
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...

Perla by Carolina De Robertis
Perla by Carolina De Robertis–256 pages Book Blurb: Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from...

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared
Order on Amazon today! The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson–384 pages Book Blurb: After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s...

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nicholas Butler–320 pages Book Blurb: Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town — Little Wing — and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the...