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All the Little Hopes: A Novel
by Leah Weiss
All the Little Hopes (10/8/2021)
I found this book to engaging and although slow to start the story became rich with detailed description of the people, their ways and the community they lived in, The smoothness in which the story is told, including difficult parts such as the Prisoner of War camp rewardmore
A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Intriguing and Captivating (3/26/2018)
“A Place for Us” by Fatima Farheen Mirza is intriguing and captivating story of an Indian-American Muslim family. The struggle and conflict of observing one’s faith, tradition, needs and wants is intense. A constant theme of finding balance in a complicated society. Themore
Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
Ginny Moon (1/15/2018)
I wasn't prepared to like this book or the main character. I thought it was going to be a very different type of book. The author brings the reader into Ginny's world as the story develops. I could empathize with all of the characters in her life and begin to understand howmore
Stay with Me
by Ayobami Adebayo
Stay With Me (8/24/2017)
Stay With Me, a slim first novel by Ayobami Adebayo is filled with emotion about a naive college educated couple facing infertility and their interfering family's cultural superstitions. 1980s Nigeria still practices polygamy and is facing political unrest and violence.more
Security
by Gina Wohlsdorf
Security (4/10/2016)
I have a self imposed 125 page limit in reading a book before determining whether or not to keep reading. I've probably quit reading a book less than 15 times in a lifetime of reading books. Unfortunately, this is one of those times. Choppy, sophomoric writing....very loose plot. Don't recommend.
Sisters of Heart and Snow
by Margaret Dilloway
Sisters of Heart and Snow (4/2/2015)
I so enjoyed this novel. It is about a father, mother (Japanese) and two sisters. The mother is in a nursing home with Alzheimers and on one good day she tells one of her daughters about a book that is hidden in her sewing room. The sisters find the book which is written inmore
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
Fantasy and Mystery in a Single Delicious Serving (12/20/2014)
TRBLS is a captivating suspenseful blend of Finnish mythology, mystery and fantasy. The plot is unusual and creative and the characters are well drawn.
In short, the novel is the story of the pursuit by a young woman, Ella, of the deepest secrets of the Rabbit Backmore
Close My Eyes
by Sophie McKenzie
Close My Eyes (7/12/2013)
In her first adult novel and her first to be published in the USA, McKenzie vividly brings us every couple's nightmare. Not just the loss of a child after a much wanted and anticipated pregnancy that is essentially without complication to the heartbreaking andmore
The Comfort of Lies: A Novel
by Randy Susan Meyers
The Comfort of Lies (5/30/2013)
This women's story is filled with many contrasts: Motherhood, families, couples, a single parent, their livelihood, community, and their love for a five year old adopted girl.

This is a great book for discussion in a book group. It's more interesting than the usual adoptionmore
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