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Misophonia Fifteen-year-old Margarita is a complex girl. She is a Jew who lives in Berlin with her father Avi who is a Cantor. Add to her profile the fact that her mother Marsha left Margarita and Avi when she was an infant. When MISOPHONIA, by Dana Vonwinckel Read more...
The Correspondent When THE CORRESPONDENT, by Virginia Evans, opens readers meet Sybil Van Antwerp who is now in her seventies. She has accomplished a great deal. She was a successful attorney, a wife (long divorced now), a mother and a grandmother. However, there is one thing that Read more...
The Baker of Lost Memories Lena's parents survived the atrocities of World War II as well as losing their firstborn to the Nazis. Eventually, they came to Brooklyn and this is where they raised Lena. Their relationship was troubled from the beginning. Lena never felt that she was enough for her parents Read more...
The Keeper of Lost Art In the fall of 1942 Torino is under attack. Stella Costa's mother sends her to live with relatives in a Tuscan village. Immediately she learns her aunt can barely stand the sight of her, but she doesn't know why. Something must have happened to bring Read more...
The Eights In 1920 Oxford University broke a 1000-year tradition by allowing women to matriculate for the first time. THE EIGHTS, by Joanna Miller, tells the story of four of these women. They became known as The Eights simply because each occupied a room on Corridor 8 of their dormitory Read more...
Coram House Alex Kelley, a true crime writer, knew her second book was a failure. When she received an opportunity to work as a ghostwriter about an orphanage with a dark history she accepted the offer. She needed the money and a change of pace. Set in the dead of winter Read more...
The Last Session Thea, a social worker in a New York City psychiatric facility is no stranger to trauma. The sudden appearance of Catherine, a new patient, who is unresponsive and who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to Thea, leads to a startling discovery. Was this woman somehow connected to Thea's Read more...
The Love We Found THE LOVE WE FOUND, by Jill Santopolo, is the follow-up to The Light We Lost. I found that THE LOVE WE FOUND can be read as a standalone book. Gabe has been gone for ten years when the story opens and Lucy is still talking to him and Read more...
Witness 8 One might say Ruby Johnson is a monster. At the very least, she is dangerous because no one sees her for who and what she really is...at least not at first. Once a child of privilege, she and her sick mother now barely eke out an Read more...
You Deserve to Know At first, it was Aimee and Lisa who were close friends. Then Gwen and her family moved into the Bethesda cul-de-sac and became part of the group. They were always there for each other and each other's families. Secrets were shared. Well, maybe not Read more...
All the Other Mothers Hate Me All the other mothers at her son Dylan's school don't really hate thirty-one-year-old Florence Grimes. They probably just mock her because she doesn't measure up to their perceived social standards. Florence has never been a conformist, she does her best to avoid Read more...
The Women on Platform Two They could have been just a group of women going from Dublin to Belfast for a little shopping and perhaps lunch. But, they weren't. These were women with a purpose and THE WOMEN ON PLATFORM TWO, a novel by Laura Anthony, is their story. Read more...
Famous Last Words Camilla is finally going back to work after maternity leave. But something is wrong. Her husband Luke is not there to help her prepare for this big day. Not only that, he has left a cryptic note and isn't responding to her texts and emails. After dropping Read more...
Six Weeks in Reno Twenty years in a loveless marriage was enough for Evelyn Henderson. Once she found out that Reno's divorce residency laws went from six months for women seeking an uncontested divorce to six weeks, she bought a train ticket to Reno. With the necessary papers in hand and a Read more...
Count My Lies We are told early on that Sloane Caraway is a liar. Her motives for this are both simple and complex. Most of her lies are basically harmless, until their not. She wants to be liked and thought of as interesting. A chance encounter with a hurt Read more...
Do Not Cry When I Die DO NOT CRY WHEN I DIE, by Renee Salt, is both a Holocaust memoir and the biography of one of the oldest Holocaust survivors. In 1939, Renee was 10 years old. She lived in Poland, loving her parents and her sister, and up until the time the Germans invaded Read more...
The Boxcar Librarian Millie Lang, a WPA (Works Progress Administration) editor had two options: she could accept a pink slip or go to Montana and find out why all the documents submitted for the American Guide Series were sent in blank. The staff insisted they weren't responsible for this. Read more...
Every Precious and Fragile Thing After a terrible loss ten years ago, Mallory Ward was working as a social worker for high-risk children. When one of her clients was brutally murdered, she was placed on leave with the hope she could regroup and figure out her future. Having nowhere else to go Read more...
The Dressmakers of London The sister's relationship had deteriorated so badly that when their mother died Isabelle notified her sister Sylvia by mail even though they both lived in London. The reason? Fourteen years ago Sylvia had married a wealthy physician and turned her back on her mother and sister. Their Read more...
The Secret History of Audrey James In 1938 Audrey James was studying music in Berlin. She was living with her Jewish best friend Ilse Kaplan's family. During one spontaneous shopping trip, Audrey and Ilse's lives turned into a living nightmare. When Nazis took over the Kaplan home Audrey convinced Ilse to hide in Read more... |
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