Category Archives: Women’s Fiction

Review: The Summer We Came to Life by Deborah Cloyed

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback:320 pages Publisher:Mira; Original edition (May 31, 2011) ISBN-10: 0778312917 Source: Planned Television Arts Childhood friends Samantha, Isabel, Kendra and Mina get together every summer at some luxurious vacation spot, joined by their parents. This year, however, the clan is … Continue reading →

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Review: Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 28, 2011)   ISBN-10: 0061963089 Source: Publisher It’s 1969.  Atlanta-native Frances Ellerby is in Miami for a college-friend’s wedding.  She meets Marse Heiger, a free-spirited Miami-native.  Marse has her eyes on the … Continue reading →

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Review: The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (June 7, 2011) ISBN-10: 0062033689 Source: Publisher The women of Brightwood Trace are all vastly different, yet despite these differences they have quite the close friendship.  When Paisley, their “leader” becomes … Continue reading →

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Review: The Beach Trees by Karen White

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: NAL Trade; 1 edition (May 3, 2011) ISBN-10: 9780451233073 Source: Publisher When Julie was just twelve years old, her sister disappeared, never to be found.  Her once perfect family started to crumble.  Her mother became obsessed … Continue reading →

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Review: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Bantam; First Edition edition (March 22, 2011) ISBN-10: 0553807226 Source: Publisher Willa Jackson returns to the small southern town of Walls of Water, North Carolina eight years ago when her father passed away.  Growing up, she … Continue reading →

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Review: The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Plume (April 26, 2011) ISBN-10: 9780452297036 Source: Publisher   At one point in her life, Emily Wilson had everything she wanted: a bestselling novel, a handsome and wonderful husband, a bright outlook on her future.  Ten … Continue reading →

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Review: The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (April 12, 2011) ISBN-10: 0307717968 Source: Publisher  Milly and Twiss are two spinster sisters who live in the small Wisconsin town of Spring Green, Wisconsin. They are known by locals as “the bird sisters” due … Continue reading →

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Review: The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) ISBN-10: 0345517083 Source: Publisher Mia, Lainey, Betts, and Ginger met and became best friends at law school in the late 70s at the high point of the women’s liberation movement. They earned their nicknames … Continue reading →

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Review: The Other Life by Ellen Meister

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (February 17, 2011) ISBN-10: 0399157131 Source: Publisher What would you do if you had another chance to live the life you once had, experience the road not taken? Quinn Braverman left her neurotic, emotionally … Continue reading →

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Review: The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Broadway; 1 Reprint edition (July 6, 201 ISBN-10: 0767931742 Source: Terra Communications When Deputy Sheriff Nate Stanley is offered a deputy post in Oregon, he doesn’t hesitate to pack up his wife, Irene, and his children … Continue reading →

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