Book Review: The Editor by Steven Rowley The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date April 2nd, 2019 After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie–or Mrs. Onassis, as…
In This Ground by Beth Castrodale
In This Ground by Beth Castrodale The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date September 18, 2018 Just as his indie-rock band was poised to make it big, Ben Dirjery traded it all in for fatherhood and the stability of a job at Bolster Hill Cemetery. Now closing in on fifty, the former guitarist finds himself divorced…
Love in Catalina Cove (Catalina Cove #1) by Brenda Jackson Book Review
Love in Catalina Cove (Catalina Cove #1) by Brenda Jackson Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 30th, 2018 In her brand-new series, Brenda Jackson welcomes you to Catalina Cove, where even the biggest heartbreaks can be healed… In the wake of a devastating teen pregnancy that left her childless and heartbroken, Vashti…
The Long Way Home by Kevin Bannister Book Review
The Long Way Home by Kevin Bannister Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date September 12th, 2016 Set in the turbulent times of the War of Independence, ‘The Long Way Home’ follows the lives of Thomas Peters and Murphy Steele who are friends, former slaves, fellows-in-arms and leaders of the Black Brigade. Their real-life…
The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos Book Review
The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos Book Review Publication Date October 9, 2018 The lowdown from Goodreads On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger,…
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Book Review
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 2, 2018 From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as…
The Removes by Tatjana Soli Book Review
The Removes by Tatjana Soli Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date June 12, 2018 From the New York Times bestselling author Tatjana Soli, an expansive and transfixing new novel set on the American frontier Spanning the years of the first great settlement of the west, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman Libbie…
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear Book Review
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date August 14, 2018 WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW In 1998, Maryanne Doyle disappeared and Dad knew something about it? Maryanne Doyle was never seen again. WHAT I ACTUALLY KNOW In 1998, Dad lied about knowing Maryanne Doyle. Alice Lapaine has been…
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Book Review
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date August 14, 2018 For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the…
The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault Book Review
The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date July 24th, 2018 Therapist Dr. Mark Fabian is dead, bludgeoned in his office. But that doesn’t stop former patient Nadine Raines from talking to him — in her head. Why did she come back to her hometown after…