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...
Songs Of Willow Frost
Songs Of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford - 304 pages Book Blurb: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother’s listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his...
The Wedding Gift
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden - 329 pages Book Blurb: When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa’s hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa...
The Tilted World
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly- 288 pages Book Blurb: The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner,...
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
We Are Water by Wally Lamb- 576 pages Book Blurb: In middle age, Anna Oh-wife, mother, outsider artist-has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Anna has fallen in love with Vivica, the wealthy, cultured, confident...
The Sisters Weiss by Naomi Ragen
The Sisters Weiss by Naomi Ragen - 336 pages Book Blurb: In 1950’s Brooklyn, sisters Rose and Pearl Weiss grow up in a loving but strict ultra-Orthodox family, never dreaming of defying their parents or their community’s unbending and intrusive demands. Then, a chance...
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
The Girl You Left Behind by - Jojo Moyes - 384 pages Book Blurb: In 1916, French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her...
