Book Spotlight: Prairie Fever by Michael Parker
Paperback Release Date: June 23, 2020 About The Book: Winner of the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The Stewart sisters, pragmatic Lorena and chimerical Elise, are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie of early 1900s Oklahoma, but also by their deep emotional reliance on each other. They’re all they’ve got . . . … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Prairie Fever by Michael Parker
Book Spotlight: Paperback Release -The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
Paperback Release: June 23, 2020 About The Book: A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick * A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery Book of the Year * A Reader’s Digest Best Summer Book * A Forbes.com Best Historical Novel of the Summer Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Paperback Release -The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason
How The Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Release Date: June 16, 2020 Veronica McCreedy is in her mid-eighties and lives alone in Scotland. She has been divorced for many years and has not maintained any ties to her family. Her days are spent conversing with her small staff who tend to her personal needs while tending her home. She is lonely and isolated and often unpleasant. Recently, she decided that it’s time … Continue reading How The Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Release Date: May 5, 2020 In the age of social media, Daphne Berg’s career is beginning to take off as a plus-size, body-positive, fashion and lifestyle influencer. Six years ago, Daphne was launched into the online world by a viral video of a fight with her high school best friend which brought Daphne both a new voice and ended their friendship. Ever since then Daphne … Continue reading Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Book Spotlight: I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
Release Date: June 16, 2020 About The Book: Jessica and Emily Burnstein have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it’s a preview of freedom, exploring the possibility of her new and more exciting future. Not that she’s sure she even wants to go to college, but let’s ignore that for now. And maybe the other kids on the tour … Continue reading Book Spotlight: I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
The Prisoner’s Wife by Maggie Brookes
Release Date: May 26, 2020 Izzy works on the family farm with her mother during World War 2. Their life in Czechoslovakia has been tough since her father and older brother joined the resistance leaving them unable to tend their crops. Izzy yearns to be with people her own age and dreams of a romance that she is unlikely to experience. She meets Bill, a … Continue reading The Prisoner’s Wife by Maggie Brookes
Tea By The Sea by Donna Hemans
Release Date: June 9, 2020 Plum Valentine is seventeen and has just given birth to a baby girl in Jamaica. Her situation is complicated because the baby’s father, Lenworth, is twenty-five and her tutor. She has only been in Jamaica for a short time and was sent by her parents to finish high school. Lenworth abducts the baby from the hospital and vanishes. Plum is … Continue reading Tea By The Sea by Donna Hemans
Book Spotlight: Belladonna by Anbara Salam
Release Date: June 9, 2020 About The Book: A hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us. Isabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend, Bridget, keeps quietly to the fringes of their Connecticut Catholic school, watching everything and everyone, but most especially Isabella. … Continue reading Book Spotlight: Belladonna by Anbara Salam
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