the setup… Melody Hurst’s life is nothing close to what she’d imagined it would be when she was living in Savannah under her father’s protection. She’d dreamed of marrying fiancé Christopher Hurst but ended up with his brother Jimmy instead when he died in the Civil War. It’s now the aftermath and the South is… Continue reading Seduced by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… Elizabeth Zott is a chemist working for the Hastings Research Institute in California. It’s the 1960s and not only was is highly unusual for a woman to be working in this field, it was unusual for her “colleagues” who soon recognized she was brilliant. They did everything to undermine her except for one… Continue reading Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus @BonnieGarmus #MirandaRaison #PRHAudio
the setup… It’s 1939 London and the children in the city are evacuated to the countryside to avoid the bombing of World War II. Hazel Linden, fourteen years old, is sent with her five-year old sister Flora Lea, forced to leave their beloved mother and Bloomsbury home behind. They are fortunate to be placed with… Continue reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry @pcalhenry @CynthiaErivo @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Four men battle the swollen Mississippi River to save a family trapped in their ancestral home by a flood, the likes of which have never been seen before. It’s 1927 and three of the men in the rowboat are convicts, one a trustee, loaned from the local prison for this mission. However, once… Continue reading The Levee by William Kent Krueger @WmKentKrueger @JDJacksonVO @SimonAudio @librofm
Will Parker, recently released from the penitentiary having completed his sentence, is just looking for work and a place to call home. He lands in Whitney, Georgia but a few days after securing a job at a sawmill, he’s let go when they learn of his record. Will is desperate when he sees an ad… Continue reading Morning Glory by LaVryle Spencer @esuttonsmith @TantorAudio
Hubert Bird lives a lonely and isolated life, has for years, but you couldn’t tell that from the sunny updates he provides his daughter Rose in their weekly phone calls. He lives in the London borough of Bromley and she’s a professor with a wonderful career in Melbourne, Australia. He even maintains a notebook to… Continue reading All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle @mikegayle #BenOnwukwe @libro.fm @HachetteAudio
It’s 1791 London and a mysterious woman named Nella operates her secret business in the hidden section of her mother’s former apothecary shop where she learned the healing natures of herbs and plants. Her mother is gone and after Nella suffered a betrayal at the hands of a cheating lover, she shifts those skills to… Continue reading The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner @sl_penner @lornaebennett @LaurenanthonyA @HarlequinAudio
Serena MacGregor loathes the English, a hatred borne from the assault she witnessed in her own home ten years before by a brutal English captain. Unfortunately, her brother’s best friend Brigham Langston is an English lord who is secretly supporting Prince Charles’ attempt to restore the Stuarts to Scottish rule and is determined to win… Continue reading Rebellion by Nora Roberts
The year is 1974 and Ernt Allbright comes home from the Vietnam war a very different man after having been a POW. He’s volatile, impulsive and can’t hold a job. He often takes it out on his young wife, Cora. His 13-year old daughter Leni has learned the warning signs when her father’s mood is… Continue reading The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
Odie O’Banion and his older brother Albert were orphaned when his father died, their mother having passed years before. The two then had to call the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota home, the only white boys in attendance and under the supervision of its cruel superintendent Thelma Brickman and her husband Clyde. After four… Continue reading This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
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