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Recent Releases Women's Fiction:: Moving/Travel/Fresh StartsHear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcasts 
 Read ON! Welcome to WFWA's reader-focused newsletter, Read ON! Check your inbox on the last Wednesday of every month for new women's fiction books that you'll want to read! 
 Check out our series of author-interview podcasts! 
 Quick links to past episodes: Jennifer Jensen (The Vice)   __________________________ Kristie Lee (The Worst Thing I Could Do)   _  ___________________________ Kate Allen (Fear of Flying)                ___________________________ Dorothy Staley (Bear Woman Rising)           ___________________________
 Leslie A. Rasmussen (After Happily Ever After)                       ___________________________ Elissa Grossell Dickey (The Speed of Light)                 ___________________________ Libby Hubscher (Meet Me in Paradise)  ___________________________  Debra Thomas (Luz)   __________________________ Sarah Penner (The Lost Apothecary)  ___________________________ Jill Caugherty (Waltz in Swing Time)  ___________________________  Christina Consolino (Rewrite the Stars)   ___________________________ KD Allbaugh (Face Down in Rising Sun)   ____________________________ Jeanee Sacken (Behind the Lens)   ____________________________ Beatryce Ruby (No Sweeter Touch)   ___________________________   Gina WIlkinson (When the Apricots Bloom)    ___________________________ Tiffany Meuret (A Flood of Posies)   ___________________________ Elizabeth Chatsworth (The Brass Queen)  __________________________ Shail Rajan (The Summer Breeze)   ___________________________ L. Bordetski-Williams (Forget Russia)   ___________________________ Christina Tsirkas (The Night Sender)           ____________________________ Judith Teitelman (Guesthouse for Ganesha)    ____________________________ Kathy Sechrist (Success is the Best Revenge)    ____________________________ Joyce Yarrow (Sandstorm)     ____________________________ Denny S. Bryce (Wild Women and the Blues)   ____________________________ Kathryn Holzman (Real Estate: A Novel)    ____________________________ Melissa Hunter (What She Lost)    ____________________________ Florence Reiss Kraut (How to Make a Life)   ____________________________ Geeta Schrater (Reaching Riverdale)  ____________________________ Densie Webb (When Robins Appear)    ____________________________ Bhaswati Ghosh (Victory Colony, 1950)                            ____________________________ KJ Dell'Antonia (The Chicken Sisters)                                ___________________________ Rachel Mans McKenny (The Butterfly Effect)                              ____________________________ Jaye Burke (Venice)    ____________________________ Grace Sammon (The Eves) 
 Madeleine Van Hecke (Once You Know) 
 Paula Adler (Return to Magnolia Bloom) 
 
 Angela Terry (Charming Falls Apart)    ____________________________ Katey Schultz (Still Come Home)    ____________________________ Sarah McCraw Crow (The Wrong Kind of Woman)                                ____________________________ Mary Helen Sheriff (Boop and Eve's Road Trip)                                ____________________________ Regina Buttner (Absolution)              ___________________________ Nguyen Phan Que Mai (The Mountains Sing)                                  ___________________________ Ehsaneh Sadr (A Door Between Us)                                           ___________________________ Valerie Taylor (What's Not Said)       _________________________ Michele Levy (Anna's Dance)          __________________________ Anita Kushwaha (Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters)                   ___________________________ Barbara Conrey (Nowhere Near Goodbye)                                           ___________________________ J.L Cole (Silver Heights)                 ___________________________ Susan Payne (Forever Kind of Woman) 
 
 A.H. Kim (A Good Family) 
 
 Tricia Zacher (Many a Sudden Change) 
 
 
 | Find Great Books on Goodreads Did you know all of the women’s fiction books by WFWA members are on a Goodreads shelf? You can find them here. 
 Recent Releases
We now have a special Monthly Highlights shelf on Goodreads, where you can get full information on the books listed below. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and sharing with your friends! 
All the Salt in the Sea by Tammy Harrow 
After her powerful husband’s secret ends their marriage, Abby takes off to Southern Italy. There, she meets and falls for Daniel, a former American soldier turned photographer. The two travel Europe together on assignment. Back in Florida, she hopes to settle things, but her estranged husband refuses to let her move on. The more she tries to break free, the more dangerous her world becomes.                                                                                                    For more information, please visit Tammy's website.             Exiled South by Harriet Cannon 
Exiled South is a dual time-line novel about second chances. Lizbeth Gordon is haunted by half told family stories; a blockade running ancestor hunted as a traitor after the Civil War, his sister, and her mixed-race child. Finding answers takes Lizbeth from the Carolina Lowcountry to Brazil. Ultimately, like her ancestors, Lizbeth must navigate the emotional geography of her own missteps to claim her second chance at life and love.                                                      For more information, please visit Harriet's website.    
 Sunflowers Beneath the Snowby Teri M. Brown 
When Ivanna opens the door to uniformed officers, her tranquil life is torn to pieces - leaving behind a broken woman who must find a way to survive in Soviet Ukraine. Will she be strong enough to withstand her daughter’s deceit and the eventual downfall of the nation she has devoted her life to? Or will the memories of her late husband act as a shadow haunting everyone and everything she loves?      For more information, please visit Teri's website.    
 Daughter of the Kingby Kerry Chaput 
French orphan Isabelle has the opportunity to become a Daughter of the King. If she helps populate the colony of Canada, she can have money, power, and protection. But first, she must adopt the religion that killed her family and burned an H into her flesh.            For more information, please visit Kerry's website.                        
 Women's Fiction: Moving/Travel/Fresh Starts Happy New Year!!  Time for a fresh start, and as the world continues to struggle with the pandemic, let's imagine somewhere new!    
   Lost in Paris by Elizabeth Thompson     
   Luz by Debra Thomas     
   Beyond the Cobblestones by Luisa Livorno Ramondo     
   Where are We Tomorrow? by Tavi Taylor Black     
   Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb   
   Learning to Bend by Michelle M. Davis
                                                                                   
   Zahara and the Lost Books of Light by Joyce Yarrow      
   Return to Magnolia Bloom by Paula Adler
       
 The Happy Accidents by Jamie Beck    
 Louisiana Catch by Sweta Srivastava Vikram     
 Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcast
 
 K. Blanton Brenner grew up in North Texas in a large extended family that raised horses and holy hell and, in between, sang together in four-part harmony. While attending university, she met a drummer from Chicago, married him and moved to Chicago where they raised their children. For over ten years, Brenner wrote and read stories from her life on WBEZ, the NPR station in Chicago.  She was awarded the Peter Lisagor Prize from the Society of Professional Journalists for her radio story, “Driving with Frank Sinatra.”  K. Blanton Brenner published her debut novel, Appaloosa Sky, in 2019. It is the story of a family of tenacious Texas women who break horses and hearts. Appaloosa Sky lives in a genre somewhere between Nancy Drew and Sex and the City. The author’s second novel, The Trinity Rivers Trilogy will be published soon. It tells the story of the Quinn family: the enormously talented, wildly dramatic, funny and sometimes dangerous Quinns. Listen to the interview with Karen 
 
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