
The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy
The Mapmakerโs Children by Sarah McCoyโ 320 pages Book Blurb: When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroadโs leading...

Finding The Time To Read
Finding The Time To Read! I was recently at a networking meeting and was not only promoting goodbookfairy.com, but also preaching about the importance of reading. After the meeting, a woman told with me that she has no time to read anymore and wanted to know where I...

Queen Of The Tearling by Erika Johansen
Queen Of The Tearling by Erika Johansenโ 448 pages Book Blurb: On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves...

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
Canโt We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chastโ 228 pages Book Blurb: In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos,...

The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat, translated by Adriana Hunterโ 208 pages ARC from Net Galley Book Blurb: Who is the real author of The Black Insignia? Is it H. R. Sanders, whose name is printed on the cover of every installment of the wildly...

Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen
Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochenโ 368 pages ARC from publisher Book Blurb: Burned-out and broke, twenty-two-year-old single mother Anna Jennings moves to her grandparents' rural home for the summer with her four-year-old son, David. The sudden appearance of shadowy...

At The Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
At The Waters Edge by Sara Gruenโ 368 pages Book Blurb: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Yearโs Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellisโs father, a former army Colonel who is...

Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
Perfect Peace by Daniel Blackโ 341 pages Book Blurb: When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, โYou was born a boy. Iย madeย you a girl. But that ainโt what you was supposed to be. So,...

The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate
The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingateโ 438 pages Book Blurb: When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the...

Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister
Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meisterโ 336 pages Book Blurb: Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone,ย anyone, who will keep her company on this side of...