Fiction

Little Women Grow Up in “Meg and Jo”

What would the beloved characters from Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women be up to if their story took place today? That’s the premise behind the innovative Meg & Jo (Berkley) by Virginia Kantra. The title marks the first foray into women’s fiction for Kantra, the New York Times bestselling…

BookTribDecember 19, 2019

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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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A Riveting Civil War Novel of Romance and Espionage

Across the River is a lush and languid historical spy novel set during the Civil War. This novel by Richard Snodgrass is the fourth in a series, following the critically praised Furnass Towers Trilogy. Colin Lyle is the owner of the Keystone Steam Works and lives in Furnass, Pennsylvania with…

Ann LinebergerJuly 2, 2019

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Choosing Between a Lost Love and a Privileged Life in “Finding Mrs. Ford”

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s debut novel Finding Mrs. Ford (Post Hill Press) stars two young women who routinely make astonishingly bad choices while the reader cringes, hoping for the best despite the odds. Susan is the sensible one of the two, but she is beguiled by the beautiful, willful, capricious, and…

Sherri DaleyMay 11, 2020

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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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A Conflict of Conscience in “The Fourteenth of September”

While attending university on a full army scholarship, Pvt First Class Judy Talton becomes a hippie-freak protestor of the Vietnam War. The Fourteenth of September (She Writes Press) by Rita Dragonette draws on the author's own campus experiences to deliver a fresh perspective--a woman in the military. The story that you have…

Sherri DaleyMay 11, 2020

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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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The Pivotal Revolutionary Battle Story Never Told

On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, 400 men from Baltimore, MD, assembled to do battle with a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history. In Chris…

BookTribJanuary 8, 2019

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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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Fighting Magic Fire with Magic Fire in the “Witches Protection Program”

What always struck me about the dark, cultish television series "True Blood" was how it portrayed a society in which vampires strutted around as a class onto themselves – thanks to a synthetic blood product -- interacting with humans in the normal fabric of things. That’s to say nothing of…

Jim AlkonJuly 16, 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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Little Women Grow Up in “Meg and Jo”

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

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

A Riveting Civil War Novel of Romance and Espionage

Choosing Between a Lost Love and a Privileged Life in “Finding Mrs. Ford”

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

A Conflict of Conscience in “The Fourteenth of September”

Best-Laid Plans Often Have Their Wrinkles

A New Beau for Divorced San Fran Islander

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

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

The Pivotal Revolutionary Battle Story Never Told

Chandler Baker: Women, Work and Waging War

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

Fighting Magic Fire with Magic Fire in the “Witches Protection Program”

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

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