Category: Books & Reading

    Political Suspense Date Published: To Be Determined Publisher: Dead Tree Publishing     A town has gone dry, and the general manager of a water district is found dead, presumably a suicide. His crazed widow is in denial and recklessly loose-lipped. Texas House District 100 is again in…

“Be here now.” What seems like a cliche now was my mantra about 15 years ago. I would constantly remind myself to be mindful and to take in what was going on in the present, not what may or may not go on at some point in the future. When…

      Creative Non-Ficion / Memoir / Travel Date Published: Paperback out this March / eBook November 2014 Publisher: University of Missouri Press     Nancy McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt…

Release Day Blitz ~ Rounding Third: A Baseball Anthology Author: Lynsey M. Stewart and More Genre:  Romance Dates: 13th of March Hosted by: Ultimate Fantasy Book Tours Blurb: Baseball is a game built on the number nine. Nine innings of play. Nine fielding positions. Nine batters in a starting lineup….

Was America every really the land of opportunity?  This is a question Elsa asked herself upon immigrating to the United States from Germany. In this tale of historical fiction, readers are transported to early twentieth century New York. Author Gregory Erich Phillips does a masterful job of weaving his tale,…

I can’t say how many times I’ve been in a conversation where either I don’t feel like I’m being heard or I realize that I didn’t hear a single thing the person talking just said. I hate admitting that, but it’s kind of a fact of life. Sometimes, I sit…

Alcoholism is a killer. I know it’s ironic to write that statement on a blog I started to talk about wine tasting and wine pairing recipes. (And I do want to get back to the original purpose of this blog – and I will.) But I’ve watched too many people throw…

It’s not easy when you’re almost 40 and you’re trying to make big things happen. It’s no secret that I’m a big dreamer and that I aim high. It takes a lot of perseverance to make things happen – no matter what age you are, and a lot of courage…

Rayna Prohme is a stranger in a strange land, but she hasn’t let that stop her passion. At thirty three years old, she and her husband are in China when she becomes the lover of Mikhail Borodin. Her husband is there covering the failing Chinese revolution, and she comes up…