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1 week ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff
4 starsLisa Scottoline digs into her Italian heritage, historic writing chops, and great mystery storytelling to conjure up a complex and thrilling gothic story set in Tuscany. Julia Pritzer has been devastated by a mugging that left her young husband stabbed to death, and the killer at large. Both of her adoptive parents died prior to this, and Julia has barely emerged from a lethargic depression – her only lifeline her worried best friend Courtney.
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1 week ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff
5 starsThis novella is set in 2064 where California has just won a succession war with the United States, who’s viewed by them as an evil nation. Sentient, mechanical robots have been deployed to help in the war effort and now post-war live as second class citizens scrambling to find some way to make a living and pay off debts incurred in their creation.
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1 week ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff
4 starsAnnabelle Reynolds has a devoted physician husband, two lovely daughters, and a marketing career she loves – but she’s haunted by nightmares in which awful things happen in her future…and they start to come true. These terrible visions range from her being attacked by her husband who she now hates to a threat against her daughter’s life. When details of these visions start to happen, Annabelle must wrestle with whether her life choices can forestall further premonitions from coming true.
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1 month ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff
5 stars!In this compellingly smart and thought-provoking novel set in future Earth, state-run private companies regulate all aspects of procreation. Parents get selected, pay exorbitant fees, design their babies by choosing between thousands of genetic options, and have their babies carried to term in carefully regulated sacks. But despite all this elitism and scientific achievements, all is far from well with humanity.
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1 month ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff
5 starsAnother amazing historical fiction from Kelly, who turns her focus to Martha’s Vineyard where her own family comes from. The novel’s time frame shifts between present day and WWII, and opens with a grieving daughter, Mari Starwood, whose beloved mother died suddenly of an aneurysm in L.A. Going through her mom’s things, Mari comes across the name and address of an older famous painter, Elizabeth Devereaux, who lives on an estate on Martha’s Vineyard.
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1 month ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff |Stacy DeBroff
5 stars!Connelly introduces us to an awesome new police detective hero Harry Stilwell, who much like Harry Bosch, gets himself in frequent trouble with the upper brass in pursuing justice but stands resolute in his quest for the truth. Harry Stilwell has been transferred as punishment by his superiors to Santa Catalina Island off the coast from L.A.- an outpost to which the L.A. County Sheriff’s department exiles political troublemakers.
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2 months ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff |Stacy DeBroff
(Young Adult, ages 8-12)5 starsThis young adult’s novel, a wondrous collaboration between best-selling adult novelist Marie Benedict and young adult writer Courtney Sheinmel, offers up a young teen’s perspective about meeting Albert Einstein’s brilliant wife Mileva Einstein, who’s behind the scenes work significantly contributed to Einstein’s famous equation and who gets featured in Benedicts’ fabulous adult novel, The Other Einstein (which all grown-ups need to read in tandem!).
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2 months ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff |Stacy DeBroff
5 starsA not-to-be-missed women’s historical fiction based on the first female undergraduates allowed to matriculate to Oxford University post-World War I. Coming from disparate backgrounds, four women find themselves sharing the same 4-room corridor at St. Hugh’s College in 1920. As they live in Corridor 8, they come to call themselves The Eights and form a tighter collective friendship than any of them could have imagined.
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2 months ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff |Stacy DeBroff
5 starsWhat a amazing book!! This poignant family drama centers on a North Dakota reunion of the “Extraordinary Endicotts” – four siblings who have been estranged from each other for over three years after a dramatic sibling fight broke out between them. They’ve been summoned together by their sister, the ultra-famous Jude, who’s just been Oscar nominated for her acting and has paid for the trip.
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2 months ago | 
momcentral.com | Stacy DeBroff |Stacy DeBroff
4 starsThis story, partially set in my hometown of Newton, MA, along with the streets of Shanghai, in part brings powerfully alive the consequences of well-to-do American families adopting unwanted Chinese girls during the era of Chinese one-child policy and the preference for male heirs. It’s also in part about a family’s estrangement from their oldest (white) daughter, Lindsey Litzvak, who has moved to live in Shanghai as a call girl.
