Mothers

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"The setup, the questions, and the characters are immediately engrossing, and the story never falters.”

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“A variation on The Miracle Worker, maybe, but still compelling.”

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One Good Thing is a fast-paced, thrilling story of the survival of a Jewish woman and child on the run in Italy amidst the terror of the Nazi occupation.”

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“the plot and writing are so powerful that a reader has to step away every now and then, just to breathe.”

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Origin Stories by Corinna Vallianatos is a collection of fictional stories highlighting an array of women characters and the people in their lives, in various moments of their marriages, f

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“a fun immersion into the lives of a loving, well-meaning, smart, and interesting set of people who readers will want to root for.”

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In her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, Bruna Dantas Lobato, a translator whose short stories have been widely published in notable publications, tells the story of a young, relatively poor

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“a rich and important novel with unforgettable characters who spell out a critical message.

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“Sullivan is a strong writer, and each of her separate narratives is interesting in and of itself.”

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Reading The Singer Sisters, what comes immediately to mind is not the soap-opera-like drama of Fleetwood Mac circa 1977’s Rumours, but the thinly veiled miniseries made of those s

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“a page-turning exploration of love, motherhood, and secrecy.”

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Based on the saga of the Jews emerging from the Holocaust and their determination to inhabit a land to call their own, The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner is an epic retelling of

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Meagan Church begins her historical novel about the Baby Scoop of the sixties in the summer of ’64 with a drowning.

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“Despite its flaws, the book ultimately succeeds in getting the reader to root for Grace.”

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“this novel asks one of humanity’s most important questions . . .”

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With her provocative, yet tasteful and gripping writing, in Such a Pretty Girl, T. Greenwood tackles the tragic impact on lives of sexual predation in the movie and modeling industries.

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“Pure pleasure from first page to last. . . . All the joys of writing are richly displayed here, as is all their power to evoke and hold close.”

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“Brilliantly conceived. . . . There are court intrigues, whispered rumors, a clever subplot about the power of painting, what it reveals as well as what it hides . . .

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“an intellectually engaging and psychologically probing novel about a family returning from a dark place to a better one.”

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“tightly crafted women’s fiction, with a sensitive look at love, conscience, and loyalty.”

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Lizzie and Dan Fulton are barristers in the United Kingdom. While Dan, a defense attorney, handles a job Lizzie could never imagine doing, she deals with custody issues.

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One Italian Summer tells a story of grand proportions in which love transcends all things.

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In this debut, Huisman has already given her readers a richly textured portrait of an enthralling woman you might love as a dinner companion—but never as your mother.”

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“eminently readable, and its emotional effects linger beyond the last page.”

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“eminently readable, and its emotional effects linger beyond the last page.”

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