The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2014 The Great War’s impact on the home front and battlefield is portrayed in Winspear’s (the Maisie Dobbs series) winning stand-alone tale about two girlfriends and how their disparate lives entwine when one of them marries the other’s brother. Kezia and Thea couldn’t be more different: Kezia is a vicar’s daughter and Thea […]
All Day and a Night
Michael Connelly “I’ve been a fan of Alafair Burke from the very beginning and, ten books in, she just keeps surprising me.â€
The Matchmaker
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2014 Hilderbrand's (Barefoot) charming, poignant 13th novel chronicles what happens after a woman's true love returns to her 27 years after they've agreed to no longer be in touch. Born with the ability to discern whether a couple is a perfect match or doomed to fail, Nantucket girl Dabney Kimball Beech knew from […]
China Dolls
The New York Times Book Review – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong It all adds up to a fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese-American woman in the 1930s and '40s.
The Vacationers
The New York Times Book Review – Margo Rabb …gorgeously written…the novel's joy and humor are infectious. Straub may be an heir to Laurie Colwin, crafting characters that are smart, addictively charming, delightfully misanthropic and fun…When I turned the last page, I felt as I often do when a vacation is over: grateful for the […]
The Silkworm
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani …[Rowling's] appealing detective hero Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, Robin Ellacott, a gumshoe team that's on its way to becoming as celebrated for its mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of Thin Man fame, and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander…What keeps the […]
Sisters of Treason
The Sunday Times “Fremantle manages to combine pacey storytelling with superb background…terrifically entertaining.â€
Making Marion: Where's Robin Hood When You Need Him?
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 Marion Miller just wants directions to the Sherwood Forest visitor center, but ends up working behind the counter at the Peace and Pigs Holiday Park in Nottingham, England. On the run from an engagement she doesn’t want and in search of secrets her long-dead father kept buried, Marion ends up staying […]
The Awakening of Miss Prim
Elle (Spain) “An exquisitely delicate, distinctive and inspiring story that will leave your heart undone, open to the beauty of the little things in life.â€
The One & Only : a Novel
“Emily Giffin ranks as a grand master. . . . She has traversed the slippery slopes of true love, lost love, marriage, motherhood, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption that have led her to be called ‘a modern-day Jane Austen.’ â€â€”Chicago Sun-Times