Publisher: Little Brown and Company, March 15, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author)."Within every misfortune there … Continue reading Book Review: Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada, March 8, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 304 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early … Continue reading Book Review: Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel

Publisher: Atria Books, March 8, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): The author of the “unforgettable story of strength, love, and survival” (Jillian Cantor, USA TODAY bestselling author) The Light After the War returns with a sweeping and evocative story of love and purpose in WWII Italy. Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is … Continue reading Book Review: A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel

Publisher: Head of Zeus, March 3, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 400 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again?It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts … Continue reading Book Review: Before the Dawn by Emma Pass

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, March 1, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. … Continue reading Book Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, March 1, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 384 Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary YA novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and … Continue reading Book Review: All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada, February 22nd, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 320 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): A scintillating, gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-century France, beginning with decadence and palace intrigue at Versailles and ending in an explosive new era of revolution.During the reign of Louis XV, … Continue reading Book Review: The School of Mirrors by Eva Stachniak

Publisher: Inkyard Press, March 29th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 368 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for.She’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. Guarding that secret … Continue reading Book Review: A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olsen

Publisher: One More Chapter, February 25th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 490 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): Three sistersThe Great WarThe end of innocence…In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is … Continue reading Book Review: Love in a Time of War by Adrienne Chinn

Publisher: Penguin Teen Canada, February 15th, 2022 Format: ebook Pages: 272 Rating: 4/5 stars Synopsis (from Goodreads): From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way.After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is … Continue reading Book Review: Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi