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The Story Keeper | Book Review
By Kelly Rimmer The Story Keeper Audiobook Cover Art AN ENJOYABLE AND ATMOSPHERIC READ ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FAMILY SECRETS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Fiona Winslow retreats to her family’s decaying estate, Wurimbirra, after a difficult divorce. Many believe the house is haunted. But she lived there for many years, and she knows better. When she begins restoring the house, Fiona discovers an unopened box of books that had been delivered to the house many years ago. The book is titled

Lisa Harvey
2 hours ago2 min read


Theo of Golden | Book Review
Theo arrives in the small southern city of Golden and, on his first full day there, visits the local coffeehouse in search of a good cup of coffee. In addition to the coffee, he discovers ninety-two pencil portraits hanging on the walls...

Lisa Harvey
Feb 32 min read


Worse Than a Lie | Book Review
On November 4, 2008, America elected its first Black president. Chicago was the backdrop for Obama's victory speech. In a tragic twist, Hollis Montrose, a 53-year-old Black ex-police officer, is shot ten times by four white men during a traffic stop. This horrific event unfolds just as the speech concludes in the distance.

Lisa Harvey
Jan 172 min read



Lisa Harvey
Dec 29, 20250 min read


Life: A Love Story | Book Review
Flo Greene, who is 94, can’t see very well or walk very far. As she nears the end of her life, she wants to set her affairs in order. She is leaving her house and her life story for Ruthie, a former neighbor and surrogate daughter. She is writing Ruthie a letter about all of her beloved possessions and the meanings behind them.

Lisa Harvey
Dec 29, 20252 min read


The First Time I Saw Him |Book Review
Five years have passed since Hannah Hall’s husband, Owen, went missing. Following his disappearance, Hannah and Bailey, Owen’s daughter, have built a new life in Southern California. They've developed a close bond with Nicholas, Bailey’s grandfather, and are gradually moving forward. However, when Owen unexpectedly appears at Hannah’s

Lisa Harvey
Dec 22, 20251 min read


The House of Hidden Letters | Book Review
Skye is not impulsive, but when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery for one euro, she applies. She needs a fresh start far from London and her husband. Weeks later, she feels disheartened as she opens the tattered blue door, questioning whether it can ever be her home. During renovations, she finds a bundle of faded letters

Lisa Harvey
Dec 22, 20252 min read


More Than Enough | Book Review
Book clubs are great! High school English teacher Polly Goodman talks about everything with her book club, except the book. They’re her closest friends and, with her veterinarian husband, her support system. Her students, her relationship with her mother, and her IVF struggles have all been shared

Lisa Harvey
Dec 2, 20252 min read


This Book Made Me Think of You | Book Review
When Tilly Nightingale receives a call about a birthday gift from her husband at her local bookshop, it's a shock. Joe had died five months ago, and she hadn’t read for pleasure ever since he got sick. Alfie, the bookshop owner, explains the gift—one book each month with a handwritten letter from Joe for the next twelve months.

Lisa Harvey
Nov 21, 20252 min read


The Charmed Library | Book Review
All libraries are magic, and some libraries are more magical than others. The public library in Blue Sky Valley, North Carolina, is in the latter category. Stella Parker is an assistant librarian who is unaware of her library’s special magic, but she soon discovers strange characters in the library after hours.

Lisa Harvey
Nov 21, 20252 min read


Nash Falls | Book Review
Walter Nash is an intelligent, tough but fair man with a high-level position at an investment organization. He leads a happy and upscale family life with his wife and teenage daughter. After his estranged Vietnam veteran father’s funeral, he is approached by the FBI to become an inside man to expose money laundering

Lisa Harvey
Oct 27, 20251 min read


The Bookbinder's Secret |Book Review
Lily Delaney is a bookbinder apprentice in Oxford in 1901, and feels confined by her father’s failing bookshop and her status as a woman in a man’s profession. During a visit to a collector, she finds a burned book with a hidden fifty-year-old love letter. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of the young lovers and finds more hidden pages.

Lisa Harvey
Oct 26, 20251 min read


Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests | Book Review
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests follows seven strangers at a mysterious dinner party. At the end of the meal, each guest receives a card revealing the age at which they will die. Two weeks later, one guest dies at their predicted age. As others start to die one by one, the remaining guests must determine whether fate or a murderer is causing the curse before it's

Lisa Harvey
Oct 13, 20252 min read


The Christmas Keepsake
By Annie Rains A CHARMING STORY FULL OF HOPE AND HEART ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY As Christmas approaches, Mallory Blue juggles extra hospital...

Lisa Harvey
Oct 12, 20251 min read


Those Empty Eyes
(Dramatized Adaptation) By Charlie Donlea A BEGUILING THRILLER THAT EXPLORES IDENTITY, TRUTH, AND JUSTICE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Alexandra Quinlan’s family—her mother, father, and younger brother—was brutally murdered in their home. She was immediately arrested the night of the murder. The media nicknamed her "Empty Eyes" after she was found with a gun at the scene of the massacre. The case became a media sensation, and even after she was proven innocent, true crime bloggers

Lisa Harvey
Sep 24, 20252 min read
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