The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell
May 22, 2019 9:31 am Leave your thoughtsThe Poison Thread, Laura Purcell, Penguin Books - Dorothea Truelove is a young, beautiful and rich society woman, living a life of ease with her widowed father.
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The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
May 22, 2019 9:15 am Leave your thoughtsThe Murmur of Bees, Sofia Segovia, Amazon Crossing - Sofìa Segovia's magical realism novel, “The Murmur of Bees,” is masterfully absorbing, and laced with delicious prose. Her characters are likewise captivating, so their journey becomes very personal.
Valencia and Valentine by Suzy Krause
May 10, 2019 12:39 pm Leave your thoughtsValencia and Valentine, Suzy Krause, Lake Union - Working over seventeen years as a debt collector, suffering a lifetime with crippling OCD, Valencia approaches her thirty-fifth birthday with trepidation.
Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas
April 30, 2019 12:17 pm Leave your thoughtsDahlia Black, Keith Thomas, Leopoldo & Company - In 2023 astronomer Dahlia Mitchell is the first to identify a signal beamed from outer space by an intelligence other than human.
The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells
April 27, 2019 11:22 am Leave your thoughtsThe End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells, Penguin Books - A mournful, tragic family saga written by German novelist Benedict Wells and translated by Charlotte Collins, “The End of Loneliness” follows lives of three children during a 30-year period beginning in 1980 after their parents die in an automobile accident.
Summer Hours by Amy Mason Doan
April 25, 2019 9:03 am Leave your thoughtsSummer Hours, Amy Mason Doan, Graydon House - Becc Reardon, ace student and fan of Nellie Bly and Ed Murrow, always intended to become a star print journalist.
The Object of Your Affections by Falguni Kothari
April 17, 2019 8:01 am Leave your thoughtsThe Object of Your Affections, Falguni Kothari, Graydon House - Paris Kahn Fraser and her Scottish husband Neal Singh Fraser have an idyllic life in NYC. Her career as assistant DA is blooming, and Neal’s family chain of furnishing and art stores is expanding.
Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis
April 17, 2019 7:47 am Leave your thoughtsChelsea Girls, Fiona Davis, Random House - The historical novel, “Chelsea Girls,” verifies the old adage that history repeats itself. Fiona Davis’ drama unfolds during McCarthyism when entertainers living in the New York Chelsea Hotel were without evidence targeted for subversive practice and blacklisted as “communists” and “socialists.”
Ann Petry The Street, The Narrows Edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin
April 3, 2019 10:41 am Leave your thoughtsAnn Petry The Street, The Narrows, Farah Jasmine Griffin Editor - The Library of America has published two mind-boggling novels written by African-American Ann Petry, mostly obscure in the white-dominated 1940s-50s. Her acute observation and insight into human consciousness and foundations of racism in white-mainstream USA is profoundly provocative.
Stars In His Eyes by Marti Gironell
March 31, 2019 10:09 am Leave your thoughtsStars in his Eyes, Marti Grionell, Amazon Crossing - 1949: Franco’s rule has settled on Spain like a lead weight.