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If you want to read something that deals with courage in the face of fire then you might consider The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell. It covers the reality of six women who were reporters and journalists during one of the darkest periods of recent history, the front lines of WWII. Sigrid Schultz was a young…
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Blood Will Tell by Heather Chavez is a story that is about a missing girl, among other things, but at its core it is about the bond between sisters. Frankie Barrera is a single mom and school teacher who tends to also be slightly overprotective towards her younger sister, Izzy. One day she ends up…
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With Body Double by Tess Gerritsen we return to Boston and Rizzoli and Isles. Dr. Isles is returning from a conference in Paris when she is puzzled to find police swarming her house and Detective Rizzoli a little shell shocked at the sight of her. While the explanation of a body found in a car…
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Curse of the Bane is the second book in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. It continues the story of Thomas Ward as he apprentices under the Spook. The story opens with Thomas working on capturing a boggart without the aid of the Spook since he is sick. In the process the local priest…
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The Floating Girls by Lo Patrick is a sad story about how every family has its secrets. Kay Whitaker is twelve when the story opens and lives in the small and extremely rural town of Bledsoe, Georgia. Over summer break while exploring the neighboring marsh she stumbles upon a stilt house and meets the inhabitants,…
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In The Music Makers by James D. Snyder we get not only a reflection of our own time but a glimpse into a potentially parallel point in history. It is 1989 and the people of East Berlin are struggling to break free of their dictatorship. Greta is a civics teacher, a rather eccentric one actually,…
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Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is the third and final volume of The Lost Chronicles. It focuses almost exclusively on the story of Raistlin Majere during the final days of the War of the Lance. Opening shortly after Raistlin left the ship and abandoned the rest of his group,…
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The Abduction is the second book in the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham and it continues the adventures of young Theo. It opens a few months after the previous book when Theo and his family are woken up by a phone call from the police. His best friend April has gone missing and no…
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Sisters of the Great War is a work of WWI historical fiction by Suzanne Feldman. It tells the story of Ruth and Elise Duncan, two sisters from Baltimore, Maryland who are chafing under both societal restrictions and family restrictions. When Ruth is rather firmly denied the option to go to medical school to become a…
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Sold on a Monday is a rather heartbreaking piece of historical fiction by Kristina McMorris. In 1931 struggling reporter Ellis Reed manages to snap a disturbing photo that he doesn’t actually plan to publish. Two young children playing in their yard with a sign on the porch behind them that states 2 children for sale.…
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