The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant – 335 pages Book Blurb: Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in...
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen – 335 pages Book Blurb: Orphaned, penniless, Jacob Jankowski jumps a freight train in the dark, and in that instant, transforms his future. By morning, he's landed a job with the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most...
Under The Jeweled Sky by Alison McQueen
Under The Jeweled Sky by Alison McQueen – 399 pages Book Blurb: London 1957. In a bid to erase her past and build the family she yearns for, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British diplomat, Lucien Grainger. When he is posted to New Delhi,...
Coincidence by J.W. Ironmonger
Coincidence by J. W. Ironmonger – 304 pages Book Blurb: On Midsummer's Day, 1982, at the age of three, Azalea was found wandering a fairground in England, alone, too young to explain what had happened to her or her parents. After a brief investigation, she was...
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen – 296 pages Book Blurb: Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable...
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan – 357 pages Book Blurb: Paris. 1878. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the...
The Enchanted by Rene Denefeld
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld – 224 pages Book Blurb: The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes...
The Orphan Master’s Son
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson – 443 pages Book Blurb: In this epic, critically-acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force, Adam Johnson provides a riveting portrait of a world rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie,...
The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh
The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh – 336 pages Book Blurb: After their mother's probable suicide, sisters Olivia and Jazz are figuring out how to move on with their lives. Jazz, logical and forward-thinking, decides to get a new job, but spirited, strong-willed Olivia,...
Thirteen Reasons Why
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher – 288 pages Book Blurb: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who...
