Author: Lisbeth Zornig Andersen; Trans: Mark Mussari Genre: Memoir Publisher: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: March 3, 2020 Book Description: An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older…
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Author: Andrew David MacDonald Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Scout Press Published: January 28, 2020 Book Description: A heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Sometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her…
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Author: Tarryn Fisher Genre: Thriller Publisher: Graydon House Publication Date: December 30, 2019 Book Description: “You’ll have whiplash until the very end.”—New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover Thursday’s husband, Seth, has two other wives. She’s never met them, and she doesn’t know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement because she’s so…
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Author: Megan Angelo Genre: Sci Fi & Fantasy, Women’s Fiction Publisher: Graydon House Publication Date: January 14, 2020 Book Description: Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss—a striving, wannabe A-lister—who comes up with a plan for launching them…
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Author: Liz Moore Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: January 7, 2020 Book Description: Two sisters travel the same streets,though their lives couldn’t be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets…
Read MoreDear Edward – Book Review
Author: Ann Napolitano Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Dial Press Publication Date: January 6, 2020 Book Description: What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them…
Read MoreFollow Me to Ground – Book Review
Author: Sue Rainsford Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Scribner Published: January 21, 2020 Book Description: A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to…
Read MoreConviction – Book Review
Author: Denise Mina Genre: Crime Publisher: Mulholland Books Published: June 18, 2019 Book Description: The day Anna McDonald’s quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is…
Read MoreCleanness – Book Review
Author: Garth Greenwell Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: January 14, 2019 Book Description: Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an…
Read MoreWelcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins – Book Review
Author: Katarina Bivald Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: January 7, 2020 Book Description: From New York Times bestselling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend comes a charming tale of a ramshackle roadside motel: a heartwarming story of love, friendship, community, and the art of living, even when it’s already too late.…
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