Author: Natalie Jenner
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating:★★★★☆
This historical fiction novel is a must for any Janeite who has every visited Chawton and Jane Austen’s House museum and Chawton House. It tells the story of the Jane Austen Society forming to secure and protect artifacts from her family. Its very genteel. Sweetly written characters. I enjoyed it very much.
Author: Michelle Stimpson Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ This simple story of two sisters is packed with so much complexity. Michelle Stimpson has written a beautiful narrative of familial love. Rose is retired and ready to move on to another chapter of her life, but she needs the help of her sister Marvina and their mama’s secret…
Author: Sonali Dev Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Sonali Dev’s Lies and Other Love Languages weaves romance and family drama into a richly layered story shaped by culture, loyalty, and long-buried truths. The novel follows a heroine whose life becomes complicated by secrets, misunderstandings, and the delicate ways families communicate love—sometimes honestly and sometimes through silence. As relationships unravel…
Author: Lea Geller Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Lea Geller’s The Truth and Other Hidden Things follows Bells Walker, a forty-something mother who suddenly finds herself in that strange middle season of life—her children growing independent, her role shifting, and her sense of being seen slowly fading. When an unexpected pregnancy collides with a husband who doesn’t…
Author: Abbi Waxman Genre: Mystery Rating: ★★★★★ Abbi Waxman’s One Death at a Time is proof that you don’t have to be a dedicated mystery reader to have a blast with a whodunit—especially when Waxman is the one writing it. I’m not typically a mystery person, but I’m absolutely an Abbi Waxman reader, and I’m so…
Author: Brian D. McLaren Genre: Religion; Christian Faith Rating: ★★★★☆ Brian McLaren’s Do I Stay Christian? addresses a question many believers are quietly asking in the midst of cultural and political upheaval: whether the Christian faith can still be a meaningful and ethical home in the modern world. McLaren structures the book in two parts, first presenting…
Author: Terri-Lynne DeFino Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Terri-Lynne DeFino’s Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story is a warm, character-driven family drama set in a lively New Jersey Italian-American community. Varina Palladino finds herself in a rut—her children are grown, her husband has been gone for years, and her fiercely present mother still looms large in her daily life….
