In Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, By 1983, the Riva family is the stuff of legends–especially in Malibu. Their father Mick, a world-famous singer, and their mother June had a whirlwind romance in the 1950s which led to them having four beloved children: Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit. Through […]
In That Summer by Jennifer Weiner, From the outside looking in, Daisy Shoemaker seems to have a charmed life. She and her lawyer husband have a grand home in Philadelphia, their teenage daughter Beatrice goes to private school, and Daisy even has a modest side-business giving cooking lessons. But she’s […]
In a very ‘here and now’ context, The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe travels through the early period of the global pandemic and manages to avoid the big P in politics as countries globally figured out their best game plan. For the US, and certainly the […]
In The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary, When Addie decided to spend the summer as a caretaker at a gorgeous villa in Provence four years ago, she had no idea that she was about to fall helplessly in love with a sensitive man who writes poetry. Or that their tumultuous […]
Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam: Getting dumped sucks big time, especially when it happens via post-it note, but if anything it only motivated Trixie Nguyen even more to prove that her sex toy business is going to be a rip roaring success! This is exactly how Trixie finds herself moving to Washington, […]
The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland: Perhaps in-part inspired by a New York Times article about the changing face of the Catskills in New York, this tri-generational family drama addresses the complexity of family and friendship whilst finding ways to keep heritage alive. As a way to […]
In The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley, For Piper Parrish, Frick Island in the Chesapeake Bay is a wonderful place to live. She married her high school sweetheart Tom who has his own crab trawler and they rent the cutest little carriage house. But everything changes when […]
I Thought You Said This Would Work by Ann Wertz Gavin: When Katie’s ovarian cancer looks like it has returned, her best friends Hollie and Sam are pushed together on a lengthy road trip to recover Katie’s dog Peanut from her awful ex. Unfortunately for both Hollie and Sam, their friendship […]
In a Bookclub Far Away by Tif Marcelo: Through exploring the lives and struggles of military spouses and their ‘everything’s temporary’ existence, In a Book Club Far Away sets out to highlight the comfort shared and friendships built for those abandoned to deployment missions.
In Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson Harvey, As an investigative journalist, Amelia is used to digging deep into subjects that most people don’t even think about on a daily basis. Frozen embryos are definitely one of those. Newly divorced and still feeling the sting emotionally, Amelia honestly wasn’t […]