In a sweet novel filled with flowers, magic, and everlasting love, J. C. Cervantes takes us to Mexico, to the magical hacienda “la Casa de las Flores,” where a family of women have woven their magic for generations using the enchanted flowers they grow on their beautiful flower farm. “The Anatomy of Magic,” focuses on Lily Estrada, weaver of memory magic. Each of the women in the Estrada family wields her own kind of floral magic.
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Jennifer Weiner draws us into her newest novel with a mysterious event in the past, as she introduces us to two estranged sisters, and the daughter who ultimately brings them together again. In “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits” we meet Zoe and Cassie Grossberg, two sisters who could not be more unlike each other. Zoe, pretty and vivacious, always knows just what to wear, what to say, and how to make friends. Cassie, on the other hand, is homely, shy, insecure, and her only joy is making music.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde is the bestselling author of almost fifty books, but her latest novel, “Michael Without Apololgy,” might be her most compelling one. She told me it’s a personal favorite and it’s “special.” (I think she’s guilty of gross understatement.) In this brilliant novel, like so many of her others, after we turn the last page, we have not only shared an incredible journey with the main character, we’ve learned and grown along with him. This novel will stay with you for a long, long time.
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