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The Second Home tells the story of the Gordon Family from Wisconsin. Their summers were spent at the family home in Cape Cod. The home had been in the family...

Cecily and her boyfriend Matthew have just broken up. While in a NYC bar, Cecily meets Grant. A man who seems too good to be true. The immediate chemistry be...

All Adults Here is a multi-generational story about the Strick family. Astrid, The matriarch of the family, is a 68 year-old widow living in New York’s Hudso...

Hideaway introduces us to the Sullivan family – a Hollywood dynasty. In 2001, the death of the family patriarch Liam Sullivan brings the family to Big Sur to...

The Millers are an imperfect family. Deborah Miller was an absent mother to Beck, Ashley and Jake who were raised mostly by grandmother Helen. The father had...

I love Jane Austen. Chances are, you do too. Her books are classics and her stories have found their way to the movie screen so many times that her character...

January Andrews and Augustus “Gus” Everett are two authors who had been rivals in college. After a recent break-up, January travels to the beach house off La...

Big Summer was a pleasant surprise. Not that I wasn’t fully expecting to enjoy Jennifer Weiner’s latest but this book is more than it initially appears to be...

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a tough book to read. It is not my typical type of book but felt it was one I could not ignore. ...

It is the 1930s, pre-war Germany. At the start of the book, we meet twelve-year old Hetty Heinrich, her brother Karl and his best friend Walter. In a few yea...

Every now and then, I need to read a book like The Ingredients of You and Me. It is the third in the Hopeless Romantics series and I hadn’t read the first tw...

Back in 1914, Otto Koehler, a successful entrepreneur and President of the San Antonio Brewing Association/Pearl Brewing Company is murdered by Emma B., his ...

It’s 1962 and Heddy Winsome is heading to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer that will forever change her life. Having been raised in Brooklyn by a single mother...

At a time when our routines have been thoroughly disrupted, we meet Micah Mortimer. He’s a 43 year old computer geek with a very strict schedule to his life....

The Wedding Dress is a lovely, multi-generational story. It starts in 1928 in the opulent world of a wealthy San Francisco banking family. The Nob Hill ma...

The Glass Hotel is filled with excellent character studies of people who, for the most part, live in the gray area of life. Not all good. Not all bad. Most h...

Pretty Things is a good old-fashioned con story set in the current world of social media where peoples’ lives are so transparent that they can become easy ma...

This is one book that you won't be able to put down. Little Secrets immediately draws you in with the tragic kidnapping of Marin and Derek’s four-year-old so...

I enjoyed Graham Moore's last book Last Days of Night. And the author impressively won an Oscar for the screenplay of The Imitation Game making a memorable a...

It’s 1941 and socialite Ellie Whitford has escaped the confines of her upper crust British upbringing and is living the life of luxury in German occupied Par...