Cottage For Sale

I really am not a non-fiction reader but some are fun if written with great characters and read like fiction.  Cottage for Sale:  Must Be Moved by Kate Whouley is that type of book.  The author sees vacation cottages up for sale for only $3000 but they must be moved by the purchaser.  She envisions personal and professional space to add on to her tiny three room home on Cape Cod.  The year long project is filled with comical characters, learning moments, surprises, complications and self discovery.  Do-it-yourselfers will love the construction descriptions.

We carry this book in regular print format only.

Nicholas Sparks

The first time I had even heard of Nicholas Sparks was quite awhile ago when they made Message in a Bottle into a movie. You know the one with Kevin Costner?  My girlfriends and I went to see it thinking what a great love story, we are going to walk away full with feeling of love and yearning.  I was so mad three quarters into the movie I almost walked out!  I vowed never to read or watch anything of his ever again.  EVER.  But after many years I gave him another chance.  I really do love his books that were made into movies.  I have honestly only read (or listened to) one of his books but have seen all his movies.  Dear John is my favorite.  Go into reading him knowing that there is always a love story, usually some sort of devastation but really a terrific read.  Enjoy!

We carry this book in regular print, large print, audio, ebook and downloadable audio.

Good Grief!

For those of you who like non-fiction books, specifically biographies this particular book by Ellen Stimson, Good Grief!: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village was a wonderful, quick read.  It was laugh out loud funny in some parts and a bit sad in others.  I realized halfway through this that she wrote another book first that may have explained their life a little better.  I will have to go back and read Mud Season to get the juicy details.  I love her outlook on life, she doesn't dwell on things...not really.  She is kind of a fly by the seat of your pants, take the hits as they come, deal with life one catastrophe at a time, woman.  What I took out of this book is to laugh harder, love better.  Hopefully you will, too!

  

We carry Mud Season in large print and regular print.  Good Grief is available in regular print.  

A Wedding in Provence

This novel is straight back to romance by Ellen Sussman.  Named  "sizzling escapist reading" by Entertainment Weekly, I knew if was just what I wanted to read.  Hoping for a low-key idyllic wedding, the happy couple realizes it will be anything but...as the guests begin to arrive.  This is a novel of love, trust, family secrets and the enduring power of love.  A quick, powerful read.  Enjoy!

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Life Intercepted

I am not sure I would categorize this book as light and fluffy but it is a great, quick read.  If you like football or sports this is the book for you as well stories about loyalty and lost dreams.  I became immersed in the story right away and could not put it down.  I was pretty bummed when it ended for I wanted to know more but that is only because I like neat, tidy endings.  It ended nicely, I just wanted more or really did not want the story to end.  I love how the author described the feelings of football, not just the game but the comraderie between players, friends and coaches in good times and in bad, wins and losses.  There is an amazing lesson in this story, see if you can find it.

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Home Front

This week I chose something similar to last weeks choice, sort of.  Home Front by Kristin Hannah is about a woman who is called to war and leaves her husband and two girls behind.  This is a story of a rocky marriage, made even rockier by war, a husband unaccustomed to being a single father and then having to deal with tragedies war left behind.  I think this emulates many families who are entrenched in military life.  War will change them all.  It is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor and hope.

We carry this book in regular print, large print, audio, playaway and downloadable audio.

Don't Go

This one will tear at your heart strings.  But it is soooo good.  You just have to find out the ending because things can NOT get any worse, it needs to get better.  It is all about family, love, betrayal, war and everything in between.  It is gripping, thrilling and profoundly emotional.  Lisa Scottoline pens the story of a soldier who finds out what it means to be a man, a father and a hero to those around him.  He learns what he can save, what he can't and finds out what is most important to survive.  Grab some tissues but know that it will all be okay.  (I did tell you all the books I read have happy endings, remember?)

We carry this book in regular print, audio, large print and downloadable audio format.