Historical Young Adult Novel Chasing Secrets
Chasing Secrets, by Gennifer Choldenko: In 1900, bubonic plague comes to San Francisco, resulting in a Chinatown quarantine. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, who prefers assisting […]
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Ethnic Literary Novel The Bingo Palace
The Bingo Palace, by Louise Erdrich: It’s all about luck. The luck of striving, of familial bonds, of natural and supernatural intervention. Thus […]
Psychological Thriller The Best of Me
THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks: When death of a mutual friend reunites Dawson Cole and his former sweetheart Amanda in psychological […]
Mainstream Novel Bel Canto
BEL CANTO, by Ann Patchett: When Latin American revolutionaries hold hostage a houseful of international musicians and guests in mainstream novel BEL CANTO, an indomitable […]
Comic Mystery Bad Monkey
BAD MONKEY, by Carl Hiaasen: In comic mystery BAD MONKEY, a severed arm reeled in from the waters off Key West offers former Deputy […]
Romance Novel The Vineyard
Romance Novel The Vineyard, by Barbara Delinsky: When her boss closes his Massachusetts business, photographic retouch artist and single mother Olivia Jones needs a new job […]
International Thriller Smilla’s Sense of Snow
International Thriller Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg; translated by Tina Nunnally: I know Isaiah, I know snow, and I know when I […]
Mainstream Novel A Patchwork Planet
Mainstream Novel A Patchwork Planet, by Anne Tyler: It’s my 30th birthday, and following family tradition in mainstream novel A PATCHWORK PLANET, I’m looking […]
Women’s Fiction The Ocean Between Us
Women’s Fiction The Ocean Between Us, by Susan Wiggs: At forty, loyal Navy wife and mother-of-three Grace Bennett confronts her spreading figure and neglected dreams […]
Police Procedural Thriller Heat Lightning
Police Procedural Thriller Heat Lightning, by John Sandford: When bodies keep turning up at Minnesota war memorials in HEAT LIGHTNING, a police procedural series thriller, […]