Synopsis 1863, Victorian England. Susan Mottram lives an idyllic existence until her eighteenth birthday when her father’s sudden death plunges the family into penury. To support her mother and younger sister, Susan takes employment as a teacher at a remote Yorkshire boarding school, Matterdale Hall, owned by the radical Dr. Claybourn and […]
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Synopsis It’s 1967, the Summer of Love. When twenty-one-year-old guitarist Stephen Cane’s promising band falls apart, he is forced to move back home with his Christian mother. Unwilling to give up on his rock and roll dreams, however, Stephen flees to New York so he can patch things up with his former […]
SWEET JANE, JUST ONE LOOK, & I’LL BE SEEING YOU by Joanne Kukanza Easley SCROLL DOWN FOR THE GIVEAWAY! Sweet Jane Joanne Kukanza Easley’s debut novel 2019 Wisdom-Faulkner Award finalist 2020 Adult Fiction winner Texas Author Project 2020 Sarton Award Finalist […]
Review – Exit Wounds by Annie O’Neill Stein #fiction #literary
November 10, 2022
Synopsis Born to shanty Irish on one side and Park Avenue privilege on the other, Laura navigates a turbulent childhood filled with the alcohol-fueled abuse of her volatile father and her mother’s excessive drinking. As the middle child of three girls, she assigns herself the role of her mother’s protector, who dies […]
THE FIFTH DAUGHTER OF THORN RANCH by Julia Brewer Daily Women’s Fiction / Contemporary Western / Family Saga Publisher: Admission Press Pages: 322 pages Publication Date: November 1, 2022 SCROLL DOWN FOR THE GIVEAWAY! Emma Rosales is the heiress of the largest ranch in Texas—The Thorn. All the […]
Death on a Deadline (A Homefront News Mystery) Historical Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Crooked Lane Books (November 8, 2022) Hardcover : 288 pages Synopsis Editor-in-chief Irene Ingram pencils in her newest mystery in Joyce St. Anthony’s second captivating Homefront News mystery, perfect […]
Synopsis Just when Fawn Malero was getting comfortable in her new life…. Fawn was enjoying her new-found career as a Supernatural P.I., settling into a relationship with the Werewolf, Logan, and figuring out how to interact with all the supernatural creatures living in the Seattle area. But it never occurred to […]
Synopsis Ila, a Mumbai-based teenager, is going nuts with Veena, her controlling, single mother who prevents her from stalking her pop idol, Ali Zafar. Veena wants her daughter to date real guys in the lead-up to finding a husband. But Ila decides that the only way to get her mom off her […]
Synopsis Middle school student Gwendolyn is a dream-shifter. This means that when she dreams, she becomes what she dreams about, and she dreams about being different animals. If she awakens naturally, she becomes a girl again. But a fire alarm jars her awake when she’s dreaming that she’s an elk. She awakes […]
Synopsis Sometimes to follow your heart, you have to break the rules. Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at […]