is a cozy flower-shop mystery featuring Abby Knight, law school dropout and owner of Bloomers flower shop. Abby's canary-yellow vintage Corvette is the victim of a hit-and-run outside her flower shop, which is then found out to be a link to a local murder happening around the same time. Abby teams up with bar-owner and hottie Marco Salvare, who is also a former cop, to solve the mystery around Abby's dinged Corvette and the murder.
by Stephen Harrigan is an AMAZING novel about a woman astronaut named Lucy Kincheloe as she prepares for her first space mission. 
by Vicky J. Siegrist is the story of a young girl who escapes death and runs away from her abusive father with hopes of starting a fresh new life, free of pain. After the initial hardships that come with running away, Ebony Arose is welcomed into a new family who love and care for her as she deserves. Many years later as a teenager, Ebony is blessed with finding true love and is about to marry handsome, rich Nicholas Vance. Before the wedding and much to her disadvantage, Ebony's past comes back to haunt her. The following events that transpire for Ebony include intrigue and danger, as well as more romance.
by C.E. Murphy is a book I wish dearly that I could have gotten into because I'm well aware of how the Walker Papers has gained popularity over the years... when Murphy makes a wisecrack about the vulgarity of Austin Powers
' teeth in the very first paragraph! I thought to myself how could I not appreciate Murphy's humor?!
tells the story of how best-selling author Robert Wacaster meets Katie Benson, the executive assistance of Wacaster's editor, and sweeps her off her feet. Unfortunately, Robert is only in New York City for business, and eventually must separate himself from Katie to return to California. Their long-distance relationship must stand the test of real love.'s romantic and fictional elements.
features Tony Foster, a street-smart homosexual production assistant for a TV series called "Darkest Night". People on the set of the show start dying, and Tony begins to notice creepy shadows everywhere he goes within the studio. Tony then approaches the special effects "wizard" Arra, and learns much more is going on concerning the shadows than he originally thought., I presume Tony tracks down the shadow menace to put a stop to the killings.
by Richard Bausch is such an expansive book and took me awhile to read, and I definitely wouldn't do it again. The synopsis of Hello to the Cannibals is much more interesting than what it actually turned out to be. is about a young woman named Lily Austin who is mature, intelligent, and incredibly insightful for her age. At her 14th birthday party, Lily receives a biography about Mary Kingsley, an adventurer in the 19th century who traveled the world over. For the next 10 years of Lily's life, she drowns herself in Mary Kingsley and uses the woman as comfort and inspiration to help herself through her own hard times. Descended from playwrights, Lily also writes a play with Mary Kingsley being the focal point. The book spans back and forth between Lily's life and Mary's life until we are greeted with Kingsley's early death at the end.
is her best book to date. tells the story of a new beginning in Phoebe Swift's life after her best friend dies. At the height of her career, Phoebe opens Village Vintage, a shop specializing in selling authentic and vintage clothing made by the most coveted labels in the fashion world. Elements of her new life weave quite the intricate web of new friends, new men, and new revelations which all intertwine at some point in the novel. Along the way, readers are treated to anecdotes of history tidbits dating back as far as the 1920s with vintage clothing playing a large role in the plot.
is Richard Flanagan's fourth novel. is about a young pole dancer and stripper known as Doll, who apparently goes to bed with a handsome stranger and wakes up the next day with no recollection of the previous night. Doll then sees herself on television as being the prime suspect and most wanted criminal behind a terrorist attack! far enough where the aforementioned accident takes place. The book is too choppy, impersonal, and jumps all over the place, so it's hard to care about what happens. I'm sad to say that because I'm also American, I couldn't catch on to the Australian lingo fast enough, and I was left in the lurch as to what the characters were talking about!
was no exception, and once again, I am disappointed in myself in letting this book sit on my shelf for years before reading it! is centered around a group of women in a small Jersey shore-town called Paradise Point. The women consist of Maddy, a woman about to be married; her entrepreneur mother Rose; Claire, a widow and mother of five; and Kelly, Maddy's teenage soon-to-be stepdaughter. While the town focuses attention on Maddy and her wedding, Claire stands by jealous on the sidelines at Maddy's good fortune, while responsible Kelly suspects she may be pregnant.
by Tibor Fischer is definitely one of the odder books I've read lately; too bad the story took a nosedive, causing me to give up. is narrated by a bowl, which makes the novel one of a kind. The bowl is a priceless antique that has been in existence for thousands of years, and shares its history tidbits throughout the book. The bowl tells us stories about how the novel's current characters remind it of people who have owned itself in the past.
