Lovin To Read Little Book Corner

A Negro and an Ofay (The Tales of Elliot Caprice) by  Danny Gardner On the run for killing two crooked cops, Chicago PD Detective Elliot Caprice finds himself in a jailhouse in St. Louis on false charges. He enlists friends from his hometown of Southville, IL. to secure his release and returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a job from the son of a deadly Jewish mobster and eventually crosses paths with a powerful family from Chicago's North Shore. A captain of industry is dead, and the key to his estate disappeared with the Chauffeur. There's good money in it if Elliot finds him, but the mixed-race son of Illinois farm country must return to the Windy City with the cops on his heels, the Syndicate with a knife to his throat, and the wealthy and powerful at his back. Good thing he is used to playing both sides to the middle.   What a great change of pace. I can easily

The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel by Jane Healey For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives-and hope for a better future. Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father.  Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband.  And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice.  But through their unfailing bond,  forged through their weekly gat

Lie to Me by Jess Ryder We're going to tell our story and then it will all stop and Mummy will be safe. You want Mummy to be safe, don't you? Three minutes. That's all it takes for Meredith's entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of her four-year-old self with Becca the mother she's never known. Meredith can't believe what her eyes have seen. Yet what if her memory has locked away the painful reality of her childhood? Can there be any truth in the strange and dangerous story her mother forced her to tell on camera? The search for answers leads Meredith to Darkwater Pool, the scene of the murder of a young woman, Cara, over 30 years ago.  What could possibly be the link between her mother and the victim? To find the truth Meredith must search through a past that is not her own.  The problem is, she's not the only one looking... Meredith thought she knew her childhood, she accepted her mother, Becca, had her own

Making Waves (Beach Lane #1) by  Laura Moore  As the responsible daughter of an irresponsible socialite, Dakota Hale has plenty of practice in catering to the rich and spoiled and she has turned that experience into a thriving concierge business serving the Hamptons'  wealthy elite. But living and working among the upper crust has never tempted Dakota to follow in her jet-setting mother's footsteps. Anytime the drama on land gets too outrageous, Dakota finds calm surfing the Atlantic waves. But when sexy mogul Max Carr hires her, it rocks her in a big way. Max works hard but he's never put an effort into winning a woman over until now. With her stunning beauty and keen intelligence, Dakota is worth the effort. But it is plain she has no interest in a casual fling, and that's all Max with his grief-stricken heart can offer. But one fraught night changes everything, with consequences neither Dakota nor Max anticipated. Now they must navigate the rough waters of