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For Your Own Good Belmont Academy is the elite high school for the cream of the crop. With wealthy donors as well as parents in prestigious fields and dedicated teachers who only want the best for their students, nothing can mar its untarnished reputation. Not even a small thing such as the murder Read more...
The Warsaw Orphan In the spring of 1942, Roman Gorka, who lives in a Warsaw ghetto is doing the best he can to help his family survive despite the heartbreaking odds stacked against them. After forcing himself to become friends with a boy who knows a bit too much, Roman meets a Read more...
You Will Remember Me Imagine waking up on a deserted beach, the mind blank and empty of identity, and of events both recent and long distant. Imagine getting a feeling to go back home, to Maine in hopes that the memories will recover, and imagine finding out very ugly truths that could mean Read more...
Sleep Well, My Lady In Accra within Ghana, a powerful fashion enterpreneur Lady Araba has just been found dead: the case is an open-and-shut with a driver implicated and for awhile, life returns to normal, at least until Lady Araba's aunt, Dele, who is convinced that Araba's on-and Read more...
The Abbot's Tale In 10th century England, one of the most extraordinary men that long left a legacy on the nation that has become England in modern times is Dunstan of Glastonbury, a man who became an abbott and made Christianity (Catholicism) what it is today. Yet THE ABBOT'S TALE by Read more...
The It Girls Elinor and Lucy Sutherland, two young sisters, have become determined to meet their role model: Lillie Langtry, a woman brave enough to let scandal tail her. That brief encounter when Elinor "Nellie" was ten, and Lucy twelve, set the sisters up to not take no for an answer, and Read more...
The Lost Season of Love and Snow Tolstoy. Dostoevsky. Pasternak. Nabokov. Whoever is familiar with Russian literature is familiar with these names and the major works that the authors wrote. However, few readers are familiar with Alexander Pushkin, a famous writer in 19th century who paved way for Russian literature to become what it has. Such Read more...
The Kabbalah Master In 1972, thirty-five-year-old Sharon Berg is currently channeling her passion into working for Rabbi Joachim, whom she adores and is secretly in love with. However, despite the perks that come with her job, such as a reduced tuition for her son to attend a Yeshiva, a Read more...
Summer Hours at the Robbers Library When fifteen year old Solstice "Sunny" Arkinsky steals a dictionary simply because she is tired of looking up words and of living without modern technology, she is ordered to spend her summer working at a library, where she ends up meeting Katherine "Kit", a forty-four year old woman Read more...
Drops of Cerulean In Houston, Texas during the 1930s, Ilona, a Greek restauranteur's daughter dares to marry the love of her life rather than the man that her parents hope she will end up with. Living happily as a prominent wife to Patrick, Ilona gives birth to two children: Cadmus and Read more...
Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus otherwise known affectionately as 'Caligula' by his contemporaries has always been forced to live up to someone's legacy; be it his own father's, Germanicus Julius Caesar who was a Roman prince and adopted son of Tiberius, who also was adopted by the first Read more...
The Missing American Gordon Tilson, an American widower who is all too familiar with Ghana, has finally found the love of his dreams, beautiful Helena. However, when Helena needs financial support, Gordon jumps into the plane to travel to Ghana, and it is there he disappears, plunging his only son, Derek, into Read more...
Little Cruelties From the start, there was always something peculiar about the Drumm family. First, there is the mother, Melissa, who uses words and actions as poison darts and who thinks she is divine. Then there is the father, the enlightened patriarch but at the same helpless to do anything. And Read more...
Estelle In 1872, expecting her cousin and brother-in-law, the famous painter Edgar Degas, Estelle has no idea that her request t have him paint their family members' portraits will change the trajectory of her life, or that Edgar will forever be indebted to her. . . in more ways than Read more...
The Paris Children In 1935, Madeleine Levy's beloved grandfather, Alfred Dreyfus, has passed away. But while Alfred Dreyfus has died, the values he instilled within his children and grandchildren have only grown stronger, particularly in the years leading up to WWII. It is with these values in mind that Madeleine dares Read more...
The First to Lie Nora Quinn, an immaculate and beautiful red-headed woman is on a mission for her company, Pharminex: coming into a doctor's office to sell her products for curing infertility, she strikes up conversations with other women and then leaves them. However, after talking to a young woman who Read more...
This Is How I Lied At sixteen years of age, Maggie Kennedy O'keefe lost her best friend Eve Knox to undetermined murder. Decades later, Maggie is now a police officer for her small town and is excited about having her first child with her husband when a boot that Eve was wearing has Read more...
Best Behavior Twins Dawn and Cody are graduating from college. Their family has arrived and everything is set for an unforgettable celebration. Their Meredith, a NICU nurse, is remarried to Joel, the complete opposite of their father, Roger. Roger, the twins' father, has recently remarried a woman not much older than Read more...
Little Gods On the 4th of June, 1989, as Tiananmen Square Massacres were winding down, a pregnant woman enters the hospital with her husband. As she is giving birth to a daughter, the woman's husband steps out and never returns. The woman, known as Su Lan, along with her daughter Read more...
The Library of Legends In 1937, Hu Lian is a proud Minghua University student in the city of Nanking. Secretive, poor, and studious, Hu Lian is a dedicated daughter to her mother and often worries about her. She is also planning on traveling to Shanghai to be with her mother because of her Read more... |
Svetlana Libensonhttp://www.Sveta-randomblog2010.blogspot.com Currently I am a contributor to Fresh Fiction, and I have my own blog where I read and review all sorts of books. My loves are historical fiction, literary fiction, multicultural fiction, women's fiction, psychological and some Mysteries. Genres I don't review are science fiction, Christian/ inspirational fiction and Nonfiction. I live with my parents and son in Texas area. Features & PostsSvetlana Libenson | Fresh Fiction Reviewer Top Reads of 2019
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