When a mammogram result comes back abnormal, midlife mama Summer Finley makes a snap decision to relegate fear to the back burner and fulfill a lifelong dream. Summer heads for Holland where she meets up with tulips, wooden shoes, and her best friend,...

Challenges I finished J. Kaye's Support Your Library challenge. I didn't do all the reviews but I have read over 50 library books so far. You'd think it would be easy, me being a librarian and all. Nope. Books on the Nightstand's DystopYA challenge...

Thirsty: A Novel Tracey Bateman Waterbrook/Random House 376 p. (PB, discussion questions) Summary Nina emerges from rehab and decides she needs to start over. She heads home to Missouri dragging her daughter Meg behind her. She meets Markus, her...

The Rock and The River Kekla Magoon Aladdin 283 p. (HC, author notes) Summary 13 year-old Sam is caught between his father, a nonviolent Martin Luther King, Jr. supporter and his brother Stick, and 18 year-old member of the Black Panthers. Sam...

Now and Then Jacqueline Sheehan Avon 384 pgs. (author info) Summary Anna's brother, Patrick, gets into a car accident on his way to pick up his errant son, Joseph. Patrick is now on life support so Anna is volunteered to retrieve Joseph from jail. ...

Born To Fly Michael Ferrari Delacorte Press 224 p. (lib) Summary All of her life, Bird has wanted to fly. Her dad has been very encouraging and teaches her quite a lot about flying. He gets called as a fighter pilot during the war (WWII) and Bird is...