Today, I’m doing a special promo for a very dear friend of mine whose fabulous book just hit the shelves of bookstores everywhere!

Farrah, over the years I’ve watched you pursue your dream with steadfast determination, never wavering, and always holding to the conviction that you’d sell when it was “your time”. Your attitude has been a huge source of encouragement for me, allowing me to approach my own dream with the same deep-in-my-heart conviction that my time will come…with persistence and patience.

I am so thrilled–so incredibly proud–that I can say “your time” is here.

So, without further ado–and for those of you who aren’t Farrah :D–I give you DELIVER ME:

After being dumped by her boyfriend and passed over for yet another promotion, Monica Gardner moves to New Orleans, determined to make a name for herself as the new attending ER physician at Methodist Memorial Hospital. As for men–she’s through with them. But when given the chance to chair the hospital’s annual charity banquet, Monica must elicit the help of gorgeous Ob-gyn Elijah Holmes.

Eli will do anything to thwart his matchmaking Mama’s plan to reunite him with his high school girlfriend. So, when the sexy new ER doc asks for his help in planning this year’s charity banquet, Eli devises the perfect scheme: He’ll help put on the best banquet the hospital has ever seen, if Monica poses as his new girlfriend. But when Eli finds himself falling in love, he realizes convincing Monica of his true feelings may be his greatest delivery yet.

Available from Dorchester. Run to get this book.

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I promise you, it’s fabulous! (Are you going yet? What are you waiting for?)

Oh, and don’t forget to drop by Farrah’s website to take a peek at her books, or visit her blog to congratulate her on her debut!

We took the boys to the movie theater the other day to see Disney’s Cars and they had a preview of an upcoming childrens’ movie about a boy, a dare, and fried worms. Even before the preview finished and the title was ‘announced’ I knew it was a movie based on the book:

I loved this book and it got me thinking about other books

I’d read as a child that really stuck with me. So, I looked some of them up. This is the first one that popped in my mind:

 Blurb: Considered a modern-day children’s classic, Juster’s ingenious fantasy centers around a bored ten-year-old boy named Milo who travels to “The Lands Beyond” when he drives his miniature car through a mysterious tollbooth.

And then this one:

 Blurb: Everyone in town thinks Meg Murry is volatile and dull-witted, and that her younger brother, Charles Wallace, is dumb. People are also saying that their physicist father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors and an unearthly stranger, the tesseract-touting Mrs Whatsit, Meg and Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O’Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.

And this story always stuck with me even though I’d forgotten the title and only recently “stumbled” upon it. Maybe it’s the writing element of the story, but I loved it as a young girl:

 Blurb: The Secret Everybody in Jessica’s English class makes fun of Daphne. She never says a word to anyone — just walks around with her nose in a book, with her long straggly hair hanging over her face. Now the worst thing has happened. The teacher has assigned Jessica to be partners with Daphne in the Write-A-Book contest!

But being forced to work with the class “weirdo”, Jessica gets an even bigger surprise. Not only does Daphne talk to her, but she tells Jessica a terrible secret…one that Jessica knows could be very dangerous to keep.

And of course, there’s Little Women and the entire Anne of Green Gables series. Let’s face it, I was a bookworm, so I’ve read–and loved–many books. Which ones are your childhood/young adult favorites?