LYNN M. ANDREWS

Remember when Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" asks what's in a name? The Names by Florence Knapp demonstrates how a person's name can become a driver of their life's path.

“As the years passed, we barely spoke of the mountains we call home. Spoken even rarer these days, but always there, the longing could not stay silenced.” - Cussy, The Mountains We Call Home The Mountains We Call Home is the third installment in Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek series. The novel takes place between the early 1950’s and the late 1960’s. Cussy, a Pack Horse Librarian in the mountains of Kentucky, lives with a genetic condition call

An absorbing and dark look at what happens when a life long dream turns into a complicated ride where past actions still strongly impact current events.

Isola is a novel based on a real woman, Marguerite de la Rocque, who was marooned on an island as punishment for falling in love with a man her guardian didn't approve of. This book wasn’t what I expected—its heavy emphasis on religion shapes nearly every part of the story. Characters are urged to submit to God and fear retribution for defiance. This reinforces the societal norms of the 1500s, where a woman’s place was strictly controlled: she was not to acknowledge her own

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is an expansive historical fiction story woven together using an ancient civilization, one of the oldest poems in literature, two major rivers and a single drop of water as the threads.

The Wedding People by Alison Espach is a character-driven novel set in a seaside hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.

A fiftyish word book summary and review.

Real Americans is an Asian American story told in three parts, each narrated by a different generation of the Chen family.