from James--One Good Dog isn't great literature or even especially well-written (how many times can you use the word fuggy!?), but I still enjoyed it. It's not overly sentimental and I really got attached to Chance, the rescued pitbull who ultimately ends up rescuing the protagonist, Adam.The ch...
This book really touched me. Although the plot was a bit contrived, it did keep me riveted wondering how it would end. I hesitate to recommend it because of the underlying sadness throughout, but I feel that it really captured the grief process, different causes for and types of grief. I find the...
This book is about WWII, PTSD, Service Dogs, and complex relationships. I liked the book. It had important things to say about the effects of war, adjustment to disability, service dog uses, and relationship commitments. The thing I did not like so much was the length of time spent on the guy bei...
In the tradition of Luanne Rice and Kristin Hannah, Susan Wilson crafts novels rich with conflict and deep emotion. In this evocative work, she tells a tender, truthful, and reaffirming story of the fragile nature of love. A loving wife and doting mother, Cleo Grayson McCarthy has always put othe...
It was a beautiful New England beach town in which dreams were made, and love, like the tide, would fall and rise again.... Kiley Harris hasn't been to her family's summer home at Hawke's Cove for nearly twenty years. As a child, she couldn't wait to be reunited with her two best beach-house fri...