Hi all… This Literary Friday is coming late, but better late than never, right? Side note: Next week, I will be out of town for Book Expo. I will have some posts going live on Traveling With T ( so keep sharing, retweeting, pinning and all that jazz!) BUT I highly doubt that I’ll have a Literary Friday post for June 2nd. So, to my Literary Friday fans- I’ll try to make June 9th’s post extra filled with the good stuff 🙂
On to Literary Friday! Continue reading
I love beach reads. I love those covers that look so delicious that you could lick the cover. The blue backgrounds, the perfect summer skies, the lady in the lounge chair on the beach… Something about a beach read just speaks to my soul. So, I did the hard work for you- I made a list of 22 beach reads that will get you through summer in style- whether you are having fun at the beach or just trying to get some reading time in at the pool…..
And because I’m feeling super, super, super, SUPER generous- I’m giving away 3 gift cards (US only) to 1 lucky reader. A 10 dollar Itunes gift card to get that playlist of summer songs started, a 5 dollar Starbucks gift card for the perfect summer drink (make mine a caramel frappucino), and a 25 dollar gift to Amazon to buy a book or 2 for the upcoming vacation or staycation you will be taking! More details about the giveaway at the end of the post….
Are you ready for summer reading? Because here it comes! Continue reading
Photo Credit: Harper
This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.
A Simple Favor
Summary: She’s your best friend.
She knows all your secrets.
That’s why she’s so dangerous.
A single mother’s life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train
It starts with a simple favor—an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son Nicky after school, she happily says yes. Nicky and her son, Miles, are classmates and best friends, and the five-year-olds love being together—just like she and Emily. A widow and stay-at-home mommy blogger living in woodsy suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a sophisticated PR executive whose job in Manhattan demands so much of her time.
But Emily doesn’t come back. She doesn’t answer calls or return texts. Stephanie knows something is terribly wrong—Emily would never leave Nicky, no matter what the police say. Terrified, she reaches out to her blog readers for help. She also reaches out to Emily’s husband, the handsome, reticent Sean, offering emotional support. It’s the least she can do for her best friend. Then, she and Sean receive shocking news. Emily is dead. The nightmare of her disappearance is over.
Or is it? Because soon, Stephanie will begin to see that nothing—not friendship, love, or even an ordinary favor—is as simple as it seems.
A Simple Favor is a remarkable tale of psychological suspense—a clever and twisting free-fall of a ride filled with betrayals and reversals, twists and turns, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. Darcey Bell masterfully ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing story that holds you in its grip until the final page. Continue reading
Photo Credit: Berkley
This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.
A Bridge Across The Ocean
Summary: Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women past and present in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life .
February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistance spy.
Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark…
Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings. Continue reading
Photo Credit: Karen B. Winnick
This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.
How Lucky Got His Shoe
Summary: When a Humboldt penguin was born at the Santa Barbara Zoo, zookeepers saw that the baby was having difficulty walking. They worried his foot was not growing properly. Teva, a local shoe company, was asked to make him a shoe. If a big elephant with a foot problem could wear one, so could a small penguin. This is the true story, told with affection and illustrated with oil paintings, of how Lucky got his shoe, his name and his ability to walk and swim like all the other penguins. Continue reading
I’m getting ready to leave for Book Expo in just a few short days. So, I’m running around getting blog posts scheduled, social media and you know… trying to decide what to pack since I am NOT a light packer! If you will be at Book Expo, let me know! Continue reading
Today, Traveling With T is partnering with Putnam Books for a giveaway of Touch by Courtney Maum.
With coverage in magazines like Glamour and Marie Claire (just to name a few), Touch is a book that you will be seeing everywhere this summer. Continue reading
Today, I have a book spotlight and giveaway of The Unexpected Daughter by Sherly Parbhoo thanks to Gary at Media Seahorse. Continue reading
#FuturisticFriday Giveaway: Before The Rain Falls by Camille Di Maio. Continue reading
Photo Credit: Inner Flower Child Books
This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.
The Big Adventures of Tiny House
Summary: The Big Adventures of Tiny House is a story about an old farmhouse that gets recycled into something new: TINY, a little house with a big heart – and WHEELS! With the help of Big Truck and lots of friends they meet along the way, Tiny travels the country to discover the true meaning of home. Continue reading
