Book Review: Missing by Cornelia Maude Spelman

Tweet Family is something many of us take for granted. Our parents and our siblings just are, and even if we’re curious about our parents’ lives before we came along, we often don’t do anything with that curiosity. Cornelia Maude … Continue reading

Book Review: Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? by Pamela Keogh

Tweet Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Marilyn Monroe are two of the most memorable female icons of the last century. In her own way, each embodied personal style and celebrity, and each held power over those around her. Jacqueline came from … Continue reading

Book Review: The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore

Tweet Imagine pairing some of your favorite heroines in literary history with their female authors and analyzing both the similarities and differences in their lives. That’s what Erin Blakemore has done in The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, From Jane Austen … Continue reading

Book Review: The Perfect Love Song by Patti Callahan Henry

Tweet In Irish storytelling tradition, Patti Callahan Henry has a brought us a touching holiday tale about finding and holding onto the things you love in The Perfect Love Song. The unnamed, omniscient storyteller weaves the tale of brothers Jack … Continue reading

Book Review: The Wishing Trees by John Shors

Tweet When Ian’s wife Kate dies and leaves him to raise their young daughter, he doesn’t know how he’ll ever feel normal again. A year later, he finds a letter from Kate telling him to take their daughter on a … Continue reading

Book Review: The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Tweet For more than a hundred years the Groves have been one of the first families of Nashville. Bezellia Grove, named for a famous ancestor, feels the pressure to live up to her mother’s expectations that she speak French fluently, … Continue reading

Book Review: My Teenage Werewolf by Lauren Kessler

Tweet Worried that she was losing touch with her teen daughter, author Lauren Kessler did what few moms would be willing to do: immerse herself in middle school classrooms, locker rooms and cafeterias, taking notes all the while to turn … Continue reading

Book Review: The Lonely Tree by Yael Politis

Tweet Tonia is single-minded in her desire to escape the hard life and insecurity on a kibbutz in Israel for the easy life she imagines waits for her in the United States. She even keeps a magazine photo of her … Continue reading

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