October seems a fitting month to offer a book about leading vampire Prince Lestat and another book about how Dracula came to be.  All this and more in this week’s list.   Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber Josie Avery takes a summer position cooking at a lakeside lodge in a remote Alaskan town and quickly falls for Palmer Saxon, a famed sword smith, but Josie…

It is natural to respond with fight or flight when we feel threatened.  This very human response also makes for a page-turning read as we consider the response to threat of a character in a story.  We can feel the tension as we contemplate what we would do in that character’s place.  This week’s offerings provide several opportunties to do just that.   Accessory to…

We are drawn to books for a variety of individual reasons, but certain key elements might be the fast-paced action in a plot driven thriller or the beauty of language in a literary work.  Well-developed characters are often a key element. Some of the characters in these new books are dealing with the past by either trying in vain to recreate it or by running…