This book takes course over a 24 hour period after a teenage boy is involved in a car accident. His brain is dead, but his heart is still beating. We watch as the parents must decide to donate his organs or not. We watch as they remember their lives together, and the lives the boy…
Lisa See brings us into the incredible world of pu’er tea. Hidden away in a remote Chinese mountain village lives the Akha, farmers of pu’er tea. Here, we meet Li-yan and her family. Li-yan’s troubles begin when she meets a young boy who has stolen a scallion pancake and offers it to her. They are…
If you are looking for an incredible, well written story, look no further. Our narrator is Music, itself, and it wants to tell the story of one of his favorite musicians, Frankie Presto. Frankie is a bit of a magical wonder. His beginnings are sad. His mother died giving birth to him. A nun pretending…
If you liked “Girl on the Train,” this is your kind of book. A reporter is covering a story about a luxury cruise liner for her magazine. Days before they embark, her apartment is burglarized while she is in it. Despite being frazzled and injured from the incident, she still goes on the cruise because…
A story of how four women’s lives are intertwined in a Las Vegas casino. One woman falls in love with a jazz singer. Another is a mail order bride who gets lucky in the casino one night. Another has a mysterious past she is trying to find answers to. And one woman finds herself entrenched…
If you always wondered what it is like to be rich and famous, take a step out of your world and into the world of Evelyn Hugo. A beautiful siren during the golden age of Hollywood, we follow her life from a young age in Hell’s Kitchen to the many husbands that helped to escalate…
Like the tagline for this site says, the purpose is to be better than we were yesterday. This book helped me to stop procrastinating by putting off all the things I want to do and just do it. The 5 Second Rule is the reason why I wake up at 5AM to get things done….
For those who are writers, this is essential reading. For those who are Stephen King fans, this gives you a glimpse into the stories that became legendary. I read this book cover to cover and absorbed all of the knowledge King dished out on how to be a better writer. He helped me improve upon…
At the end of every year, Isabel Allende knows what she will write about when she begins her writing season. It was closing in on December 31st when she was out with a friend, walking around in Brooklyn when her friend was telling her about her mother and her Japanese gardener. They had been friends…
A woman is murdered and her body is found in the shape of an angel, leaving a village completely stunned. Years later, a woman who looks just like the dead woman arrives in the village with her son on a holiday. As the town remarks on the significance of her arrival on the anniversary of…
If you are looking for your path in life, this book will help you find your purpose. Jakes writes about finding your path, and gives you clues on how you’ll know you are on it. You will know when you see the universe conspiring to help you. Opportunities will open up to you. All of…
Jim Henson is an important part of most childhood stories. Everyone remembers how Sesame Street, The Muppets and The Dark Crystal played some part in their story. Jim Henson was the one who gave children a childhood to love, one filled with happiness. Henson wanted to be in television, so he showed up at his…
Ordinary People Can Change the World. Brad Meltzer tells the story of Helen Keller in a way that helps both children and adults learn how despite the odds working against us, we can become anyone we want to be. Setbacks and challenges only mean we have to work harder at pushing forward to make the…
Ordinary People Can Change the World and that is what Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos are setting out to do by choosing 100 of the most influential people in human history to tell their stories. While these books were made for children, every single person should read them because you can learn that each hero…
Book Two in the Dark Cycle Book Series. For those who love stories about good vs. evil, heaven vs. hell, this is your kind of book. In book two, Aidan is still learning more about his powers and what happened to his sister Ava. Stuck between his love for two girls, all struggle in their…
Imagine living your entire life inside of your house, never able to leave because you are sick. You don’t have friends, because you can’t play with other children for fear they may make you sick. This is Maddy’s world. The only people in her life are her mother, her nurse and her tutor…no one else….
[Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a review. This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive compensation.] In a post-apocalyptic world, a young man (Rose) appears, intrigued by a young woman that attempts to save…
Christianity in Japan is all but wiped out. Two young Portuguese priests venture to Japan to find their teacher, only to be met by Christians who hide their religion. If they are discovered and do not denounce their faith, they are killed. As they go from one village to another in search of their teacher,…
Things aren’t going so well for Ove. He lost his wife and all he can think about is joining her in death. As handy as he is, he really sucks at dying. Every single attempt is foiled right as the world comes at him to let him know that he is not alone. Right when…
For those who love setting off on adventures, this book takes us into the mystical realm of Shangri-La. For those who watched Netflix’s “The Iron Fist,” this is the book that is the original background to where the story of Danny Rand began, deep in the Himalayan mountains, saved by monks. Rand’s back story is…
