Author: Nancy Thayer Genre: Women’s Fiction Publisher: Ballentine Books Publication Date: May 4, 2020 Book Description: Eleanor Sunderland loves living on Nantucket, in a gorgeous cliffside home that has been in her family for decades. Yet this year she can’t help but feel a bit isolated, even as the island begins to come alive with…
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Author: Imogen Clark Genre: Women’s Fiction Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: April 29, 2021 Book Description: Pip Appleby seems to have it all, with her prestigious job as a human rights lawyer and her enviable London home. But then a tragic accident stops her life in its tracks, and in an instant everything changes.…
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Author: Eleanor Morse Genre: Historical Fiction/Literary Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: April 20, 2021 Book Description: A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living…
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Author: Sarah Berman Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Publisher: Steerforth Press Publication Date: April 20, 2021 Book Description: They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult. Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced…
Read MoreWhen the Stars Go Dark – Mini Book Review
Author: Paula McLain Genre: General Fiction/Mysteryy Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: April, 13, 2021 Book Description: Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village…
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Author: Sally Hepworth Genre: Mystery & Thrillers/ Women’s Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: April 13, 2021 Book Description: Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister. There’s only been one time that Rose couldn’t stop me from…
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Author: Katherine Heiny Genre: Women’s Fiction Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: April 13, 2021 Book Description: Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhere–at restaurants, at the grocery…
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Author: R.J. Hoffmann Genre: Women’s Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: April 6, 2021 Book Description: Three mothers facing impossible choices learn what makes a family, and discover just how far they’ll go to protect the ones they love. What makes a family? Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set…
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Author: Jennifer McMahon Genre: Mystery & Thriller Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Publication Date: Gallery/Scout Press Book Description: Be careful what you wish for. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie…
Read MoreAstrid Sees All – Mini Book Review
Author: Natalie Standiford Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: April 6, 2021 Book Description: New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover.…
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