The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters β 307 pages Book Blurb: July 1962. A Miβkmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the familyβs youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old...
Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray β 528 pages ARC from Berkley Pub and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an...
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetskyβ 240 pages ARC from Ecco Books and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Margaret Murphy is a natural-born weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Margaretβs first...
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon β 336 pages ARC from Doubleday, PRH audio and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of...
Banyan Moon by Thao Thai ARC from Mariner books for an honest review Book Blurb: When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since sheβs last seen Minh, Ann has built a...
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis β 368 pages ARC from Dutton for an honest review Book Blurb: New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes, Radio City Music Hallβs glamorous precision-dancing troupe....
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok β 288 pages ARC from William Morrow and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate...
Tom Lake by Ann PatchettΒ Book Blurb: In the spring of 2020, Laraβs three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both...
What You Do to Me by Rochelle B. Weinstein β 363 pages Β ARC from Amazon Publishing and Getred PR for an honest review Book Blurb: Journalist Cecilia James is a sucker for a love song. So when she stumbles across a clue to the identity of the muse for one of rockβs...
The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros β 528 pages Book Blurb: Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding generalβalso known as her tough-as-talons motherβhas ordered Violet...