
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue - 368 pages Advanced Reading Copy Book Blurb: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot...

A Walk Across The Sun by Corban Addison
A Walk Across The Sun by Corban Addison - 358 pages Book Blurb: When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the...

The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin - 3o1 pages Book Blurb: When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo...

The Butterfly Sister
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen - 320 pages Book Blurb: Eight months after dropping out of Tarble, an all-women's college, twenty-two-year-old Ruby Rousseau is still haunted by the memories of her senior year-a year marred by an affair with her English...

Garden Of Stones
Garden Of Stones by Sophie Littlefield - 301 pages Book Blurb: In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrifice. Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother,...

The Map Of Lost Memories
The Map Of Lost Memories by Kim Fay - 326 pages Book Blurb: In 1925 the international treasure-hunting scene is a man’s world, and no one understands this better than Irene Blum, who is passed over for a coveted museum curatorship because she is a woman. Seeking to...

Helen Keller In Love
Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan - 256 pages Book Blurb: Helen Keller has long been a towering figure in the pantheon of world heroines. Yet the enduring portrait of her in the popular imagination is The Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old....

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski - 272 pages Book Blurb: In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller The Blind Side, The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how...
2013 Best Books
The Good Book Fairy’s Best of 2013 www.goodbookfairy.com We Are Water by Wally Lamb My Review: 4.5 stars Honestly, this book is like a tall drink of water when you didn’t even know you were thirsty. NO pun intended about the water. I love Wally Lamb and although...

Stella Bain
Stella Bain by Anita Shreve - 261 pages Book Blurb: When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into...