The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat
The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat, translated by Adriana Hunter– 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 Lochen– 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 Gruen– 368 pages Book Blurb: After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis’s father, a former army Colonel who is...
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black– 341 pages Book Blurb: When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. So,...
The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate
The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate– 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 Meister– 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, anyone, who will keep her company on this side of...
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All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews– 317 pages Book Blurb: Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two...
Everything I’ve Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Everything I’ve Never Told You by Celeste Ng– 336 pages Book Blurb: Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins this debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation. Lydia...
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins– 336 pages Book Blurb: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same...
