The Foursome

by: Christina Baker Kline Goodreads Synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of an astonishing true two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina—Kline’s own distant relatives—who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam. When Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they’re not just a curiosity—they’re a […]

It Could Have Been Her

by: Lisa Jewell Goodreads Synopsis: Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he’d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. […]

Kin

by: Tayari Jones Goodreads Synopsis: Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Atlanta at […]

Whistler

by Ann Patchett Goodreads Synopsis: When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now […]

Tidbit- September 2026

Helen and Holly (and Annie Gray) are hitting the road to attend the Charleston Literary Festival in November. All of our favorite contemporary authors are coming. Save the date- tickets go on sale on September 10th. They sell out quickly. We tried to go last year and were too late. Click here to learn more […]

The Calamity Club

by: Kathryn Stockett Goodreads Synopsis: In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the price of dignity and self-determination […]

Land

by: Maggie O’Farrell Goodreads Synopsis: ‘You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow’ A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are […]

The Tobacco Wives

by: Adele Myers Goodreads Synopsis: Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle […]

Weyward

by: Emilia Hart Goodreads Synopsis: I am a Weyward, and wild inside.  2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to […]