Being Fishkill by Ruth Lehrer Published November 14, 2017 by Candlewick Press Genres YA Pages 320 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel … Continue reading Being Fishkill by Ruth Lehrer
The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew Published November 14, 2017 by Candlewick Press Genres YA, Dystopian Pages 352 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl -- a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund Deutscher Madel, and dutiful daughter of the Greater German Reich. Her best … Continue reading The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew
Trell by Dick Lehr Published September 12th, 2017 by Candlewick Press Genres YA Pages 320 Amazon / Goodreads On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. … Continue reading Trell by Dick Lehr
A Minor Fall by Price Ainsworth Published April 18, 2017 by SelectBooks Genres Thriller Pages 358 Amazon / Goodreads Davy Jessie is a young, personal injury trial lawyer working as an associate in a top-drawer law firm in Houston, Texas in 2005. In addition to trying difficult (sometimes impossible to win) cases assigned to him … Continue reading A Minor Fall by Price Ainsworth
Snow by Mike Bond Published October 1, 2017 by Mandevilla Press Genres Thrillers, Mystery Pages 250 Amazon / Goodreads Three hunters find a crashed cocaine plane in the Montana wilderness. Each has a reason to steal the cocaine – who will? The two who do steal it soon find themselves hunted by the Mexican cocaine … Continue reading Snow by Mike Bond
Voyager (Outlander #3) by Diance Gabaldon Published August 7th, 2001 by Delta Genres Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance Pages 870 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot … Continue reading Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Into a Dark Frontier by John Mangan Published September 5th, 2017 by Oceanview Publishing Genres Thriller, Mystery Pages 323 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads In the near future, Africa collapses into an enormous failed state, leaving the continent lawless and severely depopulated. For most, the breakdown brings horror, but for others--the outcast, the desperate, … Continue reading Into a Dark Frontier by John Mangan
I read a total of 13 books this month and all but 2 were ARCs and review copies, which means that I am finally fairly caught up. So as usual, the books at the top are from my personal TBR, that I either own or borrowed through my library's e-lending program and the bottom are … Continue reading August Wrap Up
Green Mama: Giving Your Child A Healthy Start and a Greener Future by Manda Aufocha Gillespie Published July 1st, 2014 by Dundurn Genres Nonfiction Pages 164 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads What are the most pressing problems facing new parents today? As the world has become increasingly more complicated, so has parenting. We are … Continue reading Green Mama by Manda Aufochs Gillespie
The Trick by Emanuel Bergmann Published September 19th, 2017 by Atria Books Genres Historical Fiction Pages 384 Amazon / Book Depository / Goodreads Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this deeply moving debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as … Continue reading The Trick by Emanuel Bergmann
