Some day I'll find it...

And not the Rainbow Connection...if you know the song.  Every time I look for books on the shelf in fiction for others I am always on the lookout for one particular book.  Maybe you have seen it?  Here is what I remember:  It is a smaller hardcover book, almost square, really quick read and I believe the cover is red, possibly a checkerboard pattern like a picnic table cloth.  I read this book from cover to cover while I was in labor waiting for the birth of my son.  Honestly, I read  the whole thing waiting in the hospital before he was born.  I do not remember the title or even what the book was about.  But someday it will just come to me and I will say,  "That's it!"  The funny things you remember, or don't.  Hmmm...I am always on the lookout, even eight years later.  It is not Richard Paul Evans.  I keep thinking it may be P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern but the cover really does not match and I have seen the movie a hundred times.  I recommend it by the way.  Tragic but beautiful love story when a woman's husband dies but sends her letters after his death for each month for a year guiding her into her new life without him signing each letter with P.S I Love You.  It really is a good but not my lost title.  Someday...

We carry this book in regular print only.

Danielle Steel

I am a complete paperback junkie.  I could read whatever.  Once upon a time I absolutely loved Danielle Steel which you can find everywhere in paperback.  But I fell out of love of her writing when I read too many in a stretch and found a character from one love story that showed up in another book who had an affair with another character---who was supposed to be madly in love with someone else.  Oh, the horror!  Then several, several years later I picked her up again.  I found the same formula writing but I still liked it.  She is definitely an easy read.  My two all time favorites of hers are The Ghost and The House.  If I had to pick one it would be The House.  I love the historical aspects of the house in the story and how the family genealogy is found throughout the story of the house.  It is a match made in heaven.  I liked The Ghost for the historical aspects too.  Go ahead, check one out today.  Read her knowing you will find a beginning, middle, drama, romance and usually a happy ending.  Danielle Steel is a romance must read sometime in your life.

  

We carry The Ghost in regular print and audio.  We carry The House in regular print and as an ebook.

Beekeeper's Ball

I love sequels to books and this one lives up to my standards for easy reads.  It answers many questions I had in The Apple Orchard and (of course!) now I have more.  Susan Wiggs likes to keep us on our toes...trying to figure things out.  I hope there will be another and soon!

I love the incredible descriptions of food, landscape, family, really everything that Susan Wiggs writes makes you feel as if you are right there amidst it all.  A with all the books I choose, you will find love and food in this story but also Danish history and a family that is truly remarkable.  Have fun but give yourself some time, you will probably want to read it in one sitting.

We carry The Beekeeper's Ball in audio, regular print and ebook.  The Apple Orchard was reviewed in this blog on February 24th.

Ladybug Farm Series

I just found this series by Donna Ball and have only read the first one.  I like it!  I like the fact that three women, who are friends and whose husbands are gone, children have scattered, decide to buy a home in the middle of nowhere and refurbish it.  They have decided that they can and they do, regardless how crazy everyone thinks the idea is.  The venture turns out to be outrageous with disaster after disaster but still the best one because they conquer it together.  I can't wait to read the rest---but start with the first, "A Year on Ladybug Farm".

    

Listed above are the first three that TADL carries, we will carry Christmas on Ladybug Farm, Vintage Ladybug Farm and A Wedding on Ladybug Farm soon as well a spinoff of the series, Hummingbird House.  Keep checking!

We carry the first three in regular print and large print.