Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi – 305 pages Book Blurb: Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is...
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The Lost Girls by Heather Young
The Lost Girls by Heather Young - 340 pages Book Blurb: In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys her mother, who spends the rest of her life at the lake house,...
My Fat Dad: A Memoir by Dawn Lerman
My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love and Family by Dawn Lerman - 336 pages Book Blurb: Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of...
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows - 272 pages Book Blurb: Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma...
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff– 368 pages ARC from Netgalley and Mira Book Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier during the occupation of her native Holland. Heartbroken over the loss of the baby she was...
The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright
The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright– 432 pages ARC from NetGalley and Shadow Mountain Book Blurb: Seven-year-old Chellamuthu’s life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting...
The Nix by Nathan Hill
The Nix by Nathan Hill– 628 pages Book Blurb: It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared,...
Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt
Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt – 354 pages ARC from Algonquin Publishing Book Blurb: It's 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions...
Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven
Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven– 400 pages Book Blurb: Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death,...
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood– 354 pages Book Blurb: Ava’s twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of...