Book Reviews 2020

January

The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman  - 5

The Runaway Heir by Janice Broyles - 4

Salt the Snow by Carrie Callaghan - 3.5

The Hollows by Jess Montgomery - 5

Anatolia: Adventures in Turkish Eating - 5

Written in Their Stars by Elizabeth St. Johns - 4.5

February

Metropolis by Ellie Midwood - 4.5

Mercy House by Alena Dillon - 4

Far Away Bird by Douglas Alan Burton - 5

A Palette for Love and Murder by Saralyn Richard - 4

National Geographic’s 100 Hikes of a Lifetime - 5

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory - 4

The Saxon Spears by James Calbraith - 4.5

March

The Moonglow Sisters by Lori Wilde - 3.5

A Flame Through Eternity by Anna Belfrage - 4.5

Confessions of a Sheba Queen by Autumn Bardot - 4.5

The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn - 4.5

A King Under Siege by Mercedes Rochelle - 4.5

The Road to Delano by John DeSimone - 4

Little Wonders by Kate Rorick - 4

Attainable Sustainable by Kris Bordessa - 5

April

Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey - 5

The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni - 4

Eden by Breden McPherson - 4

A Child Lost by Michelle Cox - 4.5

The Pelton Papers by Mari Coates - 3.5

Gardening Your Front Yard by Tara Nolan - 4.5

Simon the Painter by Paulette Jiles - 4.5

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey - 4.5

May

Resurrecting Rain by Patricia Averbach - 5

Joy Bauer’s Super Food Cookbook - 5

Favoured by Fortune by Colleen Kelly-Eiding - 4

Face of Fortune by Colleen Kelly-Eiding - 4.5

Little Tea by Claire Fullerton - 5

Answer Creek by Ashley Sweeney - 4.5

Dali Summer by T.J. Brown - 4

The Ingredients of You and Me by Nina Bocci - 3.5

June

Mystery at Mount Forest Island by Pat Camilliere - 4

The Chosen Ones by Lisa Luciano - 4

The Trustworthy One by Shelley Shepard Gray - 4

Spies by Ellie Midwood - 4.5

Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson - 4

13 Billion to One by Randy Rush - 3.5

A Week at the Shore by Barbara Delinsky - 3.5

July

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner - 4

The Lost Girls of Devon by Barbara O’Neal - 3.5

The Woman in the Green Dress by Tea Cooper - 4.5

Fragments of Light by Michelle Phoenix - 4.5

The Rose and the Whip by Jae Hodges - 4.5

August

A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Murder by Dianne Freeman - 4

Vegetables for Breakfast by Nancy Wolfson Moche - 5

Gilded Dreams by Donna Russo Morin - 5

The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan - 5

Murder at the Estate Sale by Lilly Charles - 4

Estelle by Linda Stewart Henley - 5

Dawson’s Fall by Roxanna Robinson - 4.5

September

Origins by Nicole Sallak Anderson - 5

The River Jewel by Kathleen Shoop - 4

Her Aussie Holiday by Stephanie London - 4

The Nature of Nature by Enric Sala - 4.5

Into the Unbounded Night by Mitchell James Kaplan - 5

The Lost Diary of Alexander Hamilton by Sophie Schiller - 4

Feeding the People by Rebecca Earle - 4

The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike - 5

Remember Me by Mario Escobar - 5

The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg - 5

October

Christmas Ever After by Karen Shaler - 4