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Rating Title: After We Were StolenAuthor: Brooke BeyfussPublication: July 19, 2022Publisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkGenre: FictionPages: 301 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) A fire. Her escape. And the realization her entire life has been a lie. When nineteen-year-old Avery awakens to flames consuming her family’s remote compound, …

Rating Title: Mr. Perfect on PaperAuthor: Jean MeltzerPublication: August 9, 2022Publisher: MIRAGenre: RomancePages: 416 Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) The perfect Jewish husband should be:* A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)* Baggage-free (no previous marriages, no children)* And of course—he must be Jewish As the creator …

Rating Title: The Matzah BallAuthor: Jean MeltzerPublication: September 28, 2021Publisher: MIRAGenre: Fiction, HolidayPages: 416 Featured “Hometown” Bookstore OTM – NEW Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Oy! to the worldRachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she’s …

Rating Title: Seven Dirty SecretsAuthor: Natalie D. RichardsPublication: November 2, 2021Publisher: Sourcebooks FireGenre: Teen/YA, MysteryPages: 336 Featured “Hometown” Bookstore OTM – New Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) I know seven secrets:One caused the fall. One did nothing. One saw it all.One didn’t care. One used …

Title: Sisters of the Great WarAuthor: Suzanne FeldmanPublication: October 26, 2021Publisher: MiraGenre: Historical Fiction, RomancePages: 400 Links: Featured “Hometown” Bookstore – Lowry’s Books – NEW Featured “Hometown” Bookstore – Lowry’s Books – USED Amazon Barnes and Noble Goodreads Author Website SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal …

Title: Cloud Cuckoo LandAuthor: Anthony DoerrPublication: September 28, 2021Publisher: Scribner (Simon & Schuster)Genre: Historical Fiction & FantasyPages: 637 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna …

Title: The NecklaceAuthor: Matt WittenPublication: September 7, 2021Publisher: Oceanview PublishingGenre: ThrillerPages: 259 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice. Susan Lentigo’s daughter was murdered twenty years ago—and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from …

Title: The Two Lives of Lydia BirdAuthor: Josie SilverPublication: March 3, 2020Publisher: Ballantine BooksGenre: Women’s FictionPages: 450 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie …

Title: Where I Left HerAuthor: Amber GarzaPublication: August 24, 2021Publisher: MIRAGenre: ThrillerPages: 248 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let …

Title: The Woman In Cabin 10Author: Ruth WarePublication: July 19, 2016Publisher: Gallery/Scout PressGenre: Mystery, ThrillerPages: 305 SYNOPSIS: (From Goodreads) Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. …