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All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
ELIZABETH @ SILVER'S REVIEWS - TENSE (9/18/2020)
A small town, a perfect town, a town with secrets, and a town with the not so perfect residents they think they are.

The night Jenny Kramer is attacked is the night that the town gets turned upside down along with her family. Jenny's father is obsessed with finding hermore
The Lost and Found Bookshop
by Susan Wiggs
LOVED IT - ELIZABETH @SILVER'S REVIEWS (7/7/2020)
Who wouldn’t want to own a bookshop? That is a dream job.

Natalie, Blythe’s mother, did follow her dream, but at times her dream was at the expense of her daughter.

A tragedy left Natalie with her mother gone, her beloved grandfather to care for, and a bookshop that hermore
The Prisoner's Wife
by Maggie Brookes
Excellent - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (5/26/2020)
Izabela and Bill were destined to meet, but did Izabela realize what she was getting herself and Bill into when she rushed the marriage and escaped the farm she had known for her entire life?

Izabela immediately fell in love with Bill when she saw him in a group of Britishmore
A Good Marriage
by Kimberly McCreight
Twists, turns, and surprises - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (5/5/2020)
Dealing with problems in her own marriage and now having to deal with defending a friend for a murder that Lizzie knew he didn't commit was not what Lizzie was looking forward to.

Lizzie was friends with Zach in college and knew he wasn't capable of murder, but did youmore
The Lost Orphan: A Novel
by Stacey Halls
LOVED IT - THE LOST ORPHAN (4/9/2020)
Having to leave your newborn at a Foundling until you could afford to keep the child seemed to be the norm in the 1700's for poor families.

Going back to get your child after you saved half a year's wages to pay for the child’s keep for six years and find out someone elsemore
Darling Rose Gold
by Stephanie Wrobel
Tense, chilling - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (3/17/2020)
For eighteen years Rose Gold was told by her mother that she was ill with some disease that no one could figure out.

Her mother, Patty, took her to many doctors and actually told the doctors what tests to try.

When a doctor got suspicious, she took Rose Gold to a differentmore
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
Excellent - don't miss reading this book (2/18/2020)
Carly left college for a "few" days so she could head to Fell, New York, to see if she could find anything out about how her Aunt Viv died or where she might be.

Viv disappeared from The Sun Down Motel where she worked in 1982 and was never found.

When Carly arrived andmore
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
Heartwarming and enjoyablen - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/14/2020)
Captain Kidd had experience traveling uncharted lands as he read his newspapers in different towns to spread the news of the world, but traveling with a ten-year-old girl who couldn't speak English was quite a different task for him.

Johanna had been kidnapped by the Kiowamore
Cartier's Hope: A Novel
by M. J. Rose
All-around "gem" of a read - Elizabeth Of Silver's Reviews (1/13/2020)
The story of the Hope Diamond, women journalists, hidden identities, locked bookcases, and family secrets greet the reader of Cartier’s Hope.

Vera was the daughter of a wealthy businessman, but she needed to hide this fact so she could work at being a journalist for themore
The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
by Phaedra Patrick
Another heartwarming, sweet read - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/12/2020)
Mitchell went from his job as an engineer to the job of removing padlocks placed by lovers on bridge railings and padlocks that were starting to weigh down the bridges.

Mitchell lived alone with his daughter since his wife died, and he had a difficult time making ends meet,more
The Girls with No Names
by Serena Burdick
You Won't Be Able To Put The Book Down - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (1/6/2020)
Effie and Luella lived a privileged life and had to conform to all the strict rules set upon women in the 1910's including being sent away.

Effie was the sister who had a health problem, and Luella was the sister who was beautiful. Both behaved, but were bored with theirmore
Tiffany Blues: A Novel
by M.J. Rose
Excellent - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/2/2020)
What had happened in Jenny’s past that kept haunting her and kept her shrinking into the background instead of taking all that New York could offer her?

Was it bad enough to have to sidestep questions about it and fear that others were looking into her past?

Jenny moved tomore
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
by Karma Brown
LOVED RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE (12/31/2019)
An old house, an old cookbook, notes in the cookbook that reveal the life of Nellie, and Alice who has some secrets of her own is what the reader finds in this lovely read.

We meet Alice who was fired from her job because of something she leaked and we learn of a box shemore
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
Do Not Miss Reading This Book (12/10/2019)
Françoise Frenkel always loved books, libraries, and especially bookstores.

Her dream was to open a bookstore, but would her dream about opening a French bookstore in Berlin in 1920 be a good idea?

She was successful until 1935 when the police started showing up andmore
Reputation
by Sara Shepard
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (12/4/2019)
An e-mail hack at a prestigious college reeked havoc on the campus of Aldrich University.

The hack exposed every single e-mail that administrators, doctors, faculty, and students had written.

The e-mails revealed secret affairs, unsavory situations, and other juicy details.

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The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Creepy, Bizarre, and Disturbing (11/5/2019)
Libby was looking forward to her 25th birthday because she knew she would be coming into an inheritance.

What she didn’t know was what she had inherited.

Libby finds out she has inherited her family’s million-dollar home that was haunted by horrible events the family endured.

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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Nothing To See Here (11/4/2019)
Did Madison choose Lillian to be her friend because of the differences in their upbringing?

Did Madison choose Lillian to be her friend because it was convenient for her?

Or did Madison choose Lillian to be her friend because she needed a true friend?

The reason wasn’t clear,more
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
The Sun Down Motel (11/3/2019)
Carly left college for a "few" days so she could head to Fell, New York, to see if she could find anything out about how her Aunt Viv died or where she might be.

Viv disappeared from The Sun Down Motel where she worked in 1982 and was never found.

When Carly arrived andmore
Red Letter Days
by Sarah-Jane Stratford
Red Letter Days (9/29/2019)
Phoebe was finally making some money for her scripts and getting well known, but then for some reason she was tagged as being a communist by the government and blacklisted by the playwrights.

Phoebe had no idea what she did to be tagged, but she decided to leave the countrymore
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (9/11/2019)
Sarah Grimke and Handful were complete opposites in the society of the 1800's.

Sarah was the daughter of a plantation owner, and Handful was her maid. Both were strong women regardless of their station in life.

Sarah didn't want to have a maid, and Handful didn't want to be amore

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