by Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An audiobook review A BODY AT A BOARDING SCHOOL, is another wonderful installment in the Lord Edgington (and Christopher) Investigations. This time the story is set at Christopher’s boarding school on the last day before summer break. Again the poor boy is being bullied, but that’s nothing compared to the…
by Jude Mason (Narrator), Sarah Ladd (Author), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Camille Iverness is the Curiosity Shop Keeper, along with her disreputable father who supplies the shop with the trinkets and treasures it sells. Where he gets these items is anyone’s guess. Camille runs the shabby shop’s front desk and keeps the ledger while her…
Naomi Hirahara (Author), Allison Hiroto (Narrator), Recorded Books Inc. (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Naomi Hirahara’s CLARK AND DIVISION (the name of an “L” subway station in Chicago) is about two sisters in a Japanese-American family living in Los Angeles when Pearl Harbor was bombed. It touches briefly on the years before that event when Aki’s older sister…
Melody Carlson (Author), Emily Durante (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin This is a feel-good, hopeful story that I loved. A sweet romance about a young widow, Wendy Harper, and her son returning to the cottage by the sea in Maine, where she spent idyllic summers with her grandparents. Now, it is hers, by inheritance,…
by Grace Lin A mini book review by Jackie Houchin Wow. This audio-book (4 hours, 58 minutes) would be a wonderful read for a series of long winter nights when a family with a lot of children gathers around the fire to be enchanted by stories. Grace Li’s book contains a slew of fantastical tales…
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