In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women–black and white, mothers and daughters–view one another.
Genre: Historical Fiction
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Under a Dark Summer Sky by Vanessa Lafaye
Based on real historical events, Lafaye’s debut novel is at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid depiction of a major natural disaster. This book evokes what happens when people, sweating under the weight of their pasts, are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.
Genre: Historical Fiction, Love Stories, Romance Fiction, Staff Picks, Suspense Fiction
Subjects: Hurricanes, Secrets, Suspense Fiction, Veterans
Subjects: Hurricanes, Secrets, Suspense Fiction, Veterans