Publisher and Publication Date: Independent published. March 2, 2018. Genre: Nonfiction. Psychology. Depression. Antidepressants. Pages: 123. Source: I received a complimentary copy from the author, but was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Excellent. Audience: Readers who want a better understanding of antidepressants.

Publisher and Publication Date: Bethany House. 2017. Genre: Fiction. Pages: 379. Source: Complimentary paperback copy from Bethany House. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Good.

Publisher and Publication Date: Counterpoint LLC. 2005. Genre: Fiction. Women. Family. World War II. Pages: 190. Source: E book copy from Library. Audience: Readers of women and family stories. This is a thinking story. A thoughtful book. Rating: Excellent.

Part 1 of an Interview with Heather M. Dixon, Author of Renewed There are few things that can make us feel as helpless as living with a story we don’t like. Life is rarely fair, and things happen beyond our control that impact our lives in negative ways. Maybe our story involves the loss of a […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Perfectly Proper Press. July 20, 2021. Genre: Gothic literature. Pages: 364. Format: NetGalley e-book. Source: I received a complimentary NetGalley e-book copy from Austenprose. I am not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers who are in the mood for a Gothic literature story. Rating: Excellent. Purchase links: Amazon Audible […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Harper. September 4, 2018. Genre: Historical fiction. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on a true story. Pages: 273.Format: Paperback.Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers of historical fiction with a subject of the Holocaust. Rating: Very good. Link @ Amazon. Link @ Audible. Link @ Barnes and Noble. Heather Morris website. Heather Morris’s […]

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Joffe Books. September 24, 2020. Genre: Contemporary fiction. Crime. Detective. Mystery. Pages: 281.Source: eBook Kindle. Kindle Unlimited copy. Audience: Readers of crime, detective, mystery stories. Rating: Okay.

Publisher and Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Square Fish. March 7, 2017.Genre: Nonfiction. Biography. Memoir. Pages: 352.Format: Paperback.Source: Self-purchase.Audience: Young adult nonfiction. Rating: Excellent! Link @ Amazon. Link @Audible. Link @ Barnes and Noble. There are several YouTube videos with Michael or his daughter Debbie who are co-authors of the book. These are two I’ve […]

Publisher and Publication Date: PS Books, Regional Publishing National Voice, A division of Philadelphia Stories. October 20, 2017. Genre: Poetry. Pages: 26. Source: I received a complimentary paperback copy from Valerie Fox. I was not required to write a positive review. Rating: Very good.

Publisher and Publication Date: Delacorte Press. January 12, 2021. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 368. Format: Advanced reader copy, e-book. Source: I received a complimentary e-book copy from NetGalley. I am not required to write a positive review. Audience: Readers of American history. Rating: Excellent. Melanie Benjamin website Link to pre-order the book at Amazon

“For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins;The days dividing lover and lover,The light that loses, the night that wins;And time remembered is grief forgotten.And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.”Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Published […]

“Let’s not permit the rush to crowd Christmas out of our hearts…for that is where it belongs. Christmas is not in the stores-but in the hearts of people.” Let’s Keep Christmas by Peter Marshall. Published by Chosen Books. Page 18.

Publisher and Publication Date: Cider Press Review. January 20, 2021. Genre: Poetry.Pages: 73 written pages and illustrations.Format: Paperback. Source: I received a complimentary paperback copy from the author and publisher. I am not required to write a positive review. Audience: Poetry readers. Rating: Very good.