Ann Shorey's Blog, page 10
October 26, 2011
I STILL DREAM ABOUT YOU, by Fannie Flagg
As the still-beautiful former Miss Alabama, Maggie Fortenberry has come to a decision point in her life. Everything that she loved about her hometown of Birmingham is gradually being replaced by strip malls, big box retailers, and cookie-cutter mini-mansions. I Still Dream About You is a life-affirming story about growing older and maturing--not always the same thing. There's also a mystery
October 17, 2011
THE AMISH MIDWIFE, by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould
Nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger has always known she was adopted, but her world rocks when on his deathbed her father gives her a carved box containing fragments of her history before her adoption. With both of her adoptive parents dead, Lexie is spurred to seek her birth family. She leaves her Oregon home to travel to Amish country in Pennsylvania. What follows in The Amish Midwife is a gripping
THE AMISH MIDWIFE, by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Goule
Nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger has always known she was adopted, but her world rocks when on his deathbed her father gives her a carved box containing fragments of her history before her adoption.
With both of her adoptive parents dead, Lexie is spurred to seek her birth family. She leaves her Oregon home to travel to Amish country in Pennsylvania. What follows in The Amish Midwife is a gripping
With both of her adoptive parents dead, Lexie is spurred to seek her birth family. She leaves her Oregon home to travel to Amish country in Pennsylvania. What follows in The Amish Midwife is a gripping
October 3, 2011
WONDERS NEVER CEASE, by Tim Downs
In Wonders Never Cease, nurse (and egotist) Kemp McAvoy believes he's found a perfect way to make a million dollars without having to work for the money. When a famous, if over-the-hill, movie star is injured in an automobile accident, Kemp is assigned to her care in ICU.
His money-making scheme involves the movie star's agent and the publisher of a runaway bestseller called Lattes with God.
His money-making scheme involves the movie star's agent and the publisher of a runaway bestseller called Lattes with God.
September 19, 2011
THE COLONEL'S LADY, by Laura Frantz
Laura Frantz has done it again. The Colonel's Lady is a wonderful novel that sweeps the reader back in time to 1779 on the Kentucky frontier.
When Roxanna Rowan arrives at Fort Endeavor in the Kentucke (as it used to be spelled) wilderness, she expects to reunite with her father. Once there, she learns her father has been killed. Penniless, she has no choice but to stay in the crowded fort
When Roxanna Rowan arrives at Fort Endeavor in the Kentucke (as it used to be spelled) wilderness, she expects to reunite with her father. Once there, she learns her father has been killed. Penniless, she has no choice but to stay in the crowded fort
September 12, 2011
REMEMBERING CHRISTMAS, by Dan Walsh
In Remembering Christmas, Dan Walsh has
written a story that's sure to be a holiday classic. The story opens when Rick
Denton, a successful (and self-centered) individual, receives a phone call from
his mother asking for his help in the bookstore she and her husband own. Rick's
stepfather, Art, has suffered a brain aneurysm and is hovering between life and
death.
written a story that's sure to be a holiday classic. The story opens when Rick
Denton, a successful (and self-centered) individual, receives a phone call from
his mother asking for his help in the bookstore she and her husband own. Rick's
stepfather, Art, has suffered a brain aneurysm and is hovering between life and
death.
September 6, 2011
THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN, by Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden is a combination of many things: part fairy tale, part family saga, and part mystery, stirred together with a dash of Dickens and a sprinkling of Frances Hodgson Burnett. The finished product is a thoroughly absorbing novel.
The story begins in 1913, with a four-year-old girl who is hidden aboard a ship sailing from London to Australia. She's told to wait in her hiding
The story begins in 1913, with a four-year-old girl who is hidden aboard a ship sailing from London to Australia. She's told to wait in her hiding
August 13, 2011
WINGS OF PROMISE, by Bonnie Leon
Kate Evans is a pilot, and not just any pilot--she's a bush pilot in Alaska in the 1930's. The pages of Wings of Promise are filled with the challenges she faces. The elements threaten, as do some of the male pilots who work for the same flying service that employs Kate. On the emotional front, Kate's heart is also in danger. Dr. Paul Anderson agrees to be a bush doctor, and he and Kate spend
August 6, 2011
MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND, by Helen Simonson
I received Major Pettigrew's Last Stand as a gift, and I loved it! Major Ernest Pettigrew (Retired) is the quintessential English gentleman. A widower, he lives in the quiet country village of Edgecombe St. Mary, puttering with his roses, playing golf, and pretty much living life as he's always lived it. One day, a Pakistani shopkeeper, Mrs. Ali, calls on him to collect for the ailing paperboy,
July 18, 2011
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, by Tim Downs
Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak (the Bugman) is called on to investigate a murder on an organic tomato farm. Once he arrives, he finds that the murder victim's wife is a woman he once had feelings for. When suspicions arise that the murder may have been drug-related, he asks Alena Savard (the "witch" from Downs' previous novel, Less Than Dead) to bring her super-talented dogs to aid the
