Goodbye, Vitamin: a novel by Rachel Khong
Thirty year old Ruth moves home for a year to help her parents after her engagement is called off. Her father, a prominent history professor, is suffering from memory loss which seems to be dementia or Alzheimers. Ruth's mother is trying to find her way towards forgiveness of her husband's betrayals in light of his illness, but she is struggling. In a poignant turn of events Ruth's dad shares entries he made in his journals about Ruth as a child, while she ends up keeping a journal of her father's good and bad days. By turns funny and heartbreaking, this is a story that will be not be soon forgotten.
The lying game started as a game played by four British boarding school girls. The object was to tell a lie to someone and earn points for how believable it is. All of the girls came to Salton House for different reasons and their outsider status is only fortified by the lies they tell to the other girls. The four end up leaving the school under mysterious circumstances and have not really seen each other since. Kate remains at The Mill where the four spent many weekends away from Salton House with Kate's artist father Ambrose and step brother Luc. Fatima has become a devout Muslim and is married with two children; Thea has a glamorous job in London; Isa is enjoying being a mother to her 6 month old daughter. But when 17 years later Thea, Fatima and Isa get a text from Kate saying "I need you" they do not hesitate to return at a moments notice. Because the biggest lie of the lying game is about to be revealed...The Red Coat: a Novel of Boston by Dolley Carlson
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The Break Down by B.A. Paris When Cass Anderson drives by a woman in a car during a terrible rainstorm little does she know the consequences it will have on her life. The next morning the woman is found murdered and Cass is overcome with guilt that is exasperated by the fact that she seems to be forgetting things at an alarming rate. Her mother had dies of early onset dementia and Cass soon feels that she is headed for the same fate. Things get worse when she finds out the murdered woman was someone she recently befriended and she begins receiving phone calls she believes are from the murderer. Is she losing her mind or is there something more sinister at work? A can't put down thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end! P.S. From Paris by Marc Levy  |
I could not put this book down and finished it in one day! Told from the point of view of three women this is a funny, intelligent and enthralling novel about the life of a young woman caught up in a political scandal. Rachel Grossman's daughter Aviva is an undergraduate at the University of Miami when she takes a job as an intern for a congressman. Rachel is horrified when her young daughter confides that she is having an affair with their former neighbor who is twice her age. When the affair comes to light, Aviva is slut-shammed and finds herself unable to find a job, even outside of Florida. She finally changes her name and moves to a small town in Maine to raise her daughter Ruby. But then Aviva, now Jane Young and an event planner, decides to run for office. Her thirteen year old daughter Ruby, a very smart child who is the target of mean girl bullies, discovers that her mother is not who she thought she was. The narrative includes Aviva's unfortunate blog about her affair and Ruby's emails to an overseas pen pal. This is a heartwarming and heartbreaking novel that will have you rooting for these three strong women to find a happy ending.Here are the YA books:
Words In Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
In alternating chapters, Australian teens Rachel and Henry recount their friendship. Rachel moved away from Gracetown three years previous after leaving a love letter to Henry in a book inside his family’s bookstore. Henry never acknowledged it and their correspondence fell off. Rachel left her perfect love letter in a copy of T.S. Eliot poems in the bookstore’s section called the Letter Library where customers write in the margins and leave notes for each other. Henry, who never got Rachel’s letter, is getting over a major break up while also dealing with the fact that the bookstore is failing. Rachel returns to Gracetown after the drowning death of her brother Cal and takes a job at the bookstore cataloging the Letter Library. Will these two former best friends help each other through their own personal losses and grief? Will their friendship change into something more? This is a heartfelt novel full of literary quotations that will appeal to the romantic in all of us. Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
