Books

By Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of

Touchdown Havana 2017.  Marisol Ferrera, a freelance writer on assignment to write an American travel piece about Cuba, has a more heartfelt objective for her trip.  She is fulfilling her grandmother Elisa’s last wishes to scatter her ashes across her beloved island. 

In My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell you She’s Sorry, Fredrik Backman weaves a tale in which a 7 year old delivers apology letters from her deceased grandmother, exposing regrets and pain which help to heal wounds that have been left to fester for too long.  Elsa begins to understand the reality of her grandmother’s fairytale and learns who her grandmother truly was.  Every superhero has a dark side – and exposing it only makes you love them more. 

V.E. Schwab has created a mesmerizing story in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue that will keep you turning the page to see if Addie can make her mark on her world and outmaneuver the Darkness himself.

In Emily’s House, author Amy Belding Brown, pulls back the curtain on Emily Dickinson and her illustrious family. The echo of the Dickinson’s lives unfolds through the eyes of their loyal Irish housekeeper Maggie. Though it is historical fiction, Emily’s House effortlessly transports the reader back to the Homestead, the Dickinson home in the late 19th century, and embellishes anecdotes sprinkled throughout the poet’s life.

Patrick O’Hara, a former sitcom star hidden away in Palm Springs, becomes the short-term guardian of his niece and nephew after their mother’s untimely death and their father’s own health crisis.

GUP (short for Gay Uncle Patrick) soon realizes that in helping Maisie and Grant navigate their new reality, he is also experiencing a personal awakening.

If you had the chance to go back and undo any regret, would you? To see how your life would play out. Would you finally have the life of your dreams, devoid of regret and mistakes, but full of hope and wonder?

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles is a historical fiction novel unfolding across two timelines, 1939 Paris and 1983 Montana. THe story brings to light ordinary people, living ordinary lives, but whose circumstances lead them to do extraordinary things.

A princess who would be queen.
A beloved governess.
A shocking betrayal…