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1 week 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.

1 week 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.

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.

1 month 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!).

1 month 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.