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Title of the book:  Signs in the rearview mirror; leaving a toxic relationship behind Author: Kelly Smith Publisher: Sunny Day Publishing Inc Publishing Date: 2018 ISBN: 9781948613019 Summary: What kind of person ends up in a toxic relationship? And why does she stay? This searingly honest novel answers both those questions head-on. Coming out of a failing marriage, Kelly turns to Gabe out of fear of being alone. Her gradual slide into danger is at once terrifying and inevitable, and the steps she takes to get out of it will both inspire and offer hope. Author Info: (From iRead Book Tours) Buy the Book: Amazon ~ B&N ~ Audible Add to Goodreads Meet the Author: Boston born and raised, Kelly now makes her home in Austin,TX with her three sons and one amazing Giant Schnauzer, Bullseye. Kelly has written for Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, and hosts a podcast, Let's Get Wicked Deep. ​Connect with the author: Website ~ Twitter ~ Facebook Personal Opinion: Quite often, ...

Title of the book: Yummy me feels so good Author: Lion I am  Publisher: Funny Bird Production Publishing Date: 2020 ISBN: 9781647648381 Summary: Parents this book is a great way to explore and play with feelings together with your children. There are animal pictures that children can enjoy and talk about. This is a beautiful way for your children to make friends with their feelings and learn how to "play" with them. It's also a way to encourage us to keep remembering and returning to positive and nurturing feelings and memories. This creates healthy neural networks in our brains. Something as simple as remembering an animal or happy feeling can change our whole body chemistry. We can anchor happy feelings and memories in our neural networks by remembering them and "replaying" them to strengthen our "Happy Muscles". We probably all remember when we were young how feelings came and went quickly and didn't "stick" so much. A simple belly lau...

Name of Book: A goddess among men Author: Daniel Davidsohn  ISBN: 978-85-922784-9-6 Publisher: Self published Type of book: early 20th century to modern times, spun America, goals, ambitions, rubber plants, friendship, partnership, survival, upbringing, America, wealth, unsavory business deals, un-contacted tribes, Year it was published: 2020 Summary: From the primitive ruggedness of the Amazon rainforest to the privileged society of New York, three generations experience triumph and tragedy in this saga of loyalty, corruption, greed . . . but one woman has the power to change it all. In 1907, Julian Welch and Alan Reid meet by chance in the jungles of the Amazon attracted by the riches of the rubber boom. Pioneers in an era of uncertainty, they form an unlikely alliance and establish the foundation for a successful empire, Reid & Welch. However, with Julian's death, the empire is left to Alan, as is the responsibility for Julian's newborn daughter, Christel. Yet...

Title of the book: GenTech; An American Story of Technology, Change, and Who We Really Are Author: Dr. Rick Chromey Publisher: Morgan James Publishing Publishing Date: 2020 ISBN: 978-1-64279-671-1 Summary: Every twenty years a new generation rises, but who and what defines these generations? And could current generational tags mislead and miss the point? In this insightful analysis of technology history since 1900, Dr. Rick Chromey offers a fresh perspective for understanding what makes a generation tick and differ from others. Within GenTech, readers learn how every generation uniquely interacts with particular technologies that define historical temperament and personality and why current generational labels are more fluid than fixed, and more loopy than linear. Consequently, three major generational constellations emerge, each containing four, twenty-year generations that overlap, merge, and blend: The Audio Generations (1900-1950): Transportation-Telephone Generation (1900-1920), M...

Name of Book: Offerings Author: Michael ByungJu Kim ISBN: 978-1-951934-26-2 Publisher: Arcade Publishing Type of book: South Korea, finances, growing up in America, 1970s-1990s, father/son relationship, rescuing Korean government, debt, identities, culture, heritage  Year it was published: 2020 Summary: For fans of Chang-Rae Lee, Min Jin Lee, and The Big Short, a moving novel about love, sacrifice, ambition, and greed—and a financial crisis With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved—the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School–educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his for...

Name of Book: The Aosawa Murders (Eugenia in Japanese) Author: Riku Onda (Trans by Alison Wats) ISBN: 978-1-912242-24-5 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, Kadokawa Corp in Japan Type of book: Japan, 1970s-2000s, murder, family, blindness, narrative, mimicking, truth, motivation, puzzle, poison, Kanto region, weather,  monologues, timeline, friendship, charisma  Year it was published: 2005, 2020 Summary: The novel starts in the 1970s when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owners of a prominent clinic in a town on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. The youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning his motives to mystery. The police are convinced Hisako had a role in the crime, as are many in the t...

"The plot was original, fresh and fast paced in spite of the "traditional elements" employed which can normally be found in any other thriller of this genre. The USP of this story would be its unpredictability. When you think you have it all guessed up, the plot would change its course keeping you hooked. There were a lot of suspense twists and turns that kept the momentum up. Needless to say, the writing was simply perfect. One thing that writer needs to be lauded for is the humor she inculcated in the book. Minus those humorous parts, the book would have been one serious read." - Reviewer: Book and Ink Join us for this tour from May 4 to Jun 5 ,  2020 ! Book Details: Book Title : Kill and Run by Lauren Carr Series : Thorny Rose Mystery Series (Volume 1) Category :  Adult fiction, 422 pages Genre :  Murder Mystery Publisher :  Acorn Book Services Release date :  September, 2015 Format available for review :  ...

Well, it seems as if things are continuing to deteriorate for the worse, both outside and inside the blogging world. For one website, I learned, there will only be e-books available instead of print copies...(I am sorry, but I dislike e-books a lot...) May passed as a horrible month, and June is showing little promise of improving. With this blog, I have to save the pictures of books and then upload them...which is very annoying. I am almost scared of asking what's next, because I am afraid to know the answer.  Books/spotlights:  The Thorny Roses Mysteries spotlight by Lauren Carr (June 2nd, 2020) GenTech; An American Story of Technology, Change and Who We Really Are by Dr. Rick Chromey (June 9th, 2020) A Goddess Among Men by Daniel Davidsohn (June 11th, 2020) Signs in the Rearview Mirror by Kelly Smith (June 22nd, 2020) Yummy Me  Feels so Good by Lion I am (June 24th, 2020) Possible reviews:  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez  Truths I ne...

A goddess among men- Daniel Davidsohn  SR: May 20th, 2020 FR: June 4th, 2020 Sister Dear-Hannah Mary McKinnon SR: May 1st, 2020 FR: June 9th, 2020 When Christ and his saints slept-Sharon Kay Penman SR: May 1st, 2020 FR:  Salt Creek- Lucy Treloar  SR: June 4th, 2020 FR:  Nonfiction: Tree of Souls-Howard Schwartz SR: February 10th, 2014 FR: N/A GenTech; An American Story of Techonolgoy, Change and Who We REALLY Are- Dr. Rick CHromey SR: May 21st, 2020 FR: June 4th, 2020 American Dreamer; How I escaped communist Vietnam and built a successful life in America-Tim Tran (Tran Manh Khiem, Tom Fields-Meyer) SR: June 4th, 2020 FR:  Signs in the rearview mirror- Kelly Smith SR: June 9th, 2020 FR: June 10th, 2020 Bound- Elizabeh Anne Wood SR: June 10th, 2020 FR: June 21st, 2020 A multicultural america- Ronald Takaki SR: June 21st, 2020 FR: