[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Lilting and lyrical, this book is a gothic tale of faeries, changelings, and the magical mystical moonlight, quietly illuminating truth, and half-truth, and all the shades of pearly-grey captured in a web of lies. May Harper is a May-day child, born on May 1, 1941 in…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A tricky and twisty police-procedural that draws you into its web quickly, leading you down a complex path, leaving you convinced, at last, that you’ve figured it all out - until of course, you realize you haven’t. Not even close. Leading me astray not once, but…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Which of us hasn’t dreamed of starting over - a new life, a braver life, a chance to give center-stage to the long-buried and treasured, following the heart and acknowledging at last that “nothing that makes you smile that insanely could possibly be a bad idea”. Whatever…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Extraordinarily tricky - this book will have you going back to re-read sections - shaking your head in wonder as you uncover the fiendishly-clever writing required to support that crazy-out-of-nowhere-humdinger-of-an-ending. This adroitness alone would easily merit the five stars - but this is one snappy, absorbing, fascinating…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Were it but free, it would soar cloud-high” (Charlotte Bronte) Reading this achingly-tender memoir, embodied through words, is to move beyond words - to the riding of a wave of rapturous, primal connection where emotion, pure and atavistic, soars free. As the author, a young British wife,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 A smartly sassy ride-along with an awesome new female Private Investigator, Fati Rizvi, - a coffee-loving, bear-spray-armed, no-holds-barred powerhouse, with a healthy disregard for all things pink and sparkly, as well as pretty much all authority and convention. Based in Lake Templeton, a fictional small lakeside…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I adored this memoir, - soaked straight through with so much warmth, intimacy, and candor that it would be impossible for any human with a beating heart not to be moved. This searingly-heartfelt exposé will reach your deepest corners as you experience first-hand the diagnosis, treatment, and…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A fascinating and exhaustively-researched narrative on the lives and accomplishments of three men - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Theodore Roosevelt, and Roald Amundsen - whose leadership, vision, decisions and drive propelled them to complete two historically “bold undertakings” each, in total completing six projects of global and persistent…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Softly washed with the richness of indigo, dusky blues, royal purple, and a dazzling golden sandstone, this gorgeous picture book has the feel of an old-time fairy tale, dusted all the way through with the splendor of starlight, myth and magic. As our hero, a little girl…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A nail-biter of a read, this story’s emotional wallop, sparked from the very first (of many) explosive twists, is destined to keep the reader entirely on edge, right up to the intense and ultimately satisfying finale. Written in a taut, spare and vivid style, the author captures…