Welcome to Litsy!

#TBRtrmptation post! Elianna is a girl crushed by guilt after her only brother is killed while in her care. She goes to work in her father's textile business when more tragedy strikes. Her talent for design brings success, but her work unravels & she breaks off a betrothal to the only man she'll ever love. Then illness strikes & no one can cure her. Then she hears of a man, she touches his robe, & the rest is history. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! Josephine Marcus, daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with a promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, a famous Arizona lawman. So she leaves her parents to join Johnny in Tombstone. She soon finds Behan unreliable & finds Wyatt Earp a much better match. As their new romance blooms & Johnny's jealousy rages, an iconic rivalry develops which will memorably shock the nation. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! This #truecrime book showed up per patron request. Sounds great! Prohibition, 1933. It's American gangsters' heyday. Bank robberies, kidnappings, bootlegging, are all commonplace. George "Machine Gun" Kelly set his sights on rich oilman Charles Urschel (notice the author's last name?). What follows is a 2,000-mile chase with novice J. Edgar Hoover leading the pursuing authorities. Sounds great! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

#TBRtrmptation post! This just-released debut mystery thriller revolves around the actions of Jacky Seever, pillar of his community & serial killer. Detective Paul Hoskins discovers 33 bodies underneath Seever's home. Sammie Peters was the lead case reporter. And Jacky's wife, Gloria, never knew her husband's killer side. Years later, a new series of murders connected to Jacky bring them all back together. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! The Kusek family leaves 1950s NYC for a small South Dakota town. They get a ranch, & Betsy becomes a visiting nurse. Cal runs for State Assembly & serves 3 popular terms. Then he runs for the US Senate & the FBI notices Betsy had a dalliance with the Communist Party decades ago. Mass hysteria ensues & their community turns against them. Years later their son, Lance, & his family are murdered. Tense! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! This thicker Japanese crime thriller has made waves. For 5 days in January 1989, the parents of a Tokyo 7-year-old listened to her kidnapper's demands. They would never find out his identity. They would never see her again. For 14 years, the public never forgave the authorities for their failure. For 1 week in 2002, a press officer noticed an anomaly in the case. Which would uncover something huge. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! Catchy title, isn't it? This is a step-by-step guide to teach kids from 3 to 23. While teaching them the math & the vocabulary is good, perhaps the most critical part is teaching values--delayed gratification, working hard, living within means, a good education, acting generously toward others. Allowances & after-school jobs aren't Holy Grails. When give them a credit card? A wad of cash? Answers! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

#TBRtrmptation post! BFT was an accomplished ghostwriter & book researcher. She started as a research assistant in the '80s for Bob Woodward, & then helped him write "Veil", about the CIA. Then she helped Carl Bernstein with his memoir, "Loyalties". Then legendary editor Ben Bradlee with his autobio, "A Good Life". And then Hillary Clinton with "It Takes A Village", for which HC infamously didn't give BFT credit. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?