Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: Release Date: August 9,2016 In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds … Continue reading The Girl Before by Rena Olsen
Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: Release Date: September 13, 2016 One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents … Continue reading Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: Release Date: October 18, 2016 A stunningly ambitious and beautiful debut novel, perfect for fans of Sarah’s Key and All the Light We Cannot See, the story of a twelve-year-old girl’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they had been promised is an illusion. In 1939 before everything changed, … Continue reading The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
I am reposting my review from April 2016- this book is $2.99 today on kindle and ibook platforms. I post these discounts to the Suzy Approved Facebook page. You can follow my reviews there as well. Did you ever wonder about those who were raised in a polygamist community? The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner is a firsthand account of a child growing … Continue reading $2.99 on Kindle & Ibook – The Sound of Gravel (today only)
Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: Release Date: August 23, 2016 “The Dollhouse. . . . That’s what we boys like to call it. . . . The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you.” Fiona Davis’s stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of … Continue reading The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: Release Date: August 9, 2016 A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family’s survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows. Annie Bell can’t escape the dust. It’s in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children’s dry, cracked lips. … Continue reading I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Book Blurb from Goodreads.com: From the author of the New York Times Well Blog series, My Fat Dad Every story and every memory from my childhood is attached to food… Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of freeze-dried, saccharin-laced concoctions, and … Continue reading My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Family, with Recipes by Dawn Lerman
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