Title: Just My LuckAuthor: Adele ParksPublication: April 6, 2021Publisher: MIRAGenre: Domestic ThrillersPages: 385 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) It’s the stuff dreams are made of – a lottery win so big, it changes everything. For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends, the Pearsons and …
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Title: The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)Author: Alyssa SheinmelPublication: March 2, 2021Publisher: Sourcebooks FireGenre: YA FictionPages: 400 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) When Moira Dreyfuss’s parents announce that they’re sending her to an all-girls boarding school deep in the Maine woods, Moira isn’t fooled. She knows her parents are punishing her; she’s …
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Title: A Duke, the Lady, and a BabyAuthor: Vanessa RileyPublication: June 30, 2020Publisher: Zebra BooksGenre: Historical FictionPages: 297 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband’s mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune—and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her …
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Title: Season of the WitchAuthor: Sarah Rees BrennanPublication: July 9, 2019Publisher: ScholasticGenre: Teen & YA Fiction, FantasyPages: 288 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) It’s the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman knows her world is about to change. She’s always studied magic and spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. …
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Title: The Code for Love and HeartbreakAuthor: Jillian CantorPublication: October 6, 2020Publisher: Inkyard PressGenre: Teen & YA Fiction, RomancePages: 304 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Emma Woodhouse is a genius at math, but clueless about people. After all, people are unreliable. They let you down—just like Emma’s sister, Izzy, did this year, …
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Megan and Kristin’s recent podcast about historical fiction films reminded me of a flick that is often admired by those who have seen it, if they have at all. On a not so scientific Facebook poll, about half of respondents (my friends) said that they had seen it. Nearly everyone …
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Title: VerityAuthor: Colleen HooverPublication: December 7, 2018Publisher: Hoover Ink, Inc.Genre: Romance, SuspencePages: 333 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete …
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I was recently in a used bookstore in my hometown when I was browsing the fiction section of the store and saw laying on a shelf The Great Gatsby. I immediately thought that it would be the perfect book to do a book to movie comparison. I read the book in …
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Title: Five Feet ApartAuthor: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias IaconisPublication: November 20, 2018Publisher: Simon & Schuster for Young ReadersGenre: YA Fiction, Teens, Pages: 288 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have …
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Title: Hearts AbroadAuthor: Skye McNeilPublication: February 2, 2019Publisher: Hot Tree PublishingGenre: Women’s Fiction, Romance SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) When a fun-loving American nanny turns a millionaire British single dad’s world upside down, it’s inevitable life is going to get complicated. Taking a break from screenwriting in New York City, Londyn Bellerose takes a nannying …
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