Anne Eliot Feldman

Belonging After Brokenness: One Woman’s Search for Truth and Healing

Wendy B. Correa’s new memoir My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing, details a fascinating life defined by resilience and accomplishment in the face of childhood trauma and a dysfunctional family environment. As Correa deftly shows in this writing debut, life is not so much about what happens to…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 22, 2025

Fiction Hidden Gems

A Menu for Disaster: The Perils of Loving Food, Wine and Married Men

Joelle Babula’s debut novel Infidelity Rules is — yes! — a captivating read and a delicious, upbeat escape, but it is even more. Its engaging and iconoclastic protagonist breaks the rules with her unexpected depth of interiority that expands the sometimes-breezy genre of romance novels. Well-drawn characters, lots of humor,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 18, 2025

Fiction

Kristin Harmel’s New Novel Explores Love, Resistance, and a 1942 Murder

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau is an exciting and thought-provoking read. In this latest historical novel by New York Times best-selling author Kristin Harmel, its protagonist is an expert jewel thief. The story alternates in time between her years growing up in Nazi-occupied Paris in the 1940s — where…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 18, 2025

Fiction

“A Man Called Ove” Author Returns with Funny and Deeply Moving Tale of Friendship

Best-selling author Frederik Backman’s latest novel, My Friends, is a heart-warming, heart-breaking gem that shines with wisdom, compassion and humor, illuminating the immeasurable power of friendship. In an unnamed seaside town in an unnamed country, where hope and aspiration come in short supply, an artist and his three friends save…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 13, 2025

Fiction

Mary Alice Monroe Explores Love, Sacrifice and Grit in Sweeping Southern Epic

Mary Alice Monroe’s latest novel, Where the Rivers Merge, is a gorgeous read, one of those historical novels that sweeps you up into a time and a place so real and lush you feel you’re there, with a compelling storyline to make you stay. This captivating multigenerational saga of a…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 16, 2025

Fiction

Natalie Jenner’s Latest is a Lush, Romantic Journey Through History, Secrets and Sisterhood

Natalie Jenner’s latest book Austen At Sea is historical fiction at its richest. Set in 1865, two Boston-born Jane Austen devotees connect with Jane’s only surviving brother, in a setting that alternates between Boston, Massachusetts and Chawton, England where Jane wrote her books. The sisters and others become embroiled in…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 6, 2025

Recommended

A Race Through Time to Save the Past and Secure the Future

Beyond Australia is an engaging young-adult novel about an inquisitive teenaged girl who bravely undergoes time travel in the hope of saving her ailing grandfather. This is a first work of fiction for research scientist Lee Forrest, whose empirical training shows up throughout the story in its precisely detailed historical…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 14, 2025

Fiction Thrillers

Secrets Threaten to Derail CIA Duo’s Quest for Vengeance

Krista Beggan’s debut novel A Life Saving Bullet starts off fast and never lets up. Six months after a young CIA officer dies during a clandestine operation, his best friend and sister, both CIA officers themselves, get assigned the mission of finding his killer. Hunting a ruthless criminal puts everything…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMarch 12, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Story of Resilience Recounts Escape from Poverty and Hardship in Appalachia

Mary Frances Barron’s newly released memoir Escape from Appalachia: Who Will Rescue Me? is rich in area history, vivid in setting descriptions and compelling in its recounting of a difficult childhood. The audiobook version provides an immersive reading experience for anyone who would like to revel in the depth of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJanuary 22, 2025

Recommended Romance

They Have One Year to Pretend … Or Risk Losing Everything

The best romance novels often work off the dichotomy between the story’s meant-to-be and can’t-possibly-work elements. Kay Cove’s latest novel, Snapshot, delivers beautifully on both, with plot twists and outside characters that seriously threaten a happily-ever-after ending. For added depth, Cove intertwines two love stories, one from a grandmother’s distant…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 4, 2024

The Housekeepers Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg

Nonfiction Recommended

A Promise to Late Housekeeper Leads to Unforgettable Search for the Truth

The increasingly popular memoir genre may not be famous for unputdownable books but The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra (Krilich) Schnakenburg is certainly one such memoir. The story reads like a fast-paced novel, with an ensemble cast of well-defined characters and a mystery to solve from the start. Per its title,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 3, 2024

The Eden Evacuation The Greatest Art Forgery Ever Dreamed

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Thrilling Novella Unravels Conspiracy Behind Art Forgery and Sudden Disappearance

The Eden Evacuation is screenwriter Jarek Tomszak’s fast-paced debut novella. A savvy young Chicago-based historian takes his edgy artist girlfriend on a life-changing holiday to Rome to view the Vatican’s extensive art collection. When she goes missing and both the Italian authorities and the U.S. embassy stonewall attempts to find…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 16, 2024

Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates Tackles Race, Oppression and Global Issues in “The Message”

The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ fifth book, has arrived and its gorgeously crafted writings are incisive and provocative. In intertwined essays about his recent trips to three places — Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine — the award-winning author unravels the vital relationship between stories and our view of the world past…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 4, 2024

Romance

A Journey of Belonging in Nicholas Sparks’ Latest Novel — Soon to Be Adapted for Screen

Counting Miracles is Nicholas Sparks’ latest novel — his 25th — and it is a wonderfully heart-warming read that will be heading for the big screen in an adaptation by Amazon. The New York Times bestselling author has set the story in Asheboro, North Carolina, crafting an uplifting tale of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 25, 2024

Fiction

“The Midnight Library” Author’s Restorative Tale of Otherworldly Encounter in Ibiza

The Life Impossible, newest novel by New York Times best-selling author Matt Haig, is a thought-provoking read and compelling page-turner. When a grieving widow in England inherits a house in Ibiza from a friend she barely knew, her curiosity about her friend’s last wishes draws her to the island and…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 9, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Epic Adventure Novel Imagines Life Before “The Great Gatsby”

Gatsby’s Rival by Richard Guimond is an epic adventure story that rivets the reader from page one, with a high-stakes plot and an ensemble cast of characters as iconic as the great Gatsby himself. Set in the 1920s as a prequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal 1925 work The Great…

Anne Eliot FeldmanAugust 2, 2024