“Between Earth and Sky” by Amanda Skenandore

Title: Between Earth and Sky
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher:  Kensington Books
Year: 2018    
Genre(s): historical fiction
Part of a Series: No

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Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club pick

Summary: Alma Mitchell is surprised when the morning newspaper contains an article about a her childhood friend and that he is suspected of murdering a federal agent. She convinces her husband to go from Philadelphia to Wisconsin to help him. Going back to Wisconsin and facing Harry or Asku forces Alma to consider their time at a school meant to assimilate Indigenous children into white culture and challenge the lies she has told herself.

“She Wouldn’t Change a Thing” by Sarah Adlakha

Title: She Wouldn’t Change a Thing
Author: Sarah Adlakha
Publisher:  Forge
Year: 2021    
Genre(s):  literary fiction, science fiction
Part of a Series: No

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Why I read it: 12 Days of Bookmas gift

Summary: Maria Forsmann is a successful psychiatrist, wife and mother of two with one on the way. But an appointment with one patient sets things in motion that ultimately change Maria’s life forever. After a traumatic event, she wakes up in her seventeen year body and realizes she has been sent in time to prevent another tragedy. But doing so would prevent her from returning to her family forever. What will she choose?