
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Landline by Rainbow Rowell – 310 pages – ARC from St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems...

On Leaving…
I wrote this three years ago as my daughter was leaving for college. As I’ve mentioned, I write as a means of therapy and getting this down on paper did the trick for me. I've gotten some requests to publish it again so if it can help any of you as your child leaves...

The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd – 373 pages Book Blurb: Hetty "Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter,...

If Reading Were Genetic…
If Reading Were Genetic... by Lauren Margolin I’d love to think that reading is a hereditary passion; that there’s a gene for the simple love of reading. And maybe there is, who knows? One of my kids follows my book loving footsteps, while the other trails in my...

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman – 354 pages ARC from publisher Book Blurb: In this bestselling and delightfully quirky debut novel from Sweden, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door....

The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings – 288 pages Book Blurb: In the idyllic ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Though single, Sarah is hardly alone in her grief....

A Day Of Small Beginnings by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum
A Day Of Small Beginnings by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum – 384 pages Book Blurb: Poland, 1906: on a cold spring night, in the small Jewish cemetery of Zokof, Friedl Alterman is wakened from death. On the ground above her crouches Itzik Leiber, a reclusive, unbelieving...

The Julian Chapter: A Wonder Story by RJ Palacio
Wonder: The Julian Chapter by R.J. Palacio – 84 pages Book Blurb: Over 1 million people have read Wonder and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Now readers will have a chance to hear from the book's most controversial...

All My Friends Are Super Heroes by Andrew Kaufman
All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman – 120 pages Book Blurb: All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized...

The One Good Thing by Kevin Alan Milne
The One Good Thing by Kevin Alan Milne – 384 pages Book Blurb: For as long as Halley Steen has known her husband Nathan, he has carried a handful of stones in his pocket. Each day he uses those stones to remind him to follow the Golden Rule, moving a stone from one...