Hiding in the security of all things books, with some movies and tv - occasionally food...
As a young girl, Grace Brisbane is attacked and dragged from her tire swing by a pack of wolves. Though she is bitten, she is saved from from serious injury and death when a wolf with odd yellow eyes steps in to save her from the others. Over the next six years Grace avidly follows [...]
Albert Kim starts the summer after his sophomore year of high school as someone who has given up on having any kind of social life for the rest of high school. Bad experiences in the past and moving to a new town when he had finally established himself in the social hierarchy of the old [...]
“The subject of his book was umami, a Japanese word that translates as “perfection”, usually as it relates to food. Umami also translates as “the fifth taste”, best described for Westerners as “savory”. The other tastes are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Umami is the feeling of mouthwatering deliciousness during, and complete satiety after, a [...]
Son of a fisherman, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has never been that comfortable on the water, yet on the water is where he finds himself as he crosses over by ferry to Shutter Island with his new partner Chuck Aule. There, the two will investigate the disappearance of Rachel Salando, a mental patient/prisoner who was [...]
Gabriella Richard is twenty-one years old, a classical pianist, gorgeous, and since her mom died when she was four years old, used to getting her way. Her father, a wealthy and well-known player in the movie industry, has always wanted her to grow up knowing the non-white half of her heritage, and has sent her [...]
When Carol Meitzner wakes up in the middle of the night she is as sure as anything that her son, Jonas, is in danger. Even though she tries to keep calm and give her 21-year old a healthy amount of space in which to live his life and make his own decisions, in the back [...]
“Even through his coat, he could feel her heat.” Holly Cavanaugh is living with her grandparents and helping them run the local bed and breakfast out of their home. The business isn’t much of a success and she is relying upon a write-up in a celebrated magazine to drum up some much needed business. Without [...]
Margaret and Patrick fly to Kenya with the expectation of an exciting adventure. They have been married for a few short months and Patrick, who has been granted permission to conduct his studies in Kenya in exchange for operating free clinics across the country, is a doctor researching equatorial diseases. Margaret is more at loose [...]
James Osgood is a partner at Boston publishing company Fields, Osgood & Co., a firm recently honored with the unprecedented opportunity to publish famed author Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood in America. It’s a cut-throat time to be in the publishing business (I don’t know, maybe it still is that) and they are [...]
Bess Heath is just seventeen years old at the time her world irrevocably changes. She leaves the prestigious Loretto Academy at the end of her junior year knowing that she will never return, and in a manner in which she has not been accustomed in her short life. Gone is the fancy car with her [...]