Review: That’s What Leprechauns Do by Eve Bunting

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Title: That's What Leprechauns Do Author: Eve Bunting Illustrator: Emily Arnold McCully Category: Picture Book Published: February 16, 2009 by HMH Books for Young Readers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase:  Amazon | Book Depository The three leprechauns Ari, Boo, and Col have a job to do. They must race to where they’ve buried the pot of gold and dig it up before the rainbow comes. The clouds are already gathering, so there’ll be no time for mischief along the way. But Mrs. Ballybunion’s cow, Miss Maud Murphy’s hen, and Old Jamie soon find out that the three clever fellows can’t resist having a little fun on the road to Paddywhackers Bog. For, in addition to putting a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, mischief is what leprechauns do! I was looking for a book to stick in my bag this weekend, in case I get a chance to read with one of my favorite little girls, and since Monday is St. Patrick's Day,...
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Audiobook Review: The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg

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Title: The Chase Authors: Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg Read by: Scott Brick Category: Crime Caper Audio published: February 25, 2014 by Random House Audio Rating: 3½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Internationally renowned thief and con artist Nicolas Fox is famous for running elaborate and daring scams. His greatest con of all: convincing the FBI to team him up with the only person who has ever caught him, and the only woman to ever capture his attention, Special Agent Kate O’Hare. Together they’ll go undercover to swindle and catch the world’s most wanted—and untouchable—criminals. Their newest target is Carter Grove, a former White House chief of staff and the ruthless leader of a private security agency. Grove has stolen a rare Chinese artifact from the Smithsonian, a crime that will torpedo U.S. relations with China if it ever becomes public. Nick and Kate must work under the radar—and against the clock—to devise a plan to steal the piece back. Confronting...
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Review: A Heart Like His by Beth Moore

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Title: A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David Author: Beth Moore Category: Christian Non-Fiction Published: May 1, 2012 by B & H (first published 1996) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository We all go through times when we feel insignificant or times when we feel certain that we have experienced a degree of failure from which there is no return. This is not a reality we experience alone, but is one that a man after God’s heart experienced as well. From shepherd, to refugee, to king of Israel, David exhibited the purest virtues and the most heinous sinfulness, but through it all his relationship with the Lord continued to grow. A Heart Like His looks at this bond of mutual love and admiration between a man who was not unlike any of us and the one true God who is all good and all powerful. Beth Moore walks us through an exploration of David’s incredible life, drawing spiritual...
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Audiobook Review: Keep Me Ghosted by Karen Cantwell

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Title: Keep Me Ghosted Author: Karen Cantwell Read by: Nan McNamara Category: Romance Audio published: November 8, 2013 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Ghosts. Do you Believe?Sophie Rhodes doesn't have a choice. She's surrounded by them.Desperate to pay the bills, 29-year-old Sophie ignores the advice of her stuffy spirit-friend, Marmaduke Dodsworth, and takes a job with the handsome Dr. Callahan, an optometrist with a desperate situation of his own. The good doctor's problem? He has a spirit-friend as well: one with a fiery crush and a vicious jealous streak. When chemistry starts to brew between Sophie and Dr. Callahan, his green-eyed ghost wreaks some bad-tempered havoc, scaring away his patients and putting Sophie on edge. Will Sophie give up the ghost and quit the new job, or buck up and find a way to rid Dr. Callahan of his pesky specter, freeing their romance to find a life of its own? Keep Me Ghosted is a cute, fun romance,...
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Review: The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson

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Title: The Girl with a Clock for a Heart Author: Peter Swanson Category: Thriller (no, not steampunk) Published: February 4, 2014 by William Morrow Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Audible | Book Depository When George first met her, she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum, Florida. She and George became inseparable in their first fall semester, so George was devastated when he got the news that she had committed suicide over Christmas break. But, as he stood in the living room of the girl's grieving parents, he realized the girl in the photo on their mantelpiece - the one who had committed suicide - was not his girlfriend. Later, he discovered the true identity of the girl he had loved - and of the things she may have done to escape her past. Now, twenty years later, she's back, and she's telling George that he's the only one who can help her... Although George is the main character in The Girl with a...
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Audiobook Review: The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

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Title: The Redbreast Author: Jo Nesbø Read by: Robin Sachs Category: Mystery Audio published: April 26, 2011 by Random House Audio (first published 2000) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository 1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. 1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance duties. He is assigned the task of monitoring neo-Nazi activities; fairly mundane until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest. Ellen Gjelten, his partner, makes a startling discovery. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. In a quest that takes him to South Africa and...
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