The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks
The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks – 336 pages - ARC Book Blurb: Reading his own newspaper’s obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that...
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George – 400 pages Book Blurb: Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a...
Slave and Sister by Sabra Waldfogel
Slave And Sister by Sabra Waldfogel– 367 pages Book Blurb: Adelaide Mannheim and her slave Rachel have grown up with a shameful secret. Adelaide’s father is Rachel’s father, too. Their secret shadows their girlhood together and follows them into Adelaide’s marriage....
A Fall Of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
A Fall Of Marigolds by Susan Meissner– 364 pages Book Blurb: September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a...
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson– 338 pages Book Blurb: Nothing is as permanent as it appears . . . Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete...
The Sound Of Glass by Karen White
The Sound Of Glass by Karen White– 432 pages Book Blurb: It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward’s husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news—Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal’s reclusive grandmother, now belongs to...
The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack
The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack– 366 pages Book Blurb: Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he...
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman– 367 pages Book Blurb: Bloom where you’re planted,” is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It’s a...
On Leaving: Round Two
On Leaving: Round Two – June, 2015 Three years ago, I wrote a piece (attached here) about my first born leaving the nest. It went semi-viral which was complimentary, but certainly not my intent. For me, writing is therapeutic and I shared my sentiments as a comfort to...
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Inside The O’Briens by Lisa Genova– 352 pages Book Blurb: Joe O’Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer,...

