Category: Fiction Books
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Review: The Road to Tender Hearts
A grieving lottery winner, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can sense death share a wild road trip in The Road to Tender Hearts.
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Review: Fruit Fly
A lonely author needs a bestseller. In Fruit Fly, she steals a young addict’s tragic story, never expecting he’s playing her too.
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Review: John of John
In Douglas Stuart’s John of John, Cal returns to Harris and a father he can’t please. Their secrets could break them both.
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Review: Peck & Peck
Batter Gray loves poetry, and nobody thinks that’s a future. Peck & Peck lands him in a 1982 poetry journal full of feuds and secrets.
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Review: Partita
A Tennessee farm girl with a gift for piano falls for a fiery activist. How much heartbreak will her dreams cost her?
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Review: American Hagwon
American Hagwon is a Korean family story about the pressure to succeed at any cost. What happens to the kids caught in between?
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Review: Switzy
Switzy is about David Hastings flying to Zurich to die. This is what happens when memory starts to fail and time runs out.
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Review: Heaven
Two bullied teens, a cruel classroom, and a stack of secret notes. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami asks if suffering can ever mean something.
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Review: Mad Mabel
At fifteen, she was convicted of murder and named Mad Mabel for life. At 81, a neighbor’s death tears open the past she tried so hard to bury.
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Review: The Pirate Queen
Women on ships bring bad luck, they say, but Grace O’Malley has the sea in her blood. In The Pirate Queen, she defies the Crown.
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Review: Sisters in Yellow
A news article reminds Hana of the woman who once took her in. Sisters in Yellow by Kawakami is a Tokyo story of money, luck, and betrayal.
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Review: Hollow Bones
Would you leave to protect your child from yourself? In Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult, a mother does, then must find a way back.
