The Lumby Lines, Gail Fraser’s first novel in the Lumby series, takes readers to quaint and quirky town of Lumby. Town residents include the testy William Beezer, owner of The Lumby Lines, the town’s only newspaper. Beezer’s estranged son, also a newspaperman, lives in Lumby as well with wife Gabrielle, proprietor of The Green Chile,…

Leaving Yesterday is written in Alisa’s voice, making it a deeply personal story. At times I grew frustrated with Alisa’s dogged self-deception and her sometimes willful determination to avoid what must be true. All is wrapped up rather neatly at the end–and don’t get me wrong, I like neat endings–but after wading through the ethical…

The product description of Kristin Hannah’s novel Winter Garden asks, Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? And such is the premise of this novel as it explores the relationships between two sisters and their mother. Meredith, the oldest of the two sisters who runs the family orchard, is…