Home Front

By Kristin Hannah

This book was AMAZING! I really loved every page of it, it even almost made me cry... almost, (I am heartless...) But it was so good I really LOVED every page!!! When I picked it up to read I didn't realize that it was by the same author as Winter Garden... My fav book last year!!! Really if you have a best friend, or family you need to read this book!!!

Would I recommend it? YES!!! It is the perfect weekend read!

Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.

All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life---children, careers, bills, chores---even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own---for everything that matters to his family.

At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family,Home Frontis a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope.

Full of Life

by Nancy O'Dell

A little boring... she had a 'perfect' pregnancy, and delivery... that is BORING! As long as you are going to read about what it is all REALLY like, you mine as well laugh... so read Belly Laughs instead!!! (Her biggest problem was hiding that she was pregnant...)


While Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell was pregnant with her now one-year-old daughter, her girlfriends threw her a baby shower. In addition to baby clothes, diaper bags, and blankets, her friends gave her a scrapbook they'd filled with advice for what she should expect during pregnancy and childbirth, based on their own experiences. As Nancy flipped through the pages and read about what she'd already experienced (and panicked over), she thought to herself, "I wish somebody had told me that!" Even the countless books on pregnancy she'd read hadn't mentioned any of the items in the scrapbook, and, it would turn out, Nancy would experience many more things during her pregnancy that were perfectly normal but came as a shock to her as well. Luckily for future new moms, Nancy realized that every woman could benefit from this straightforward advice on pregnancy and motherhood, and decided to write a book in which she shares her own experiences of the unexpected (and often unspoken) things that happened during her pregnancy and some of her girlfriend's tips as well. Extraordinarily helpful and filled with sweet, pithy, honest, and candid tips from Nancy on everything from unusual cravings and out-of-the blue leg cramps to sudden pre-baby breast leakage and what really goes on in the delivery room, Full of Life is the perfect gift for every new mom.

Belly Laughs

By Jenny McCarthy

Loved this, I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of bed!!! (a little crude,,, but I think that is ok when you are going threw this!)

Would I recommend this? yes to any one who is, or has been pregnant!!!! BUT NOT TO any one considering being pregnant!!!

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gasiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion; the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared these discomforts and humiliations, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy!In Belly Laughs , the actress and new mother reveals the naked truth about the tremendous mood swings, the excruciating pains, and the unseemly disfigurement that go along with pregnancy. Never shy, frequently crude, and always laugh-out-loud funny, McCarthy covers it all in the grittiest of girlfriend detail. With tips and hilarious musings on morning sickness and hormonal rage, hemorrhoids, pregnant sex, and the torture and sweet relief that is delivery, Belly Laughs is must-read comic relief for anyone who is pregnant, who has ever been pregnant, is trying to get pregnant or indeed, has ever been born!

Palace Beautiful

By Sarah DeFord Williams

This is a really cute book! It was fast and lovable.

Would I recommend it? Yes to any one who likes to keep up on their elementary reading. Or to any young girl, she would love the adventure!

When sisters Sadie and Zuzu move to Salt Lake City, they discover an old journal in a secret room in their new house. Along with their neighbor, Bella, the girls take turns reading the story of a girl named Helen who lived during the flu epidemic of 1918. They soon become wrapped up in Helen's tale, which ends with a tragedy that has a scary parallel to Sadie and Zuzu's lives. Did Helen survive the flu? Is she still alive somewhere? Or could her ghost be watching them?