After being poisoned by pesticides used in her area, Diane Ladd's lungs were so scarred that she was given only 6 months to live. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, was told that getting her mother walking might help and give her mother more time, so they started going for walks together. Terrified that they were …
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In 1940s Colorado, Victoria is seventeen and lives on a farm, where she's mostly been left to raise herself and do all the cooking and cleaning for her father, brother and uncle, since a tragic accident that killed her mother and other family members. Her life seems to be mapped out, until she bumps into …
Set during WWII, this is the story of a child being sent to America to escape the bombing in London, and how that choice impacts the lives of two families forever. 11 year old Beatrix is sent by boat to Boston in 1940, where she stays with the Gregorys, going from her working class parents …
Belle da Costa Greene was a remarkable woman. Born in 1879, she was a cultured and beautiful woman who discretely had lovers, and was highly respected in her field. She was the personal librarian of JP Morgan, director of one of the most prestigious US libraries, and was the highest paid woman of her era. …
Elin Hilderbrand, the queen of beach reads set on Nantucket, is back with a book of short stories and novelas. This collection is a series of stories that are prequels, sequel stories, lost chapters and longer stories that tie into her previous books and characters. We revisit characters from books like Summer of 69, Beautiful …
Emma is a politician in the UK, with all the pressure and harassment that that entails. She plans to help make laws to protect women, but that could all be derailed when her reputation comes on the line: her teenage daughter is caught up in a sexting scandal and a body is found in her …
1938 China, Meilin flees the encroaching Japanese with her son and a beautiful scroll embellished with stories, which was a gift from her beloved husband. On the road, sometimes with her brother in law and his wife and daughters, she reads the stories to her son to help him keep his courage. Over the course …
This book felt like a breath of fresh air after some of the more serious/heavy things I've been reading lately. Gabby longs to be close to her sisters again, like she remembers them being before their mother died suddenly when they were young, their father seemed to abandon them and they ended up being raised …
Born into money in the Mid-West, Nanee finds her true home in Paris. So when war breaks out and the German tanks enter the city, rather than leaving, she stays and joins the Resistance. She helps get famous artists targeted by the Nazi's out of the country and also carries messages, being dubbed The Postmistress. …
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Italy, 1938, under Mussolini. Clara, 11, wakes in a new dingy city apartment to find their mother hasn't returned from a job the previous night. She goes looking for her mother and turns right at the door, and later her little brother Pippo ,7, wakes alone and also goes looking, turning left. A chain of …
