The Book of Lost Friends – by Lisa Wingate
Mar 20, 2022
Most of us know the horrific stories of how slavery in the American South wrenched Black families apart. But did you ever stop to think
An Anonymous Girl – by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Mar 20, 2022
For me, someone who ordinarily doesn’t read psychological thrillers, this book was both creepy and compelling. The writers, who collaborated via Google Docs to create
Leaving Mother Lake – by Yang Erche Namu
Mar 20, 2022
Imagine a society in which marriage doesn’t exist, women run the community, inheritance is through the female line, and women make business decisions. Such a
Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness – as told to Robert Specht
Mar 20, 2022
Imagine that it’s 1927 and you are a 19-year-old woman who wants to teach and craves challenges in a faraway place. Would you have what
Ape House – by Sara Gruen
Apr 16, 2017
Ape House is a very readable book for many reasons. It is based on a love of animals, and in particular, bonobos chimpanzees. It offers
The Japanese Lover – By Isabel Allende
Apr 12, 2017
“In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – by Garielle Zevin
May 4, 2016
This is very dear and sweet book for lovers of books. A.J. Fikry is the quirky owner of a small, independent bookstore on the fictional
The Light Between Oceans – by M.L. Stedman
Aug 5, 2015
The Light Between Oceans is a multi-layered, tragic story of a lighthouse keeper, his wife and the course of action they took upon discovering a
The Boys in the Boat – by Daniel James Brown
Feb 2, 2015
This is the true and quite amazing story of the 1936 Olympic crew made up of nine young men from Washington State who beat all
Boston Girl – by Anita Diamant
Feb 1, 2015
A great question for a woman of any age is “How did you get to be the woman you are today?” When 85-year-old Addie Baum
The Orphan Train – by Cristina Baker Kline
Feb 1, 2015
The Orphan Train by Cristina Baker Kline, speaks to a program led by various Christian church groups at the turn of the twentieth century to place
The Storyteller – by Jodi Picoult
Feb 1, 2015
Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who’s particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone’s favorite retired
The Signature of All Things – by Elizabeth Gilbert
Jan 1, 2015
From the New York Times Book Review “Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this
As a Driven Leaf – by Milton Steinberg
Jan 1, 2015
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers into the dramatic era of Rabbinic Judaism. Watch the great Talmudic sages at work in the Sanhedrin,
Tin Horse – by Janice Steinberg
Jan 1, 2015
The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bonds between sisters, mothers, and daughters and the profound and surprising ways we