Hollow Bones
The Book of Two Ways
A Spark of Light
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, […]
Small Great Things
The New York Times Book Review – Roxane Gay Small Great Things is, in most ways, a classic Jodi Picoult novel—tackling contemporary social issues, creating interesting, relatable characters and presenting a gripping courtroom drama…Picoult knows how to tell an interesting story, and the novel moves briskly. This is a writer who understands her characters inside […]
Leaving Time
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014 Picoult’s (The Storyteller) novel explores grief, memory, and motherhood through the unlikely lens of elephant behavior. Jenna Metcalf was three years old when her mother, Alice, disappeared from the elephant sanctuary where she worked as a researcher. Ten years later, Jenna is ready to launch a search. After poring over her mother’s […]
Mad Honey
The Storyteller
Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, […]
Between the Lines
VOYA Fairy tales are just that: tales. But the characters in Between The Lines have their own lives when the book is closed. Oliver longs to escape his prescribed existence in the book, and Delilah is obsessed with Oliver's book. She reads it constantly because she feels a connection with Oliver since he too grew […]
Lone Wolf : a Novel
Library Journal Luke Warren has spent decades learning the inner workings of wolf packs. Yet his relationship with his own family is strained. Divorced from his wife and estranged from his son, Edward, Luke remains close to his daughter, Cara. When the two are involved in a car accident that leaves Luke in a coma, […]
Sing You Home : a Novel
Library Journal: After years of infertility, it looks as if Zoe and Max Baxter are finally going to have the baby they've longed for. But when their hopes are dashed by a miscarriage and their marriage collapses, Max escapes, first into alcoholism then into religion, while Zoe concentrates on her career as a music therapist. […]