SCCCLD Book Challenge

This is one of those books that I wouldn't have picked up if it wasn't my book club's selection for September. That said, I en...

  I tend to compare an author's current book with others they have written, and I have read.  The characters are well-developed. The st...

Bob Green and Oprah Winfrey discuss weight issues.  Each present a side.  Oprah shares her personal stories of her weight ups and downs.  Sh...

Dr. Spencer Johnson offers this parable about 4 characters in a maze, searching for the cheese, as a way to suggest how to accept, manage, a...

Pat Conroy relates the story of Jack McCall, incorporating many facets of southern living as well as all the happenings of his brothers, his...

Janet Evanovich has does it again.  Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter for her cousin Vinnie who runs a bails bonds company.  While trying ...

 Set in a future Chicago, Beatrice must decide to be a part of one of five factions within the society.  When tested to see what faction she...

Horace Rumpole, the shrewd, tenacious, curmudgeonly barrister, is back in seven more tales of English justice. He deals with defending a ri...

Returning characters from Phillips previous works ( Glitter Baby, Fancy Pants , and First Lady ) delight the reader. The aimless Meg Koranda...

The third in Balogh's Simply series of Regency romances, centered on a group of friends who teach at a private girls' school in Bath...

While Diogenes' FBI brother, Aloysius Pendergast, remains incarcerated in a maximum, escape proof prison cell, the Museum of Natural His...

This book was a suspenseful journey through the Sahara, uncovering the fiendish ways of two greedy men who together were causing a global ca...