by: Stephen King Goodreads description: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and […]
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The Last Thing He Told Me
By: Laura Dave Goodreads description: Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to […]
The Song of Achilles
by: Madeline Miller Goodreads description: Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, […]
Things You Save in a Fire
By: Katherine Center Goodreads description: Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair share of them, and she’s excellent at dealing with other people’s tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to uproot her life and move to Boston, […]
The Villa
by: Rachel Hawkins Goodreads description: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end […]
February 2023 Tidbit
What are our current obsessions right now? Not that you asked…but we will tell you. Helen says: I love Sumo Oranges- They are seasonal and delicious! Follow up to my New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolution update!! I feel like I got a firm grasp on The Iliad from reading The Song of Achilles. Steve […]
Upcoming Books for March 2023
We are just reading 3 books this month because one of them is pretty long and we’re busy! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
All Good People Here
by: Ashley Flowers Goodreads description: Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the case of January Jacobs, who was found dead in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown […]
Demon Copperhead
by: Barbara Kingsolver Goodreads description: Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never […]
Mad Honey
by: Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan Goodreads description: Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New […]
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