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: Simon Sebag Montefiore Genre: History; Biography Rating: ★★★★★ Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: A Biography delivers the kind of expansive, meticulously researched history readers have come to expect from him. Moving across thousands of years, Montefiore traces the rise, destruction, and rebuilding of Jerusalem through empires, prophets, kings, conquerors, and pilgrims. The city emerges not just as a…
Author: Kristan Higgins Genre: Women’s Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Kristan Higgins’s A Little Ray of Sunshine explores the ripple effects of adoption through the intertwined lives of the birth mother, the child, and the adoptive family. When Harlow returns to Cape Cod after years away, long-buried truths about the adoption she experienced as a teenager resurface, forcing multiple generations…
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….
Author: Lisa M. HendryGenre : Christian DevotionalRating: ★★★★☆ Jesus Every Day is a thoughtfully designed 52-week devotional guide with an excellent layout, clear structure, and practical space for both reflection and prayer, making it easy to build a steady spiritual rhythm across the year. Its tone and theology are strongly Catholic, which will be a…
Author: Ashley Winstead Genre: Fiction Rating: ★★★★★ Ashley Winstead’s The Future Saints is the kind of novel that makes you look up mid-chapter and mutter, “Wow… just wow.” It’s been one of my favorite reads in a long time—brilliant, immersive writing that gives this band (and especially its heroine, Hannah Cortland) the rawness and tenderness the…