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A collection of short stories as fizzy as your cocktail Author: Jojo Moyes Will you be traveling somewhere tropical for the holidays? If so, maybe you’re looking for something to read while sipping your piña colada and getting burnt to a crisp. Or perhaps you’ll be hanging around the frigid U.S. and plan to park yourself in front of the fireplace while reading a book that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Either way, Jojo Moyes’ Paris for One & Other Stories will fit the bill. The nine stories contained within are frothy, fun and easy to suck [...]

Murder Can Muss your Matrimony Author: Deborah Donnelly Getting in the mode for all things bride, thanks to my own pending nuptials, and ever ready for another cozy mystery to ease me through the blustry winter months ahead, I turned to Deborah Donnell’s You May Now Kill the Bride which found its way to me in a mystery eBay book lot. The fifth book in the Carnegie Kincaid Wedding Planner Mysteries, which has the acclaim of a Hallmark original movie, You May Now Kill the Bride goes off location, temporarily abandoning Carnegie’s houseboat in favor of lavender sprinkled San Juan Island. In this bucolic tropical paradise, [...]

A Thought Provoking, Personal, and Unforgettable Read   Author: Thomas à Kempis Who would think that a five hundred year old plus book, originally penned anonymously in Latin, could still have such a daily impact? As a child, part of my schooling involved reading a daily chapter from The Imitation of Christ. This was no small task, the devotion and theeing and thouing of a long lost monk in love with self-denial was not only difficult reading in a vocabulary sense but also challenging from an intellectual perspective. Nevertheless, despite my less than charitable thoughts while plowing through Kempis' erudition, it was a [...]