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Simone is 9 years old when she escapes from Belgium, her father shot by Nazis. Told from different perspectives, Simone in Pieces is a stunning historical novel that spans her life as a refugee, a student, a divorcee, an academic, and someone capable of love. newbooksnetwork.com/simone-in-pi...
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Sister Bernadette, a retired nun, inspires her neighbors at the Abbey Senior Residences to protest a developer who will destroy their neighborhood. When unexplained deaths start happening, Bernie uses all the tricks she learned as a schoolteacher to help the police in this sweet, cozy mystery!
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Claudia Rose confronts two mysteries at her H.S. reunion: the unsolved case of a missing classmate and the death of a teacher. Claudia's skills as a forensic handwriting analyst and Sheila Lowe’s dark imagination had me turning pages long past bedtime. #partnersincrimeblogtours
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Lord and Lady Terrence Reid are among the guests at a Cotswold “Chef’s week." One person is there to stir up old grudges and restart his career, and everyone has a reason to want him dead, but Reid is stumped when both his parents and sister confess to the murder. newbooksnetwork.com/mary-birk-vi...
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Zoey Kozinski is shocked when the cop who lets her ride along one afternoon gets shot. We don’t know if the murderer will be stopped before he silences Zoey, the only witness. I loved Crime Writer's characters, the forward motion, and being in the hands of master storyteller, Vinnie Hansen!
September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thanks to Kathleen Kaska for posting "Birding and Murder at Montrose Point in Chicago" on her widely admired blog - kathleenkaska.com/blog/
September 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A cinematographer gets unfairly blackballed from the industry and accepts a position in the film department at UW. To get tenure, she's making a film about poachers in Zimbabwe. Someone will kill to stop her in this gorgeous novel about fighting for women's and animal rights.
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mona is 10 years old when she experiences a sudden temporary blindness in this gorgeous novel (Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser) about overcoming loss, art, history, and family. newbooksnetwork.com/los-ojos-de-...
September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Still hoping to learn the rerelease date!
September 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In sharp, insightful stories set in Canada, The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories portrays muddled, saucy women who struggle with impending adulthood, difficult men, and dysfunctional families. newbooksnetwork.com/the-beauty-a...
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
GO ON PRETENDING is about Rose, who produces 1930s soap operas, her daughter Emma, born in the USSR but now in America, and her daughter Libby, who joins the revolution in Syria - 3 generations of strong women who insist on living as they choose. #novel #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/alina-adams-....
August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Dime Museum is an intriguing novel-in-stories that revolves around Charlie, who lacks purpose and works in a Venice bookshop in exchange for books that he doesn't read. We meet his family, his ex-girlfriend, and all those whose lives and decisions formed him.
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July 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lacy Fewer wrote Yankeeland based on letters she inherited from a great-aunt. Across the ocean, sharing the ups and downs of their lives and their deepest pain, Fewer delves into Irish society and culture, medicine, mental illness, poverty, and making it in America. newbooksnetwork.com/yankeeland
July 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gwen is confronted with heartbreaking memories and battling to preserve her family's coastal Maine cottage. This beautiful novel is about finding oneself, knowing whom to trust, and learning the value of historical preservation. #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/port-anna
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Palace at the End of the Sea (Simon Tolkien) is a gorgeous coming-of-age story. Theo loses his father after the 1929 crash, gets sent to a British boarding school, and has to figure out who he is and what he believes. newbooksnetwork.com/the-palace-a...
June 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
River Gold is about hunting, fishing, a much-admired sheriff, an annoying contender for the sheriff’s job, a murder, a villain, and a hunt for the gold sent by France (to interfere in the Civil War) and lost in an 1860s Lake Michigan shipwreck. newbooksnetwork.com/river-gold
May 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Maureen Stanton's new memoir is a love song to a beautiful man with whom she once shared her heart and soul. newbooksnetwork.com/the-murmur-o...
May 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lionel is sure that the body burned in his apartment is not his lover and writing partner, but it's 1954, they're writing a book about a serial killer/spy protected by the FBI, and now they're in his sight. Hall of Mirrors, John Copenhaver newbooksnetwork.com/hall-of-mirr...
April 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
LOVED THIS MEDICAL THRILLER: When the FBI arrests Dr. Kate Deming's husband, she's sure he has nothing to do with the ransomware paralyzing her hospital. He's the primary parent of an 8-year-old who loves pirates and a 12-year-old who's on her school’s code-breaking team. Now, Kate's not so sure.
April 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Three famous paintings have been stolen in this twisting novel (Discipline, Debra Spark) about art and its value, dysfunctional families, lonely women, and teenagers struggling to survive psychological trauma. #fiction #Maine #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/discipline
April 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A divorced mother, her gay childhood friend, and the friend’s scheming lover are part of Memory Feather’s tumultuous 1950s Mississippi childhood in this moving and beautifully told coming-of-age tale. #historicalfiction #queerfiction newbooksnetwork.com/beautiful-dr...
April 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Raised in Shanghai by a single mother, Lin struggles in America in Su Chang’s debut novel about China, mothers, daughters, lovers, immigrants, and intergenerational trauma. #China #fiction #culturalRevolution #immigrants #podcast newbooksnetwork.com/the-immortal...
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM