Category Archives: Women’s Fiction

Review: More than Words Can Say by Robert Barclay

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Jenn

Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (December 20, 2011) ISBN-10: 0062041193 Source: Publisher When Chelsea’s grandmother passed away she was devastated.  She was incredibly close to Gran and can’t seem to fathom how she and her mother are going to … Continue reading →

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Review: The Bungalow by Sarah Jio

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jenn

Paperback:320 pages Publisher:Plume; 1 edition (December 27, 2011) ISBN-10: 0452297672 Source: Publisher The summer of 1942, young Anne Calloway sets off to the Pacific island of Bora-Bora to serve as a nurse for the Army Nurse Corps.  She’s engaged to … Continue reading →

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Review: The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (November 15, 2011) ISBN-10: 006195876X Source: Publisher Classic literature is rich with female  characters deserving of the term “heroine.” From Jane Eyre to Anne Shirley, each of these characters overcame some sort of loss … Continue reading →

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Review: Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Jenn

  Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Knopf (June 14, 2011) ISBN-10: 0307595129 Source: Personal Copy The Kelleher women are an extremely strong-minded set of women.  Alice is the matriarch; she spends all her time at Mass or enjoying a cigarette and a manhattan on … Continue reading →

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Review: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jenn

Hardcover:352 pages Publisher:Algonquin Books (May 24, 2011) ISBN-10: 1565129903 Source: Publisher Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon are both teen girls, growing up in 1980s Atlanta.  They are also half-sisters, both daughters of a bigamist, James Witherspoon.  Only Dana and … Continue reading →

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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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