The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri, Ballantine Books – Nuri and Afra and their young son live on a lovely hill overlooking Aleppo. Nuri and his cousin, Mustafa, tend bees in the fragrant fields of flowers nearby. Then war comes.
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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®
Cantankerous Characters Redefine Family, Challenge the System
Stay and Fight, Madeline ffitch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Helen comes to homestead in Appalachian Ohio with her boyfriend, Shane, who deserts her before they face the first winter.
Characters Are The Travelers Through Life’s Relationships
The Travelers, Regina Porter, Hogarth – The Travelers tells stories of mostly interconnected families starting in 1946 with “the man James” when he was a four-year-old boy who wanted to know why people need sleep.
Gothic Romance: Love, Murder, Ghoulish Haunt Black Woman
The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Sara Collins, Harper Collins – Frannie grew up a slave on a Jamaican plantation. Her master, Langton, chose her as his assistant in his experiments on cadavers.
Australian Boy’s Coming of Age Story, a Wild Ride
Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, Harper Collins – To say that 12-year-old Eli Bell lives an unusual life would be a gross understatement. His brother, Gus, communicates by writing words in the air, some of which seem prophetic …
A Woman is No Man: Three Generations of Women React
A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum, Harper Collins – Three generations of women in a Palestinian family deal with a culture that considers girl babies a curse and boys a blessing, that teaches that women are inferior to men.
Trying: A Humorous View of Juggling Babies and Careers
Trying, Emily Phillips, Hodder & Stoughton – Olivia and Felix want to have a baby. Most of Olivia’s friends and co-workers are somewhere on the same continuum – trying, pregnant, babe in hand.
Photographer Lee Miller’s Glamorous, Gritty Life Portrayed in Historical Novel
Age of Light, Whitney Scharer, Little Brown – Lee Miller’s flawless beauty made her a photographer’s dream, starting with her father when she was a child and continuing as a fashion model into her twenties.
Sarah Selecky’s Debut Novel Shines a Brilliant Light on Women’s Empowerment
Radiant Shimmering Light, Sarah Selecky, Bloomsbury Publishing – Lilian Quick sees colorful auras around dogs and tries to eke out a living painting their portraits – until she reconnects with her cousin Florence – now known as Eleven – a self-actualization guru for empowering women.
Eugenia Kim’s Debut Novel Explores Korean Immigrant Family
The Kinship of Secrets, Eugenia Kim, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – When the Chos left Korea in 1948 for America, they brought one daughter, Miran, but left their baby Inja with their family in Korea.
