2017 Spring Break Picks
2017 Spring Break Books For years, I've been calling this list my Spring Break Picks. It's ironic because my kids are grown and flown and really, we haven't been on a spring vacation in years. Even when my kids were in college, they never shared the same week off. So...
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
We Were The Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter – 416 pages Book Blurb: It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new...
The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
The Best Of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion – 352 pages ARC – Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press Book Blurb: On the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He’s happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks...
Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia
Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia– Audio Book Blurb: High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her...
The Red Notebook by Antione Laurain
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain Book Blurb: Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a...
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran– 480 pages ARC courtesy of Netgalley and GP Putnam Book Blurb: Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and dazed with optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep...
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle– 352 pages ARC from Mira Book Blurb: Iris and Will's marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighborhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning...
A Bridge Across The Ocean by Susan Meissner
A Bridge Across The Ocean by Susan Meissner– 384 pages ARC courtesy of the author Book Blurb: February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape...
2017 Book Challenge
2017 Book Challenge is here! Send to me when you've completed it and random entries from the U.S. will win a prize at the end of the year.
The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian
The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian– 304 pages Book Blurb: When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating. Once, she merely destroyed the hydrangeas in front of...
