Category: All Book Reviews
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A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It is 1940 and Anna, 9, Edmund, 11, and William, 12, have just lost their grandmother. Unfortunately, she left no provision for their guardianship in her will. Her solicitor comes up with a preposterous plan: he will arrange for the children to join a group…
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2020 Blurb: Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are…
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Tea with Elephants by Robin Jones Gunn: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Blurb: Ever since they met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica 20 years ago, Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling…
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A Year of Flowers by Suzanne Woods Fisher: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2021 Blurb: In An Apology in Bloom, wedding florist Jaime Harper is on a meteoric rise, working for an event company led by a successful and way-too-handsome boss. When a letter arrives from her past mentor with an offer too good to pass up, will she stay…
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The Will of the Many by James Islington: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: May 2023 Blurb: The Catenan Republic – the Hierarchy – may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has…
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Into the Sunset by Mary Connealy: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Blurb: To finally escape the clutches of her controlling husband and the threat of being recommitted to an asylum, Ginny Rutledge enlists the help of her friends, Maeve O’Toole and Dakota Harlan. Fleeing their own tumultuous pasts, the group embarks on a journey to prove Ginny’s…
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Lethal Kings by Victoria McCombs: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Blurb: You’ve been warned many times, you cannot trust the kings . . . The old queen is dead, a new queen is in play, and the realm has descended into darkness. For the first time in history, a queen has rejected the game. Eliza will…
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Echo Nova by Clint Hall: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 2025 Blurb: As a poor teenager living in the Dregs, Dash Keane can only escape his dismal reality by competing in illegal rooftop races and staying up late to watch the timenet with his younger brother. When there is an opportunity to participate in a competition set…
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1976 Blurb: Why is the land so important to Cassie’s family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she’s black—to show Cassie that having a place of…
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Incarnate by Antony Barone Kolenc: Content Guide & Warnings
Publication Date: Feb 2025 Blurb: October, 2007. Joshua Christiansen thinks he’s just an ordinary teen, ready to graduate high school and infatuated with his best friend, Rachel…until Agent Samson shows up and tells him who he really is. Now, while dodging ruthless zealots and evading government plots, he must test…
