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Patchett’s “The Dutch House:” A Sprawling Family Saga of Loss and Obsession

As with her 2016 hit Commonwealth, Ann Patchett’s latest mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic tale, The Dutch House (HarperCollins), deftly links various yarns spanning several generations, allowing the repercussions to cascade and branch off into new and unexpected directions and the past to assert itself anew. We are introduced to Cyril Conroy, a World…

Jessica McEnteeSeptember 4, 2019

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’20s Cotton Crisis Plunges 3 Gritty Women into Survival Mode

After boll weevils devastate the Southern cotton crops in the early 1920s, three diverse Branchville, South Carolina women will do whatever it takes to keep their families safe. In her debut novel Call Your Daughter Home (Park Row Books), Deb Spera plunges readers into life in a small Southern town…

K.L. RomoMay 15, 2019

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World War II and the “Home Front Girls” Left Behind

In Home Front Girls (Park Row Books), Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan relay in an epistolary format the drama endured by two American women and their families living hundreds of miles apart during World War II. In January 1943, twenty-three-year-old Glory Whitehall from Rockport, Massachusetts, picks a name from a hat…

K.L. RomoAugust 21, 2019

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Best-Laid Plans Often Have Their Wrinkles

Jillian Hennessey, protagonist of Moments We Forget (Tyndale House Publishers) by Beth K. Vogt, expects things in her life will be headed in a positive direction now that she’s made it through the bulk of her breast cancer treatment. She looks forward to finally getting to enjoy her brand-new…

Paige VigliaroloMay 6, 2019

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A New Beau for Divorced San Fran Islander

With The View From Alameda Island (MIRA), bestselling author Robyn Carr presents another highly engaging story, this one of a resilient woman’s mid-life journey as she bravely extricates herself from a difficult marriage to build a more honest life and new love for herself, facing the wrath of a selfish…

Anne Eliot FeldmanApril 24, 2019

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War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Inspired by the team of women pilots who trained soldiers in the second World War, Noelle Salazar's The Flight Girls (MIRA) innovatively weaves the struggles of misogyny, trauma and platonic relationships with the paradoxical truth of war’s powerful capacity to both fracture relationships and bring individuals together. Seldom are readers…

Emily WolfeJune 26, 2019

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Time-Jumping, Take-Out and a Daughter in Danger

Who hasn’t dreamed of a time machine that could zap us into our past, or maybe our future? "Back to the Future" fans know about the risk

K.L. RomoDecember 17, 2018

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Chandler Baker: Women, Work and Waging War

Those three words uttered by any man is bad enough, but your boss? Whisper Network (Flatiron Books), a novel of domestic suspense by Chandler Baker, vividly portrays the razor-sharp, double-edged sword of being a professional woman in corporate America. Whisper Network chronicles several months in the lives of professional women of…

K.L. RomoFebruary 19, 2019

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“The Guest Book:” Identity, Isolation and An Island

The Guest Book (Flatiron Books) by Sarah Blake is a multigenerational family saga about the life of the wealthy and well-bred Milton family. Kitty Milton has it all—a powerful, successful husband, a beautiful home in Manhattan, three beautiful kids, and all the money she could ever need. She basks in…

K.L. RomoFebruary 26, 2019

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Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

We’ve all heard about “the luck of the Irish.” But what about their suffering? Even in Ireland, history lessons barely discuss the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. Textbooks include the blight but don't detail the suffering and anguish caused by the scourged potato crops. Omitted is the trauma…

K.L. RomoMarch 4, 2019

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“Where the Crawdads Sing” Examines Isolation

Isolation can change a person, as readers can clearly see in Kya, the protagonist in Delia Owens’ first fiction work, Where the Crawdads Sing (G.P Putnam's Sons). The character is based on many women the author knows, and we can see how being alone can have major impact on an individual…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 26, 2018

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For Novak: Romance, Mystery, Cookies & Greek Goddess

Having written more than 50 novels, Brenda Novak is an expert at pulling our romantic heartstrings. But in addition, a mysterious disappearance forms the backdrop in Before We Were Strangers (MIRA). Inspired by a segment from a true-crime television show, her latest novel is a story of intrigue, mystery, and…

K.L. RomoOctober 19, 2018

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“The Only Woman in the Room:” Enter the Wild World of Actress Hedy Lamarr

An actress, inventor, and keeper of secrets, the beautiful Hedy Lamarr was among many Jews who fled Europe during the 1930s and came to Hollywood to start a new life. Born in Vienna in 1914, she studied acting with the innovative theater director, Max Reinhardt. But she made the mistake…

Claudia KeenanOctober 24, 2018

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Gretchen Anthony’s Debut Dazzles With Wit and Charm

Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners (Park Row) is the perfect pre-holiday read to put your own frenzied parties and dysfunctional family dynamics into perspective. Gretchen Anthony has spun a domestic drama revolving around a mother with a tight hold on her cherished family image, and the events that follow once her…

Rebecca ProulxFebruary 10, 2019

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Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

A fresh, new and exciting tale of espionage, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books) by Pam Jenoff is engaging historical fiction that follows three women all at different stages in their lives but brought together in crazy twists of fate. For Grace, World War II is over (it's 1946)…

Meagan FoyJanuary 16, 2019

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‘Anatomy of a Miracle:’ Too Good to Be True?

After returning to Biloxi, Mississippi a veteran paraplegic from a horrific event in Afghanistan, Cameron Harris lives with his sister Tanya and spends a lot of time drinking, while managing to get around in a wheelchair. From the death of his mother, to the damaging hurricane and the war, Cameron…

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