Goodreads Blurb

Jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go anywhere on Earth! This time, Lennon’s book immerses children into an interactive and unique journey where they can:

Plant milkweed gardens and soar with the butterflies. 

Build schools where girls and boys will be safe to learn and follow their dreams. Clean the oceans and beaches and help endangered dolphins, turtles, and whales.

Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place!

The Flier’s mission is to transport readers around the world, to engage them in helping to save the environment, and to teach one and all to love our planet. Just press a button printed on the page and use your Imagination Power to make the Flier glide through the air or transform into vehicles that will help those in need.

An inspiring, lyrical story, rooted in Lennon’s life and work, Love the Earth is filled with beautiful illustrations that bring the faraway world closer to young children. The book includes words to a special poem written by Julian Lennon, specifically for Love the Earth.

My Review

The perfect book to be released on Earth Day. I loved it because it is interactive. It tells the kids to press the imaginary button to turn a feather to a plane, sail or land. It tells them to tilt upwards as if they were taking off. The images are superb and I love the cover. Julian wrote a beautiful poem at the end of the book. It is a perfect book to teach children that they can be part of saving Earth and all the wonderful creations we have. All we need to do is be willing to help our wildlife, recycle, join in community cleanups and plant trees and flowers. It was very thoughtful of Julian to include the young girls who cannot go to school or not allowed to and together with the children they created a safe school for them in the book. It was truly touching. It was wonderful to hear about what the meaning of a feather is to Julian and how he created The White Feather Foundation http://www.whitefeatherfoundation.com. He creates it “to give a voice and support to those who have not been able to be heard”. I was happy I was able to meet Julian. This book is highly recommend. It is a three book series. I rated 5 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Julian Lennon is an English Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, philanthropist, photographer, and bestselling author. Lennon is the son of John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia.

Goodreads Blurb

When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she’s sure there’s been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern co-parenting arrangement: bird’s nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.

Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona’s children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they truly knew each other. But Bram’s not the only one with things to hide, and some secrets are best kept to oneself, safe as houses. 

My Review

Imagine arriving to your home to only find out it isn’t yours anymore and someone is moving in. Well that is the surprise of a lifetime that Fiona encounters. Deceit, desperation, guilt and fear left Bram with no way out due to his road rage that caused a car accident. Bram’s character was very weak. Anyone could manipulate him, his fear of having to go to jail for his acts had him frighten. His father’s past seems to follow him in the present. He has followed in his father’s footsteps. Fiona was also another character that had weaknesses, but at the end she was able to do an act incapable of doing if it was the beginning of the story. Heartbreak and deceit can truly push your buttons. When I read the first chapter I was shocked and confused like Fiona. Then the book is told like a documentary. She would tell her piece while Bram would be speaking through word documents. Life can truly change in the snap of a finger. It can be for the good or for the bad. Decisions you make today sometimes cannot be changed. I rated 4 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Louise Candlish studied English at University College London and worked as an editor and copywriter before writing fiction. OUR HOUSE, published in the US by Berkley and by Simon & Schuster in the UK, has been picked as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Real Simple, Red and Heat.

Louise lives in South London with her husband and daughter. 

Goodreads Blurb

Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She’s a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother.

Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of Lilith’s victims. She’s desperate to see how they’ve managed—or failed—to move on. While her escalating fixation is a problem, she’s careful to keep her distance. That is, until she crosses a line and a man is found murdered.

Edie quickly becomes the prime suspect—and while she can’t remember everything that happened the night of the murder, she’d surely remember killing someone. With the detective who arrested her mother hot on her trail, Edie goes into hiding. She’s must get to the truth of what happened that night before the police—or the real killer—find her. 

Unless, of course, she has more in common with her mother than she’s willing to admit…

My Review

A thrilling story filled with twist and turns. Can the actions of your parents lead you to the same path they took? Edie is the daughter of a serial killer. She runs obsesses with the surviving children of the victims her mom killed. Can daughter turn out to be just like mother? Of course Edie doesn’t call her mom, but Lillith Wade is how she calls her throughout the book. I think calling her by her name and not her mother she can feel like a victim and not part of her family. Moretti brought us a book which tells us a serial killers story through the voice of her daughter. You get to see how obsessed she has become and how she has some of her mother’s tendency. The story had some great characters. At time I felt it was lacking the thrill and suspense when reading a thriller. The ending wasn’t so impacting. Overall, we had a story with a messed up family with psychological issues that made them obsessed with the people who surrounded them, having them commit crimes to keep their family ties. I rated 4 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Kate Moretti lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids, and a dog. She’s worked in the pharmaceutical industry for ten years as a scientist, and has been an avid fiction reader her entire life.

She enjoys traveling and cooking, although with two kids, a day job, and writing, she doesn’t get to do those things as much as she’d like.

Her lifelong dream is to buy an old house with a secret passageway.

Goodreads Blurb

Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Braveexplores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.

“This stirring debut will work its way indelibly into your heart.” –Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones

One woman. One little girl. The war that changed everything.

December 1940. In the disorderly evacuation of Southampton, England, newly married Ellen Parr finds a small child asleep on the backseat of an empty bus. No one knows who little Pamela is.

Ellen professed not to want children with her older husband, and when she takes Pamela into her home and rapidly into her heart, she discovers that this is true: Ellen doesn’t want children. She wants only Pamela. Three golden years pass as the Second World War rages on. Then one day Pamela is taken away, screaming. Ellen is no stranger to sorrow, but when she returns to the quiet village life she’s long lived, she finds herself asking: In a world changed by war, is it fair to wish for an unchanged heart?

In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and The Nightingale, here is a novel about courage and kindness, hardship and friendship, and the astonishing power of love.

My Review

Love for a child is endless even if they are not your child. Ellen had found a small child that was left in a bus. The little girl was Pamela who had thought her mother was in the bus that had left. Ellen took her in and took good care of Pamela. Pamela lost her mother a few days later. Ellen took care of Pam knowing very well that her aunt or father might come to claim her. After a few years having adventures with Ellen, her father went in search for his daughter. Pamela had to leave England to stay in Ireland with his sister’s family. The moment when they had to part was the hardest on both of them. Both of their hearts broke for many years. Some years later, Ellen saves another child named Penny. Ellen was so hurt with having to lose Pam that she didn’t want to have another close relationship with another child. Ellen finally saw that Penny needed a friend, caretaker and someone to guide her in life. Many years later Pamela and Ellen reunite and catch up. The bond created between Ellen, Pamela and Penny was strong. After everything they all went through they were able to find forgiveness, love and happiness.

The story was a little slow in some parts. But overall, the story was very good. You can relate with each character and learn to love each one of them. They all had a story to tell. They all had suffered during the war. I rated 3 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Frances Liardet is a child of the children of the Second World War. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford before travelling to Cairo to work as a translator. She currently lives in Somerset with her husband and daughter, and runs a summer writing session called Bootcamp. Her first novel, The Game, won a Betty Trask award. We Must Be Brave is her second novel.

Goodreads Blurb

When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.

As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.

Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.

Filled with action, conspiracy, romance, and questions of whom—and what—to believe, THE LINE BETWEEN is a high-octane story of survival and love in a world on the brink of madness.

My Review

This was a total home run for me. What an absolutely engaging, thrilling and terrorizing novel. I couldn’t put this book down. We all fear doomsday might just be around the corner, now imagine you being part of a cult that tells you the end is near and then you become an outcast from that environment. To then have to experience the apocalypse while saving the world and your family. Wynter was that bad-ass character we all wish we could be. She had to see for herself that Magnus wasn’t the prophet she thought he was. I feared each moment Wynter went through this novel. Survival mode truly is instincts. Tosca is a wonderful storyteller with an avid imagination. The plot in this novel was superb. She brought us a book for us all to fear the possibility of an apocalypse due to an ancient disease. Life will bring you roadblocks but fighting to survive will make you stronger. This novel made you feel the terror, desperation and will to survive from the very beginning. This is truly the best thriller for 2019. I rated 5 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times, IndieBound, and Amazon bestselling author of ten novels including THE LINE BETWEEN, THE PROGENY, FIRSTBORN, THE LEGEND OF SHEBA, ISCARIOT, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and been optioned for TV and film. A notorious night-owl, she loves movies, playing football with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. 

You can find Tosca at ToscaLee.com, on social media, or hanging around the snack table. A SINGLE LIGHT, the highly-anticipated sequel to THE LINE BETWEEN, releases September 2019 and is available for preorder now.

Goodreads Blurb

Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. But as Detective Peter Decker learns, the clean-cut kid is linked to the criminal world. When Brady was a baby, his father, Brandon Gratz, was convicted of robbing and killing the owners of a local jewelry store. While Gratz and his partner, Kyle Masterson, admitted to the robbery, they swore they left the owners, Glen and Lydia Levine, very much alive.

The experienced detective knows there’s more to this homicide case than the records show. As he digs into Gratz’s past, Decker begins to suspect that the son’s murder may be connected to the father’s sins. Before he can put together the pieces, Decker finds out that one of Brady Neil’s friends, Joseph Boch—aka Boxer—has gone missing. Heading to Boch’s house with his temporary new partner, Hamilton PD cop Lenora Baccus, they discover a bloodbath.

Who would savagely kill two innocent men—and why? Finding the answers will require all of Decker’s skill and knowledge, the help of his fellow Greenbury detectives, Tyler McAdams and Kevin Butterfield, and information gleaned from his wife Rina’s behind the scenes investigation to put all the pieces of this deadly puzzle together . . . and see justice done.

My Review

Mind-raveling, thrilling and suspenseful murder mystery. Kellerman did a superb job of creating a story which reopens a twenty year old murder. Linking two stories was brilliant. I was the whole time trying to figure out who the murderer was, where is the missing person, who is the thief, who are the dirty cops and all the conspiracy theories. Decker is a wonderful detective. He truly thinks outside the box and won’t quit until he solves the murders. He does brilliant work and I enjoy his time with his wife and his colleagues. I love the behind the scene life of Decker, you get to experience the real life of a detective. Kellerman knows how to tell a story filled with mystery, thrill and suspense. A captivating story that will make you want to read more books from Kellerman. I rated 4 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Faye Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. She earned a BA in mathematics and a doctorate in dentistry at UCLA., and conducted research in oral biology. Kellerman’s groundbreaking first novel, THE RITUAL BATH, was published in 1986 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. The winner of the Macavity Award for the Best First Novel from the Mystery Readers of American, THE RITUAL BATH introduced readers to Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, termed by People Magazine “Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around.” The New York Times enthused, “This couple’s domestic affairs have the haimish warmth of reality, unlike the formulaic lives of so many other genre detectives.”

Goodreads Blurb

As an actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author, and inspirational speaker, Candace Cameron Bure has spent her entire life in the spotlight, and she is well aware of the pressures and forces many women face. Throughout her career, Candace has balanced her faith, family, and passion for work and found her spot as role model to women of all ages—and as a style icon.

In her brand-new book Staying Stylish, Candace invites you behind the scenes of her day-to-day life and shares over 100 tips and tricks for looking and feeling your best—both inside and out. Nurture your body, style, and soul as you read through this beautiful book full of photos, insider secrets, and exciting ideas to revamp your own life into its best possible version. She offers her insight into balance, spiritual growth, and looking great while doing it all.

Staying Stylish topics will include personal style, fresh hair and makeup for any age, a well-balanced diet and fitness regime, and a well-nourished spirit.

My Review

An adorable book filled with wonderful tips, tricks and style. I loved that the book was broken down into three parts fashion, skin, makeup & hair and health & fitness. It provided wonderful information for everyone to follow or to tweak on their own style. The pictures used were perfect for each chapter. Me Being a fashionista and having my own style really depending on my mood, I still learned some great tips and ideas. Great book to make your wardrobe manageable, stylish, fun, adventurous, dynamic and colorful. Highly recommend you read. I rated 4 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Candace Cameron Bure, actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author, beloved by millions worldwide from her role as D.J. Tanner on the iconic family sitcoms Full House and Fuller House, Hallmark Channel movies, former co-host of The View, inspirational speaker, and Dancing with the Stars Season 18 finalist, is both outspoken and passionate about her family and faith. Candace continues to flourish in the entertainment industry as a role model to women of all ages. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and three children.

I had a great time meeting E.L. James at Paramus Barnes & Nobles. I met her in 2012 in an event in Westchester. Can’t wait to read The Mister.

Blurb from Goodreads

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.

But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past.  Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she’s an alluring mystery, and Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name. Just who is Alessia Demachi? Can Maxim protect her from the malevolence that threatens her? And what will she do when she learns that he’s been hiding secrets of his own?

From the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Balkans, The Mister is a roller-coaster ride of danger and desire that leaves the reader breathless to the very last page.

Tonight Bookends bookstore in Ridgewood, NJ had the fabulous lawyer turned writer Alafair Burke. Can’t wait to dive into her new book which is officially released tomorrow everywhere.

Goodreads Blurb

From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters—one the dead man’s widow, the other his ex—must set aside mistrust and old resentments . . . but can they escape their past?

Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless . . . and more than a little reckless—the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland.

For a while, it seemed like both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh, and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers.

Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different—and Chloe is married to Adam. When he’s murdered by an intruder at the couple’s East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenaged stepson’s biological mother—her estranged sister, Nicky—back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father’s death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past

My Review is Pending

Author Biography

Alafair Burke is the New York Times bestselling author of “two power house series” (Sun-Sentinel) that have earned her a reputation for creating strong, believable, and eminently likable female characters, such as NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. Alafair’s novels grow out of her experience as a prosecutor in America’s police precincts and criminal courtrooms, and have been featured by The Today Show, People Magazine, The New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Sun-Times. According to Entertainment Weekly, Alafair “is a terrific web spinner” who “knows when and how to drop clues to keep readers at her mercy.”

Goodreads Blurb

We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.

At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Rebecca Serle contends within her utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as One Day,and the life-changing romance of Me Before You.

When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together.

Delicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter, The Dinner List is a romance for our times. Bon appetit.

My Review

A unique novel full of love, heartbreak and forgiveness. Imagine being able to meet loved ones dead or alive and spend time with them one last time. Sometimes we dread to accept our failures and hurt, that we live with regrets. Life can be gone in an instant and you might not have been able to forgive, love, accept and move on. My mind was raveled with Sabrina and Tobias love story. It was an unforgettable love story that had many spins and turns. As I read I could imagine them both happy together, but destiny sometimes has is own story to tell. Rebecca truly gave us a book that makes us think of our current life’s and that we should love to the fullest and remind our self to be happy. I loved how the story was told through the past in conjunction with the dinner. The concept was thought very well and it truly was an unforgettable love story to hopefully become a movie in the future. I rated 5 out of 5 stars.

Author Biography

Rebecca Serle is an author and television writer who lives between New York and Los Angeles. Serle most recently co-developed the hit TV adaptation of her young adult series Famous in Love, now on Freeform. She loves Nancy Meyers films, bathrobes, and giving unsolicited advice on love.