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First Impressions Reviewers

Each month, BookBrowse members have the opportunity to review books through our First Impressions program. Books that our member-reviewers rate particularly highly are featured as "Top Picks" selections. All books recently reviewed for First Impressions can be seen here, and Top Picks are listed below.

Books reviewed by First Impressions Reviewers

The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl (07/31/24)
The Flower Sisters (06/19/24)
Daughters of Shandong (05/15/24)
Becoming Madam Secretary (04/03/24)
Leaving (03/20/24)
Wild and Distant Seas (02/07/24)
The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (11/01/23)
All You Have to Do Is Call (10/18/23)
Banyan Moon (08/23/23)
A Council of Dolls (08/23/23)
King of the Armadillos (07/12/23)
The Wager (06/21/23)
Panther Gap (06/21/23)
Clytemnestra (05/03/23)
This Other Eden (04/05/23)
Once We Were Home (03/15/23)
Moonrise Over New Jessup (03/15/23)
Exiles (03/15/23)
Stealing (03/01/23)
Wade in the Water (03/01/23)
Ghost Season (02/15/23)
River Sing Me Home (02/01/23)
The Nazi Conspiracy (01/18/23)
In the Time of Our History (01/04/23)
Our Missing Hearts (10/19/22)
Dinosaurs (10/19/22)
Dirt Creek (08/24/22)
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden (08/24/22)
Some of It Was Real (08/03/22)
The Poet's House (08/03/22)
Jackie & Me (08/03/22)
The Lies I Tell (06/22/22)
Housebreaking (04/20/22)
Take My Hand (04/20/22)
Two Storm Wood (04/06/22)
Peach Blossom Spring (04/06/22)
The Last Grand Duchess (03/02/22)
Free (02/16/22)
The Family Chao (02/02/22)
Honor (01/19/22)
Beasts of a Little Land (01/05/22)
Flesh & Blood (10/20/21)
A Million Things (09/08/21)
The Last Chance Library (09/08/21)
At the Chinese Table (08/18/21)
Crossing the River (08/04/21)
When Broadway Was Black (08/04/21)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars (07/14/21)
The Personal Librarian (07/14/21)
Ariadne (05/19/21)
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman (05/05/21)
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World (03/17/21)
The Lost Apothecary (03/03/21)
The Prophets (01/20/21)
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie (01/20/21)
Stories from Suffragette City (01/20/21)
Piranesi (10/07/20)
A Girl is A Body of Water (09/16/20)
Migrations (09/02/20)
The Smallest Lights in the Universe (09/02/20)
The Last Train to Key West (06/24/20)
The Stone Girl (06/24/20)
The Paris Hours (05/06/20)
Miss Austen (05/06/20)
Afterlife (04/22/20)
The Women with Silver Wings (04/22/20)
The Mountains Sing (04/08/20)
The Splendid and the Vile (03/18/20)
The Yellow Bird Sings (03/04/20)
The Sun Down Motel (03/04/20)
Lady Clementine (02/05/20)
American Dirt (01/22/20)
Father of Lions (01/08/20)
Becoming (12/04/19)
Mighty Justice (10/30/19)
The Seine (10/30/19)
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt (10/02/19)
Yale Needs Women (09/18/19)
The Secrets We Kept (09/18/19)
Travelers (08/21/19)
Ellie and the Harpmaker (08/21/19)
The Volunteer (07/31/19)
The Last Collection (07/10/19)
The Guest Book (05/29/19)
Courting Mr. Lincoln (05/15/19)
Greek to Me (05/15/19)
The Last Year of the War (03/20/19)
American Princess (03/20/19)
The Night Tiger (02/20/19)
The Lost Man (02/20/19)
Sounds Like Titanic (02/20/19)
The Kinship of Secrets (01/23/19)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (11/14/18)
A Ladder to the Sky (11/14/18)
Clock Dance (08/29/18)
Meet Me at the Museum (08/15/18)
America for Beginners (08/01/18)
A Place for Us (06/20/18)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads (05/02/18)
The House of Broken Angels (04/04/18)
Sometimes I Lie (03/21/18)
Only Child (02/21/18)
Next Year in Havana (02/21/18)
Mothers of Sparta (02/07/18)
The Chalk Man (01/24/18)
The Story of Arthur Truluv (11/15/17)
Never Coming Back (11/01/17)
Seven Days of Us (10/18/17)
Love and Other Consolation Prizes (10/04/17)
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby (10/04/17)
The Twelve-Mile Straight (09/06/17)
The Heart's Invisible Furies (08/23/17)
The Almost Sisters (08/23/17)
Happiness (08/23/17)
The Garden of Small Beginnings (05/31/17)
If We Were Villains (05/03/17)
Edgar and Lucy (04/05/17)
Mercies in Disguise (04/05/17)
Castle of Water (04/05/17)
Caught in the Revolution (03/22/17)
A Piece of the World (03/08/17)
I See You (02/15/17)
The Second Mrs. Hockaday (02/01/17)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (01/18/17)
Cruel Beautiful World (10/05/16)
News of the World (10/05/16)
The Book That Matters Most (08/24/16)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (08/24/16)
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko (08/24/16)
A Certain Age (07/13/16)
Miss Jane (07/13/16)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (05/04/16)
Tuesday Nights in 1980 (04/06/16)
The Midnight Watch (04/06/16)
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (03/16/16)
What Lies Between Us (02/17/16)
The Opposite of Everyone (02/17/16)
The Forgetting Time (02/03/16)
The Things We Keep (01/20/16)
Fallen Land (01/20/16)
The Sound of Gravel (01/06/16)
When the Moon Is Low (10/07/15)
Jade Dragon Mountain (09/02/15)
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes (09/02/15)
Girl Waits with Gun (09/02/15)
Circling the Sun (07/22/15)
Fishbowl (07/22/15)
Letters to the Lost (06/03/15)
Whispering Shadows (04/15/15)
Lusitania (03/04/15)
The Same Sky (02/18/15)
A Kim Jong-Il Production (02/04/15)
The Nightingale (02/04/15)
Descent (01/07/15)
Vanessa and Her Sister (01/07/15)
The Book of Strange New Things (10/15/14)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (09/03/14)
The Romanov Sisters (06/18/14)
The Devil in the Marshalsea (06/18/14)
Enduring Courage (06/04/14)
Mimi Malloy, At Last! (04/09/14)
The Race Underground (02/19/14)
Under the Wide and Starry Sky (01/22/14)
The Shock of The Fall (01/08/14)
The Scavenger's Daughters (10/02/13)
A Man of His Own (10/02/13)
How the Light Gets In (09/04/13)
Amy Falls Down (07/24/13)
Children of the Jacaranda Tree (07/24/13)
Her Last Breath (07/10/13)
The Lion in the Lei Shop (07/10/13)
The Laws of Gravity (05/22/13)
Fever (05/08/13)
Eighty Days (03/20/13)
The House Girl (03/06/13)
Calling Me Home (02/20/13)
The Aviator's Wife (01/23/13)
Bone River (01/09/13)
Illuminations (10/31/12)
The Art Forger (10/31/12)
Live by Night (10/03/12)
The Headmaster's Wager (09/19/12)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (08/22/12)
The Light Between Oceans (08/22/12)
The Secrets of Mary Bowser (06/28/12)
Oxford Messed Up (06/14/12)
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (05/30/12)
All Woman and Springtime (05/16/12)
A Land More Kind Than Home (05/02/12)
The Good Father (04/04/12)
King Peggy (03/14/12)
A Good American (02/15/12)
No Mark Upon Her (02/15/12)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (02/15/12)
The Orphan Master's Son (02/01/12)
Defending Jacob (02/01/12)
Three Weeks in December (02/01/12)
Across Many Mountains (10/19/11)
The Night Circus (09/21/11)
The Language of Flowers (09/07/11)
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (08/04/11)
Turn of Mind (07/13/11)
Jamrach's Menagerie (07/13/11)
A Good Hard Look (07/13/11)
Pearl of China (04/20/11)
The Beauty of Humanity Movement (04/06/11)
Ever By My Side (03/09/11)
The Paris Wife (03/09/11)
Raising Wrecker (02/16/11)
Little Princes (02/03/11)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (02/03/11)
Bury Your Dead (10/20/10)
The Wave (10/06/10)
City of Tranquil Light (10/06/10)
The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise (09/22/10)
Juliet (09/08/10)
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (08/04/10)
A Fierce Radiance (07/08/10)
The Hand that First Held Mine (05/19/10)
Losing My Cool (05/19/10)
Daughters of the Witching Hill (05/05/10)
The Scent of Rain and Lightning (05/05/10)
The Queen's Lover (05/05/10)
Making Toast (03/03/10)
Heresy (03/03/10)
The Bricklayer (02/17/10)
The Wives of Henry Oades (02/17/10)
Alice I Have Been (01/13/10)
The Crossing Places (01/13/10)
State by State (11/05/09)
The Lieutenant (10/07/09)
South of Broad (09/23/09)
Sweeping Up Glass (08/12/09)
The Angel's Game (07/08/09)
The Earth Hums in B Flat (06/10/09)
The Walking People (05/21/09)
Burnt Shadows (05/06/09)
The Last Secret (04/22/09)

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A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl disappears, leaving a mystery unsolved for fifty years.
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