Kick the new year off right with these great reads.
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Happily Ever Afters author Elise Bryant returns to store shelves this week with a new rom-com. One True Loves follows Lenore Bennett, a college-bound young woman who’s yet to find her calling, as she finds an unexpected romance on a Mediterranean cruise.
When government agents decide that Freda Lui is a less-than-perfect parent, she’s forced into an institution where her every move is surveilled. There, she’ll have to prove that she can become a good mother, or else face the loss of her daughter.
Separated for the first time in years by circumstances largely beyond their control, a pair of Taiwanese American best friends must navigate difficult situations without leaning on one another.
As Hurricane Maria strikes Puerto Rico, two successful Nuyorican siblings reckon with the sudden reappearance of their estranged mother, years after she left them in the care of their grandmother.
Collecting decades of nonfiction from the Their Eyes Were Watching God author, Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes is one of the year’s must-reads.
When their country’s well of magic begins to run dry, four siblings — each with their own conflicting motivations — set out in search of the remedy, the eponymous Ivory Key.