By Susan Gilbert-Collins
Touchstone, $15.00, 288 pages
Olivia’s mother had a stroke on the day she defended her doctoral dissertation; she died two days later. Two months later, Olivia remains in limbo, cooking elaborate meals for her father and obsessing over finishing the final issue of her mother’s cooking newsletter while hiding her doctorate from her family. [...]
By Danielle Ganek
Viking, $25.95, 290 pages
Half-sisters Cassie and Pecksland Moriarty reunite at Fools House, a run-down cottage in the Hamptons, bequeathed to them by their Aunt Lydia. Peck, an aspiring actress from NYC, and Cassie, a magazine writer living in Switzerland, can’t come to terms with giving up their aunt’s artistic legacy, which includes a [...]
By Isabel Sharpe
Avon A, $13.99, 300 pages
Megan’s life is a carefully controlled mess; her marriage remains intact only because of her desire to do what’s best for her kids, and her friendships are all superficial at best. But this is what she has chosen, and she believes herself to be happy enough until her [...]
By Kate Morgenroth
Plume, $15.00, 312 pages
Kate Morgenroth’s latest book, Through the Heart, is an exciting tale that will have readers captivated with suspense. Morgenroth is able to truly bring out each character’s personality, and have us believing in the impossible once again.
Through the Heart takes readers into the lives of Timothy and Nora, two people [...]
By Lorraine Adams
Knopf, $25.95, 315 pages
Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative reporter and author of the critically acclaimed Harbor, proves herself a modern-day powerhouse with this wide-reaching, complex narrative of war, politics, and journalism post 9/11. Beginning with a military pilot crash-landing in Washington, D.C., Adam expands her story with surprising effortlessness, moving out amongst [...]
By Deirdre Madden
Picador, $14.00, 240 pages
Can one have an entire novel about a character who never once steps foot in the story? Apparently one can. On Molly Fox’s birthday–could be forty, no one quite knows–she’s jetted off to New York leaving her Irish flat in the hands of the narrator. The narrator (whose name we [...]
By Rebeck, Theresa
Shaye Areheart Books, $24.99, 352 pages
The Finn sisters are shocked when their mother dies suddenly. Even more shocking was the unexpected inheritance she may or may not have left them: a $12 million piece of Upper East Side real estate left to her by her second husband, Bill. At her sister’s insistence, Tina [...]
By A. L. Kennedy
Knopf, $24.95, 224 pages
What Becomes is best read in spurts lest the stories began to run together like a letter left out in the rain. Each story, in this collection of twelve tales of the broken-hearted, will leave the reader more unsettled than the last. Each character in Kennedy’s short tales is [...]
By Connie May Fowler
Grand Central Publishing, $23.99, 288 pages
If you only read one book this year make sure this is the one. How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly is an incredible tale of rebirth and yearning, with layers upon layers of goodness. Although the first forty or so pages may have the reader questioning why [...]
By Jacob Nelson Lurie
BookSurge Publishing, $11.99, 350 pages
It has finally hit him: Davis Robertson is about to get married, and he’s no longer sure he’s making the right choice. He thought he loved Pam, but the past few days have raised some doubts. A crazy bachelor party in Vegas has brought back memories of his [...]
By Lynne Griffin
Simon & Schuster, $25.00, 304 pages
Laura’s life is filled to the brim with her two children, an aging mother, an adoring husband, and a job – not necessarily in that order. Her major goal in this story is to make contact with and get to know her mother Helen while she still can, [...]
By Diane Meier
Henry Holt, $25.00, 285 pages
Professor Joy Harkness is a single, middle-aged professor teaching at Columbia. She loathes her drab disconnected life in New York and, at the last minute, accepts a teaching position at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Her move to a new life in a smaller community sets the stage for The [...]
By Donna Ball
Berkley, $14.00, 352 pages
Donna Bell returns with this powerful sequel to “A Year on Ladybug Farm,” expanding on the intertwining personalities of Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget, this second book digs deep into the history and soul of the Shenandoah Valley and the run-down mansion the ladies have begun to call their home. Realizing [...]
By Oscar Hijuelos
Hyperion, $25.95, 352 pages
How do you follow-up a Pulitzer-prize winner like Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love? Hijuelos plucks Maria, the elusive muse from that story, and places her growth and history alongside the growth and history of Havana and Cuba during the revolutionary 50s and 60s. Maria is a perfectly [...]
By Dianne Dixon
Doubleday, $24.95, 257 pages
Justin Fisher has struggled with his past for his entire life. His memory is full of holes, and he’s never really wanted to know what was concealed in them until he and his wife moved to California, where he was born. Now memories are starting to surface, and he’s about [...]
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