Better Late Then Never Giveaway for Memorial Day
Book Blurb: This beautifully illustrated counting board book introduces children to the numbers 1 through 10 using poetic prose and colorful illustrations of equipment, uniforms, medals, traditions, and other mementos exclusive to the Army community.Along with the...

Where Earth Meets Water by Pia Padukone
Where Earth Meets Water by Pia Padukone– 269 pages – ARC from Harlequin MIRA Book Blurb: Karom Seth should have been in the Twin Towers on the morning of 9/11, and on the Indian shores in 2004, when the tsunami swept his entire family into the ocean. Whether it's a...

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart – 240 pages – ARC from Random House Book Blurb: A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A...

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian – 288 pages ARC from Doubleday Book Blurb: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless girl living in an igloo made of garbage bags in Burlington. Nearly a year ago, a power plant in the...

Sea Creatures by Susana Daniel
Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel – 320 pages Book Blurb: When Georgia returns to her hometown of Miami, her toddler son and husband in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. They have left Illinois trailing scandal and disappointment in their wake: Graham's sleep...

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin– 260 pages Book Blurb: A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of...

All This Talk Of Love by Christopher Castellani
All This Talk Of Love by Chris Castellani–339 pages Book Blurb: It’s been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she would ever see her parents, her sisters and brothers—everything she knew and loved in...

I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe–297 pages Book Blurb: Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father’s...

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman – 288 pages Book Blurb: On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself...
2014 Mother’s Day Picks
Mother’s Day Books 2014 Next Sunday is Mother’s Day and there’s always room in a mother’s heart for a new book. If she’s an avid reader she’ll embrace it and dig right in, like me (hint, hint). If she’s a “vacation only reader” may this be a perfect reminder that she...