It is Ida Keeling’s memoir of her family’s coming to America, growing up during the Great Depression in New York, having kids, getting married, losing her two sons to violence, and eventually taking up running in her sixties.
All Booked Up is Melody Carlson’s latest book. After Riva’s husband passed away, she struggled to afford to keep her home. It was a house she loved, and it contained too many books to move into a smaller one.
Famous For a Living by Melissa Ferguson has a modern-day storyline that had romance, but with depth.
How To Plot a Payback by Melissa Ferguson is a clean rom-com book published in 2024.
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a YA mystery book published in 2021. Avery Grambs went from sleeping in her car to becoming a billionaire. Her life is full of mysteries, puzzles, and threats to her life.
An Unconventional Lady by Sarah E. Ladd was published in 2026. It is a clean romance book.
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson is a clean romance book published in 2022. It is about books, writing, the publishing world, and of course has some romance in it too.
A Lady’s Guide to Marvels and Misadventure by Angela Bell was published in 2024. It is a Christian historical fiction book.
A Most English Princess by Clare McHugh is a historical fiction book published in 2020.
Enough About Me, Find Lasting Joy in an Age of Self, by Jen Oshman, is a book perfect for our current times. This book was published in 2020, but I feel like it is even more relevant today than it was in 2020.
Shackled by Mariam Ibraheem is the memoir of a woman’s dramatic triumph over persecution, gender abuse, and a death sentence. It was published in 2022.
