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Heart of the County Novel and Chance to be part of the movie!

2012-02-22T14:13:00.001-08:00

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Free Kindle Book | Into the Free & More

2012-02-16T11:40:00.000-08:00

Free Kindle Book | Into the Free & More:

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2012-02-13T21:09:00.001-08:00

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Mystery Fanfare: Barry Award Nominations

2012-02-10T14:50:00.000-08:00

Mystery Fanfare: Barry Award Nominations: 2012 BARRY AWARD NOMINATIONS The Barry Awards will be presented October 4, 2012 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during the Opening Ceremoni...

Bestsellers on Kindle and Free Kindle Books

2012-02-08T13:35:00.001-08:00

Best Sellers for Kindle and Free Kindle Books

Latest Free Kindle Books

2012-02-08T13:31:00.000-08:00

Latest Free Kindle Mysteries

Laurie Hendry Graybar- Off the Dock

2012-02-08T11:38:00.000-08:00

Laurie Hendry Graybar- Off the Dock:

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"Graybar has crafted an engrossing tale in Off the Dock that explores the toll that unthinkable tragedy takes on a family that prides itself on strength. Readers will empathize with the grief and horror felt by Caroline and those she loves as they try to deal with the loss of the young man who was considered the heart of the family"
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Purex Ultrapacks are cool!

2012-01-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

In February 2012, Purex will be launching Purex UltraPacks detergent–another great innovation from Purex. These unique, convenient packs contain a complete load’s worth of concentrated liquid laundry detergent. Plus, since it is a liquid, it dissolves quickly, even in cold water, to fight stains and clean your laundry.

With double the cleaning power in every drop, you can trust your clothes will come out bright, white, and clean.

I got a sneak peak at these packs through Purex Insiders and have to say they are so very cool. No mess! No heavy bottles! Really good clean clothes. Love them!

Journey Through the Bible: Blog intro...

2012-01-02T09:12:00.000-08:00

Journey Through the Bible: Blog intro...: This year, I have felt led to a more free form message format for Sunday worship. For several years, I have mapped out sermon series months...

(38) New Living Translation (NLT)

2011-12-08T10:00:00.000-08:00

Check out the NLT Contest on Facebook!(38) New Living Translation (NLT):

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Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James « Knopf Doubleday - Knopf

2011-12-06T11:37:00.000-08:00

Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James « Knopf Doubleday - Knopf:

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Mystery Fanfare: Mystery Bytes: Mystery TV News

2011-11-29T09:21:00.000-08:00

Mystery Fanfare: Mystery Bytes: Mystery TV News: Mystery TV News: Tonight (11/29) TNT's Mystery Movie Night begins with the film adaptation of Scott Turow's Innocent . Tomorrow ( 11/30 ...

Mystery Fanfare: Wicked Witch Bookmark

2011-10-26T18:00:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Wicked Witch Bookmark: O.K. This is just priceless. Available on Etsy. Wicked Witch in the Book .

Mystery Fanfare: Halloween Crime Fiction 2011

2011-10-12T21:19:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Halloween Crime Fiction 2011:

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Free Kindle Book Rain Song

2011-10-09T22:15:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com: Rain Song eBook: Alice J. Wisler: Kindle Store:

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George Baker: Inspector Wexford actor, 80, dies of pneumonia | Mail Online

2011-10-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

George Baker: Inspector Wexford actor, 80, dies of pneumonia | Mail Online:

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Bil-Jac Dry Dog Food « Campaign Homepage

2011-10-06T19:29:00.000-07:00

Andy loves Bil-Jac and his tummy is so much better.

Chance to win three books.

2011-09-26T21:15:00.000-07:00

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LunchBots Stainless Steel Lunch, Snack, and Bento Containers

2011-09-26T08:04:00.000-07:00

LunchBots Stainless Steel Lunch, Snack, and Bento Containers:
These containers are too cool! My husband takes his lunch each day and I use zip bags and plastic sandwich containers. After awhile you can smell the food in the containers and even after washer can't get the smell out so have to toss them. Love the idea of stainless steel which is safer and will last forever.
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Mystery Fanfare: Lost Alfred Hitchcock Movie to be shown

2011-09-22T12:38:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Lost Alfred Hitchcock Movie to be shown:

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Mystery Fanfare: Cartoon of the Day: Book Apps

2011-09-21T19:09:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Cartoon of the Day: Book Apps: Today's Comic is from Free Range by Bill Whitehead . Hat Tip: Janet Appel

Why Kathryn Stockett wrote The Help

2011-09-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

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I thought this was so special and wondered why I loved this book so much. Well we had a maid when I was young and reminds me of her.

Our family maid, Demetrie, used to say picking cotton in Mississippi in the dead of summer is about the worst pastime there is, if you don't count picking okra, another prickly, low-growing thing. Demetrie used to tell us all kinds of stories about picking cotton as a girl. She'd laugh and shake her finger at us, warning us of it, as if a bunch of rich white kids might fall to the evils of cotton-picking, like cigarettes or hard liquor.

"For days I picked and picked. And then I looked down and my skin had bubbled up. I showed my Mama. None of us ever seen sunburn on a black person before. That was for white people!"

I was too young to realize that what she was telling us wasn't very funny. Demetrie was born in Lampkin, Mississippi in 1927. It was a horrifying year to be born, just before the depression set it. Right on time for a child to appreciate, in fine detail, what it felt like to be poor and female on a sharecropping cotton farm.

Demetrie came to cook and clean for my family when she was twenty-eight. My father was fourteen, my uncle seven. Demetrie was stout and dark skinned and, by then, married to a mean, abusive drinker named Plunk. She wouldn't answer me when I asked questions about him. But besides the subject of Plunk, she'd talk to us all day.

And God, how I loved to talk to Demetrie. I'd sit in my grandmother's kitchen with her, where I went after school, listening to her stories and watching her mix up cakes and fry chicken. Her cooking was outstanding. It was something people discussed at length, after they ate at my grandmother's table. You felt loved when you tasted Demetrie's caramel cake.

But my older brother and sister and I weren't allowed to bother Demetrie during her lunch break. Grandmother would say, 'Leave her alone now, let her eat, this is her time,' and I would stand in the doorway itching to get back with her. Grandmother wanted Demetrie to rest so she could finish her work, not to mention white people didn't sit at the table while a colored person was eating.

That was just a normal part of life, the rules between blacks and whites. As a little girl, seeing black people in the colored part of town, even if they were dressed up or doing fine, I remember pitying them. I am so embarrassed to admit that now.

I didn't pity Demetrie, though. There were several years when I thought she was immensely lucky to have us. A secure job in a nice house cleaning up after white Christian people. But also because Demetrie had no babies of her own and we felt like we were filling a void in her life. If anyone asked her how many children she had, she would hold up her fingers and say three. She meant us, my sister Susan, my brother Rob and me.

My siblings deny it, but I was closer to Demetrie than any of the kids. Nobody got cross with me if Demetrie was close by. She would stand me in the mirror next to her and say, "You are beautiful. You a beautiful girl," when clearly I was not. I wore glasses and had stringy brown hair. I had a stubborn aversion to the bathtub. My mother was out of town a lot. Susan and Rob were tired of me hanging around and I felt left over. Demetrie knew it and took my hand and told me I was fine.

My parents got divorced when I was six. Demetrie became even more important to me then. When my mother would go on her frequent trips, Daddy put us kids in the motel he owned and brought in Demetrie to stay with us. I'd cry and cry onto Demetrie's shoulder, missing my mother so bad, I'd get a fever from it.

By then, my sister and brother had, in a way, outgrown Demetrie. They'd sit around the motel penthouse playing poker, using bar straws as money, with the front desk staff.

I remember watching them, jealous because they were older and thinking one time, 'I am not a baby anymore. I don't have to take up with Demetrie while the others play poker.'

So I got in the game and of course lost all my straws in about five minutes. So back I went onto Demetrie's lap, acting put out, watching the others play. Yet after only a minute, my forehead was against her soft neck and she was rocking me like two people in a boat.

"This where you belong. Here with me," she said and patted my hot leg. Her hands were always cool. I watched the older kids play cards, not caring as much that Mother was away again. I was where I belonged.

The rash of negative accounts about Mississippi, in the movies, in the papers, on television, have made us natives a wary, defensive bunch. We are full of pride and shame, but mostly pride.

Still, I got out of there. I moved to New York City when I was twenty-three.   I learned that the first question anyone asked anybody, in a town so transient, was "Where are you from?" And I'd say, "Mississippi." And then I'd wait.

To people that smiled and said, "I've heard it's beautiful down there," I'd say, "My hometown is number three in the nation for gang-related murders."

To people that said, "God, you must be glad to be out of that place," I'd bristle and say, "What do you know? It's beautiful down there."

When a drunk man at a roof party from a rich white Metro North train type of town asked me where I was from and I told him Mississippi, he sneered and said, "I am so sorry."

I nailed down his foot with the stiletto portion of my shoe and spent the next ten-minutes quietly educating him on the where from abouts of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Henson, Faith Hill, James Earl Jones, and Craig Claiborne, the food critic for The New York Times. I informed him that Mississippi hosted the first heart transplant, the first lung transplant and that the basis of the United States legal system was developed at the University of Mississippi.

I was homesick and I'd been waiting on somebody like him.

I wasn't very genteel or ladylike and the poor guy squirmed away and looked nervous the rest of the party. But I couldn't help it.

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person that raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

I wrote The Help while living in New York, which I think was easier than writing it in Mississippi, staring in the face of it all. The distance added perspective. Amidst a whirring fast city, it was a relief to let my thoughts turn slow and remember for awhile.

The Help is fiction, by far and wide. Still, as I wrote it, I wondered an awful lot what my family would think of it, and Demetrie too, even though she was long dead. I was scared, a lot of the time, that I was crossing a terrible line, writing in the voice of a black person. I was afraid I would fail to describe a relationship that was so intensely influential in my life, so loving, so grossly stereotyped in American history.

I was truly grateful to read Howell Raines' Pulitzer Prize winning article, "Grady's Gift:"

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.

I read that and I thought, how did he find a way to put it into such concise words? Here was the same slippery issue I'd been struggling with and couldn't catch in my hands, like a wet fish. Mr. Raines managed to nail it down in a few sentences. At least I was in the company of others in my struggle.

Like my feelings for Mississippi, my feelings for The Help conflict greatly. Regarding the lines between black and white women, I am afraid I have told too much. I was taught not to talk about such uncomfortable things, that it was tacky, impolite, they might hear us.

I am afraid I have told too little. Not just that life was so much worse, for many black women working in the homes in Mississippi. But also, that there was so much more love between white families and black domestics, that I didn't have the ink or the time to portray.

But what I am sure about is this: I don't presume to think that I know what it really felt like to be a black woman in Mississippi, especially the 1960's. I don't think it is something any white woman, on the other end of a black woman's paycheck, could ever truly understand. But trying to understand is vital to our humanity. In my book there is one line that I truly prize:

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, we are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine.

I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

Mystery Fanfare: Shamus Awards

2011-09-17T08:42:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Shamus Awards: Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) 2011 Shamus Awards, “given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction.” ...

Dreamlight so very cool!

2011-09-14T09:48:00.000-07:00

Dream Lights Flickering Lamp will light up your night with magic! Small lights dance inside the jar to light up your room or your patio table with an ambiance that will create a mood!

The magic lamp will surly brighten your night and your spirits. As it gently winks and blinks you’ll fall asleep like a child to happy memories of glowing fireflies, warm summer nights, and lazy vacation days.

My husband loves fireflies and this makes a perfect item for him to put on the table on our screened porch to enjoy every night. #imabzzagent

The Secret of Indigo Moon by G.P. Taylor

2011-09-13T20:14:00.001-07:00

The Secret of Indigo Moon, The DoppleGanger Chronicles, by G.P. Taylor is a delight to the senses.
This is a great story about Erik Morrissey Ganger who thinks he is a great explorer and detective, and his side kicks, twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple who are always getting into trouble. This is their 2nd adventure together and it involves a secret tunnel under the school, a private eye, facing down an old enemy and finding out the secret of the "indigo moon". Wonderful adventure.

I started looking through the book when it arrived and was just amazed at the different type of graphics used. First page is picture with text, then the next page is just a picture-you get to think "what does that stand for,etc", then the next page you have only text, then a four panel cartoon with color. And it goes on like that throughout the book. And the graphics are used so smartly through out the story. I actually like this book a lot. I think it would be great for 8-15 and those who are not really into reading but like graphic novels or comics.

I received a complimentary copy of the book for review purposes from Tyndale House.

Out of A Far Country by Christopher and Angela Yuan

2011-09-13T19:47:00.000-07:00

Christopher Yuan is the son of Chinese immigrants and discovers at an early age that he is different. His mother tries to control the situation but she nor her son has any control. Many years pass before they find resolution. This book is written from the sons and mother's perspective so you get to actually feel the pain, heartbreak, confusion and love from both sides. I loved this books and think anyone who has a friend, family member or someone they know that is going through or has gone through a similar situation, should read this book!
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.

The Fight of Our Lives by William J Bennett & Seth Leibsohn

2011-09-13T19:31:00.001-07:00

The Fight of Our Lives by William Bennett and Seth Leibsohn was no really my type of book. I thought maybe they would provide more information about how the Islamic culture has begun and changed in America and then which groups where the ones that were radical in their beliefs. I wanted more history and then current information and then let me make the decision of how to react.
But this books doesn't do that. It takes more of a description of how Islamists are our enemy and how we are to acknowledge and oppose them.
The first part of the book is very confusing but the 2nd part seems to get better but not good enough for a recommendation.

I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

The Final Hour by Andrew Klavan-Great Thriller

2011-09-13T19:15:00.001-07:00

The Final Hour by Andrew Klavan is a fast moving, action packed adventure ride. Charlie West is a high school kid who was hunted by terrorist, wanted for murder and in this adventure is in prison trying to fight against the gangs and guards. He has knowledge of a terrorist attack that will take place but has no way to communicate that from prison. He has to find a way to get out or get information out. This is the last of the Homelander novels. I would recommend reading the other 3 first because it gives the story that happened before this final thriller. Even though this is juvenile fiction, I enjoyed it very much and will be giving it to my nephew for Christmas as a gift. I know he will enjoy at 13 years old. So I think this is a good one for anyone who loves thrillers, mysteries and/or action.
I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

The Final Summit by Andy Andrews-Wonderful story with great characters

2011-09-13T19:02:00.001-07:00

The Final Summit: A Quest to Find the One Principle That Will Save Humanity (Hardcover)

The Final Summit by Andy Andrews is a wonderful story with great characters that I couldn't put down. Andy is a great story teller and I loved this book. Even though most of the book takes place at a summit to discuss the solution that will save the world, it feels like a great adventure since Andy uses such characters as Winston Churchill, Joan of Arc and George Washington Carver. David Ponder is the main character who was introduced in The Traveler's Gift-another great book by Andy.
There is great insight in this book while being entertaining. A great read!

I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

Amazon.com: 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less

2011-09-12T21:02:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com: 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less:

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BzzAgent: Blender Bottle

2011-09-09T14:11:00.000-07:00

BzzAgent: Blender Bottle:

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The Domino Project from Seth Godin « Campaign Homepage

2011-09-09T14:06:00.000-07:00

The Domino Project from Seth Godin « Campaign Homepage: ""

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Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post

2011-09-02T19:48:00.000-07:00

Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post:

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After Irene: A small-town Adirondack library needs your help

2011-09-01T14:19:00.000-07:00

After Irene: A small-town Adirondack library needs your help:

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Tyndale House Publishers - Christian Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Books and Bibles

2011-08-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

Tyndale House Publishers - Christian Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Books and Bibles:

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It's Your Kid, Not a Gerbil-Giveaway! http://www.tyndale.com/blog/?p=1243

Mystery Fanfare: ‘Lost’ Hitchcock film found in New Zealand

2011-08-03T15:15:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: ‘Lost’ Hitchcock film found in New Zealand

Amazon.com: Kindle Books: The Big Deal

2011-07-21T08:26:00.000-07:00

The Big Deal 900 Kindles books from 99cents

Mystery Fanfare: Thriller Awards 2011

2011-07-10T19:35:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Thriller Awards 2011: "Reading the Tweets from Thrillerfest tonight. Here are the Winners. I'll clean this up a bit tomorrow if I get a chance, but here's the bre..."

Mystery Fanfare: Masterpiece Mystery! adds Kate Atkinson's Case His...

2011-07-10T19:32:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Masterpiece Mystery! adds Kate Atkinson's Case His...: "The NYT reported today that Masterpiece Mystery! has finalized a deal to add a late addition to its schedule for three weeks starting Oct. ..."

Mystery Fanfare: Masterpiece Mystery! adds Kate Atkinson's Case Histories

2011-07-10T19:31:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Masterpiece Mystery! adds Kate Atkinson's Case Histories

Business | Borders says sale likely by end of July | The Detroit News

2011-06-21T14:22:00.000-07:00

Business | Borders says sale likely by end of July | The Detroit News

Vocalpoint

2011-06-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

Vocalpoint

Mystery Fanfare: Mystery Bytes: Crime Fiction News

2011-06-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

Mystery Fanfare: Mystery Bytes: Crime Fiction News

ThrillerFest

2011-06-01T11:47:00.000-07:00

ThrillerFest

PaperBack Swap Blog

2011-05-27T21:20:00.000-07:00

PaperBack Swap Blog

Secrets of the Vine for Women by Darlene Marie Wilkinson

2011-05-27T08:33:00.000-07:00

Secrets of the Vine for Women by Darlene Marie Wilkinson is a short book but contains wonderful information and you learn so much from John 15.
This little book is great for a women's bible study also since it includes a study guide with discussion questions for each chapter in the back of the book. I found the questions to be very thought provoking and could be used individually or as a group.
Some parts of the book seem very simplified but they helped to get the point across that the author was trying to make. Sometimes you are looking for a study or book that is not overwhelming and that can be used for people who are in different stages of their lives and this is one of those.
I actually think this book could be used by women or men and I love the way she used many short stories to illustrate the ideas presented in the chapters. This really is a great little book.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to write a positive review.

New Nook

2011-05-26T12:55:00.000-07:00

New Nook

Summer Reading 2011

2011-05-26T11:26:00.000-07:00

Summer Reading 2011

Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 6" Display, 3G Works Globally - Latest Generation: Kindle Store

2011-05-24T19:07:00.000-07:00

Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 6" Display, 3G Works Globally - Latest Generation: Kindle Store

Mystery Fanfare: Anthony Award Nominations

2011-05-09T15:23:00.000-07:00

25th Annual Anthony Award Nominees

Best Novel
Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny - Minotaur Books
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin – William Morrow
Faithful Place - Tana French - Viking
I'd Know You Anywhere - Laura Lippman - William Morrow
The Lock Artist - Steve Hamilton - Minotaur

Best First Novel
Damage Done - Hilary Davidson - Forge Books
The Poacher's Son - Paul Doiron - Minotaur Books
Rogue Island- Bruce DeSilva - Forge Books
The Sherlockian - Graham Moore - Twelve
Snow Angels - James Thompson - Putnam

Best Paperback Original
Drive Time - Hank Phillipi Ryan - Mira
Expiration Date - Duane Swierczynski - Minotaur Books
The Hanging Tree - Bryan Gruley – Touchstone (Simon and Schuster)
Long Time Coming - Robert Goddard - Bantam
Vienna Secrets - Frank Tallis - Random House

Best Short Story
The Frame Maker - Simon Wood - The Back Alley
The Hitter - Chris Holm – Needle
Homeless - Pat Morin - Mystery Montage
Scent of Lilacs - Doug Allyn – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sept/Oct 2010
So Much in Common - Mary Jane Maffini - EQMM Sept/Oct. 2010
Swing Shift - Dana Cameron - Crimes By Moonlight

Best Graphic Novel
Beasts of Burden – Jill Thompson/Evan Dorkin – Dark Horse
The Chill - Jason Starr – Vertigo Crime
Richard Stark's Parker, Vol. 2: The Outfit –Darwyn Cooke - IDW Press
Scalped Vol 6 - The Gnawing - Jason Aaron – Vertigo
Sickness in the Family - Denise Mina – Vertigo Crime
Tumor - Joshua Hale Fialkov/ Noel Tuazon - Archaia Studio Press

Best Critical /Non-Fiction
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - John Curran – Harper Collins
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History - Yunte Huang - W. W. Norton & Company
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies - Steve Doyle - For Dummies
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads - David Morrell - Oceanview
The Wire: Truth Be Told - Rafael Alvarez - Grove Press

Best Website/Blog
Jen's Book Thoughts - Jen Forbus
The Rap Sheet - J. Kingston Pierce
Sirens of Suspense - Chantelle Aimée Osman
Spinetingler - Sandra Ruttan
Stop. You're Killing Me - Surber/Ulrich

The nominations are taken from votes cast by members of Bouchercon, the current year (2011) and the previous year (2010). The awards are named after Anthony Boucher, a book reviewer and early champion of the mystery genre. Attendees will vote for this year’s winners at the 2011 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in St. Louis (Sep 15 – 18). The winners will be announced at the awards brunch on the morning of September 18th.
For more information about the Anthony Awards and the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, please visit www.Bouchercon2011.com.

New Barnes & Noble E-Reader Coming May 24 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2011-05-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

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Barnes & Noble is readying an updated e-reader, the company revealed in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
"In a meeting with investor analysts on May 4, 2011, Barnes & Noble ... indicated it expects to make an announcement on May 24, 2011 regarding the launch of a new eReader device," the notice said.
The company provided no other details about what the updated e-reader might entail. The last major Nook upgrade was the Nook Color, which started shipping in November. The Android-based device includes a 7-inch touch screen and access to more than 2 million titles, as well as an extra-wide viewing angle intended for sharing. The screen boasts 1,024-by-600 resolution and 169 pixels per inch. It comes with 8GB of storage, expandable up to 32GB with a microSD card.
In late April, Barnes & Noble pushed out a major software update to the Nook Color, which included its own app store, an email client, the ability to play Flash video, and enhanced books. It also added support for Android 2.2 "Froyo" and Adobe Flash video.
There's no word on what the retailer's new Nook will include; will it update the color version or address the E Ink Nook? And how will it stack up against its rivals? Last month, competitor Amazon launched a cheaper, ad-supported version of its Kindle e-reader. For $114, the new Kindle with "Special Offers" features ads and deals as its screen saver and on the bottom of its home screen. Of course, there's also the e-book components of the popular iPad and iPad 2.
Last month, Microsoft sued Barnes & Noble for patent infringement related to the Nook. Microsoft holds patents relating to navigation and how Web sites display content; technology used on the Android platform, the software giant said. Microsoft has tried to come to a licensing agreement with Barnes & Noble regarding its Nook and Nook Color e-readers, but to no avail, the company said.
For more, see PCMag's review of the Nook Color and the slideshow below.
For more from Chloe, follow her on Twitter @ChloeAlbanesius.

Amazon.com: The Frailty of Flesh eBook: Sandra Ruttan: Kindle Store

2011-05-03T20:56:00.000-07:00

Free Kindle Books on Amazon

2011-05-03T17:08:00.000-07:00

Free Kindle Books on Amazon

My Favorite Books

2011-05-03T14:40:00.000-07:00

My Favorite Books

Newsletter

DATES OF NOTE:

May 2011

May 8th Closed

May 11th 6:15 pm

May 14th 11am-1pm

May 29th & 30th Closed

Happy Mother’s Day!

Book Club Meeting discussing the mystery series featuring Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. Join us!

Rhett DeVane will be signing the long-awaited third in her Chattahoochee series, Mama’s Comfort Food. Copies will be discounted 15%.

Memorial Day fun in the sun...

Scandinavian crime fiction has a long tradition in the various countries – Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland – however, few books were translated for a world audience until the success of Sjowall and Wahloo’s ten novel series. Soon Henning Mankell, Arnaldur Indridason and others were translated into major languages and claimed international readers.

And then came Stieg Larsson! His three book series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, set the fiction world buzzing.

His super-star status catapulted other like authors into the limelight. While still only a small percentage of Scandinavian fiction is translated into English, some authors are gaining well-deserved readership.

Sweden’s Ake Edwardson is a professor at Gothenburg University and three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Award for best novel. His work was first translated into English in 2005, and now five of the twelve Erik Winter series are available. Edwardson’s prose is atmospheric, his stories psychologically gripping, and his primary character is introspective and smart with distinctly European sensibilities. The reader gets a true feel of Gothenburg and its seamy dark corners. The titles currently available in English, chronologically written, are Death Angels (which introduces Chief Inspector Winter), Shadow Woman, Frozen Tracks, Sun and Shadow, and Never End.

Karin Fossum made her literary debut in Norway, publishing poetry in 1974. It was her Inspector Konrad Sejer mysteries that began to be translated into English in 2005, starting with the fifth in the series, Don’t Look Back. Fossum’s setting is a small, picturesque village near Oslo. The setting itself is less important than the characters that people the claustrophobic community – relationships and secrets are central to Fossum’s psychological police procedurals. Inspector Sejer, an aging, brooding policeman, is as much about understanding people, their actions and underlying motives, as investigating a case. One critic says of Fossum’s work, “Like a Scandinavian winter, her thrillers chill to the bone.” Titles to look for are Don’t Look Back, The Indian Bride, He Who Fears the Wolf, When the Devil Holds a Candle, Black Seconds, Bad Intentions, and The Water’s Edge.

A little taste of Sweden…Grandmother Benson’s Swedish Toast

½ cup butter 1 ½ tsp baking powder

1 cup sugar ½ tsp salt

1 egg ½ cup finely chopped almonds or pecans

½ cup milk to which 1 tsp vinegar has been added ½ tsp cardamom (optional)

½ tsp baking soda Cinnamon sugar

2 cups flour

Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly grease a 9” square pan. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg. Mix dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. Stir in nuts. Spread in prepared pan, and bake 35 minutes or until center springs back. Cool slightly. Reduce oven heat to 250°. Slice cake into 1 ½” slices, then in half. Place slices on a baking sheet, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, and dry in oven 15-20 minutes. Turn off oven and let slices dry another 20-25 minutes. Turn slices and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Broil lightly on both sides until crisp. Store airtight. Wonderful dunked in your favorite hot beverage!

Stories for young audiences have long been a part of the oral tradition, although children’s literature as a published genre is relatively new. Scandinavian authors have played a particularly large role in shaping this concept. Trolls, Vikings, and princesses are intriguing no matter your age.

Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen, who penned such fables as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” and “The Little Mermaid,” set the tone for Scandinavian tales by matching whimsy and reality in equal parts.

You might be surprised by how many of the most influential children’s authors hail from Sweden. Selma Lagerlöf was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature, though she is best remembered for The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, a fantastical yet educational classic tale about a boy discovering his homeland while riding atop a wild goose. Astrid Lindgren, who later went on to create the Pippi Longstocking series, described Nils’ adventures as brightening her childhood.

A more recent Swedish gem is Reidar Jönsson’s My Life as a Dog. It is the punchy yet poignant tale of Ingemar, a not-quite-orphan whose adolescence is shaped by his eclectic experience living in the Swedish countryside with his aunt and uncle. Ingemar’s courage in the face of tragedy is both humorous and heartwarming.

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Book Prizes – Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

2011-05-02T14:22:00.000-07:00

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
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Biography
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Winner
Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (Random House)
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Current Interest
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Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Fiction
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Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
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Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
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Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
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Graphic Novel
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Winner
Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books)
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History
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Winner
Thomas Powers,The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
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Mystery / Thriller
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Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
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Poetry
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Maxine Kumin, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Science & Technology
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Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Young Adult Literature
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Winner
Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)

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Breath of Angel-Karyn Henley Christian Fantasy

2011-05-01T19:41:00.001-07:00

Breath of Angel immerses readers in a land of angels and humans, shape shifters and sylvans, where warring brothers have destroyed the only portal to heaven and stranded tortured souls on earth, and only one young woman - a chantress - half angel and half human, can restore it.

I was not sure of what to expect of this book after reading that it had priestress, shape-shifters,etc and not a big fantasy fan but I gave it a read. I was captivated by the character of Melaia from the beginning and soon was very interesting in what would happen in the story. The book was fast paced and there were only a few times that I thought that the story was not believable. But you are soon brought back to reality by Melaia's real earthly issues.
This is the first in The Angeleon Circle and would think the series will provide a nice read for those who love fantasy.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to write a positive review.

Max Lucado-Max On Life

2011-05-01T17:54:00.000-07:00

Max Lucado-Max on Life is a wonderful reference book!
From inside front flap of book "In more than thirty years-as an author, pastor, husband and father-Max Lucado has fielded a lot of questions. This book gathers Max's responses to the most often asked questions."

There is over 170 questions with one page or less answers which are simple but very on spot and very relevant for today. They cover everything from hope to the hereafter. What I especially like about the book is that Max doesn't answer the questions as if he is the all authority but as a friend trying to help you understand why you are asking the questions and what might be the answer. I found it to be a very encouraging book with lots of very sound advice.

There is a topical index and a scripture index which is wonderful. This is one book I will be going back to again and again.

I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

Flavia de Luce-What a wonderful series!

2011-04-11T20:46:00.000-07:00

Flavia de Luce

Free Book Update

2011-04-05T13:16:00.000-07:00

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Glynn Marsh Alam : Appearances

2011-04-05T12:34:00.000-07:00

Glynn will be at the Lake Jackson Branch Library Book Club tonight at 6:30pm.

Glynn Marsh Alam : Appearances

The Blessing of Adversity-Barry C Black

2011-03-29T03:41:00.000-07:00

This is a wonderful book on how you can turn your most difficult times into positive times. Dr Barry Black, chaplain of the U.S. Senate presents 3 different sections in his books to lead you through the process.
First is "Mastering the Basics" which is like a basic guide to realizing our troubles, facing them and then at the end of each section a way of dealing with each type of trouble(he has an action plan list which I thought was most helpful!).
Secondly he shares how to avoid sources of trouble if you can. This section also included at the end of each chapter the action plan list. Than the third part, in two powerful chapters, sums up how you can turn your adversity into advantage.
This book is not a "preachy" type book but one that shows that Dr Black has been there , done that and truly relate to the subject. I would highly recommend this book.

Tyndale House Publishers has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book for review.

Chasing Francis-Ian Morgan Cron

2011-03-23T06:53:00.001-07:00

What a wonderful combination of fiction, nonfiction,pilgrimage and teaching on Saint Francis.
Chase Falson is a pastor of a large evangelical church and has lost his faith, so he travels overseas to visit his Uncle who is a Franciscan priest. There he travels with his Uncle on a journey to follow the footsteps of St Francis and rediscovers his faith.
The author does such a wonderful job of describing the locations, places and the feelings of the travels that I feel as though I am actually there. And he really helps us like the main Character Chase from the beginning. As he travels he writes a journal that he shares with the reading which is very delightful. Also there is lots of history but you don't get bogged down in it because it is so well placed within the story.
Love this one!

I received this book free from NavPress Publishers as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commision's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Same Life, New Story-Jan Silvious

2011-03-23T06:31:00.001-07:00

From the back of the book: Each chapter examines the life of a woman from the bible, providing unique insights into scripture as well as questions for personal reflection and journal exercises. Learn how to overcome the past, conquer fear, say "I Can", face adversity and harness resilience.
This really great 10 week bible study for women is set up in a way that it can be used for personal study, small group study or just read through as a novel with personal journal entries. I learned so much about each of the women of the Bible and how they related to my life. Jan has written this wonderful book in a way that all women can relate and understand more about themselves. There is one section on decluttering your life that really hit home and I actually took action almost immediately after reading.

I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

Deadly Ties-Vicki Hinze

2011-03-23T06:05:00.001-07:00

Deadly Ties-Vicki Hinze.
From the beginning this book pulls you into Lisa Harper's difficult world and the monster, Dutch, she has to deal with on a daily basis. There seems to be lots of symbolism within the story and lots of suspense. Once I started reading I couldn't put it down. It is not just a action packed thriller but also has a heart and I could feel myself pulling for the good characters and cheering against the bad ones. I love the settings for the book also. It is a fast pace read and look forward to more books from Vicki Hinze in the future.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to write a positive review. http://waterbrookmultnomah.com/catalog.php?isbn=9781601422064&view=excerpt

The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons

2011-02-01T08:23:00.000-08:00

On the front cover it says "The Good News About the End of Christian America" and that is the perfect description of what this book is about. In this very positive look at how Christians are changing in America, you see from the research of Mr. Lyons that it is not all negative as so many people are perceiving it to be. And he also is not talking about Christians no longer being in America. He explains how Christians are evolving into a different group that will actually make a big difference in the future of this country in a very positive way.

I especially like Part II of the book called The Restorers. Part Five addresses the Provoked, Not Offended where he gives real examples of the "new" Christians, where they see the drug users and instead of being offended by them and doing nothing are provoked by them to engage and help them toward restoration. Mr. Lyons did a great amount of research for this book and it paid off. I highly recommend this read.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. I was not required to write a positive review.

Review-Fruit of the Spirit:Love by Calvin Miller

2011-01-25T19:56:00.000-08:00

I so appreciate the first paragraph on the back of this wonderful study guide. "Love. It's perhaps the most overused and misused word in our language today. We love our cars. We love sports. We love Montana in the spring. Somehow, we've come to understand love as a feeling that ebbs and flows or a "place" in life we're fortunate enough to land. Yet the Bible paints a dramatically different picture of love".

If you are looking for a study about this fruit of the Spirit then you have found it! The set up is wonderful and great for personal reflection and group study. At the beginning of each section you have a synopsis of what is covered each week which included a heading and scripture for each day. So each day you will have a short reading, bible scripture and questions to answer. Then at the end of the week there is a section for group discussion which ties it all together. Each question is very thought provoking.

I thought I had read everything there was to read about the fruit of the Spirit and covered most bible studies but Miller puts a new spin on it and covers scripture I had not covered in other studies. I will be recommending this as a study for our small group soon.

I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze®.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review.

Florida Book Review-Tide Water Talisman

2011-01-22T19:15:00.001-08:00

Tide Water Talisman by Glynn Marsh Alam
(Momento Mori Mysteries, Avocet Press, Paperback, 237 pp., $12.95)
Reviewed by Mary Jane Ryals

Last week, a friend and I spent the morning on the Florida coast that writer Glynn Marsh Alam uses in her latest Luanne Fogarty mystery, Tide Water Talisman. The story sits somewhere along the north Florida coast. Alam herself says it's where the Ochlockonee, St. Marks and Apalachicola Rivers meet the salt water of the Gulf of Mexico.
My friend and I haunted a coastal restaurant which claimed “OPEN” on the sign, but was shut tight as a mason jar. We passed the River of Life, a five thousand square foot building that's a blow-up balloon looking church. We drove past miles of sabal palms mixed with sand oaks and tall pines, and we paid $2.50 for eggs, grits, toast at a tiny diner. We eavesdropped on dialogues like “You ever see ole Al?” and “I wasn't raised to leave nothing on the plate.” We even heard about an ancient Indian dugout that juts up out of the black mud on a certain local river at very low tides..
It's no wonder Alam has chosen such a place and characters to write from. Alam loves and thus understands the sacred and the profane of the rough, spirited people who have lived on this part of the gulf for at least a century. Alam opens the story and pulls you right in, the way the sabal palms and experts on grits eating can.
Because of the way she captures place and character, it's also no wonder she won the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for Popular Fiction with Moon Water Madness, the seventh book in this series. In Tide Water Talisman, narrator Luanne's first words admit, “I hate death in any form.” She plucks a twangy north Florida start with, “It leaves a hole like when a trusty old fence post is jerked from the ground."
From here, you're pulled into the mystery. Luanne, linguistics professor and adjunct scuba diver for the local sheriff's department is boat-riding with the ancient Cajun salty dog Dorian Pasquin and hefty-hipped “Mama” who owns the restaurant “Mama's Place.” They're delivering an espresso maker to a new restaurant owner, but along the way Pasquin discovers that his old buddy Jimpson has gone missing. Next, two sheriff's boats cruise up and retrieve a group of men from the nearby forest carrying “a stretcher with something covered in black.” Luanne says “it didn't take much to realize it was a body."
The rag tag refugees” from the Katrina hurricane have decided to rebuild their lives where they landed, making a brave new start with their businesses at the old Heavenly Motel and living at a nearby fish camp. This group includes an old Vietnam vet trying for peace as a junk store owner and a fortune teller who “accidentally” predicts the death of a fisherman. She and her husband from “up north” seem to have no past, but stake a claim wherever they can. Another character, a woman with a heavy-drinking husband, is determined to start her own restaurant despite him.
Also, there's a faux new-agey woman with a crystal shop, a fat private eye and a seducer of women, all of whom seem not to want to reveal their pasts, and provide plenty of whodunit intrigue as well as laughs. Alam balances tragedy and comic reality nicely, and she seems to be having great fun with the new age hooey in this novel without discounting a sense of how mysterious humans really are and what makes them tick.
Meanwhile, quiet solver of many gulf mysteries Luanne and her boyfriend, the sheriff's deputy Vernon Drake, have to set up camp at the travel trailer park by the Heavenly Motel. Around them all the characters broil and tumble and drink and have secret lovers and former business partners and the stuff that haunts them.
We're always driven to find out what really gives here. Yet it's the full rich characters with their dramas and troubles that win our hearts. Alam does a wonderful job of placing us inside the lives of the displaced persons from the Katrina trauma. With a big heart, this writer also gives a nod in her author's note to the folks who work on the gulf who have seen yet another anguish in the BP oil spill this summer. Tide Water Talisman was written beforehand, but Alam has not forgotten them. We'll see what's next from her on oil spills and murders on the Forgotten Coast.

Mary Jane Ryals, teaches business communication at Florida State University and is Poet Laureate of the Big Bend of Florida. Her novel Cookie and Me and her poetry collection The Moving Waters are published by Kitsune Books. She's working on a novel set in the north Florida gulf coast.

2011-01-18T10:55:00.000-08:00

Review-Goodness of God by Randy Alcorn

2011-01-11T21:47:00.000-08:00

This wonderful little book gives so much information to help explain how suffering and evil can transform our lives and show us the "Goodness of God". He uses every day examples, stories, Bible scriptures and his own experience to show us that we can make it through each tough time and make it work for the good. He is very honest in his approach but sometimes that is what we need to help us realize the facts.

Click here to read the first chapter.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.

Mysterious Evil, Interesting Relationships and Vampires.

2010-12-22T12:11:00.000-08:00

When I first started reading Tandem I thought it was more about relationships between daughter and father, and then with 2nd character about sisters. Wasn't sure I would enjoy it because i wanted something more mysterious. Well the author didn't let me down. It starts off with a light mystery and turns into a deep evil mystery intertwining both characters in a wonderful place called Abbey Hills. You are pulled in by the characters very quickly and start learning about all the past evils which lead into the present. Some areas of the books seem to be confusing but you figure out what is going as you read along. Now I want to go back and read her first novel, Thirsty.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.

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2010-12-07T20:38:00.000-08:00

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Unusual motive plays big in Florida Panhandle mystery

2010-11-28T19:01:00.000-08:00

BY CLAIRE HAMNER MATTURRO • SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT • PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 28. 2010 2:00AM

Tallahassee native Glynn Marsh Alam does something in her latest novel that's hard to do these days — she comes up with a unique motive for a seemingly benign, even sympathetic, person to kill two others.

In a culture where mystery books abound and all the plot devices seem taken, finding an unforeseeable reason for murder is a challenge Alam meets head on in "Tide Water Talisman."

Alam, the winner of the 2009 Florida Book Gold Medal award for "Moon Water Madness," has the bona fides to pull off this unique Florida Panhandle mystery, the eighth in her Luanne Fogarty series. Not only has she authored nine books as well as taught writing and literature in Los Angeles, she is a graduate of FSU and a native of the North Florida region she writes so well about in her novels.

In her "Talisman" tale, Alam collects a ragtag band of characters who have sought refuge in a fish camp community located between two rivers and a bay in the Gulf Coast area of Big Bend Florida. Most are trying to salvage what they can of their old pre-Katrina lives after fleeing the storm and the destruction of their homes and businesses.

Mingled among these Katrina refuges, an old veteran is perhaps finally finding his peace as proprietor of a junk store in the fish camp community's little collection of businesses. A fortune teller, who more or less predicts the death of a fisherman and thereby increases her clientele tenfold, and her husband seem to have no past, yet stake a claim in another small business in the camp. A determined woman is opening her own Gulf Coast seafood restaurant, with no help and maybe some hindrance from her heavy-drinking husband. A private eye, a tall, seductive stranger, and a woman operating a mystic shop of crystals, talismans and New Age merchandise, all have stories they plainly do not want to tell.

A handful of tourists, hungry for authentic Florida and fresh fish, rove about in the camp and the plot line, as do shrimpers and fishermen and their wives. And Pasquin, a Cajun backwoods wise man and rascal, whom Alam's readers will remember from past books, and sensible swamp hound Plato also frequent the fish camp world Alam creates so authentically.

Into this melange of folks, sheriff's office adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor Luanne Fogarty and her boyfriend, sheriff's deputy Vernon Drake, test the limits of their affection when they live together in a tiny travel trailer in the camp on assignment from the sheriff. Seems that there is not one, not two, but three murders they have to solve. Living among the fish camp refugees, Luanne and Vernon share puzzlement and danger — and plenty of fresh seafood.

Having grown up among the live oak forests and cypress swamps of the Big Bend, it is no wonder Alam gets the sense of place so right — from the sinkholes and the reptilia to the cold springs and the rivers and swamps, Alam describes this world vividly and with the respect due the Gulf Coast wilderness of Florida.

A good read, with engaging characters and a strong sense of place and a genuine mystery, "Tide Water Talisman" deserves a place on your bookshelf or bedside stand. It is available locally at My Favorite Books and at the usual online sources.

Claire Hamner Matturro is the author of four mysteries, including "Sweetheart Deal" (William Morrow), and is a former legal writing instructor at FSU.

Sony Releases Redesigned, Upgraded Suite of Digital Readers

2010-09-01T19:28:00.000-07:00

Sony Releases Redesigned, Upgraded Suite of Digital Readers

What is Your Favorite Book?

2010-08-15T20:34:00.000-07:00

Let us know what your favorite book is or what book you would recommend that you have read lately?

My favorite lately is The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Glynn Marsh Alam's New Book! Sept 1st

2010-08-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

Glynn's new book Tide Water Talisman will be releasing on Sept 1st. You can pre-order now! Just go to our Web Store and order or order through Amazon.

Tide Water Talisman is the eighth in the Luanne Fogarty series of spine-tingling swamp noir mysteries set in the springs and underwater caves of northern Florida where Luanne, a linguistics professor, serves as adjunct scuba diver for the sheriff s department. A rag tag group of Gulf coast hurricane refugees have managed to find a new home along the coast of North Florida, where the St. Margaret and Palmetto Rivers run into the Gulf. Some fish for a living. Others run tiny shops. Still others hire out on boats and in cafes, wherever they can find work, banded together by their common misfortune. When bodies begin to turn up in water and on land, their fragile hold on community unravels, adjunct diver, Luanne Fogarty, finds herself trying to solve the mystery among a menagerie of people from the Gulf coast, tourists from northern states, and roving souls who seem to come from nowhere specific.