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...
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...
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