Springwater Wedding
Linda Lael Miller
Reviewed by Joyce Goodman
Company Driver for Tyson Foods
Listening Time: 4.5 hours
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Retail: $25
Genre: Mystery/Romance
Plot: After her divorce, Maggie comes back to her small hometown in Montana. Her high school sweetheart, J.T., has also moved back. But this small town is not a safe place. Murders are being committed and cattle rustlers are hitting ranchers. J.T. becomes the town’s deputy marshal. While he tries to stop a killer, old embers begin to turn into dangerous romantic flames.
Main Characters: Maggie McCaffrey has come home to start a bed and breakfast. J.T. Wainwright was so in love with Maggie he had tried to stop her wedding. Now after being shot in New York in the line of duty as a cop, he’s back on a small ranch. His son, Quinn, comes to visit from Atlanta. Daphne is Maggie’s best friend, and Daphne’s husband is a wild card in the story.
What’s best (or not)? I liked everything about this book. It had just enough mystery to keep you in suspense and enough romance to make it really interesting.
Would you recommend? Yes. Even my husband listened and enjoyed it, and that means it’s really interesting.
Narrator’s style: A very good style, with good voice changes for each character.
How would you rate the book? A
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Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox
In September 1998, actor Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological condition. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. By the time the public started grieving for him, he had accepted the diagnosis and stopped grieving for himself.
Combining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life, from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly, he writes of the last ten years, during which – with the unswerving support of his wife, family and friends – he has dealt with his illness. He talks about what Parkinson’s has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. He feels as if he is a very lucky man, indeed.
6 hours
Retail: $26
Simon & Schuster Audio
Wingman: #8 Skyfire
Mack Maloney
All but obliterated by the poisonous fallout of a first-strike nuclear attack, America has been reduced to a war-blackened wasteland, struggling to survive. Up from the broken dreams of what was the most powerful country on earth rises a lone hero, ready to rekindle the American spirit – Hawk Hunter, ace fighter pilot, known to his enemies as the Wingman!
3 hours
Retail: $9.95
Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
The Last Chance Cafe
Linda Lael Miller
With acres of land and a house that have been in his family for generations, rancher Chance Qualtrough has deep roots in Primrose Creek. Now, at the local diner, he is about to encounter his future. Perhaps it was fate that brought Hallie O’Rourke and her two young daughters to the Last Chance Cafe. Caught in a Nevada snowstorm with a broken-down truck, Hallie and her girls were forced into the cafe and what would soon be the start of a new life. Chance doesn’t know Hallie is fleeing a danger so threatening she dares not ask anyone for help. Even his kind offer of his aunt’s house as lodging seems like too great a risk for Hallie.
But Hallie has no choice but to accept Chance’s invitation. From the moment she took a chance with a handsome stranger in a country diner, everything Hallie has ever believed about home and family is seen through new eyes. But Hallie can never forget that one careless word could bring back the past and destroy all that she has made her own.
4.5 hours
Retail: $25
Simon & Schuster Audio
