
A Hundred Flowers
A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama - 288 pages Advanced Reader Copy courtesy of St. Martin's Press Book Blurb: China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend.” Many...

Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson
Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson - 379 pages Book Blurb: FromNazi-occupied Poland to a Chicago courtroom Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a...

Other Waters
Other Waters by Eleni N. Gage- 352 pages Book Blurb Maya is an accomplished psychiatry resident with a terrific boyfriend, loving family, and bustling New York social life. When her grandmother dies in India, a family squabble over property results in a curse that...

Dancing On Broken Glass by Ka Hancock
Dancing On Broken Glass by Ka Hancock - 394 pages Book Blurb: Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder; she, a ravaging family history of breast...
2012 Mother’s Day Picks
Mother’s Day Picks Did your mother pass down her love of reading on to you? Do you remember her giving you a copy of Little House On The Prairie or your first Judy Blume book? Maybe she doesn’t read at all and you want to share your passion of books with her. Either...

Blue Asylum
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall - 270 pages Advanced Reader Copy courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Shelf Awareness Book Blurb: Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only...

Butterfly’s Child
Butterfly’s Child by Angela Davis-Gardner - 332 pages Book Blurb: When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the...

The Underside Of Joy
The Underside Of Joy by Sere Prince Alverson - 307 pages Book Blurb: Set against the backdrop of redwood forests and shimmering vineyards, Seré Prince Halverson's compelling debut tells the story of two women, bound by an unspeakable loss, who each claims to be the...
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - 387 pages Book Blurb: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of...

The Little Giant Of Aberdeen County
The Little Giant Of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker- 352 pages Book Blurb: When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how record breakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the...