The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantorβ 336 pages ARC from author Book Blurb: Austria, 1938.Β 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 Frankelβ Audi0 Book Blurb: This is Claude. Heβs 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 Seeβ 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 β 368 pages Book Blurb: Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the familyβs auto shop and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor....
The Mother’s Promise by Sally Hepworth
The Motherβs Promise by Sally Hepworthβ 368 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley and St. Martinβs 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 β 324 pages Book Blurb: 1939 in Vienna, Rose Zimmerβs 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.Β ...
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah β Audio Book Blurb: Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk ofΒ The Daily ShowΒ 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...
The Dressmaker’s Dowry by Meredith Jaeger
The Dressmakerβs Dowry by Meredith Jaeger β 384 pages Book Blurb: An exquisite ring, passed down through generations, connects two women who learn that love is a choice, and forgiveness is the key to freedom... San Francisco: 1876 - Immigrant dressmakers Hannelore...
Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen
Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen β Audio Book Blurb: The first time Julia Ansdell picks upΒ The Incendio Waltz,Β she knows itβs a strikingly unusual composition. But while playing the piece, Julia blacks out and awakens to find her young daughter implicated in acts...
News Of The World by Paulette Jiles
News Of The World by Paulette Jiles β Audio Book Blurb: In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multi-layered novel of historical fiction...

