Going Home, Tom Lamont, Alfred A. Knopf – Teo goes home for a brief visit with his father and to hang out with his childhood friends. Nowhere in his imagination does he expect to wind up as the guardian for a two-year-old boy
Diane Slocum
Diane Slocum has been a newspaper reporter and editor and authored an historical book. As a freelance writer, she contributes regularly to magazines and newspapers. She writes features on authors and a column for writers and readers in Lifestyle magazine. She is assigned to write interviews of first-time novelists and bestselling authors for Authorlink®
Former Medic with PTSD Struggles to Care for Her Son
At The Island’s Edge, Cherisa I. Jereez, Lake Union Publishing – As an Army medic in Iraq, Lina is there to save lives, not take them. When the tables turn, the shot she fires echoes throughout the center of her being …
Teen Slave Driven to Desparate Acts by Dead Sister
Erin Crosby Eckstine, Junie, Ballantine Books – Teen Slave Driven to Desperate Acts by Dead Sister
Maid befriended by Roosevelts Becomes Civil Rights Champion
Let Us March On, Shara Moon, William Morrow paperbacks – Lizzie McDuffie was a longtime nanny for a family in Atlanta and her husband, Mac, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s valet before he became president.
Filipina Teen Struggles to Achieve Her Dream in America
Love Can’t Feed You, Cherry Lou Sy, Dutton – Filipina Teen Struggles to Achieve Her Dream in America
Friend’s Death Sends Psychiatrist on Road to Discovery
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Ecklund? by Anna Montague, ecco – Magda Ecklund’s best friend, Sara, has died and Magda is having a hard time coping.
Black Woman Finds Fame in Negro Baseball League
In A League of Her Own by Kaia Alderson, William Morrow – Effa Bush divorced her first husband because she didn’t want to be just someone’s wife. She wanted to BE somebody.
Teenager Makes Her Way on Texas Border Despite Family Curse
Malas, Marcela Fuentes, Viking – After a strange, old woman appears, tragedies mar Pilar’s life.
Young Nigerian Struggles to break free from his lot in life
The Liquid Eye of the Moon, Uchenna Awoke, Catapult – Dimpka lives with his poor family in a small village in rural Nigeria.
Mysterious Letter Opens Crack in Rigidly Ordered Life
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder, Kerry Mayne, St. Martin Press – Lenny Marks’ life runs right on schedule. She teaches school but has little interaction with other
teachers. Or anyone else.
