Page Turners

Here is a list of books that have been shared on KMA's Page Turners with the Shenandoah Public Library.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

aired the week of August 18, 2014

Otherwise Engaged by Amanda Quick is her latest historical romance set in Victorian England.  Amity Doncaster has been kidnapped by the notorious killer known as the Bridegroom and lived to tell.  Now her love interest Benedict will stop at nothing to make sure the killer is brought to justice before something happens to Amity.

aired the week of August 11, 2014

Plainsong by Kent Haruf is a sparse lyrical novel that weaves together the lives of seven individuals in the eastern Colorado town of Holt in the late 1980s.

aired the week of August 4, 2014

What a Difference a Dog Makes: Big Lessons on Life, Love and Healing from a Small Pooch by Dana Jennings is a slim volume of collected wisdom by Dana Jennings that he put together while he was home with the family's poodle Bijou as he recovered from radical prostate cancer.  Available in both regular print and audiobook.

Wednesday, July 09, 2014

aired the week of July 28, 2014

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl is a book for food lovers.  Billie Breslin goes to work for the iconic New York food magazine Delicious!  When the magazine is closed she stays on to fulfill the magazine's guarantee.  In the process she uncovers letters between the famous chef James Beard and a young girl in Akron, Ohio who correspond during World War II.  Billie wants to write this story but first she must locate the now grown girl to ask her permission.

aired the week of July 21, 2014

Vintage by Susan Gloss tells the story of Violet who owns Hourglass Vintage in Madison, WI.  She is being evicted from her store so join her and her friends as they try to save their favorite vintage shop.

aired the week of July 14, 2014

The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James is set in England in 1922.  Sarah is working for a temporary agency when she gets a call to become an assistant to an author.  Little does she realize she will be going on a ghost hunt in the process.