Lara Reid is relatively happy with her life – job she loves, caring boyfriend, parents who love her. On her 30th birthday, a decades-old wish is granted when her birth mother Yomi appears, but Lara finds it’s a wish she no longer desires and her whole life is thrown into disarray. She pulls away from…
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The Submission
The 9/11 Memorial in New York City was opened to the public this past September on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. A global competition was conducted to choose the memorial’s design, and author Amy Waldman based her novel The Submission on this idea: what if the architect of the winning design was a Muslim-American?…
More Easter Books
Earlier today I wrote about some Disney offerings that are perfect for Easter baskets. Here are 3 more books based on some favorite Disney characters. In Winnie the Pooh: The Easter Egg Hunt Read-Along Storybook and CD, Rabbit is hosting an Easter egg hunt for all of his friends. Unbeknownst to Pooh, his basket has…
Easter Books for Babies & Preschoolers
Easter is right around the corner, and if you’re looking for some picture books to fill those baskets, Disney Press has some new ones that are perfect for the little ones in your life. Pooh’s Easter Basket is an adorable board book shaped like an Easter basket, complete with gold corded handle. It’s a blustery…
Gossip
At the beginning of Gossip, author Beth Gutcheon tells us that the word gossip comes from god-sibling: It’s the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It’s talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people…
Arcadia
Lauren Groff’s debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, was highly acclaimed when it was published 4 years ago. Groff’s sophomore effort, Arcadia, is just as full of unusual but intriguing characters in a well-defined world. Bit Stone lives with his parents, Abe and Hannah, among the Free People in a commune in the woods of…
Cruising Attitude
5 years ago, flight attendant Heather Poole started a blog to chronicle life as a flight attendant. Adding to the trend of compiling blog posts into a book, Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet, available in paperback and on the Kindle (sadly the $.99 price when I wrote…
Glow
In 1941, Amelia “Mia” McGee, fearing for her daughter Ella’s life due to Mia’s work with the NAACP, puts Ella on a bus from Washington, D.C., sending her to her ancestral home in Georgia. When Ella’s connection fails to arrive, she ends up at the home of two elderly black women who share a lineage…
Wide Open
Hallie Michaels has returned home to South Dakota on unplanned leave from a tour in Afghanistan in order to bury her sister Dell. The police have stated that Dell committed suicide, but Hallie doesn’t believe that’s possible, and she has 10 days to find out what really happened. Hallie receives help from her friends, Deputy…
Author Jane Green talks setting, audiobooks, her fans and more
Jane Green is an expert at writing about relationships, especially those among woman, and she’s outdone herself with her latest novel, Another Piece of My Heart, where she tackles step-motherhood. Nancy reviewed Another Piece of My Heart at 5 Minutes for Mom. Please click over to read her review, and enter to win an autographed…
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