Read an exclusive interview with the NY Times best-selling author on my blog: http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/05/hugh-howey-interview.html

By Jeanne Ray

Broadway Paperbacks, 255…

By Louise Erdrich

Harper Perennial 272 pgs

978-0061536106

Rating: 4

This book is excruciating. Also spellbinding. You will be appalled by the mind games being played but you will also come to understand them. At first you won't believe that you would ever play these games. But then you will begin to reflect and wonder if you haven't played some of these games yourself. I enjoyed this book greatly. It is a pleasure to read. Just be…

re-demp-tion [re demp shuh`n] noun 

1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.…

Rating: 4

This book makes me want to go back to school.

Jackson Carter is an anthropology professor at Thomas Ford University in Illinois. He has returned from Africa and written a book…

By Greg Olear

HarperCollins 312 pgs

978-0-06-205971-0

Rating: Sublime....

"Fathermucker" sounds rather suspect. I feel a touch profane when I say it. Harmless. I am a little confused but nevermind.

"Fathermucker" is the perfect title for this gem. This book is about a father mucking around, trying to hold it together. Josh Lansky is a husband, erst-while screenwriter, and stay-at-home father to Roland, a four-year-old boy with Asperger's,…

By Nichole Bernier

Crown/Random House, 309 pgs

978-0-307-88780-1

Rating: 5

"Kate lowered her nose to Emily's head and breathed in Johnson's baby shampoo, a hormonal cocktail that among women who have children not long out of diapers drew the Pavlovian, Another." There, there. Is that not the most beautiful sentence you have ever read? If not then please leave me a comment with your contender because I have to read that book now. I read…

By David Klein

Broadway Books, 376 pgs

978-0-307-71683-5

Rating: 3

The only people who stay in character in Clean Break are a gambling addict (Adam) and a 10-year-old child (Spencer). Now I don't know about you but I would tend to believe that the man with no character left, and the young one just developing character, would be the ones most likely to violate. Instead it's the adults, who have up until now been solid, responsible and dependable…

By Monica Drake

Hogarth, Random House Group, 318 pgs

978-0-307-95552-4

Rating: 4

Sarah, Georgie, Nyla and Dulcet, all women approaching middle age in Portland, Oregon, have been friends since high school. The Stud Book follows a short interval in their lives filled with upheaval…

Fiction/Thriller

Seedling: Evil Hybrid

J.N. Sadler

2012

Xlibris Corporation

Seedling: Evil Hybrid is another quirky thriller from author J.N. Sadler. In this story, a young waitress marries a scientist whose secret work changes her life and…

Fiction

Anna 2026

Lucas Morgan

2012

Somnium Books

Anna 2026 is the story of a young married couple whose lives are disrupted when one of them is accused…

Currently I am offering a coupon: YJ67E for a free copy of my novel Judged By Your Peers on Smashwords

So I thought I’d offer you a sample: this is from Chapter 4 as Shay tell her freinds a secret and gets a shock in return:

Judged By Your Peers: Chapter 4

… The evening moved on as the kids ran riot round the house, constantly trying get their hands on some booze, till Abi eventually lost her temper with them and…

1 Corinthians 10:1-13



Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;



And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat;



And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.



But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they…

My first  book of poetry written at each stage of my life. Childhood, University Student, Mother, Married, Separation and a Single Mother. Life is tough for everyone. I believe that everyone has struggled through one aspect of their life, others every aspect. I do have faith that one day, it will get better and the journey will end with a stronger, wiser woman at the end of it.

I have two active blogs:…

 “Can I be happy without a ring on my finger?”

My latest post, a reflection on how much power the Church should have in dictating ..., is up on Young Adult Catholics. Also, the issue of DignityUSA’s…

About Jack of Hearts:

Jack of Hearts is a novel of literary fiction told from the point of view of a small, aristocratic dog named Shimoni. This imaginative first novel explores themes of fidelity and honor and offers a fresh perspective of Italian culture and amore.

Shimoni’s passion for…

Bridge of Scarlet Leaves tells the story of two families, the Kerns and the Moritomos. Maddie and her brother TJ live in the family house (their mother is dead and their father is in a nursing home). TJ aspires to be a pro-league baseball player after college while Maddie has her heart set on studying at the Julliard School of Music as a violinist. TJ’s best friend is Lane Moritomo. We meet the three in Los Angeles in 1941. Maddie has been dating Lane in secret because he is first generation…