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  • 2 weeks ago | judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Judith Collins

    Judith D CollinsJun 12 min readNarrators: Scott Brick; George NewbernGreenleaf AudiobooksISBN: 9798886454192Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group PressPublication Date: 08/12/2025Format: Audiobook My Rating: TBR (ALC)IPPY Gold Medalist, 2024“Ordinary Soil brings to haunting life the desperate realities of the American heartland but also offers a glimpse into a better future...

  • 2 weeks ago | judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Judith Collins

    Narrator: TBA Recorded Books ISBN: 9781496741509 Publisher: Kensington Books Publication Date: 07/29/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social...

  • 2 weeks ago | judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Judith Collins

    Judith D Collins2 days ago2 min readGold Creek #2ISBN: 9781662518140Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 11/11/2025Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) A widow and mom of two struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future in a powerful novel about friendship, love, and taking risks by New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge. Ever since her husband Sean’s death, Jo Myers just can’t move on.

  • 2 weeks ago | judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Judith Collins

    Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman Podium AudioA Novella ISBN: 978-1039479289Publisher: Podium Publishing Publication Date: 06/10/2025Format: e-book/audioMy Rating: Currently Listening/Reading No parent should ever have to face the loss of their child . . . A year after the tragic death of her four-year-old son, Charlotte Fleming is sleepwalking through life, trapped in a spiral of devastating grief. Then, she sees something online that jolts her awake: her son, Sebastion, alive and well . . .

  • 3 weeks ago | judithdcollinsconsulting.com | Judith Collins

    Judith D Collins2 days ago4 min readNarrator: Imani Jade PowersMacmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250363046Publisher: St. Martin's PressPublication Date: 07/22/2025Format: OtherMy Rating: 5 Stars (ARC)A riveting debut novel for readers of Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty, Greenwich explores the nature of desire and complicity against the backdrop of immense wealth and privilege, the ways that whiteness and power protect their own, and the uneasy moral ambiguity of redemption. Summer, 1999.