Category: Touchstone Books
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Review: THE LOST QUEEN by Signe Pike
Thank you so much Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed,…
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Review: PURE by Linda Kay Klein
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression…
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Book Spotlight: IN THE MIDNIGHT ROOM by
Book Description: From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey…
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Review: THE COLOR OF BEE LARKHAM’S MURDER by Sarah J. Harris
Thank you so much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart lives in a world of dazzling color that no one else can see, least of all his dad. Words, numbers, days of the week, people’s voices—everything has its own unique shade. But recently…
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Review: AN OCEAN OF MINUTES by Thea Lim
Thank you so very much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to…
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Review: PLAYING WITH MATCHES by Hannah Orenstein
Thanks so much Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up…
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Review: MANY LOVE by Sophie Lucido Johnson
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her…
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Review: MAP OF SALT AND STARS by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Many thanks to Touchstone Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her…
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Review: THE GLASS FOREST by Cynthia Swanson
Thank you so much to Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At twenty-one, she’s married to charming, handsome Paul, and has just given birth to a baby boy. But one…
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Book Mail: THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY by Nova Jacobs
Oh my goodness this book looks so good! Thank you so much Touchstone Books for sending this my way! I cannot wait to read it!! SYNOPSIS: The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her…