Reading Excursions

  MY REVIEW   Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Tor/Forge Books (August 10, 2021) Language: English ISBN-10: 1250774551 ISBN-13: 978-1250774552 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ A second chance is the last thing she wants.   When thirty-nine-year-old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her seventeen-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi, to her job as a successful psychiatrist and, most importantly, to her husband, daughters, and unborn son.   But she also knows that, in only a few weeks, a devastating tragedy will strike her husband, a tragedy that will lead to their meeting each other.   Can she change time and still keep what it’s given her?   Exploring the responsibilities love lays on us, the complicated burdens of motherhood, and the rippling impact of our choices, She Wouldn't Change a Thing is a dazzling debut from a bright new ...

  MY REVIEW   Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: DK (May 4, 2021) Language: English ISBN-10: 0744029104 ISBN-13: 978-0744029109 ⬅️  Click Photo for Purchase Information “ As a mentor for leaders in top global companies, Michal created a unique personal growth methodology based on the life-changing principles of Jewish wisdom. It is easy to think that the daily challenges we experience in the 21st century are new and unlike any that people faced in the past. Michal draws on her own heritage and a wide range of Jewish teachings to offer practical advice for common concerns, such as a broken heart, parenting, overcoming setbacks and getting the most out of your career.   By challenging you to explore what matters, Michal offers solutions to your everyday struggles. She will empower you as well as teach you how to adopt her self-development tools to discover who you really are and what you were born to do with your life. With its uplifting belief that you ...

  MY REVIEW    Hardcover:  336 pages  Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press (May 4, 2021)  Language:  English ISBN-10:  125023929X ISBN-13:  978-1250239297 ⬅️  Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting at different points, ...

[Image ©ChristinaMcDonald/Facebook] MY REVIEW “ Behind Every Lie ” Paperback:  336 pages Publisher:  Gallery Books (February 4, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1501184032 ISBN-13:  978-1501184031 [Click on cover for order link] “ If you can’t remember it, how do you prove you didn’t do it? Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can’t remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London—Kat’s former home—for answers. But as she unravels her mother’s carefully held secrets, Eva soon realizes that someone doesn’t want her to know the truth. And with violent memories beginning to emerge, Eva doesn’t know who to trust. Least of all herself. Told in alternating perspectives from Eva’s search for answers and Kat’s mysterious past...

MY REVIEW Series:  An Alice Vega Novel (Book 2) Hardcover:  368 pages Publisher:  Doubleday (January 21, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0385545517 ISBN-13:  978-0385545518 [Click photo to purchase] “ " Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her."--Lee Child The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing, for help in finding out who the Janes were--and finding the others who are missing.      Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her part...