A Tale For The Time Being
A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki -432 pages ARC from Viking Penquin Book Blurb: “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and everyone of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only...
Fly Away
Fly Away by Kristin Hannah -416 pages ARC from St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than...
Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller
Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller -371 pages Book Blurb: Jacob’s Folly is a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book, brimful of sparkling, unexpected characters, that takes on desire, faith, love, acting—and reincarnation. In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jew, a...
The Tin Horse
The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg -352 pages Book Blurb: After years of resistance to the idea, feisty octogenarian Elaine Greenstein finally decides to move from the home in which she raised her family to a retirement community. While she's packing her possessions,...
Before I Go To Sleep
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson -359 pages Book Blurb: 'As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...' Memories define...
The Birth House by Ami McKay
The Birth House by Ami McKay -382 pages Book Blurb: The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian...
A World Away
A World Away by Nancy Grossman -400 pages Book Blurb: A summer of firsts: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Miller has never made a phone call, never tried on a pair of jeans, never sat in a darkened theater waiting for a movie to start. She’s never even talked to someone her...
The Fault In Our Stars
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green -313 pages Book Blurb: Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now. Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is...
Best Kept Secrets
Best Kept Secrets by Amy Hatvany -352 pages Book Blurb: Her drinking snuck up on her - as a way to sleep, to help her relax after a long day, to relieve some of the stress of the painful divorce that’s left her struggling to make ends meet with her five-year old son,...
Daughter Of Smoke And Bone
Daughter Of Smoke And Bone by Laini Taylor - 494 pages Book Blurb: Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages not all of them human; and her bright...

