by Site Owner | Feb 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance
by Tracie Peterson Bethany House, $14.99, 351 pages Tracie Peterson uses the historic background of Texas in the 1800’s for her story Embers of Love. Tracie builds real life, emotion and character into her people and makes them come alive. She also brings nuggets of...
by Site Owner | Feb 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
by Jules E. Dowler Shepard Da Capo Press, $18.95, 236 pages Written by a woman who has gone gluten free as a way of life because of Celiac Disease, she has been on a quest to provide real food to real people, just a bit differently. Jules E. Dowler Shepard’s prior...
by Site Owner | Feb 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Written by Lesléa Newman, Illustrated by Carey Armstrong-Ellis Abrams Books for Young Readers, $16.95, 30 pages As the mother of a 4-year old princess who loves to dance, I originally thought: “Not another ballerina book!”. Well, I couldn’t have been more...
by Site Owner | Feb 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
by Brian Froud and Alan Lee Abrams, $29.95, 208 pages The faeries are both complex and beautiful, the same can be said for this compilation. This is the Deluxe Collector’s Edition of the classic art book Faeries, so some of the work has been seen before, some is new...
by Site Owner | Feb 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by Kevin Desinger Unbridled Books, $24.95, 272 pages What would you do if you saw your car being stolen? Get somewhere safe and call the police? Try to stop the theft? In Kevin Desinger’s novel The Descent of Man, when mild-mannered Jim wakes to find two men trying to...