Month: September 2011

New Release Tuesday: September 27

New Release Tuesday: September 27

Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means – lots of great new releases to talk about today! I’ve picked some of the highlights to post here, but please take a few minutes to check out all of this week’s new books by visiting our Lazy Day Books retail site. As always, click the book title below for more information. Here we go!

Check out new releases from James Lee Burke, Richard Castle, Anne Mallory, John Lithgow, Anne Ursu and more!

New Release Tuesday: September 20

New Release Tuesday: September 20

Wow, being on vacation through Monday really messed with my internal clock! I’m a day late, but this week’s new releases are still exciting and I can’t wait to share the highlights with you here! As always, please visit our retail store to see all of this week’s new ebooks.

New releases this week from Barbara Freethy, Neal Stephenson, Dave Ramsey, Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery and more!

Which books are you reading this week?

7 Tips to Getting Your (Little) Kids to Try New Foods!

7 Tips to Getting Your (Little) Kids to Try New Foods!

If dinner time is drama time at your house, you’re not alone.

All parents of young children can tell stories about the tears, the NOs!, the picked over plates, the refusals to sit down, the dropped food and turned over bowls … the list of potential eating problems in little ones goes on and on. And unfortunately, sometimes the best advice you will get is just “wait it out” – they are children, after all!

But it’s not just a matter of waiting until they’re teens and hoping they’ll outgrow it. Here are some concrete steps that you can take now, while your kids are in the early eating years, that will set them on the right path for healthy eating for years to come.

Thriller Thursday: No Rest For The Dead, Edited by Andrew and Lamia Gulli

Thriller Thursday: No Rest For The Dead, Edited by Andrew and Lamia Gulli

It’s time for another installment of Thriller Thursday!

This one was really exciting for me – No Rest For The Dead was written by twenty-six amazing mystery and thriller authors including Sandra Brown, RL Stine, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Palmer, Kathy Reichs and more. Twenty-Six! As excited as I was for what promised to be a great mystery, I was even more excited to see how all these author’s writing styles would blend together into one cohesive story. Would it be seamless or would it be disjointed? The only way to find out was to dive right in.

Who are your favorite mystery writers?

Book Review: Where You Left Me by Jennifer Gardner Trulson

Book Review: Where You Left Me by Jennifer Gardner Trulson

Over the next few weeks, there will be much written about the 10th Anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. And those stories will affect all of us in different ways.

But for thousands of families, the hurt and the pain will be more deeply felt than anything we can imagine. Because someone they loved was killed in New York, Pennsylvania or Washington, D.C. For these families, it’s not the hurt of a nation pulled together by shared tragedy, it is much more personal.