by: Teddy Wayne Goodreads description: Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: free lodging in a guest cottage in exchange for tennis lessons, luxuriously far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother. In […]
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Tidbit- July 2024
Helen and Holly are moving in two different directions this summer. Helen’s television is broken in her bedroom. This calls for extra reading- but only fluff! Holly is on some European adventures and has a little homework reading on the side. Here are the books we are enjoying on our own. Helen says: I picked […]
Upcoming Books for August 2024
Read along with us. We chose some high brow books to compensate for some of our raunchy choices in July. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
Brave New World
by: Aldous Huxley Goodreads description: Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius […]
Listen for the Lie
by: Amy Tintera Goodreads description: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls […]
Table for Two
by: Amor Towles Goodreads description: The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything […]
Wolf at the Table
by: Adam Rapp Goodreads description: The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst, from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award finalist playwright Adam Rapp. As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child […]
July 2024 Tidbit
What is the meaning of Tidbit? According to the Oxford English Dictionary: Our two favorite things! And not to be forgotten…. Nabisco- Please bring them back!!! We look forward to bringing you more tidbits in the future.
Upcoming Books for July 2024
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A Bakery in Paris
by: Aimee K Runyan Goodreads Description: From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of […]
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