
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - 336 pages ARC from Gallery Books and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a...

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge - 371 pagesBook Blurb: Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.Itβs 1938. The...

Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon
Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon ARC from Ace and Netgalley for an honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: As a Holderβs daughter, Aspeth Honori knows the importance of magical artifacts . . . which is why itβs a disaster that her father has gambled all theirs away. Now that her...

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Loigman β 320 pages ARC from St. Martins Press and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springsβan active...

The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Wedding People by Alison Espach β 384 pages ARC from Macmillan Audio, Henry Holt and Netgalley Β Book Blurb: t's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight,...

Wordhunter by Stella Sands
Wordhunter by Stella Sands Β ARC from Harper and Netgalley for an honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The top student in her...

Maria by Michelle Moran
Maria: A Novel of Maria Von Trapp by Michelle MoranΒ ARC from Dell books and Netgalley for an honest reveiwBook Blurb: In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. Heβs intrigued to learn...

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood - 384 pagesΒ ARC from Berkley and PRH audio for honest reviewΒ Book Blurb: Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful...

Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman Confino
Behind Every Good Man by Sara Goodman ConfinoΒ ARC fromΒ Lake Union and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: Itβs a doozy of a bad day for Beverly Diamond when she catches her husband, Larry, in a compromising position with his secretary. Whatβs a DC suburban...

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
The Lost StoryΒ by Meg ShafferΒ ARC from Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no...