Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See– 269 pages Book Blurb: In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong,...
Music For Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai
Music For Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai – 240 pages Book Blurb: Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose...
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...
2015 Holiday List – Giving The Gift of Books!
2015 Holiday List - Giving The Gift of Books! The links below will take you to the goodbookfairy.com website where you can purchase these books and anything else on your list directly through Amazon.com. Getting to Amazon through my website helps me with my website...
Born With Teeth: A Memoir by Kate Mulgrew
Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew – 8 discs Audio Version Book Blurb: Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a...
The Marriage Of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
The Marriage Of Opposites by Alice Hoffman- 384 pages Book Blurb: Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never...
Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner
Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner- 400 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley Book Blurb: Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister’s vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her...
We Never Asked For Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
We Never Asked For Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh- 320 pages Book Blurb: For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children—Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six—in their tiny apartment on a...
The Devil In Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen
The Devil In Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen- 304 pages Book Blurb: Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American, devoutly recites Psalms at the bedside, refusing to answer any questions. Brought in to...
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian- 336 pages ARC courtesy of NetGalley Book Blurb: When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for...
