‘Burn it. Burn it and no one will ever know.’
Category: Fiction
THE HENNA ARTIST~ALKA JOSHI
"Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside. Inside, I was still the same girl who dreamed of a destiny greater than she was allowed.”
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS ~ ALICE FEENEY
"Marriage is either a winning lottery or a straitjacket."
INTO THE LAKE ~ L.K. CHAPMAN
When Natalie reluctantly agrees to attend a school reunion, she hits it off with former classmate Josh—a boy she barely spoke to while they were at school together—and finds herself swept up in a whirlwind romance with him. Then she receives a message: you can do better than marrying a murderer.
THE HEART PRINCIPLE ~ HELEN HOANG
“…But I guess that’s how it must be when someone’s standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves.”
SHANGHAI GIRLS ~ LISA SEE
"You are a Dragon, and of all the signs only a Dragon can tame the fates. Only a Dragon can wear the horns of destiny, duty, and power."
LADY IN THE LAKE ~ LAURA LIPPMAN
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life.
ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES ~ CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY
"My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart. He said we might survive this mistake if we found a way to rewild ourselves."
GIRL ONE ~ SARA FLANNERY MURPHY
Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead.
Annie John ~ Jamaica Kincaid
Sourced Synopsis ~ An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It … Continue reading Annie John ~ Jamaica Kincaid