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: Tory Henwood Hoen Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Tory Henwood Hoen’s Before I Forget is a gorgeous, tender novel about coming home—not just to a place, but to the truth of who you are. Cricket returns to her hometown carrying the weight of her past and the complicated relationships she left behind. As she reconnects with family and…
Author: Ryan Lokkesmo Genre: Bible Study Rating: ★★★★☆ Ryan Lokkesmo’s Jesus Was Human Too is a quick, accessible read that doesn’t try to reinvent theology so much as refocus your attention on a central truth we often glide past: Messiah fully entered human life, with all its strain and vulnerability. There may be nothing radically…
Author: Our Daily Bread Genre: Christian Devotional Rating: ★★★★★ God Loves Her from Our Daily Bread carries the same trusted warmth and biblical focus readers expect from their daily devotionals, with reflections thoughtfully shaped for women of faith. The entries are concise but meaningful, making it easy to pause, pray, and reconnect with God in…
Author: Hon. David Friedman Genre: Current Events; Israel Rating: ★★★★☆ David Friedman’s One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is written with the clarity of someone who has sat close to the machinery of policy and believes the stakes are existential. He argues—succinctly and step-by-step—that the long-promised two-state framework has not…
Author: Lauren Edmondson Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Lauren Edmondson’s Wedding of the Season centers on Cass, who returns to Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to recover from emotional wounds left by a trip gone terribly wrong. Instead of the quiet reset she expects, she finds herself pulled back into the complicated orbit of her family just as her sister’s…
Author: Anne Quindlen Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Anna Quindlen’s More Than Enough (Random House, publishing February 24) is the kind of novel that quietly takes your hand and then, page by page, reminds you how fragile a life can be and how sturdy love can feel inside that fragility. Polly is the center of gravity here—smart,…
