Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Voldemort is back, wizards are disappearing, and catastrophes plague England in the penultimate book in the Harry Potter saga.  Harry and his friends manage to largely ignore the problems of the wizarding world and concentrate instead on their classes, quidditch, and the joys (and upsets) of young love.  With a wonderful mix of darkness and [...]

44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

The residents of 44 Scotland Street are varied.  Pat is a young girl on her second gap year.   Bruce is handsome and he knows it.   Irene is raising her young son Bertie to be a prodigy even though he just wants to be normal.  And then there is Domenica, an eccentric widow who has the [...]

The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby

The Bordeaux Betrayal by Ellen Crosby
A bottle of wine purchased by Thomas Jefferson, a suspicious auto accident, a break-in at a nearby wine cellar, and a visit from her winemaker’s ex-wife. All these combine to cause trouble for Lucie Montgomery and the vineyard she owns and runs in Fauquier County Virginia. This light [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini

This is a book that I would highly recommend. The novel is set in the times when the Soviets and then the Taliban occupied Afghanistan. As the book develops, one can almost feel the destruction and hear the bombs going off. Women were treated terribly during these times. Mariam and Laila’s lives were brought together [...]

Honor Thyself by Danielle Steel

This book is about a world-famous actress, Carole Barber, who goes to Paris alone to take a break from her hectic life and to write a novel. In Paris, she is a victim of a terrorist tunnel bombing. For awhile she is an unidentified person who has lost her memory. Slowly but surely her friends [...]

Between Friends by Debbie Macomber

I took this book on vacation and loved it. It was a fast-paced book which kept the pages quickly turning. I liked the way Macomber used letters, journals, and e-mails to tell the story, The book was about a friendship that began when Jillian & Lesley were babies and continues on through the years. Despite [...]