Tag Archives: Jennifer Melville

Queen Jezebel: A Catherine de’ Medici Novel

May 23, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Historical Fiction
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By Jean Plaidy Touchstone, $16.00, 464 pages Beautiful Princess Marguerite is deeply in love, but she’s about to be married to a man she cares nothing for. Despite her undying love for the Duke of Guise, her mother, Catherine de’Medici, …

Square Peg

May 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Biography & Memoir
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By Todd Rose with Katherine Ellison Hyperion, $26.99, 256 pages If success early in life determines your outcome, L. Todd Rose wouldn’t have had a story to write. In the seventh grade, Rose was suspended for throwing stink bombs in …

A Duke Never Yields (Affairs by Moonlight Trilogy)

May 21, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Juliana Gray Berkley Sensation, $7.99, 320 pages Lady Abigail Harewood doesn’t care a bit what society thinks of her. Nor does she want a husband. After a great deal of research into erotic literature, she’s decided to have the …

The Autumn Bride (A Chance Sisters Romance)

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Anne Gracie Berkley Sensation, $7.99, 320 pages Abigail Chantry would do anything for those she loves. While she has a good name, she has no money. She makes the dramatic decision to break into an empty mansion to find something to …

Abby Road

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Ophelia London Entangled Select, $14.99, 400 pages Abigail Kelly has it all. She’s one of the most popular music artists of the day and is constantly in the spotlight. Everywhere she looks, there’s a photographer trying to capture the next cover …

America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:History & Current Events
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By Ben Carson Zondervan, $14.99, 224 pages If you’ve watched the news lately, you’ve likely heard about Ben Carson. Neurosurgeon, professor, author, and inspiring political mind Dr. Carson gave a now-famous speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in early February …

Iscariot: A Novel of Judas

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Historical Fiction
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By Tosca Lee Howard Books, $22.99, 352 pages Judas. His name has been reviled for centuries. Judas. The name itself has come to personify treachery and backstabbing. It was the worst backstabbing in the history of mankind. Judas: the man who sold …

The Missing Alphabet

April 26, 2013 0 Comments the_category Category:Nature & Science
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By Susan Marcus Greenleaf Book Group Press, $17.95, 190 pages In our fast-paced culture, parents often schedule every second of their child’s day. We want our kids to succeed and have been taught that science and math are far more …

A Lady by Midnight

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Tessa Dare Avon, $7.99, 374 pages Kate Taylor knows how to take care of herself. While love would be nice, she’s happy in Spindle Cove and isn’t looking for a big change.  Then, one day, things change forever. The mysterious Grammercys …

The Bride Wore Pearls

December 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Liz Carlyle Avon, $7.99, 422 pages Widowed half-Indian, half-British Lady Anisha Stafford has made a huge decision, and her life will never be the same again. She’s left behind everything she’s always known and moved from India to London with her …

Carolina Home: A Dare Island Novel

November 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Virginia Kantra Berkley Sensation, $7.99, 294 pages Life hasn’t been easy for Matt Fletcher. A single dad who has put his own life and dreams on the sidelines to support his parents and teenage son, he’s a commitment-avoiding fisherman in a …

Martha’s American Food: A Celebration of Our Nation’s Most Treasured Dishes, From Coast to Coast

September 17, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Cookbooks
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By Martha Stewart Clarkson Potter, $40.00, 431 pages What comes to mind when one thinks of American food? Burger and fries, perhaps? Martha Stewart helps remind us that our country’s culinary heritage is far deeper than that. In her spectacular new cookbook …

Bride of the High Country

September 17, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Romance
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By Kaki Warner Berkley, $15.00, 373 pages Margaret Hamilton had a hard start in life and was saved from a horrible brothel only by a fire and kind strangers. A wealthy benefactor offered her a fresh start and introduced the poor Irish …

Reign of Madness

August 8, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Fiction
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By Lynn Cullen Berkley, $16.00, 464 pages Intoxicatingly dramatic, vividly detailed, and brimming with royal intrigue, Reign of Madness is historical fiction at its finest and possibly the hottest new novel of 2012. Step into the Golden Age of Spain and meet Juana of Castille- …

The Sister Queens

April 26, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:History & Current Events
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By Sophie Perinot NAL, $15.00, 498 pages “How typical of men to think that by their brotherly embrace they are the authors of history and fortune,” writes Sophie Perinot in her spectacular debut novel The Sister Queens. “Marguerite and I …