Good Dirt
“This was the true miracle of life, he thought. No so much to be born as to bear up under what comes your way. To find a way forward. To embrace what was good.”
Ace, Marvel, Spy
“When we’re forty, love, we’ll look back and realize we have everything we’ve ever wanted.”
One Woman’s War
“Deceiving the Nazis was one thing, deceiving her husband was quite another.”
The Vanishing Half
“You can escape town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
This was a rare ‘did not finish’ book for me.
The Housekeepers
A heist set in Victorian England!
Kill Her Twice
“‘You think keeping us safe means walking inside the lines. But I have news for you. The lines aren’t keeping us safe. They're keeping us locked up.’”
Homecoming
“Home is where the heart is, and the heart could be a dark and damaged place.”
The September Society
“‘There’s a dead cat in my son’s room at college… that’s the root of all the problems.’”
The Dictionary of Lost Words
“Some words are more important than others. But it took me a long time to understand why.”
The Lincoln Highway
“‘Well that’s life in a nutshell, ain’t it. Lovin’ to go to one place and havin’ to go to another.’”
Murder By Degrees
“She willed herself to look back. He was there, just as she knew he would be… She lifted herself with her last remaining strength and jumped.”
Take the Long Way Home
“Fifty-eight years. That’s how long it had taken Claudia to find her way back home... But then she had to ask herself: where was home?”
The Long March Home
A lesser known historical fiction novel about WWII in the Pacific.
Cradles of the Reich
“‘That’s the problem, Gundi, I don’t want to be in a world where helping one another survive is remarkable.’”
The Boys from Biloxi
“Corruption never stays in a box. It spreads because greedy men see easy money and there is an endless demand for gratification and the promise of a quick buck.”
The Paris Daughter
“‘I think,’ he said slowly, ‘that sometimes, the roads we don’t know we’re walking are the ones that lead us to exactly where we’re meant to be.’”
Carrie Soto Is Back
“When did winning become something I needed in order to survive? Something I did not enjoy having, so much as panic without?”
An Affair of Spies
This is a WWII espionage book about the nuclear race!
Lessons in Chemistry
“Chemistry is change. Courage is the root of change— and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”