Book Talk: Real Men Knit – Kwana Jackson
Book Details Back Cover Blurb (via Penguin) When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doors of her beloved Harlem knitting shop. Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When Mama Joy unexpectedly passes away, he…
Book Talk: In The Lives Of Puppets – TJ Klune
“Forgiving others could be difficult, but forgiving yourself can sometimes feel impossible.” ― TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets Book Details: Back Cover Synopsis: Deep in the heart of a peculiar forest, in a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly…
Book Talk: On What Grounds – Cleo Coyle
“Coffee makes a sad man cheerful, a languorous man active, a cold man warm, a warm man glowing. It awakens mental powers thought to be dead, and when left in a sick room, it fills the room with a fragrance…. The very smell of coffee terrorizes death.”― Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds Book Details: Back Cover…
Book Talk: The Story Collector – Evie Woods
“If we lose our stories…we lose ourselves”― Evie Woods, The Story Collector Book Details: Back Cover Synopsis (via One More Chapter) In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything… One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from…
Book Talk: The Twilight Garden – Sara Nisha Adams
“Just make sure you don’t stick to what’s easy or convenient. Always follow what you want. However often that changes.”― Sara Nisha Adams, The Twilight Garden Book Details: Jacket Cover Synopsis: Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The…
Book Talk: Black Woods, Blue Sky – Eowyn Ivey
Book Details: Back Cover Synopsis (via Amazon) Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember…
Book Talk: How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
Book Details: Back Cover Synopsis (via goodreads.com) It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t…
Book Talk: The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie – Rachel Linden
Book Details: Back Cover Synopsis (via Penguin Random House) Lolly Blanchard’s life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her…
Book Talk: Pax, Journey Home – Sara Pennypacker
Book Details: Inside Flap Synopsis: It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives. Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Meanwhile Peter—newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt…
Book Talk: The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
Book Details Back Cover Synopsis (via goodreads.com) Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they…
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