The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah ARC from St. Martins Press and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are...
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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson - 288 pages ARC from Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. But when her birthday finally comes...
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner - 384 pages ARC from Berkley and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to...
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson by – 196 pages Book Blurb: Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these...
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson ARC from Custom House and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: It’s 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the “divorce capital of the world,” Reno, Nevada. There’s one...
The Grace Kelly Dress by Brenda Janowitz
The Grace Kelly Dress by Brenda Janowitz Book Blurb: In Paris, 1958, Grace Kelly’s royal wedding dress is still all the rage in fashion circles. Rose, a seamstress at a famous atelier, has just been entrusted with sewing another gown in its image. An orphan, she needs...
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson – 400 pages ARC from Kensington for an honest review Book Blurb: At night, in Huda’s fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of...
The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman - 304 pages Finished copy provided by Kensington Books for an honest review. Book Blurb: In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia’s overcrowded slums and the...
The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose
The Last Tiara by MJ Rose – 437 pages ARC from Get Red PR for an honest review Book Blurb: Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secrets have...
Fifty Words for Rain by Ahsa Lemmie
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie – 464 pages Book Blurb: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will...