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The Heretic’s Daughter, by Kathleen Kent Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: September 3, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Nine-year-old Sarah Carrier has moved with her family from Billerica to Andover, Massachusetts. She travels with her parents, three older brothers and baby sister bringing smallpox to the small and devout town where her mother [...]
Sweetsmoke, by David Fuller Publisher: Hyperion Publication Date: August 26, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 320 Pages Sweetsmoke by David Fuller has been all over the place and has gotten such great reviews that I wanted to try it for myself. Originally my copy came from the library, but it turned out to be a book that [...]
Cutting Loose, by Nadine Dajani Publisher: Forge Books Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages In Cutting Loose, Nadine Dajani explores the lives of three women faced with a crossroads in their lives. Over the course of the novel, they step outside the boundaries of their comfort zones in order to transition, [...]
Choosing to Be: Lessons In Living from a Feline Zen Master, by Kat Tansey Publisher: iUniverse Star Publication Date: September 5, 2008 Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages “The idea that I might already be the answer I am seeking is revolutionary to me to say the least.” I put the book down and turned to [...]
My Lady of Cleves, by Margaret Campbell Barnes Publisher: Sourcebook Landmarks Publication Date: September 1, 2008 Format: Trade: Paperback, 352 pages “In order to take her mind off Henry’s coming and the approaching hour she went on trying to fix each day’s incidents chronologically in her mind as she had not been able to during [...]
Down to a Sunless Sea, by Mathias B. Freese Publisher: Wheatmark Publication Date: 2007 Format: Trade Paperback, 134 pages “Jon went on as if I was there, as if I was not there. He told one anecdote after another, black pearls on a string, each with a dark lesson he had learned or imagined he [...]
In Hovering Flight, by Joyce Hinnefeld Publisher: Unbridled Books Publication Date: September 16, 2008 Format: Advance Review Copy, 288 pages Scarlet Kavanaugh has returned home to spend time with her activist mother who is dying, by choice- she refuses treatment, from cancer that has returned to ravage her body a second time. Much to Scarlet’s [...]
The Bookmaker, by Michael J. Agovino Publisher: Harper Publication Date: August 19, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Michael Agovino grew up in Co-op City, once called the biggest housing project in the country, in a melting pot of New York City ethnicities where his Italian American family is in the minority. The bookmaker of the [...]
The Five Lost Days, by William Petrick Publisher: Pearhouse Press Publication Date: November 18, 2008 Format: Advance Reader Copy, Trade Paperback, 349 pages “But reporters and filmmakers and media people always have an idea of what they want their story or interview to come to. You’re not down here to just see where things will [...]
Islands of the Divine Music, by John Addiego Publisher: Unbridled Books Publication Date: October 28, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 256 pages “For most of her life, for nearly one hundred years, Rosari referred to 1906 as the year of the three catastrophes: the Great San Francisco Earthquake, her father’s surrender to catarrh, and her marriage to [...]
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