THE BOY ON THE BEACH by Mary Towne (Author) It’s August 1943, and while many of the Long Island neighborhood young men are fighting in WWII, the folks at home are battling a polio epidemic among their kids. It’s scary because no one knows how the horrible disease is contracted. A notion going around is that you…
by Chris Ewan (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An Audiobook THE GOOD THIEF’S GUIDE TO BERLIN, by Chris Ewan is the third “Good Thief’s Guide” mystery I’ve read, and although they all have a similar plot line, this one is especially twisty. Charlie Howard is a gentleman burglar, an expert at his job, polite and thoughtful towards…
The rules are simple. Each Saturday get the word prompt, follow the guidelines to write a 6-word story and submit it. (Read the ones that others submit and laugh, cry, or scratch your head.) The prompt for the latest Saturday (April 6) is = PRAY. I wonder what YOU would write.
by Alexander Maclaren (Author), David Cochran Heath (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) An Audiobook Alexander Maclaren‘s book about the Bible character, David, using his Psalms to tell the story, is eye-opening and amazing. I confess, as I listened to the book, I wished I had a print copy to follow along with each of the Psalms. (Maybe I’ll pick up a…
by Elizabeth Speller (Author), Matthew Brenher (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Elizbeth Speller’s historical fiction book, THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN EMMETT is a caring but tragic story exposing a mystery of heartache and loss. Soldiers of the “Great War” reluctantly tell their stories to a man who simply wants to discover what happened to one soldier … for…
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