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Willow goes to live with her older brother and his family after a tragic car accident in which her parents were killed. Feeling that everyone must view her as a killer, since she was the one driving the car the night her parents died, she has distanced herself from her former life and friends. To [...]
Rose and Scarlett March survive a horrific attack by werewolves in which their grandmother is violently murdered. The girls experience life with a different filter than most others, and from an early age are saddled with the responsibility of slaying Fenris – werewolves- wherever they find them. Though Rose would like to experience things exactly [...]
In My My Name Is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira’s debut historical novel unfolding against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the titular character is the headstrong twin daughter of the foremost midwife in Albany, New York. With single-mindedness of purpose, Mary has contacted just about every doctor and medical school within her reach in [...]
Audrey Niffenegger’s latest novel Her Fearful Symmetry explores the lives of a set of twins who are bequeathed an apartment in London by their late aunt, Elspeth Noblin. Elspeth has been estranged from her twin sister Edie for 20 years. Elspeth is diagnosed with cancer and, knowing that she has less than a year to live, begins writing to [...]
Meg Rosenthal and her daughter Sally have sold their home to move Arcadia Falls where Meg has obtained a teaching position at the town’s boarding school of the arts. It’s a hard time for both as they try to adjust to life in the absence of Meg’s husband, and Sally’s father, Jude. Sally is angry [...]
Shortest book synopsis ever on Linus’s Blanket, if you don’t count this sentence, which you can’t. Abraham Lincoln is a vampire hunter! There, all done. I really liked this book. The most absurd thing about it is the premise, and I found myself reacting to the fact that I was indeed reading a book about [...]
Ever since the untimely death of her police officer father, Jessica Villareal has known that she too would be a police officer when she grew up. Dedicated to her job and especially to protecting children from predators, Jess hasn’t always been as attentive to her daughter Nina as she has needed to be since she [...]
This is the first book that I have re-read this year and probably only the second book that I have re-read in the past couple of years, the other being Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Originally my copy belonged to my aunt. She told me that it was one of her favorite books (she [...]
Margaret and Patrick fly to Kenya with the expectation of an exciting adventure. They have been married for a few short months and Patrick, who has been granted permission to conduct his studies in Kenya in exchange for operating free clinics across the country, is a doctor researching equatorial diseases. Margaret is more at loose [...]
James Osgood is a partner at Boston publishing company Fields, Osgood & Co., a firm recently honored with the unprecedented opportunity to publish famed author Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood in America. It’s a cut-throat time to be in the publishing business (I don’t know, maybe it still is that) and they are [...]
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