A four-year old indigenous girl goes missing while her Nova Scotia migrant family picks blueberries in Maine. Her older brother by two years carries the weight of his failure to protect her, and his grief and shame write the story of his life. Everything about this book is wonderful. I was drawn deeply into it at once and became engrossed in the story, which travels through 50 years and ends with both sadness and joy. Read it. Great book club pick.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years
"A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness." —People, A Best New Book
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother,…
What a luscious read from this great storyteller. She says she started this book years ago, early in her career, but it was too grand, too deep, for her emerging skills, and took this long to get together. It's worth the wait. We meet Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a nurse from a privileged family who joins the Army Nurse Corps to aid our soldiers injured in the Vietnam War. An innocent in many ways, she becomes friends with two other women and together they survive the horrors of war, returning to a country and a society that does not believe women served in Vietnam. What follows is a heart rending tale of Frankie's next steps, finding her way as a young woman bruised and battered by war, nightmares, heartbreak, and loss, her friends all she has to help her heal. I loved it.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…
One of the things I've always enjoyed about a Jodi Picoult novel is that they're usually rich, with tightly coiled plots that always surprise me. This is no exception. It's one of the first novels with a COVID plotline, set during the early days of the lockdown, when our heroine escapes the chaos of New York City and winds up on an island in the Galapagos. No spoilers here. Read it for yourself. Rights sold to Netflix for adaptation as a feature film • Named one of the best books of the year by She Reads.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six)
Rights sold to Netflix for adaptation as a feature film • Named one of the best books of the year by She Reads
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all…
What if the person who knew you best and loved you most forgot your face, and couldn’t remember your name?
Memory care is everyone’s solution for what to do about Sara, but her husband, Jack, can’t bear to live without her. He’s committed to saving his marriage, his wife, and their life together from the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease. They retired years ago to the house of their dreams and operated it as a Cape Cod bed and breakfast named Blue Hydrangeas. Jack has made an impossible promise: They will stay together in their beautiful home no matter what the disease brings.
However, after nine years of selfless caregiving, complicated by her progressing Alzheimer’s and his own failing heart, Jack finally admits he can no longer care for his wife at home. With reluctance, he arranges to admit her to an assisted living facility. But on the morning of admission, Sara is having one of her few good days, and he’s unable to follow through. Instead, he takes them on an impulsive journey to confront their past and reclaim their future.
Readers say:
“So beautifully written, so tender, so real.”
“It hardly seems possible that beautiful and Alzheimer’s could be used in the same sentence, but the author paints a picture of this insidious disease and the beauty of a love too deep to succumb.”
“For a quick read that will give a clear picture of Alzheimer’s, I highly recommend this book!”
“Thank you for an excellent read on an important topic.”
