5 Historical Biographies for President's Day

by Donna Huber

I know a lot of readers have set goals to read more nonfiction this year. However, nonfiction books are often pricey. My library's bookstore (it's run by the Friends of the Library, all the books are donated by the community so they only charge $1 for their books) has a decent size collection of presidential biographies and memoirs. I know not everyone has access to such a great resource so I took a look at the best selling kindle books to see if there were any reasonably priced presidential biographies. A couple of the books aren't about presidents but instead about their wives or the white house. Here are the ones I thought looked interesting.

Ten Days Gone by Beverly Long ~ a Review

by MK French

Baywood, Wisconsin is a small city with the feel of a small town, and there had never been major issues. Detectives A.L. McKittridge and Rena Morgan are part of the task force investigating the deaths of four women in town, each spaced ten days apart with no obvious ties between them.

A Palette for Love and Murder by Saralyn Richard ~ a Review

by Donna Huber

A Palette for Love and Murder is the second book in Saralyn Richard's Detective Parrott Mystery series. It is not necessary to have read book one, Murder in the One Percent to enjoy this book.

Silver Bracelets by Tari Lynn Jewett ~ a Review & Excerpt

by MK French

Fourth-grade teacher Ashley Swenson is in the middle of a social media blitz as the unwitting poster child for accident safety. Even worse, every time she turns around she sees the same police officer Benito Lopez. He has a crush on her, and his friends' efforts to help him actually backfire. Will they ever fall in love?

First Came Us by Rachel Cullen ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

Ellie:  'Just moments ago, I  applauded myself for how efficiently I made my way through Trader Joe's...but now I am wandering the aisles of CVS and I can't even remember why I came in here."
Jack:  "I want everyone to pretend like I'm not here so I can get to the gym, come home, shower, grab breakfast and get in the car to get to campus by eight-thirty.  Then I would have time to go through email before office hours and have the rest of the morning and early afternoon to work on my book before class at two." (p47)

Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee ~ a Review & Excerpt

by MK French

Garrett Song is close to taking over his family's fashion empire when his grandmother tells him that she will announce his engagement to a woman of her choosing at the same time that he is announced as CEO. He rebels against that, claiming that he already has a fiancee, and lands on Natalie Sobol, poised to become the vice president of Human Resources at the company. She needs a fake marriage just as much as he does if she is to formally adopt her niece. While they can agree on a fake marriage, there is a very real attraction between them both.