Explore the legends of Hawai’ian gods and an engrossing family saga in this week’s Forthcoming #FridayRead: Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut, SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS–a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation. A young family is vacationing when their seven-year-old son falls overboard (seriously worst nightmare material). BUT a shark appears, cradling the […]
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Forthcoming #FridayReads: THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS
A mother and her 5-year-old daughter must hide from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland during World War II in Jennifer Rosner’s heart-rending fiction debut, THE YELLOW BIRD SINGS. Shira, the daughter, is a musical prodigy, and in order to keep her quiet and hidden in the barn of a Non-Jewish family, her mother Róza invents […]
Forthcoming #FridayReads: THE BOATMAN’S DAUGHTER
A young woman confronts ancient forces in the depths of the bayou in Andy Davidson’s gorgeous, moody, horrifying novel, THE BOATMAN’S DAUGHTER. Miranda Crabtree has spent a quiet life ferrying contraband for a mad preacher and his declining band of followers to make ends meet and to protect an old witch and a secret child […]
Forthcoming #FridayReads: OONA OUT OF ORDER
A young woman explores family, love, and life as she bounces through time in Margarita Montimore’s OONA OUT OF ORDER. Our story starts on New Years Eve 1982, which also happens to be the day before Oona Lockhart’s 19th birthday. She has big decisions to make about her future, with a boyfriend who loves her, […]
Forthcoming #FridayReads: THE GOD GAME
Artificial Intelligence invades the real world in Danny Tobey’s fast-paced techno-thriller THE GOD GAME. THE GOD GAME follows five friends in a high school AV club who are introduced to a secret virtual reality game with real world consequences–anything and everything, from college admissions to business success for their parents. The Game promises to get […]
Forthcoming #FridayReads: THE SECRET GUESTS
Benjamin Black, pen name of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville, shares a little-known secret of World War II in his forthcoming historical fiction, THE SECRET GUESTS. Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, and in THE SECRET […]
Forthcoming #FridayReads: IN THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS
Tasha Alexander continues her historical Lady Emily Mystery series with IN THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS. Lady Emily and her husband Colin are in Italy when they discover a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii. Surrounded by archaeologists with secrets of their own, introduced to a shocking character from Colin’s past, and […]