the setup… It begins in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio in the 1920s and the saga continues through the turbulent time of the 1960s and the Vietnam War era. Cal Jenkins was born with a leg deformity that defines and prevents him from serving his country in WWII. He marries Becky, the first woman… Continue reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryannyc @patrickryannyc.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #Buckeye
the setup… Barbara Feldman’s husband passed away two years ago, leaving her with impossible grief and two young children. It’s 1963 and she now feels ready to handle her life on her own, allowing her mother to return to her own home. But not long after, Barbara returns home from her part time job at… Continue reading Good Grief by Sara Goodman Confino @saraconfino @saraconfino.bsky.social @hlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing @amazonpublishing #GoodGrief
the setup… It’s 1982 and Dawn, a young woman married to Heron and mother of their toddler daughter Maggie, encounters Hazel, a delightful woman who’s a teacher and has the gift of gab. Something about her lights Dawn from within in a way she’s never experienced. It soon becomes apparent that Dawn needs to make… Continue reading A Family Matter by Claire Lynch @clairellynch @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm #AFamilyMatter
the setup… It’s 1996 and Jane Williams is turning seventeen. She and her father Frank live in a remote cabin in Montana, off the grid with just the most basic of necessities. It’s the only life she’s known and it’s her normal, homeschooled by him and subjected to his extreme philosophies based on 19th century… Continue reading What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown @janellebrownie @hlaserwolf @ganimaniac @peterganim.bsky.social @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #WhatKindOfParadise
the setup… It’s 1980 and Joan Goodwin is a Rice University professor of physics and astronomy. She’s always dreamed of being in the midst of the stars and when she learns that NASA is opening up to accept women scientists into the Space Shuttle Program, she throws her hat into the ring and is accepted.… Continue reading Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid @tjenkinsreid @justjuliawhelan @kdimerc @kdimerc.bsky.social @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #Atmosphere
the setup… Phillip Brown is a floor manager at the Wiest Oyster Cannery in 1867 Baltimore. He and his sister live nearby with the uncle that raised them following the death of their parents. It’s frigidly cold outside on a November morning when he discovers a woman lying unconscious and nearly frozen on the front… Continue reading Kidnapped by Holly Bush @hollybushbooks.bsky.social #TheBrownsOfButchersHill #Kidnapped
the setup… Hana Babic lives a solitary and quiet life in Saint Paul, working as a librarian and living in a small farmhouse. When Detective David Claypool comes to see her at the library with the news that her best friend Amina Junuzovíc was murdered, Hana fears their past has somehow found them in the… Continue reading The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens @aeskens @alleneskens.bsky.social #IlvanaMuratovic @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social #TheQuietLibrarian
the setup… It’s 1944 London, the height of Germany’s bombing campaign and the city is under siege. Charlie Matters is fourteen-years old and lives in the East End with his grandmother, his only remaining relative. Unknown to her, he spends his days stealing things they need to survive instead of going to school. Molly Wakefield… Continue reading Strangers in Time by David Baldacci @davidbaldacciauthor @davidbaldacci.bsky.social @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social @grandcentralpub @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #StrangersInTime
the setup… Ruth Handler was always a force to reckon with, even as a teen when she helped her older sister with business sales. As a co-founder of Mattel along with husband Eliot and Harold (Matt) Matson who they bought out in the 1940s, she was actually the one who managed the company. In 1956,… Continue reading Let’s Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen @reneerosen_ @abigailrenoaudio @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #LetsCallHerBarbie
the setup… Pharmacist Augusta Stern is about to turn eighty and is forced to retire (she’d fudged her age by ten years). She’s lived in Brooklyn her entire life and has no plan for what’s next so her beloved niece Jackie convinces her to relocate to a vibrant senior community in Rallentando Springs, Florida. On… Continue reading The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman @lloigman @gabracadabranyc @gabracadabra.bsky.social @macmillan.audio #TheLoveElixirOfAugustaStern
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