Library picks

Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and her mother’s death

In 1923, Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment

Rosa Burger grew up in a home under constant surveillance by the South African government. Her parents were detained for their political beliefs, her father died in prison, and her mother, whose health suffered from her time in jail, eventually dies.

A middle-aged man is contends with a past he never thought much about, until his closest childhood friends’ return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself

Frank Money is a veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars.

The young Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg’s elite aristocracy, charming them with both her classic Russian beauty and her talent for piano. But it is a scandal when she chooses her love, a Danish engineer, not from their stock, or even from Russian blood. Unbending in their opposition, her parents push her into an engagement with a Russian count.