“Martha Hall Kelly’s 2016 historical fiction debut novel Lilac Girls is inspired by the true story of the New York socialite Caroline Ferriday. She worked at the city’s French consulate and was in love. It was 1939. Her world changed when Hitler marched all across Europe toward France and threatened to upend her near-perfect world. Miles away, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, found herself drawn into the position of a courier for the Polish resistance. Meanwhile, Herta Oberheuser, an am...

“When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel by Barbara O'Neal is an Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller. Grace Greene, the author of The Memory of Butterflies and The Wildflower House series, praised the novel, writing how the story consists of "crisp prose, well-drawn settings, and compelling characters."Train ride. Terrorist attack. Josie Bianci, gone forever. Kit had known and believed her sister was killed years ago, ...

“No matter what your goals are, James Clear’s Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones offers a framework that has been proven for making progress every day. James Clear is one of the leading experts on habit formation. In this book, Clear reveals a number of practical strategies that can effectively teach you how to form good habits, how to break bad ones, and how to master the tiny behaviors that actually lead to remarkable results. Clear says that if you...

“The Guest List is a murder mystery and psychological thriller by Lucy Foley. With a rating of 3.88 on Goodreads and 4.3 on Amazon, it has also made it to the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Times, Sunday Times, and The Guardian.When celebrity couple, Jules Keegan and Will Slater, hold the wedding of the year, no one could have anticipated all the skeletons that are going to tumble out of the closet. The guests all have dark secrets of their own,...

“In her New York Times bestselling book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, author Stephanie Land shares her story and other real stories of overworked and underpaid American workers. She tells their story of living on food stamps and coupons to eat. She tells them of the programs from the government that provided her basic housing. She tells of the arrangement that also doubled as halfway houses. She told them of aloof government employees who have called her lucky f...

I'm want nothing to do with marriage. I'm plain, I know it, and I value my independence too much.But the law of the land is clear. I cannot be forced to marry or sold as a slave, but I have magic in my blood, and I can be forced to be an apprentice.His apprentice. Trained by the most powerful sorcerer in the land.And he will show me no mercy. His training of me is strict, firm, leaving me sore and begging for reprieve.What I don't count on i...

“The critically-acclaimed novel Washington Black is hailed as one of the best books of the year by major publications. Esi Edugyan’s novel is about George Washington Black, or "Wash." He is an eleven-year-old field slave who served on a sugar plantation in Barbados. He is terrified when he was chosen by his master's brother to be his manservant. To his big surprise, the man was the eccentric Christopher Wilde. He turned out to be an explorer, a naturalist, an inventor, and an abolitionist....

“In the bestselling novel True Places: A Novel, author Sonja Yoerg tells the story of a girl. She emerges from the woods. She was ill, starved, and alone. She collapses. Suzanne Blakemore dashes along the Blue Ridge Parkway. She was getting away from her overscheduled yet completely normal life. Then she encounters this girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagined how this encounter would change her, a change that she both feared yet desperately needed. Suzanne h...

“Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar's second and most recent book, is a melange of fact and fiction that aims to talk about the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It is an intense and controversial narrative about identity, belonging to a family and society, and fulfilling one’s dream.Ayad Akhtar bravely portrays a country in economic disparity-- a place where inequality happens whether in class or race, further making immigrants dwell in anxiety. The nation continue...

“Madeline Miller, the author of the international bestseller The Song of Achilles, comes to another powerful tale Circe. Circe ranks high in the bestseller list of The New York Times. Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, Madeline Miller tells the tale of the mythological witch born in the house of Helios. Circe may be the daughter of the god of the sun, but she is rejected by her kin. She did not have the look nor the voice characteristic of her divine blood. Rejection and isolation with her fello...

“Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy was named as one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Esquire, Time and The Boston Globe. Author Bryan Stevenson was then a young lawyer when he first founded the Equal Justice Initiative. This is a legal practice dedicated to defending those who are most desperate and are in need: the wrongly condemned, the poor, and women and children who are trapped in the farthest reaches of America’s criminal...

“Kamila Shamsie’s book Home Fire: A Novel is the winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize For Fiction. This book is the heartbreaking and suspenseful story of one immigrant family who was driven by devastating consequences to pit love against loyalty. Isma was set free after many years from the responsibility of watching out for her younger siblings since their mother's death. She has accepted a mentor's invitation to America. This will allow her to pursue her dream that's been long deferred but s...