Fall Reading Challenge 2017 – December Courses (spotlight)

 

Searing Off Stars
written by Danielle M. Wong
published by She Writes Press, 2017

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About the book – from Goodreads: Amelia Cole–Lia for short–is one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life–and quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring actress and hardheaded protester. Scarlett introduces her to an exciting gender-equality movement, but when their secret love clashes with political uprising, their relationship is one of the casualties. Years later, Lia’s only memories of Scarlett are obscured by the glossy billboards she sees advertising the actress’s new films. But when a mysterious letter surfaces, she is immediately thrown back into their unsettled romance, and she crosses oceans and continents in her search for her former lover. Lia will stop at nothing to win Scarlett back–but ultimately, spread across time and place, she begins to realize that uncovering lost love might not be attainable after all.

 

 

 

 

The Infinite Now
written by Mindy Tarquini
published by SparkPress, 2017

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About the book – from Goodreads: “A well-woven tapestry of history, character, and charming mystery.”
— Kirkus Reviews

Winner, Fiction: LGTBQ — American Book Fest 14th Annual Best Book Awards

Finalist, Fiction: Fantasy — American Book Fest 14th Annual Best Book Awards

In flu-ravaged 1918 Philadelphia, Fiora Vicente, the freshly orphaned and forward-thinking daughter of the local fortune teller, has goals. She has ambitions. But when faced with a future she hasn’t planned, she has second thoughts–and casts her community into a stagnant bubble of time.

Inside the bubble, life among Fiora’s superstitious neighbors continues, but nothing progresses, swamped by a steady stream of unspent seconds. As the pressure builds Fiora realizes she must find the courage to collapse the bubble–or risk trapping her dreams in an unbearable, unyielding, and infinite Now.