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Sometimes, even if you know the outcome of a situation, you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride. That's how I felt reading One Day in December by Josie Silver. This isn't your average "boy meets girl" romance - there is quite a journey involved, taking place over ten years. Read more

On the night of December 21, 1908, Marion Gilchrist is murdered in her apartment in Glasgow, and police pursue the wrong man for the murder. Who can he turn to for help pleading his case? None other than the famous detective writer, Arthur Conan Doyle. Read more

Hannah, thirtyish, is graduating from a top business school, starting a highly coveted job and living with her boyfriend in an expensive Manhattan loft. Could life get any better than this? That is the million dollar question in this book. Read more

Lucia has always been bright, capable, energetic and even wild at times, and her sister Miranda has always taken care of her. But when Lucia’s life starts taking unusual turns, Miranda doesn’t know how to take care of her. Read more

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy is a well-written and lively book about the writing and publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. Read more

Barb is part of a group of friends with artistic inclinations, several working professionally in the arts, all with the quirkiness that is so often linked with creative types. But soon we learn that this isn’t ordinary quirkiness. The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a strange, funny, wildly creative novel full of allegory and social criticism. Read more

In 1940 London, Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are working and volunteering for the war effort and surviving the almost nightly bombing attacks on the city. Emmy has dreamed of becoming a war correspondent, so when she sees an ad in the paper for a journalist position she immediately applies and is hired. However, the job is not what she was expecting - at all. Read more

Bring Me Back is the new book by B.A. Paris. Having read the two previous books by this author, I was looking forward to this new book. Read more

Oh, Abbi Waxman, I'd love to have you as my neighbor, especially since I really don't know many of mine! Other People’s Houses is the second book I've read by this author and it was written with the same truthful, snarky (maybe even snarkier?) observations of life. Read more

Dot Braden was an overworked teacher in Virginia, left to teach too many classes when male teachers were recruited to fight in World War II and female teachers rushed to the altar before their fiancés were shipped overseas. Ruth Weston struggled to get a teaching job in Mississippi despite being a whiz at math. Margaret Gilman was one of only 4% of American women to have completed a college degree in the 1940s, but wondered how to get a job in her field. When all these women heard about jobs in and near Washington D.C., working for the war effort, they jumped at the chance - despite having no idea what kind of work they would be doing because the recruiters weren’t allowed to tell them. Read more