In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

This take on a buttermilk biscuit will leave you coming back for more until they're gone. You will never be trusted alone with them again!

Looking for an easy pasta salad to take to a BBQ coming up? Check this out! It will become a summer staple!

I'm starting a 90 day program with the VA to hopefully help me lose some weight and alleviate some of my other health issues.

The scale is often viewed with dread but it can be a helpful tool. This is more about why and how I've battled with weight.

Let me start off by saying that as a mom, nothing makes me feel more helpless and useless than knowing my baby doesn't feel well and...

I really wanted April to be my catch up month. Outside of my own book club I had several books I wanted to finish so I could go into May with no lingering books! Well...that didn't quite work out.

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room.

Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched across her little thigh. And I prayed that one day this set of numbers, identical to her mother’s, would have the power to reunite a family torn apart by war.

This great American novel demonstrates Alcott's extraordinary talent at portraying the joys and struggles of family life in an unforgettable way. Generations of people - young and old, male and female - have fallen in love with the March sisters.

It's a new year for Allie and Alec and that means a new mystery to solve. When beloved elementary school teacher Iris Rose ends up on ice, they must find her killer before her killer makes Allie the second victim.

Love is in the air in Sandy Harbor, Maine and so is murder. Allie McSwain and her PI boyfriend, Alec Blanchard, are thrust into the middle of a murder investigation where love makes solving the murder tricky.

January was so ambitious and then I got swept away in my race training and work that reading kind of took a back seat. That is why I am combining February and March. The only book club books that I managed to finish on time were the ones for my own book club, VBC.

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself.