September 2014: The Husband’s Secret

Queen Bees Book Club Recent Posts September 2014: The Husband’s Secret November 2013: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier October 2013: The Night Circus September 2013: Defending Jacob June 2013: The Other Wes Moore Categories 4 Bees 7 Bees 8 Bees 9 Bees Fiction...

November 2013: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

Honor Bright sailed from England to America in 1850 with her sister, Grace, who is betrothed to a fellow Quaker in Ohio. After Grace’s death, Honor is left in the awkward position of an outsider, searching for her place in an unsettled land of restless change where...

October 2013: The Night Circus

 It’s OCTOBER and time for a spooky, cool book…this year’s October selection is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus was a candidate for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award.[10] It won an Alex Award from the American Library...

September 2013: Defending Jacob

FROM AMAZON: *Starred Review* A 14-year-old boy is stabbed to death in the park near his middle school in an upper-class Boston suburb, and Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber takes the case, despite the fact that his son, Jacob, was a classmate of the victim. But...

June 2013: The Other Wes Moore

This months book was thought provoking and has its own website: http://theotherwesmoore.com  Please note that the sale of this book also supports two non profit organizations. From the Web Site: Two kids with the same name, liv­ing in the same city. One grew up to be...

April 2013: Dark Tide by Stephan Puleo

FROM AMAZON: Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said...

March 2013: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

FROM AMAZON: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the...

Feb 2013: A Ligt Between Oceans

A heartbreaking story. FROM AMAZON: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat...

January 2012: Good Harbor by Anita Diamant

FROM AMAZON: Anita Diamant whose rich portrayal of the biblical world of women illuminated her acclaimed international bestseller The Red Tent, now crafts a moving novel of contemporary female friendship. Good Harbor is the long stretch of Cape Ann beach where two...