Mother’s Day Gifts 2017
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter Windy City Blues by Renee Rosen Lucky Boy by Shanthi Shekaran Mothers And Other Strangers by Gina...
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star– Audio Book Blurb: After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps so busy she...
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid– 231 pages Book Blurb: In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature...
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor– 336 pages ARC from author Book Blurb: Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and...
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel– Audi0 Book Blurb: This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants...
The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See– 384 pages ARC courtesy of author Book Blurb: Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep...
All The Best People by Sonja Yoerg
All The Best People by Sonja Yoerg – 368 pages Book Blurb: Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family’s auto shop and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor....
The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth
The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth– 368 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: Alice and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two all their lives. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her...
The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky
The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky – 324 pages Book Blurb: 1939 in Vienna, Rose Zimmer’s parents are desperate. Unable to get out of Austria, they manage to secure passage for their young daughter on a kindertransport, and send her to live with strangers in England. ...
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah – Audio Book Blurb: Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was...
