This is a book you won’t want to put down, and that is filled with twists and turns. It is about a young man whose girlfriend ends up dead and is on
trial for her murder.
Being the mom of two sons, I could empathize with the
boy’s mom and how helpless she felt to help him. The book also had a subplot
about bees and how they made honey, and to be honest, I didn’t think I’d be
interested, but I was wrong.
The writing was visual, and the bees turned out to
be a metaphor for what else was happening in the story. The book was full of
surprises, and one especially caught me off guard. I highly recommend it!
*THE NEW YORK TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Heart-pounding and heartbreaking' WASHINGTON POST
Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfriend.
Lily also knows what it feels like to start over - when she and her mother relocated to New Hampshire it was all about a fresh start. She and Asher couldn't help falling…
I wasn’t that excited when my book club picked
this novel, and I thought I’d be bored. Boy, was I wrong!
The story takes place over
three time periods: the Civil War, the 1950s, and 2019. The way the author
weaves together all three time periods and what black people faced and still
face is seamless.
I didn’t know anything about racehorses and how they were
raised by the slaves during the eighteen hundreds and had no idea how
fascinated I’d be.
The best part was an emotional look at one slave and his
relationship with a horse. The book can be sweet, sad, and interesting. I
was sad when I read the last page, but it’s a story that will stick with me for
a long time.
"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." -The New York Times Book Review
"Horse isn't just an animal story-it's a moving narrative about race and art." -TIME
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an…
I’ve been a huge fan of this author for a long
time, as she writes about women’s stories in a fun yet emotional way.
This is
the story of a woman who seemingly has everything and another woman who
doesn’t. The second woman finds the first one’s duffle bag filled with
expensive clothes, and as she wears them, she begins to feel different and more
confident. So confident that she makes changes in her life for the better.
During this time, the first woman’s life falls apart. It’s hard not to compare
yourself to others who seem to have more, and this book reminds you that
everyone has something in their life that isn’t perfect, even when we think we
are the only ones with problems.
A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from international sensation Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars
'A delightful reverse-Cinderella story of two women who seem polar opposites - until circumstance forces them to experience each other's lives. Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does - recognizably real and complex and funny and flawed' JODI PICOULT
Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?
Meet Sam . . . She's not got much, but she's grateful for what she…
This book is a love letter to all women, especially any that have gone through issues with pregnancy, miscarriage, or infertility.
Rachel is a thirty-year-old married Jewish woman who’s wanted a baby for a long time. Katie’s a thirty-two-year-old single Catholic woman who has been trying to find a man who’ll stick around. We follow the women individually as they find themselves pregnant, Rachel happily, Katie not.
As they enter their second trimester, they’re shocked to hear that there’s something very wrong with the babies they’re carrying. The women meet in a support group and help each other through not only the excruciating decision they need to make but also through the issues that come with making that decision.
