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 Less than a year from the dreaded 4-0 and rarely getting beyond a first date, let alone first base, born and bred New Yorker, foodie and wine-loving Adriana Cassidy is divorced and stuck in a dead-end job. Major panic is setting in at the prospect of being single forever and the thought that nothing good will ever happen to her again. When a mysterious letter arrived summoning her to Italy, she defies her mother's wishes to not set foot in the country of her ancestors under the threat of never being spoken to again. Adriana is determined to uncover the deep, dark family secret and in the process falls under the spell of Tuscany and the charm of two devastatingly handsome men - the dashing and carefree Alessandro and the worldly and erudite Paolo. When her ex-husband unexpectedly makes a reappearance, Adriana finds herself at a crossroads and must decide whether to continue living on the safe side or make a drastic change that will forever alter the course of her life. Will movin...

I Once Was Lost, But Now I’m Found , is a narrative of the rescue of 124 dogs from the Olympic Animal Sanctuary, a hoarding situation in Forks, Washington. The rescue took several years and included small town political corruption, intimidation, protests, assault, lawsuits, and an attempt by the owner to run away with the dogs jammed into a semi truck. It was the largest dog rescue in the US to be carried out without support of local government. The book is written for people who are not aware of the OAS rescue and who have an interest in rescue issues. The biography of one dog, Daisy, is used as vehicle for informing readers about hoarders, failed rescues, law enforcement issues, trainers and behaviorists, and actions people can take when they become aware of abuse or neglect. The book is heavily illustrated with photos from the police file and other sources. Purchase here I am an artist, and I live with my husband and my dogs on a island in Puget Sound. I work as a...

Are you interested in reviewing books? We are taking names for book reviewers to help us review our many requests! There are plenty of genres available with something for everyone. If you'd like to help us review, visit the following link and provide some information (kinds of books your interested in and where to send them). Sign up to be a reviewer, here. If you have any questions you can email  bookcovereviews@gmail.com

This collection of short stories and a novella describes the complex relationships between people and animals in an area of rural poverty. In “Sparrows” a meth addict finds a gift to give her lonely brother. An alcoholic in “Beer Money” sneaks into his ex-wife’s house to use her shower and her bed and encounters his elderly dog. The teen aged protagonist in the “The Quest” deals with her first encounter with death. In "The Dog Thief”, the misfits of a backwoods community are confronted with the abusive behavior of one of their neighbors. A teenage delinquent in “The Angel” accidentally tells an elderly man just what he needs to hear. The stories are realistic and based on life in the backwoods of Mason County, Washington state, an area akin to Appalachia. My book was listed in Kirkus Review as one of the top one hundred indy publications of 2015. Purchase here I am an artist, and I live on an island in Puget Sound with my husband and my dogs. I work as a ca...

In exile from his homeland... As a mercenary, Tijodrin has wandered far and wide, and now his travels have brought him to the great city of Hohvenlor, a city he knows well. He quickly finds himself caught up in a fierce rivalry that threatens to destroy two powerful merchant families and turn the streets of Hohvenlor into a battlefield. Within the city walls, Tijodrin will find danger in many forms. Can he survive the endless plots of the vengeful merchants and the swords of their bloodthirsty henchmen, as well as the lurking daggers of the shadowy assassin's guild? Purchase here Growing up in a military family, Justin Enos was lucky enough to get to see a lot of the world as a child. Born in Thailand, he subsequently lived in Kentucky, Maryland, Vermont, California, Germany and Virginia. He hasn’t stopped moving around as an adult either, calling Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Thailand again, and now Portland, Oregon home. Justin began devouring books at a young age and his i...

Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm’s-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and ’80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history—a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR. Sergey Grechishkin’s world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up—to read Everything is Normal is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past. Purchase here Life's journey took Sergey Grechishkin from a communal flat in Leningrad, through studies in China and France, and on to top banking...