Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Feb 6, 2012, 7:23 am
Please welcome David to the blog, read on what he had to say about what I had asked and a special peek inside something he is writing this moment….. SR:  If you had to choose would you rather write books … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Feb 6, 2012, 7:02 am
Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth. For years this talent proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his identity secret from the companies that pay … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jan 27, 2012, 11:49 pm
Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe’s eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman’s Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!). A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jan 27, 2012, 1:21 pm
Set in eighteenth-century Canada, this compelling new novel takes the reader deep into unexplored territory. Appearing only fleetingly in the historical record of the Hudson’s Bay Company are the Native women who lived at the company’s Prince of Wales Fort … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jan 19, 2012, 2:22 pm
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching toward peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: thousands of Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jan 17, 2012, 11:30 am
This isn’t an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn’t an ordinary girl. ‘Disgusting,’ said the nurse. And when no more could be done, they put her away, aged eleven. On her first day at the Briar Mental Institute, Grace … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jan 17, 2012, 10:32 am
A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and unwilling to adapt to life in her mother’s unsympathetic household, she distances … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 21, 2011, 1:55 am
I,  myself pride myself in reading for the fun of it, what about you?  I can remember going to elementary school and bringing home those scholastic flyers with all of those lovely books inside that I would mark off each … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 20, 2011, 1:31 am
“I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.” So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 20, 2011, 12:33 am
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 11, 2011, 5:40 pm
Well kids, it seems I have a “NEW” fan on twitter; it seems as though he has such a professional demeanor too !! Let’s see shall we?!? Disclaimer – This is taken from my personal twitter account, verbatim. Kids you … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 6, 2011, 2:28 am
Passion. Danger. Witchcraft . . . Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Dec 6, 2011, 12:17 am
“Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are dead.” But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara’s solo … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 8, 2011, 12:57 am
All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given … Continue reading →
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 1, 2011, 11:36 am
The highly anticipated follow-up to Peter Behrens’ Governor General’s Literary Award-winning novel, The Law of Dreams. The O’Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two b...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 1, 2011, 10:47 am
The second novel in the Ava Lee series launched under Anansi’s new crime fiction imprint, Spiderline In The Disciple of Las Vegas, Uncle and Ava are hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the Philippines, to recover $50 million in a land swindle that took place in Canada and involves his brot...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 21, 2011, 1:16 am
Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the wa...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 15, 2011, 4:41 am
High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can prod...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 15, 2011, 1:42 am
Sometimes sorry isn’t enough…. It’s winter break in Ascension, Maine. The snow is falling and everything looks pristine and peaceful. But not all is as it seems… Between cozy traditions and parties with her friends, Emily loves the holidays. And this year’s even better–the guy she’s ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 15, 2011, 12:32 am
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that afte...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 22, 2011, 5:31 pm
  This is more of a Family Giveaway for those families that would love to share their love of reading with one another.  There are 3 books courtesy of DK Canada for you to love, enjoy, share with one another.  They have been so generous with Me and my son that I would love to share the love for ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 30, 2011, 4:00 pm
What sane woman would consider becoming any man’s ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as she’s about to give up all hope of marriage, she meets Rory, a charming Irish musician, and they fall in love. But Rory is a...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 30, 2011, 12:52 pm
Sweethearts since childhood, Ellie Hogan and her husband, John, are content on their farm in Ireland—until John, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, receives an injury that leaves him unable to work. Forced to take drastic measures in order to survive, Ellie does what so many Irish women in t...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 22, 2011, 6:42 am
  A mysterious jewel holds the key to a life-changing secret, in this breathtaking tale of love and art, betrayal and redemption. When she decides to auction her remarkable jewelry collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has finally drawn a curtain on her ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 22, 2011, 6:05 am
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah’s arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 11, 2011, 6:00 am
“A masterful, hilarious picaresque that keeps company with the best of Charles Portis and Mark Twain . . . a relentlessly absorbing feat of novelistic art.” — Wells Tower Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Eli and Charlie Sisters can be counted on for that. Though Eli has never shared his b...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 11, 2011, 5:21 am
Pam Jenoff, whose first novel, The Kommandant’s Girl, was a Quill Award finalist, a Book Sense pick, and a finalist for the ALA Sophie Brody Award, joins the Doubleday list with a suspenseful story of love and betrayal set during the Holocaust. An ambitious novel that spans decades and continent...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 10, 2011, 8:42 pm
Now that the new site/blog is up, here are the books for the giveaways.  The rules for these are as follows: 1.  No referrals from FREEBIE SITES – I’d rather you come for the other content, just not free books. 2.  For these are for residents of Canada Only – One entry PERIOD per person /...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Aug 6, 2011, 10:23 pm
Welcome Back !! I took a bit of time off to get some things in order – mainly some personal stuff that includes me and my son.  So, while that is underway, and probably will for a while, in the mean time I have more news… So, I will have some great giveaways to entice you back – I have about...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jul 15, 2011, 4:32 pm
How much of yourself exists in your characters ?   Occasionally I hear my own voice a little…Marmee’s thoughts on war, Hanna Heath’s description of working to glimpse the past before the genie fogs it over again, Bethia’s love of the landscape and avidity for learning…When Anna describes...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jul 15, 2011, 4:04 pm
A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard Col...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jul 15, 2011, 1:18 pm
From the day in 1907 that eleven-year-old Riley Purefoy meets Nadine Waveney, he takes in the difference between their two families — his, working class; hers, posh and artistic — and vows to make himself worthy of the lovely Nadine’s affections. Nadine’s mother has other ideas for her daug...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jul 13, 2011, 5:09 pm
In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Se...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jul 13, 2011, 4:42 pm
A radiant debut collection from Canada’s freshest new voice in fiction. Up Up Up heralds the arrival of a writer of astonishing range, compassion and acuity. In this taut collection of twenty short, sharp stories Julie Booker grabs the reins from writers like Lydia Millet and Miranda July and tak...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jun 17, 2011, 12:46 am
Out of the searing heat and sandstorms of the infamous summer of 2003 in Baghdad comes The Witch of Babylon, a gripping story rooted in ancient Assyrian lore and its little-known but profound significance for the world. John Madison is a Turkish-American art dealer raised by his much older brother,...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jun 17, 2011, 12:29 am
London, 1857: meet Jaf, a young street urchin who survives an encounter with an escaped tiger in the city’s East End and stumbles into a job for its owner, Mr. Jamrach, a collector and seller of wild animals. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a half-mythical dragon, Jaf joins a whaling ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Jun 1, 2011, 9:28 pm
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on a London housing estate. The second best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers — the Adidas stripes drawn on with ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Travels of A Bookworm - May 20, 2011, 2:22 pm
A critical part of the travel budget is transportation and this often includes airfare. The frugal traveler does more than keep an eye out on the internet for discounted flights. He or she looks for more creative ways to stretch the travel dollars. Using Free Stop Overs When the hubby and I traveled...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 19, 2011, 3:52 pm
On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Fifteen years ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 19, 2011, 1:04 am
Irma Voth entangles love, longing and dark family secrets. The stifling, reclusive Mennonite life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth – newly married and newly deserted and as unforgettable a character as Nomi Nickel in A Complicated Kindness – is irrevocably changed when a film crew moves in to make...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 19, 2011, 12:42 am
In 1950s Sudan, the powerful Abuzeid dynasty has amassed a fortune through their trading firm with Mahmoud Bey at its helm. But when Mahmoud’s son, Nur, suffers a debilitating accident, the family is suddenly divided in the face of an uncertain future. As British rule nears its end, Sudan is torn...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 18, 2011, 10:44 pm
In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell’s three seminal nove...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 4, 2011, 2:13 am
This is an extra special day.  Today marks the 35th Anniversary of Star Wars ! DK Canada (more importantly one person who works there Chris) has come up with an utterly AMAZING contest.  I have to say, when I first asked him if he had some swag hanging around the office, I was totally knocked off ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 4, 2011, 1:38 am
The definitive companion to the entire Star Wars phenomenon, in a special updated edition: Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide uncovers the full story of the amazing Star Wars saga, with more than 1,000 images from the movies, cartoons, comics, and novels, along with merchandise, behind-the-scenes ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 3, 2011, 2:08 am
I have to say this man is so busy, I cannot see where he finds the time for everything he does! I am even tired reading about it ! Without further interruption, please welcome Robert Rotenberg who has published his 2nd book entitled The Guilty Plea.  It has been released in Canada today, so go out...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 3, 2011, 1:48 am
On the morning that his headline-grabbing divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, youngest son of the Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to death in the kitchen of his million-dollar home. Detective Ari Greene arrives minutes before the press and finds Wyler’s four-year-old son asleep up...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 1, 2011, 1:28 am
Abandoned by her father and neglected by her self-centered, unstable mother, Sheila McGee cannot wait to escape the drudgery of her mill village life in Northern Ireland. Her classic Irish beauty helps her win the 1941 Linen Queen competition, and the prize money that goes with it finally gives her...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - May 1, 2011, 1:18 am
Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city’s most elite division. When her colleague, Jake, is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman fr...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Apr 28, 2011, 12:07 am
‘He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one…’ Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old schoo...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Apr 26, 2011, 11:34 pm
Eon is now Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye, on the run (with Ryko and Lady Dela) from High Lord Sethon’s army. She is also struggling to bear the anguish of the ten dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered by Lord Ido; as they focus their grief through her, she becomes a dangerous conduit for their power...
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