“Out of the ashes” Kara Thomas
Rated 4 stars **** ebook. Thomas & Mercer.2023. As soon as she could, Samantha escaped her dead-end town of Carney, New York and moved to Queens. There she made a life for herself as a nurse,...
View Article“The second Mrs. Astor” Shana Abé
Rated 5 stars ***** ebook. Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021. (Includes “Discussion questions.”) Through letters to her infant son Jakey in August 1912, Madeleine Astor describes the love she felt for...
View Article“Woke up like this” Amy Lea
Rated 5 stars ***** ebook. ARC. Mindy’s Book Studio (Amazon). To be published September 5, 2023. After her parent’s divorce, Charlotte coped with anxiety by writing lists to organize her life. One of...
View Article“Courage to dream: Tales of hope in the Holocaust” Neal Shusterman; ill. by...
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Graphix (Scholastic). 245 p. (Includes “Author and Illustrator notes”, “Bibliography”, and “A note about the Hebrew letters in this book.”) To be published October 31, 2023....
View Article“The other Lola” Ripley Jones
Rated 3 stars *** ARC. ebook. Wednesday Books (St. Martin’s Publishing Group). To be published March 12, 2024. This sequel to “Missing Clarissa” finds Cam suffering panic attacks, constantly reliving...
View Article“The storm we made” Vanessa Chan
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. ebook. Marysue Rucci Books (Simon & Schuster). To be published January 2, 2024. Malaya had been a colony of Great Britain for many years, treating its people like second...
View Article“The house on Biscayne Bay” Chanel Cleeton
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. ebook. Berkley (Penguin Random House). (Includes “Author’s Note.”) To be published April 9, 2024. Henry Flagler had just built his railroad, and people were starting to trek...
View Article“The daughters of Block Island” Christa Carmen
Rated 5 stars ***** ebook. Thomas & Mercer. Published 2023. Blake had grown up in an orphanage, and felt abandoned, so used drugs and alcohol to forget her past. It wasn’t until she was an adult...
View Article“Miss Morgan’s book brigade” Janet Skeslien Charles
Rated 3 stars *** ARC. ebook. Atria Books (Simon & Schuster). (Includes “Author’s Note.”) To be published April 30, 2024. In 1917 Anne Morgan, daughter of millionaire financier J.P. Morgan, created...
View Article“Uprising” Jennifer A. Nielsen
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Scholastic Press (Scholastic). 356 p. (Includes period photographs, and “Author’s note.”) To be published March 5, 2024. Lidia Janina Durr Zakrzewski was born in Poland and,...
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