Blood Orange by Drusilla Campbell

This is a story about a disabled missing child and the adults with their many secrets which may have contributed to her abduction. The father, David is a Defense Attorney who spends time away from his family defending a man accused of murdering a young child, a situation his wife and others can not comprehend. Dana, the mother hates her life, the people around her and God because she feels she has given up too much of her life because of her disabled child. The answer to her problem is to get away. She goes to Italy to study art and has an affair with an artist, the trouble brother of her best friend Lexy who is an Episcopalian priest and a recovering alcoholic.
This story has many complex characters and story lines that at times are confusing and difficult to follow. Yet, the story is very engrossing and hold your interest until the end.
It is also a story of forgiveness, for without it, no one can be healed.

 

Rated 3 out of 5

Submitted by Joan Boucher

Once in Every Life by Kristin Hannah

Have you ever thought about Reincarnation? Does it really exist? If you are a believer, you may want to read this book about Tess Gregory and her return to earth. 

Tess was a deaf but brilliant scientist who was killed by a bus and given a chance to come back to earth. Her guide, Carol gives her a chance to choose from a dozen suitable men, yet special candidates that would give her the love ad family she never had in her past life. She selects a man who seems to be experiencing real pain and dark emotions, feelings she herself had experienced in her unhappy past life. 

She arrives back on earth to find herself in another era, the wife of Jack Rafferty who had just died giving birth to his son. Jack is a sheep rancher living on San Juan Island in 1873 and the father of two older daughters.
Tess is challenged by the fact that her new family is afraid of her and they did not know how to communicate or interact with her. She has to find a way to gain their love and the source of the horrors that consume Jack in order to make this family whole again; a most difficult task for Tess. 

One can only wonder if they were returned to earth, what situation they would encounter.

Rated 4 out of 5 

Submitted by Joan Boucher

Fleabee's Fortune by Robin Jarvis

Another awesome Robin Jarvis book! It is always a pleasure to read anything he has written. This book, along with all the others in his Deptford series, is from the perspective of an animal--in this instance a rat named Fleabee. Even though the book is written for children, I think that even adults can thoroughly enjoy it. Without spoiling anything, it is a story about finding your place in life without having to compromise who you want to be--but sometimes you have to struggle to find your happiness. A fairly quick read, it is a great summer book that is a real page-turner! I highly recommend any of Robin Jarvis' books--you will never be disappointed! They always make you feel uplifted and very happy after you finish the last page. Enjoy! 

Rated 5 out of 5 

Submitted by:

Ashley Rayhill

Summer Reading Program 2013

 Submit your book reviews on books you are reading this summer to get Book Nook Bucks! Participants will receive $1 of Book Nook Bucks for every book review submitted between June 24^th and August 23^rd.

2013 Geek Reads: An Alternative Book Club

These are the tentative titles for the 2013 Geek Reads Book Club. Geek Reads meets on the first Tuesday of the month, at 7 p.m. 

February 5th: 
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame- Smith 

March 5th:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

April 2nd: 
V For Vendetta by Alan Moore 

May 7th:
Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters & Jane Austen 

June 4th:
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest 

July 2nd:
Sacre Blew: A Novel by Christopher Moore

August 6th: 
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

September 2nd: 
Superman: The High Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye

October 2nd:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

November 5th:
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams 

December 2nd:
Neuromancer by William Gibson 

2013 West Warwick Public Library Book Club Selections

January- The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
February- Playing the Game by Barbara Taylor Bradford
March- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
April- Faithful Place by Tana French 
May- Tough Customer by Sandra Brown 
June- What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love by Carole Radzwill 
July- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
August- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 
September- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
October- Haven by Kay Hooper
November- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
December- The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani

The Language of flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

What can I say, I loved it. reading it I learned a lot about flowers, but more than that about the young woman and her fight for survival. 

Rated 5 out of 5 

 Submitted by Amelia Tremblay