For All Time: A Nantucket Brides Novel
Nantucket Brides Trilogy, Book Two
by Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Date: July 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-0345541826
Pages: 400
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

While most of my blog readers already know that I enjoy reading romance novels, a few may be surprised that I'm reviewing a non-Christian title. What you don't know is that I admire author Jude Deveraux's writings. My mother has always been of fan of her novels, so naturally I read a few of her books while growing up; the titles A Knight in Shining Armor, Legend and The Black Lyon are the few that come to mind.

The majority of Ms. Deveraux's novels involve either the Montgomery and the Taggert family and that tradition continues in the Nantucket Brides Trilogy, which began last year in the first novel, True Love.

The second installment, For All Time, centers on Toby Wyndam, a wedding planner and a bridesmaid of Alix Madsen, who is marrying Jared Montgomery. Though she isn't a professional wedding planner, she had done most of the work on her friend's wedding herself. Her work has gotten the attention of a few of guests, which means a possibility of planning other wedding on Nantucket. The one thing she wasn't planning on doing is bumping heads with the groom's cousin, Graydon Montgomery.

The Revealing
The Inn At Eagle Hill, Book 3
by Suzanna Woods Fisher
Publisher: Revell
Pub. Date: July 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-0800720957
Pages: 336
Buy Link: http://ow.ly/ywEHT
Blog Tour: http://litfusegroup.com/author/sfisher

Review:

A few of you might be wandering how I read so fast. And all I can say is that I read one page at a time. I learned how to speed read at early age; plus, if the plot is really good, I literally fly thru the pages, which is exactly what happened when I read the final book in The Inn At Eagle Hill series, The Revealing, last month. Suzanna Woods Fisher is becoming one my favorite authors and she doesn't disappoint in her latest novel.


The Revealing centers on Naomi King, who is in love with Tobe Schrock, but due to a few circumstances (Please read the book, I'm not giving away any spoilers!) beyond their control, any sort of future together will probably never occur. To make matters worse, a mysterious young woman arrives at the Eagle Inn with a startling revelation that will that rock Tobe's world.

Meanwhile, a new guest, who happens to be a genealogist, is stirring up a bit of trouble for the Schrock family.

Do you remember the Rugrats? The series aired from 1992 to 2004 and spawned three feature films, The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and Rugrats Go Wild. Nickelodeon will be releasing two Rugrats DVD titles this Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

Outdoor Shenanigans! (ASIN: B00J5G1NTW; Retail: $9.98) features six outrageous adventures:

• Discover America
• Barbeque Story
• Moose Country
• Sound Ho!
• Gold Rush

Join Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Angelica and the other toddlers as they go on an imaginary tour of America. The toddlers help Tommy on a rescue mission to save his favorite ball that was tossed over the fence. After grandpa told them a tall tale about a moose, the toddlers go in search for their own moose. Grandpa tells them another story, but this time it is about pirates, resulting in the toddlers playing make-believe pirates. The toddlers have gold fever after finding a nickle in the playground.

Reptar Returns! (ASIN: B00J5G1PQS; Retail: $9.98) features the toddlers in three exciting episodes, including the very first made-for-TV movie.

• Runaway Reptar
• Reptar 2010
• Big Showdown

After arriving at the drive-in theater, the toddlers get bored and they imagine that they are in the movie, Robot Reptar. The double-length episode, Runaway Reptar, was so popular that it inspired an amusement park ride at Kings Island. The toddlers later supply their own ending to the Reptar movie when the VHS tape breaks. Then its all our war after Did remodels Tommy and Dil's room without their permission.

Prisoners Of War: Season One
Starring: Yoram Toledano, Ishai Golan, Assi Cohen, Mili Avital. Yael Abecassis, Adi Ezroni, Hadar Ratzon-Rotem, Salim Dau
Studio: Shout! Factory
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Retail: $29.93
ASIN: B00JJOY44G
Running Time: 500 minutes
Rating: TV-MA
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

While the political thriller Homeland airing on Showtime has become a ratings hit and has won many awards, probably very few of you are aware that it is based on the Israeli television drama, Prisoners of War. The series premiered in 2010 and the series' creator Gideon Raff plans on making a third season. The first two seasons has been available on Hulu, but it will be arriving on DVD for the first time in United States on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, from Shout! Factory. Bonus features include An Open Wound: Making Prisoners of War and episode commentaries with creator Gideon Raff and director of photography Itai Neeman.

Prisoners of War: Season One centers on three Israeli soldiers returning home after spending the last 17 years in captivity. Nimrod Klein and Uri Zach return to their families alive, while Amiel Ben-Horin returns in a coffin. Much of the first season shows Nimrod and Uri trying to adjust to society, which the nation considers them heroes, and renters their wives' and children's lives, which isn't easy as their families have moved on. To make matters worse, the military suspects that they are hiding something.

Episodes on the three-disc set are:

Summer is definitely here, but if the hot weather is too much for you to handle, then you should stay inside and watch some great toons with your family. Nickelodeon Home Entertainment is releasing two DVD collections featuring some of the most popular Nickelodeon characters from their hit series, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sanjay and Craig.

Heroes In Action (ASIN: B00J5G1NA6; Retail: $9.98) features five action-packed adventures. First up, SpongeBob's best friend, Patrick, becomes a superhero in Patrick-Man! and battles the Dirty Bubble, but wrecks havoc on Bikini Bottom! SpongeBob must come to rescue in Gary's New Toy when Gary becomes obsessed with a new red ball.

After Michelangelo was caught skateboarding in the lair, the Turtles get grounded in I Think His Name Is Baxter Stockman, but they sneak out to encounter Baxter Stockman in a mechanical battle armor. The Turtles must out-think the scientist, if they plan on saving the city from total destruction.

After Sanjay and his snake pal, Craig, grow huge muscles, they join the police force, Muscle C.O.P.S. In Cold Hard Cash, Craig and Sanjay teamup to locate a frozen treasure that is worth $100 before Baby Richard Dickson gets his hands on it.

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For the last three years in October, I have been celebrating my love for Halloween with either a 13 or 31 day celebration featuring book reviews, movie reviews and guest posts. Last year, I teamed up with Literary R&R, which we both featured one or more Halloween themed posts for 31 days. I found 31 days to be a little difficult, due to interfered with a few book tours I couldn't get out of.

I would like to do things a little different this year than last year's 31 Days of Halloween. Instead of each blog posting a Halloween themed post for 31 days, this year each blog will post on specific days. This way each blogger will have to participate in book tours and can publish other non-Halloween posts in October.

Bloggers can pick as many days (well, at least one day) as they want to participate in. The posts can be anything with a Halloween theme, including book reviews, movie reviews, interview with horror authors, giveaways, etc.

Bloggers Can Sign Up Below:

Orders Is Orders
Stories form the Golden Age
by L. Ron Hubbard
Directed by Jim Meskimen
Voice Cast: Brooke Bloom, Corey Burton, R.F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Josh R. Thompson and Michael Yurchak
Studio/Publisher: Galaxy Press
Release Date: March 16, 2009
ISBN: 978-1592122332
Running Time: 2 hours 33 minutes
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Long before Kindles, Nooks and the Tablets, people relied on paperbacks, newspapers and magazines for their reading entertainment. In the 1930s and 1940s, cheap-made magazines, dubbed Pulp Magazines, flew off the newsstands, featuring adventure stores of every genre by well-established writers, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elmore Leonard and Ray Bradbury. The great science-fiction author, L. Ron Hubbard, published over one-hundred-fifty short stories during this era, known to most as the Golden Age. Galaxy Press has been releasing Hubbard's titles on audiobooks, with a talented voice-cast and amazing sound effects.

Each and every month, I participate in the Earlier Reviewers program on LibraryThing, in which a reader gets a chance to win a copy of a book in exchange for a review. Over the last four years, I have won a handful of titles, several eBooks, a few paperbacks and a couple of audiobooks. Back in November 2013, I won a copy of Orders Is Orders, which I received a few weeks later in December. I was busy around the holidays, so I kept pushing the audiobook aside, well that is until last month when I finally got around to listening to it.

Orders Is Orders first appeared in the December 1937 issue of Argosy and is set in the worn-torn Chinese city of Shunkien, The US has a small consulate that is filled with frightened and starving refugees in the city. To make matters worse, some are suffering from the Asiatic cholera. Their only hope is the USS Miami, which is located two hundred miles away, but the US can't take any sort of military action, including bringing supplies to the consulate, without causing an 'act of war' with the Japanese.