GREAT READS

I recently fell in love......with a movie! Within my 3 day check out time limit, I watched the entire thing 3 times. Not because I have nothing better to do, but truly because it was that good. I wanted to make sure that I had captured every moment...

Everything about the subject of bullying breaks my heart. When I hear about a child who is being bullied, I go to pieces. Even when I hear about the one who is committing the act, I feel sad and sorry. What could make a person cold enough to want ...

For all the fans of John Grisham, and I know there are many of you, please don't hate me if I say that I don't really read his work. I don't care much for his legal thrillers. Maybe because my husband once practiced law and we were never approached...

If you want a trip back to your early teenage years, either to pine for them, or cringe from the torture of them, this wonderful book will take you there. I have never read anything so true and heartfelt as the depiction of the two inseparable best ...

My dream of a perfect evening.....
It's a warm, summer night. The torches are lit on the deck and we have the television pulled outside to watch the O's game. Our close friends are over and we are enjoying a few beverages, possibly even of the adult...

I grew up in a family of Southern women who loved to tell stories. Some of my favorite memories from childhood are of sitting at my grandmother's knee while she told stories of her family who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. History a...

Every New Year we all at least think about making resolutions. What can we do to make ourselves better people? Lose weight? Quit smoking? Be better parents, spouses or friends? There is something in every one of us that we can improve on. We a...

Early this winter I started to see film trailers, ads, and interviews with the stars of a new movie called "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". This movie looked like a sure Oscar contender with a big name cast and a beautiful story line. Tissues...

With our shelves filled with so many blockbuster movies and classics, it's easy to overlook some of the wonderful, small release titles we carry. I happened to see a trailer for "The Music Never Stopped" while watching another film recently and remem...

The book will be cherished by everyone who reads it and can be appreciated by teens and adults equally. This is the story of Junior, or as he is called by his given name, Arnold Spirit. Being born on a Spokane Indian Reservation guarantees that you...

As a young girl, I read The Diary of Anne Frank, and count it as one of the most cherished books I have ever read. It wasn't just the story of Anne that I loved, but the way she wrote that brought the people to life and made their story even more sad...