The 2017 E-Book Challenge is hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. I’ve done this challenge for the past couple years and primarily use it to track just how much I end up reading on my iPad. I’m joining once again at the Megabytes level, which means I need to read at least 25 e-books in 2017. I’ll keep track…
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The 2017 New Authors Reading Challenge is hosted by Literary Escapism, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. The goal of this reading challenge is to read new-to-you authors. There’s no levels to join at for this challenge – which means that we get to pick how many new authors we want to read. I join this challenge primarily to keep track of how many…
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The 2017 Library Love Challenge is being co-hosted by Bea’s Book Nook and Angel’s Guilty Pleasures, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. I love my local library and love doing this challenge. This is my eighth year participating in the library challenge! I’m joining at the Thrifty Reader level, which means I need to borrow at least 24 books from the library in 2017. I’ll…
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I am once again signing up for the #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Reading Challenge, being hosted by Andi over at Estella’s Revenge. I participated in this challenge last year and actually did pretty well – while I didn’t make the goal I had set, I did read more than I usually do of my own books. What I love about this challenge is that we can make our own rules for it. Books…
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The 2017 You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge is hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. This is a reading challenge where we are challenged to read, read, read!!! I am going to join this challenge at Level 2, where I hope to read 150 books. Midwinter Blood — Mons Kallentoft The Witnesses — James Patterson (e-book) Two Days Gone…
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Title:Everything You Want Me To Be Author:Mindy Mejia Published:January 2017, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront…and she inches closer and closer to her death. High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her…
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Each year, Sheila over at Book Journey makes a big deal over what the first book she’ll read will be for the new year and once again she’s asked us to join her. I have joined in for the last 2 years and it’s always a lot of fun seeing what book everyone selects. Be sure to stop by Sheila’s post to see the collage she makes of everyone participating!…
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Here are my reading stats for December! Books read: 15 Books I read: Love You To Death — Caroline Mitchell (audio book) The 4th Man — Lisa Gardner (e-book) Evil Games — Angela Marsons (audio book) The Christmas Gate — T.A. Cline The Marriage Lie — Kimberly Belle (e-book) Little Black Dress — James Patterson The Hidden Child — Camilla Lackberg (audio book) The Chosen — Kristina Ohlsson…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Here’s my post for the last two weeks as I was away last week. My husband surprised me with a trip away for Christmas this year – and didn’t tell me where we were going until 2 weeks before we left!!! So where did we go? London and it was a fantastic trip…
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Title:Winter Storms Author:Elin Hilderbrand Series:Winter, #3 Narrator:Erin Bennett Published:October 2016, Hachette Audio Length:6 hours 31 minutes Source:Library Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling Winter Street Trilogy. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with…
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Title:The Invisible Guardian Author:Dolores Redondo Series:The Baztan Trilogy, #1 Narrator:Coleen Marlo Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio / Atria Books Length:11 hours 59 minutes / 384 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller forces a police inspector to reluctantly return to her hometown in Basque Country—a place engulfed in mythology and superstition—to solve a series of eerie murders. When…
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Title:While you Were Sleeping Author:Kathryn Croft Published:November 2016, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 326 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher You wake up to find the man beside you is dead. He is not your husband. This is not your bed. What do you do? Tara Logan lives a quiet life with her husband, Noah, and two children, teenager Rosie and eleven-year-old Spencer. But her peace is shattered when she wakes in her…
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Title:Stalked Author:Elizabeth Heiter Series:The Profiler, #4 Published:December 2016, MIRA Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher If you’re reading this, I’m already dead… That’s the note seventeen-year-old Haley Cooke leaves behind when she disappears from inside her high school. FBI profiler Evelyn Baine is called in to figure out who had reason to hurt her. On the surface, the popular cheerleader has no enemies, but as Evelyn digs deeper, she discovers that…
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Please join me in welcoming Elizabeth Heiter back to Always With a Book. Elizabeth’s latest book, Stalked, the 4th book in her Profiler series, will be published at the end of the month. This is one of my favorite series and I’m so glad to have more Evelyn! I’ll be posting my review of Stalked later today, but for now, please enjoy this guest post and excerpt. Title: Stalked Author:Elizabeth…
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Next week, Kimberly Belle’s novel, The Marriage Lie, comes out and I’m pleased to offer you, my readers, a chance to win a copy here! I’ve already read this book and really liked it – you can read my review here. You can also see what others have to say and then be sure to enter the giveaway below!!! Title:The Marriage Lie Author:Kimberly Belle Published:December 2016, MIRA Format:Paperback, 352 pages…
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Title: Evil Games Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #2 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:June 2015, Bookouture Length:8 hours 43 minutes Source:Publisher The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far…
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Title:Black Rabbit Hall Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Nathalie Buscombe, Katie Scarfe, Cassandra Campbell Published:February 2016, Penguin Audio Length:12 hours 6 minutes Source:Library For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here’s a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall. Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Another good week. We had some really cold weather and some snow – winter is definitely making it’s appearance early this year! The dogs love being out in the snow – it’s times like this that I so wish our yard was fenced in so the dogs could just go out and play! But,…
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Title: Love You To Death Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #1 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:November 2016, Bookouture Length:10 hours 59 minutes / 315 pages Source:Publisher / Netgalley ‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’ Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up. For Detective Ruby Preston and…
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Title: Small Admissions Author: Amy Poeppell Published:December 2016, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Hardcover, 368 pages For fans of The Nanny Diaries and Sophie Kinsella comes a whip-smart and deliciously funny debut novel about Kate, a young woman unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love. Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum…
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Title: In Twenty Years Author:Allison Winn Scotch Narrator:Julia Whelan Published:July 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 57 minutes Source:Publisher Twenty years ago, six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure—until the death of their ringleader and dear friend Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, the remaining five reluctantly gather at that same house on the eve of what would have…
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Title:Missing Pieces Author:Heather Gudenkauf Narrator:Christina Traister Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio / MIRA Length:9 hours 9 minutes /288 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley A woman uncovers earth-shattering secrets about her husband’s family in this chilling page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf Sarah Quinlan’s husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body…
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Title:The Chosen Author:Kristina Ohlsson Series:Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #5 Published:December 2016, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Paperback, 496 pages Source:Publicist In her phenomenal #1 international bestseller—fifth in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Fredrika Bergman series—“one of Sweden’s best younger writers” (Los Angeles Times Magazine) delivers a tense, atmospheric mystery featuring an enigmatic killer rooted in folklore. On a cold winter’s day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death in front…
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Title:Fractured Author:Catherine McKenzie Narrator:Teri Clark Linden, Scott Merriman, Amy McFadden & James Foster Published:October 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 37 minutes Source:Publisher Welcome, neighbor! Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who’s been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game. Since Julie doesn’t know anyone in her new town,…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Another good week and I even got in 2 really good training walks! I’m so grateful that I have a really good gym and a nice mall by me – winter is making it’s way to us sooner rather than later, so I’ll be making good use of the mall for my long walks…
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Title:The Marrige Lie Author:Kimberly Belle Published:December 2016, MIRA Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley Even the perfect marriage has its dark side… Iris and Will’s marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighborhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris’s happy world comes…
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Title:Echo Lake Author:Carla Neggers Series:Swift River Valley, #4 Narrator:Susan Boyce Published:January 2015, Blackstone Audio Inc / MIRA Length:9 hours 25 minutes / 352 pages Source:Library / Netgalley In snowy Swift River Valley, unexpected romance is just around the corner… Heather Sloan has landed her dream job—the renovation of Vic Scarlatti’s stately 1912 country home overlooking the icy waters of Echo Lake in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. It’s the perfect project…
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Title:Seized Author:Elizabeth Heiter Series: The Profiler, #3 Published:December 2015, MIRA Format:ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source:Netgalley Danger is all around her… What should have been a routine investigation for FBI profiler Evelyn Baine turns ominous when she’s kidnapped by a dangerous cult of survivalists. As her worst nightmares become a reality, she begins to question what she’s seeing. Because the longer she’s inside their compound, the more she realizes this group…
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Title:Avenged Author:Elizabeth Heiter Series:The Profiler, #2.5 Published:January 2016, Harlequin.com Format:Free E-book Source:Publisher Love and vengeance FBI profiler Evelyn Baine and fellow agent Kyle McKenzie are—secretly—on vacation together, visiting an island off the coast of Georgia. Evelyn has recently solved a notorious cold case, so she considers their holiday a reward of sorts. More than that, it’s a cautious acknowledgment of her growing feelings for Kyle. One day a body washes…
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Title:The 4th Man Author:Lisa Gardner Series:Quincy & Rainie, #6.5 Published:January 2017, Dutton Format:ARC E-copy, 47 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher FBI Profiler Pierce Quincy and Officer Rainie Conner return in a baffling cold case in this exclusive eBook short story by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner. A young woman is found strangled in the stairwell of a college library, only her sneakers missing. With no physical evidence, no…
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Title:Egg Drop Dead Author:Laura Childs Series:Cackleberry Club, #7 Published:December 2016, Berkley Format:ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source:Author In Laura Childs’s New York Times bestselling mystery series, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni—co-owners of the Cackleberry Club Café—are back to track down another bad egg… Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club Café’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s…
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Title:The Christmas Gate Author:T.A. Cline Published:December 2016, Tate Publishing Format:Paperback, 102 pages Source:Author via Friend Robert Robinson is a renowned author of two best-selling mystery novels. As his prestige begins to affect his work ethics, he becomes detached from his writing obligations. Because of his failure to fulfill a three-book contract that was already long overdue, his editor gives him an ultimatum. He could either face legal action, or…
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Title:Silent Scream Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #1 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:April 2015, Bookouture Length:8 hours 18 minutes Source:Publisher Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever… Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood ……
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I had a great week, if I do say so myself, and it feels so good to be back to exercising regularly!!! I just focused on getting back to where I was before I got sick and while I will continue to do that, I will also start to do one or two…
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Title:Size Matters Author:Cathryn Novak Published:November 2016, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 200 pages John Frederick is a man of considerable substance, in every sense of the word. Rich, intelligent, reclusive, and very large, John Frederick lives to eat. His everyday needs are tended to by Mrs. Floyd, his house manager, and by a never-ending parade of personal chefs. Enter Lexie Alexander, the latest applicant for that once-again vacant position. A…
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Here are my reading stats for November! Books read: 14 Books I read: Night Watch — Iris Johansen/Roy Johansen (audio book) The Girl Before — Rena Olsen Missing, Presumed — Susie Steiner (audio book) The Candidate — Lis Wiehl (audio book) The Stranger — Camilla Lackberg (audio book) Where the Light Gets In — Kimbery Williams-Paisley (audio book) The Waiting Room — Leah Kaminsky Winter Storms — Elin…
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Title:The Girl Before Author:Rena Olsen Published:August 2016, G.P Putnam’s Sons Format:Paperback, 314 pages Source:Personal copy In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she…
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Title: The Candidate Author:Lis Wiehl Series:Newsmakers, #2 Narrator:Devon O’Day Published:October, 2016, Thomas Nelson Publishers Length:9 hours 19 minutes Source:Publisher How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who—along with her best…
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Title: Missing, Presumed Author:Susie Steiner Series:DS Mannon, #1 Narrator:Juanita McMahon Published:June 2016, Random House Audio Length:12 hours, 57 minutes Source:Library Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About This was not really a good week…not because I was sick again, but because I was dealing with another health issue. As some of you know, I get frequent headaches and boy oh boy, did I have some crazy headaches this past week! Bad enough that I didn’t want or feel like doing anything.…
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Title:Hindsight Author:Mindy Tarquini Published:November 2016, Sparkpress Format:Paperback, 319 pages EUGENIA PANISPORCHI LIVES WITH HER MOTHER, TEACHES CHAUCER, AND REMEMBERS ALL HER PAST LIVES. SHE IS DESPERATE TO CHANGE HER FUTURE Born this time around into a South Philadelphia Italian-American family so traditional, she and her siblings are expected to marry in birth order, Eugenia lives a simple life―no love connection, no controversy, no complications. Her hope is that the Blessed…
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Please join me in welcoming Kerry Wilkinson to Always With a Book. The latest book in Kerry‘s Detective Jessica Daniel’s series, The Woman in Black, is being published today in the US – it has already been published in the UK. This is the 3rd book in the series of what is already a 10-book series. Title:The Woman in Black Author:Kerry Wilkinson Series:Detective Jessica Daniels, #3 Published:November 2016, Bookouture Format:E-book,…
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Title:The Stranger Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom /Fjallbacka, #4 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:April 2013, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Length:11 hours 24 minutes Source:Library A string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjällbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn’t a clear-cut drunk driving case. The…
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Title:Night Watch Author:Iris Johasen & Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #4 Narrator:Elisabeth Rodgers Published:October 2016, Recorded Books Length:12 hours 4 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award winning author are back with a new a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI. Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living…
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Title:Dark Water Author:Robert Bryndza Series:DCI Erika Foster, #3 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:October 2016, Bookouture Length:8 hours 55 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I had another good week – I took it easy, got lots of rest and am ready to get back to my training. I’m not going to go crazy, but I am anxious to take it up a notch! And since I’m not working, I don’t need to do it first thing in the…
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Title: In the Heart of Texas Author:Ginger McKnight Chavers Published:October 2016, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 328 pages Pitched as “a poor man’s Halle Berry,” forty-one-year-old soap star Jo Randolph, has successfully avoided waiting tables since she left Midland, Texas at eighteen. But then, in the span of twenty-four hours, Jo manages to lose her job, burn her bridges in Hollywood, and accidentally burn down her lover/director’s beach house—after which…
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Title:North of Here Author:Laurel Saville Narrator:Pete Simonelli Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 29 minutes Source:Publisher The sounds of unexpected tragedies—a roll of thunder, the crash of metal on metal—leave Miranda in shock amid the ruins of her broken family. As she searches for new meaning in her life, Miranda finds quiet refuge with her family’s handyman, Dix, in his cabin in the dark forests of the Adirondack Mountains.…
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Title:Crepe Factor Author:Laura Childs Series:A Scrapbooking Mystery, #14 Published:October 2016, Berkley Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Author The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace… The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to…
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Title:The Waiting Room Author:Leah Kaminsky Published:November 2016, Harper Perennial Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher Leah Kaminsky’s powerful fiction debut—a multi-generational novel perfect for fans of The Tiger’s Wife and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—unfolds over a day in the life of a young physician in contemporary Israel, who must cope with modern threats in the shadow of her parents’ horrific wartime pasts. A young doctor in Haifa, Israel, must…
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