_____________________________ Book Clubs will love this true story of four women who dared to change history. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott A Library Journal Best Book of 2014 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2014 New York Times bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the spellbinding true story of […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for August 2015
_____________________________ Book clubs will love Orphan #8 – inspired by true events, a woman confronts the hard circumstances of her life as an orphan in 1920s New York Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade A stunning debut novel of historical fiction set in the forgotten world of New York City’s Jewish orphanages In 1919, four-year-old […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for July 2015
_____________________________ We don’t believe that our lives can change in an instant-until they do. Book Clubs will find much to discuss in Olivay Olivay by Deborah Reed Olivay, widowed for a year and sleepwalking through life, meets Henry by chance. She takes him to her Los Angeles loft, thinking it will just be for the […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for June 2015
_____________________________ Book Clubs will love Mireille Mireille by Molly Cochran Near the end of World War II, seventeen-year-old Mireille de Jouarre flees the home of her stepfather, a Nazi collaborator and abusive drunk. She finds shelter with her childhood friend Stefan, and the two fall deeply in love. But as the fighting escalates, Mireille must escape […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for May 2015
_____________________________ Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother will keep book clubs talking and laughing all through the night. Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother by Hollie Adams Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother’s death from ovarian cancer takes the form of ramping up passive-aggressive […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for April 2015
_____________________________ Atmospheric and chilling, Mind of Winter is a psychological thriller that will keep everyone reading late into the night Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke Something had followed them from Russia. It was thirteen years ago that Holly and her husband, Eric, went to Siberia to adopt the sweet, dark-haired child they wanted so […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for March 2015
_____________________________ The power of connection! Book clubs will fall in love with The Godforsaken Daughter The Godforsaken Daughter by Christina McKenna When Ruby Clare’s father was alive, they happily toiled together on their small dairy farm in Northern Ireland. Since his death seven months ago, Ruby—thirty-three years old, plain, and plump—has become a veritable drudge for […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for February 2015
_____________________________ An endearing story that will leave your heart full: THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. He thinks he’s found […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for January 2015
_____________________________ Dark secrets doled out over the course of The Kept will keep book clubs talking about this debut novel. The Kept by James Scott In the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell arrives at her isolated farmstead in upstate New York to discover an unthinkable crime. The only survivor is her twelve-year-old son, Caleb, […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for December 2014
_____________________________ Revenge and second chances- Book Clubs will find much to discuss in The Divorce Diet The Divorce Diet by Ellen Hawley The Divorce Diet is dedicated to every woman who ever walked away from a relationship—or a diet. Abigail, an inspired cook and stay-at-home mother, decides to repair the problems in her marriage with a diet […]