 
As he treks the nearly 1,000 miles between South Dakota and St. Louis on foot, it’s the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning: a mysterious woman who follows Alan for nearly a hundred miles, the ghost hunter searching graveyards for his wife, and the elderly Polish man who gives Alan a ride and shares a story that Alan will never forget.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Reading - Miles to Go (the 2nd Journal of The Walk Series)

Miles to go by Richard Paul Evans
 
 
 
There are 5 books under The Walk Series :
1st - The Walk
2nd - Miles to Go
3rd - The Road to Grace
4th - A Step of Faith
5th - Walking On Water
 
Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on the cross-country journey of a lifetime. But a vicious roadside stabbing has interrupted Alan’s trek and robbed him of his one source of solace: the ability to walk.
 
Homeless and facing months of difficult recovery, Alan has nowhere to turn—until a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home.  Generous and kind, Angel seems almost too good to be true, but all is not as it appears.  Alan soon realizes that before he can return to his own journey, he must first help Angel with hers.
 

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Reading - The Walk (The 1st Journal of The Walk Series)

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans


 
There are 5 books under The Walk Series :
1st - The Walk
2nd - Miles to Go
3rd - The Road to Grace
4th - A Step of Faith
5th - Walking On Water
 
What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours.

Saturday, March 05, 2016

Reading - Mudpuddle Farm

Mudpuddle Farm by Michael Morpurgo
 
A Junior Fiction
 
 
It contains 2 short stories :
 
1.  Mossop's Last Chance
Mossop the old farm cat likes to sleep - and not much else!  So when Farmer Rafferty tells him to catch twenty-six mice by sunset,  all the animals have to pull together to give Mossop one last chance ....
 
2.  Albertine, Goose Queen
A fox is on the loose, and all the animals except Albertine the goose have hidden themselves insides.    Albertine is safe on her island in the pond - at least so she thinks, until the fox starts swimming towards her ......

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Reading - Zeke Meeks vs the No-Fun Fund-Raiser

Zeke Meeks vs the No-Fun Fund-Raiser by D. L. Green
 
A Junior Fiction
 
 
 
When Zeke Meeks decides to win the school fund-raising contest, it isn't t help his class.  He wants tyhe prize - four tickets to Thrillsville Amusement Park!  There's only one problem : Zeke is a terrible, horrible awful salesperson.