Mistress Of Rome by Kate Quinn -466 pages Book Blurb: Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, passionate, musical, and guarded. Purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea will become her mistress's rival...
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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey -386 pages Book Blurb: Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from...
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Alice by Lisa Genova-292 pages Book Blurb: Alice Howland - Harvard professor, gifted researcher and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children - sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for...
2012 Best Books
Here it is folks, my best reads of 2012 list. An an FYI, this also means they were published in 2012. Goodness knows, there were lots of books that I read and reviewed this year that came out before 2012 that I both adored and abhorred. Check out the 2012 books read...
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock - 296 pages Book Blurb: The title characters in Me & Emma are very nearly photographic opposites--8-year-old Carrie, the raven-haired narrator, is timid and introverted, while her little sister Emma is a tow-headed powerhouse with...
The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans - by M.L. Stedman 343 pages Book Blurb: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated...
Heft by Liz Moore
Heft by Liz Moore - 354 pages Book Blurb: Book Blurb: Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and...
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff- 97 pages Book Blurb: It all began with a letter inquiring about second-hand books, written by Helene Hanff in New York, and posted to a bookshop at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. As Helene's sarcastic and witty letters are...
The Shield Of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman
The Shield Of Three Lions (Alix of Wanthwaite #1) - by Pamela Kaufman pages Book Blurb: Eleven-year-old Alix is the daughter of the baron of Wanthwaite, whose lands along the Scottish border are among the best in England. But when her family is killed and her lands...
A Chance In The World by Steve Pemberton
A Chance In The World by Steve Pemberton - 256 pages Book Blurb: From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Stephen is mentally and physically tortured. No one in the system can help him. No one can tell him if...