Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos
Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos – 400 pages Book Blurb: Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a...
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner - 376 pages Book Blurb: For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her...
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - 328 pages Book Blurb: The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school....
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith - 496 pages Book Blurb: The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty,...
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer - 432 pages Book Blurb: At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to...
The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley - 876 pages Book Blurb: Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. My Review: 4.5 stars Click here to order on Amazon The...
Motherland by Fern Schumer Chapman
Motherland: Beyond The Holocaust by Fern Schumer Chapman - 208 pages Book Blurb: One woman's moving story of her journey with her mother to find their past and the tragedy that haunts it. In 1937, Edith Westerfeld's parents--before being killed by the Nazis--sent her...
The Rich Part Of Life by Jim Korkoris
The Rich Part Of Life by Jim Kokoris – 336 pages Book Blurb: After Teddy loses his mother to a car accident, he and his young brother are left with their eccentric Civil War professor father, who is more able to discuss Confederate footwear than his sons' day at...
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama - 211 pages Book Blurb: A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper...

