Novels Now

303 pages
Laura Miller
The Magician’s Book is about the author’s experiences with The Chronicles of Narnia. First, as a young student who is offered a copy by her teacher, then as a teenager when she re-reads them and discovers the “hidden” messages that are in the story, and lastly, later on as an adult.
The first [...]

Loucinda McGary
319 pages
Donovan O’Shea has lived in America since he was seventeen years old. It seems that whenever he gets near the fens(which, from my reading, I gather is a marshy-type area) his gift of “the sight” is triggered. Donovan is afraid of his gift and tries to stay as far from the fens as [...]

David Baldacci
329 pages

As Divine Justice begins we find Oliver Stone planning a covert getaway after assassinating two high-ranking government officials. While he is in the process of making his escape he encounters Danny Riker. Because of Danny, Oliver ends up altering his plans and finds himself in the middle of Divine, Virginia where suspicious things [...]

Pam Jenoff
360 pages
Earlier this fall, I read The Kommandant’s Girl, which is the story of Emma Bau, a young newlywed who belongs to the Polish resistance during World War II. The Diplomat’s Wife is a companion book that is told from the perspective of Marta Nedermann who is friend and fellow resistance member to [...]

221 pages
A couple of years ago(before I had a blog) I read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. While I learned a lot from that book and I enjoyed Ehrenreich’s sense of humor quite a bit, I was left feeling sad and a little irritated at the premise that [...]

422 pages
There is a reason that Michael Connelly has become one of my favorite authors after having only read three of his novels. He writes fast-paced crime novels that draw you in and hold your attention all the way through.
In The Brass Verdict, Micky Haller is thrust back into law practice literally overnight after his [...]

Released on October 30th.

It’s the last summer before college for 18 year-old Kim Larsen. She and her friends spend their time at the lake and working at their various summer jobs. Being from a small town in Ohio makes them all ready to get on with the big adventure into adulthood but at the same time they are whiling away the last bits of the summer with the freedom of teens.

Everything changes when Kim disappears on her way to work one day and Songs for the Missing is a chronicle of the thoughts and emotions of those who know and love her [...]

333 pages
Elizabeth Phoenix used to be a police officer for the Milwaukee Police Department. She is a psychic and she used her skills in her job but she quit the force when her partner was killed. She now works as a bartender for her dead partner’s wife. One day, while on the job at the [...]

Anita Shreve
305 pages
ARC from Hachette Book Group
Several students at a private boarding school have participated in illicit sexual activity. Worse than that, they were foolish enough to tape it. When the tape makes it’s way into the hands of the headmaster, that’s just the beginning of a cascade of events that will leave many lives [...]

558 Pages
Michael Grant
Sam Temple is sort of reserved but he is cool in a crisis. Two years ago, when his school bus driver had a heart attack, Sam’s quick thinking and a quiet calm helped him to save everyone on the bus. Ever since then, other kids have looked up to him.
While sitting in history [...]

321 pages
Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dead and the Gone is the companion book to Life As We Knew It which I read earlier this year.
The disaster in this book is the same as in Life As We Knew It. An asteroid has hit the moon and knocked it closer to earth which affects the tides, volcanoes, [...]

This was a fun, lighter read. Emily is in therapy and is trying to deal with the fact that she runs every time she faces the tough questions but honestly, she doesn’t seem crazy to me[...]

Matt Rogers
218 pages
Zondervan Publishers
From the Publisher:
On April 16, 2007, the campus of Virginia Tech experienced a collective nightmare when thirty-three students were killed in the worst massacre in modern U.S. history. Following that horrendous event, VA Tech campus pastor Matt Rogers found himself asking and being asked, Where is God in all of this?The cliché-ridden, [...]

James Keeper is comfortable with his life. He works in a salvage yard with his childhood friend, he just bought a house with his girlfriend, and things are going well. He has a little regret over his ex-wife but, for the most part, he has moved on. At least he thought he had until he [...]

Andrew Davidson
465 page
While driving in his car after binging on cocaine and bourbon, the narrator of The Gargoyle sees a vision of flaming arrows and swerving to avoid them, gets into a horrific car crash that results in him being severely burned. This would be a terrible fate for any person but the narrator had [...]

I had a couple of other books lined up to read before Belong to Me. However, when I allowed myself the pleasure of reading the first chapter of this book, I was immediately sucked in and I couldn’t put it down.
The characters in this story are so real and uncontrived that I found myself wishing [...]

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze…Even a wild dog’s matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely. - The Lace Reader- pg 101
Sophya “Towner” Whitney grew up around Salem, Massachusetts. She [...]

Pete Gall
293 pages
“I wonder what it would be like to wake up and be with other people who are awake–to live with less fear, fewer lies, less compulsive consumption and all the other junk that keeps us anesthetized. I wonder if there are people who actually live that way. Weirdos, I’m sure.” -My Beautiful Idol [...]

Imagine that you go to bed one night and sleep late the next morning. Your country is embroiled in World War II and the rumors that German troops are drawing near are growing stronger every day.
Imagine that you wake up and your husband and all the other men of the village have disappeared without a [...]

Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Advance Reading Copy
372 pages
I had never read anything by Peter Robinson before I snagged this ARC in the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. I am pleased to say that I have found another author that I enjoy reading.
The story opens with a quadripalegic woman being murdered near Whitby. A young [...]