Young Fools by Liza Palmer entertainingly explores the literary world over a span of thirty years. Funny and astute, this novel lays out an erudite hierarchy that only one on the inside could know about. Thank you, Liza Palmer! Two young women meet at a writing conference. Prickly Helen Hicks has never had a friend before. Cherry Stewart is there on a scholarship, being the only attendee who has no college or advanced degree. Easy and open, Cherry befriends Helen

We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter opens on a fourth of July fireworks celebration in small town Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Madison Dalrymple is waiting to meet her friend Cheyenne; they have a plan to carry out. But when Cheyenne doesn't show on time, Madison knows something went wrong. She doesn't know how wrong until a man knocks her unconscious and her world goes black. Emmy Clifton and her sherriff father are the law-enforcement team who are tasked with fin

The Accidental Favorite by Fran Littlewood has a beguiling premise. The Fisher family is on vacation when the three adult daughters pose for a photo in front of an enormous tree. When the tree lets out a loud crack and begins to fall towards the women, their father Patrick makes a decision that impacts the sisters immeasurably. He dashes past his older two daughters, Alex and Nancy to grab the youngest, Eva, out of harm's way. Everyone is stunned: the fallout from t

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is perfection. A Saga spanning from the 1940's through 1980, this all-encompassing look at two family's experiences in middle America from World War Two to the Vietnam war and beyond is not to be missed. This book will stay with me. Becky and Cal Jenkins marry at the start of the second world war when Cal is rejected from military service because of one leg being shorter than the other. This point is revisited as an identity-crisis that Cal t