Publisher: Avon Books UK, September 1, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Can a map from the past reveal the path to the future?A rediscovered map…Present day: After a tragic event froze her life seven years ago, Robyn is now focused on helping her father’s map shop as she struggles … Continue reading Book Review: The Mapmaker’s Daughter by Clare Marchant

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, August 30th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): 863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would … Continue reading Book Review: The Thread Collectors by Shauna J Edwards and Alyson Richman

Publisher: Atria Books, September 27th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 671 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life’s big questions: What … Continue reading Book Review: The Winners by Fredrik Backman

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, August 30th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 304 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold more than two million copies.In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt is coming of age, trying to grapple … Continue reading Book Review: The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton

Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, August 23rd, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Noah and Mia have always been best friends, and their friendship is the most important thing to them. Life is going great for Noah and he’s up for a promotion in a job he loves. But Mia’s life … Continue reading Book Review: Would You Rather by Allison Ashley

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada, May 5th 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 416 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A remarkable story of love and sacrifice centred on three young English volunteers in the bloody Spanish Civil War, from the author of The Prisoner's Wife.1936. Civil war is tearing Spain apart, and the world is on the … Continue reading Book Review: Acts of Love and War by Maggie Brookes

Publisher: Little Brown, August 23rd, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 3/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks—young Trian and old Cormac—he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on … Continue reading Book Review: Haven by Emma Donoghue

                    Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing, August 9th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 336 Rating: 3/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the “X Troop”—a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the … Continue reading Book Review: The Last of the Seven by Steven Hartov