In Doubt by Drusilla Campbell The latest from my beloved friend-a brilliant writer, teacher and mentor who we lost much too soon. Set in the years just before the Spanish Inquisition, Corona's story of a young Jewish girl "passing" as a Catholic is heartbreaking and incredibly timely. The Mapmaker's Daughter by Laurel Corona was a learning experience that transported me-two attributes I love in literature. The world our heroine is suddenly plunged into is strange and yet totally believable. The Stones of Kaldaar by Tameri Etherton I loved Tolkein's LoTR trilogy and I love the echoes of it in this author's new fantasy series-starter. The order of the list is the order in which I read them this year, not in any order of achievement. Why Amazon? Because it's the easiest way to do it-and because, well, the world isn't necessarily fair. I'm linking to the books' Amazon pages because it gives you all a super simple link to find out more about these books and to maybe even purchase one of them. I want to share with you the excellent, important, or just plain entertaining reads you might not hear about otherwise-because, well, the world isn't necessarily fair. Once again, I am not putting on my list of favorites the recent books that have been bestsellers-a couple of which I admired greatly, like Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings, Five Came Back by Mark Harris and Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, since they have gotten, and will get, plenty of "ink" elsewhere. A short list of the new books I enjoyed reading this year (all were published in 2014).
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