Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir by Doron Weber Nonfiction — Memoir Simon & Schuster; February 5, 2013 Paperback 368 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: A medical mystery and a remarkable passion for life lie at the heart of a gifted boy’s fight to survive. Born with a congenital heart […]

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff Nonfiction — World War II Harper; April 23, 2013 Hardcover 416 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) On November 5, 1942, a U.S. C-53 cargo plane on a routine flight crash-landed on the Greenland ice cap. All five men aboard initially survived the crash and sent out distress […]

Hooo-wee, April was a busy month! I went to two library book sales: the book sale for the smaller of my two local libraries was at the beginning of the month, and the book sale for my “big” local library was at the end of the month (and my dad drove all the way here […]

Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley Fiction Little, Brown and Company; April 16, 2013 Kindle edition 338 pages (Source: Publisher / NetGalley ) From Goodreads: A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she’s convinced […]

Two Breakfast & Books posts in one week! I think that makes me one lucky gal, because…MORE BOOKS. Eric and I had our usual Wednesday breakfast date this morning at Perkins (YUM), and then we went to the library (like we usually do after breakfast on Wednesdays). I had one book to return and one […]

  Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael Stanley Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper Paperbacks; April 30, 2013 Paperback 496 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) In Botswana, Africa, young girls are going missing after getting into cars with mysterious men. Detectives David “Kubu” Bengu and Samantha Khama have been charged […]

Today I am giving you a special edition of Breakfast & Books to kick off the series (again). The bigger of my two local libraries had their bi-annual book sale this past weekend, and today (Monday) was BAG DAY. If you don’t know what bag day is, it’s usually the last day of library book […]

The Missing File by D.A. Mishani Fiction — Crime Fiction / Mystery Harper; March 19, 2013 Hardcover 304 pages (Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours) From the back cover: Police detective Avraham Avraham knows that when a crime is committed in his quiet suburban Tel Aviv, there is little need for a complex investigation. There […]

Library book sale! Library book sale! Today was the first day of my local library’s biannual book sale. I have two local libraries, actually, but this book sale that runs today through Saturday is for my LOCAL local library in Hollidaysburg (the one about two miles from my house). It’s a tiny library (but they […]

It’s April, and it’s still cold. Hmph. My weather app tells me it’s supposed to be getting warmer very soon, though. I am very much in need of sunshine and warmer weather. March was another good reading month, and another month of not blogging as much as I’d like to. I swear it’s the weather. I […]

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Fiction — Historical Harper, August 2012 Hardcover 448 pages From the inside flap: At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace […]

The Tale of Lucia Grandi: The Early Years by Susan Speranza Fiction Brook House Press, October 2012 Kindle edition 428 pages Lucia Grandi is 110 years old and living in a nursing home (?) when she is asked by a young graduate student to tell the story of her life. Lucia goes on to recount […]

História, História: Two Years in the Cape Verde Islands by Eleanor Stanford Memoir — Travel CCLaP Publishing; March 11, 2013 Kindle edition 83 pages In 1998-2000, Eleanor Stanford and her husband, Dan, spent two years in the Cape Verde islands as volunteers for the Peace Corps. While Dan seemed to assimilate pretty quickly, Eleanor had […]

It’s March, it’s March! Here in the northeast that means we only have one more month until nicer weather! CAN I GET AN “AMEN”?! February is usually a slow reading month for me–I think because there are fewer days in the month, and because by February I’m starting to get really sick of crappy weather […]