And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - 404 pages Book Blurb: In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and...
2013 Father’s Day Picks
With Father’s Day just around the corner, I’ve compiled a list of books that have been highly promoted for this upcoming father’s day. Enjoy your day dads! The Son by Philipp Meyer The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver The Gift of Fire by Dan...
The Conditions Of Love
The Conditions Of Love by Dale M. Kushner - 384 pages Book Blurb: Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and...
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok -304 pages Book Blurb: When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings....
Big Girl Panties
Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich -336 pages ARC from William Morrow Book Blurb: Holly Brennan didn't expect to be a widow at thirty-two. She also didn't expect to be so big. Through her husband Bruce's diagnosis and death, food was the one thing she could...
The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes -390 pages Book Blurb: It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger...
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler-322 pages Book Blurb: Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in...
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright -304 pages Book Blurb: Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough...
2013 Mother’s Day Picks
Some of these are on my TBR list (family, please read this as last minute gifts for me) while others are excellent books I’ve read and cherished and would therefore make great Mother’s Day gifts! The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Fly Away by Kristin Hannah (sequel to...
Letters From Skye
Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole -287 pages ARC from Ballantine Books Book Blurb: A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and...
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