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...
Oleander Girl
Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -304 pages Book Blurb: Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy is the scion of a distinguished Kolkata family and has enjoyed a privileged, sheltered childhood with her adoring grandparents. But she is troubled by...
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore -307 pages Book Blurb: Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed “the Supremes” by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life’s...
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure ARC Sourcebooks for an honest review Book Blurb: In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money—and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place...
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi -341 pages Book Blurb: Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family...
