by Lee Smith Goodreads Description: It’s 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital’s most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses cascading events that lead up to the […]
The Four Winds
by: Kristin Hannah Goodreads Description: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great […]
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if […]
The Push
by: Ashley Audrain Goodreads Description: Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. Or is it […]
March 2021 Tidbit
We knocked it out the park this month in our book choices. We hope you will read them all! You have been reading all about our opinions each month….now we want to hear some of yours! Please take a gander at Helen and Holly’s Pop Culture Reader Poll and give us your feedback on some […]
Upcoming books for April 2021
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Upcoming Books for March 2021
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February 2021 Tidbit
This arctic winter has got us all a little blue. Here in Wilmington, we are enjoying a cold, wet swamp this February. We are not very original in our tidbit ideas right now. Here are some things Helen and Holly are really digging to get us through the slump. Helen says: I just ordered Tieghan […]
One by One
by: Ruth Ware Goodreads description: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain. Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a cozy fire, […]
Nick
by Michael Farris Smith Goodreads description: Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this fascinating look into his life before Gatsby. Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place […]
