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,…
Historical Fiction
Girls on the Line by Aimie K. Runyan Book Review
Girls on the Line by Aimie K. Runyan Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date November 7, 2018 December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it’s all been carefully…
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain Book Review
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 2, 2018 When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that…
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 Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox Book Review
The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 2, 2018 Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there’s still one witch left in Massachusetts. But she doesn’t even know it. New Oldbury, 1821 In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters—Catherine,…
The Heart of War: Misadventures in the Pentagon by Kathleen McInnis Book Review
The Heart of War: Misadventures in the Pentagon by Kathleen McInnis Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date September 25, 2018 The Devil Wears Prada meets Catch-22; a novel about a young woman’s journey into the heart of Washington’s war machine. Dr. Heather Reilly has been an anti-war activist since her brother died fighting the Taliban….
Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine Book Review
Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date July 24, 2018 From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River, a rich, atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland, in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman, a…
The Return of the Ripper: Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James Mystery #7 by Anna Elliott & Charles Veley Book Review
The Return of the Ripper: Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James Mystery #7 by Anna Elliott & Charles Veley Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date June 12, 2018 Diamonds can be deadly! In October 1897, a deadly serial killer returns to London, just as Lucy and Jack are planning their wedding and Sherlock is launching…
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford Book Review
Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date September 12, 2017 For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels,…
The Italian Party by Christina Lynch Book Review
The Italian Party by Christina Lynch Book Review The Lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date: March 20, 2018 A delicious and sharply funny page-turner about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena, Italy. Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany’s famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the…