Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Books read Mar 27






It's Easter Once Again: Short Story Picture Book for Beginning Readers by Uncle Amon
Story of Easter and it's a colorful children's book. Each page has a photo and words to explain the picture.
There are a lot of things they must do to get ready for Easter.
Especially like the colorful decorated eggs.  Bunny is ready to deliver everything and you may wonder how it all fits in their baskets.





Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Recall a band by this name and love their music. This book starts out with a few men who tend to Jane Withersteen's horses that she's raising and selling after training them.
In Utal the Mormoms rule the land and they want her land and round up men to steal her horses. Before she knows it a little come Fay comes to stay with her because the woman taking care of her has died.
There are many trouble and upheavals during this book involving many different sets of people. Liked the scenery because it is so descriptive from the daybreak to the full sun and at dusk-the purple sage is always being described.
Love how they band together and make a run for it. Learned so much about this area-even gold!  Great Book.


Instant Pot pressure cooker cookbook by Adam cook
 Table of contents where dishes are not in any order.
Introduction talsk about the instant one pot pressure cooker and how it's different than others.
Recipe start with a title also noted what diet they'd be good for. List of ingredeints are listed and you should be able to substitute for your healtier dietary needs: low sugar, low fat and low sodium products.
Directions are included but there are NO pictures.  THere is no nutritional information.
Details and directions are really spelled out so you don't mess up. Lots of notes along the way.






Fairytale by Danielle Steel
Starts out with Joy who's met Cristo, he with his family in the vineyard and she in school.
With his expertise in vineyard she with business they move to Napa Valley, CA and buy up land and start their own vineyard. Have a daughter and a nearby family who are the largest vineyard in the state who they are friends with. Love hearing of the harvest festival.
Breast cancer takes a bit of time for Joy to recover, Camille is there to help with the paperwork. She goes to college and is just finishing her schooling to return to their home to help with the vineyard. Joy has again come down with breast cancer and this time somethings not quite right.
She's not strong enough to fight it and dies. Cristo marries another-from France a countess, that he met at vinttner's annual dinner.
He never wanted to marry again but Maxine has other plans.
Camille tells her dad she's after him and his money-her step children had taken all of her assets after their fathers death. Cristo feels sorry for her.
Simone the mother of Maxine is now a friend/grandmother to Camille. They are on the same wave lengths and share many threats that Maxine has brought to them all.
Airplane crash with her father is tragic and the will is even worse than possible making Maxine the manager til Camille reaches 25. 
She relies on friends of her father to help her get through til she's old enough but can she not get killed by the step mother and her boys in the meantime.
There are so many stipulations to the will... 
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).


Will You Love Me Still? by Valya Boutenko 
Children's story told in comic book sequences. You can enlarge the photos and sometimes and words get distorted.




Harry's Lovely Spring Day: Teaching Children the Value of Kindness by N G K, Janelle Dimmett (Illustrations)
Colorful children's book about spring
Harry the happy mouse starts us out in spring and shows us his home.
 He meets others in the country and they help him because of the rian and wind blew his ouse away.
Shows a lot of different modes of transsportation that also help shim out.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.



Harry the Christmas Mouse by N G K, Janelle Dimmett (Illustrations)
Children's very colorful story about Happy the mouse and it's Christmas.
Hard to read some of the words as they are not uniform in size. Also some are using dark fonts on a dark background.
Love how he and his friends are able to save Christmas for others.
Other works by th author is hihglighteda t the end.




The 30 Day Whole Food Weight Loss Challenge by Katie Banks 
Book starts out with offer of a free Ketogenic diet cookbook. Table of contents that are broken up into day of meals for 30 days and also warm up exercises.
Introduction talks about not only food but exercise as well.
Each days meals are summarized at the start of the day so you know what to expect. One color photo showing one of the meals is included.
Each recipe starts with a title, directions and list of ingredients that are confusing as some are in American and some in Metric measurements.
You should be able to substitute for your healtiher dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar products.
There is NO nutritional information. Does include prep time and servings and calories.
Each exercise comes with prep explanations and how to do the exercise and tips so you will succeed along with a diagram of a person doing it.



When I Imagine by Sophie Carmen 
Are forced to read this book on tablet sideways.
Colorful rhyming children's stories about Andie and she imagines a lot of different things and thinks she can make them happen. She talks to a lot of others that are close to her about her dreams.



Grill It!   by Bonnie Scott 
Book starts with a table of contents broken up by food categories. Free gift and other works by the author.
Short intro about grilling. Each section starts with a color photo.
Each recipe starts with a title, list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar products.
Directions are included and servings. There is NO nutritional information and there are NO pictures.





Little Cuties: Let's Pretend! animals by Susan McCulley
Cute colorful children's rhyming book about not only animals but I'd use this book as an educational tool.
It's a fun one because it has the animals name, colors of the animal and a little paragraph about them. You can learn about the animals all while the children's face is in place of the animals face.
24 differenat anaimls and also one page showing them all togehter. Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.





Books for Kids: My Mommy is a Superhero: (Children's book about a Cute Girl and his Superhero Mom, Picture Books, Preschool Books, Ages 3-5, Baby Books, Kids Book, Bedtime Story by Michael Gordon
Colorful children's rhyming book about how much Mommy does for her child. Every page has a new activity that they share together.
On the tablet you are forced to turn it sideways to read it where the picture is on the left and the words on the right. Like that the letters are dark on light background so you can actually see them clearly.



The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook: 25 Super Simple Recipes for Everything You'll Ever Want to Make by Emily Larsen
This book starts out with a table of contents where chapters are broken up into meals and food categories.
Intro about the basics and how you can make the regular 4 servings meal and freeze 2 portions for another day.
Each recipe starts out with a title, servings, total time: prep and cook time.
List of ingredients which you should  be able to substittue for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar, low fat products.
Directions for the slow cooker are included.
There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.
Some recipes mix measurements: kg and tsp in same recipe. not sure why the kg couldn't be converted to american measurement.
Book also includes shopping list and 3 day meal plan including snacks.
Converstion table for oven temperature and US and metric tables.



The exotic collection of dumplings recipes. Cookbook: top 25 international recipes of homemade cooking. by David Hill
Book starts with a table of contents where dishes are broken up by food category.
Introduction talks about how easy they are to make at home and a lot of perferences.
Each recipe starts with a title, summary of the item, prep time and servings.
List of ingredients and directions on how to make.  Color photo at the end.
There is no nutritonal information and you should be able to substitute for your healtiehr dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, and low sugar products.
Did notice some recipes call for a tbsp-I assume a tablespoon and other times in the same recipe tbs.  And tsp is teaspoon.
Not sure why the confusing measurments.
Although most of the recipes are written for American measurements there are some recipes that have metric and American. I don't really know what  a piece of egg is or if it's either part of the egg and how much, teaspoon size?
Piece is also used for some spices as well.
No nutritional information and very confusing measruements.
Free gift is included.









Slow Cooker Soup Cookbook: Easy Crock Pot Soup Meal Recipes by Louise Davidson
Table of contents where meals are broken up into food categories: beef, chicken, pork, fish, vegetarian.
Feee offer of other books. Introduction about hwo nutritions a slow cooker can help with our busy lifes.
Why the slow cooker is good for you and how to clean it.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, prep and cook time.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthiery dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar, low fat products.
Details on how to make it and some nutrition info: calories, fat (NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, protein and sodium.
There are NO pictures.
Lot of canned products are used, should be using more fresh ones.


The music shop by Joyce_ Rachel
Story starts out with Frank in England and he runs the vinyl record shop where he has the right answer for all who walk in after talking to them, via a song.
He picks out the exact song that will motivate the person into looking into their troubles and coming up with the right answers.
He meets Elsa from Germany who has disfigured hands as a violinist but she can do miracles in his shop with certain procedures.  She becomes pregnant and has to leave to go back to Germany and she tends to her relatives who are ill.
Many years later she returns back to London to find Frank and the only way she can think to do that is awesome. Love how it comes down to help from many others she doesn't know.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).




The Christmas journey by Donna VanLiere
Story of the night Christ was born and what obstacles they had to overcome to even get a spot in the manger.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).






Beautiful mistake by Vi Keeland
Rachel, teacher's assistant not only works at the bar every hour she can get but anything else that comes up. She's always late though and with the new professor that will be a problem-Caine West.
15 years prior he's also pretending to be a priest and hears confessions of others and some things that are divluged at disheartening to hear about. Social worker is notified and things happen.
See a different side of their relationship when she helps him tend to the little nieces while their mother goes through biopsy and Caine is beside himself.
They got off on the wrong foot and many other times they met one another, you wonder if they will ever get together...
Alternating chapters so you are able to hear both sides of the same story, cool.
Steamy sex scenes.  Liked hearing how scars healed and why.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).



Deadlock by DiAnn Mills
Bethany Sanchez is assigned with the dectective Thatcher who put her brother away in prison. They are on an assignment and need to find the murderer soon.
Thare are many facts that are consistent with one another but some things don't add up that it's the same persion.
Wife killed had just inherited 8 million so that's a good reason for her husband to have done it.
She thinks and tracks down more leads that lead in many different directions.
Even when they are shot up because they are solving the murders they keep going: she has to get through to her parents to stop harboring her brother because he had shot at her and her partnet.
Lots of quotes from the scriptures when she really needs to get her head about things.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

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