Windy City Blues by Renee Rosen– 448 pages ARC courtesy of author Book Blurb: In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records,...
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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...
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward - 270 pages Book Blurb: Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she’s trying desperately to...
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult– 480 pages ARC courtesy of Ballantine and Netgalley Book Blurb: A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to...
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende – 336 pages ARC courtesy of Atria Books Book Blurb: In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San...
The Color Of Secrets by Lindsay Ashford
The Color Of Secrets by Lindsay Ashford – 399 pages Book Blurb: In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an...
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler-322 pages Book Blurb: Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in...
The Woman At The Light by Joanna Brady
The Woman At The Light by Joanna Brady - 351 pages Book Blurb: One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but...
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...
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan - 324 pages Book Blurb: In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm--a place she finds...