by: Rachel Khong Goodreads description: From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? Real Americans begins on the precipice of […]
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None of This is True
by: Lisa Jewell Goodreads description: Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this […]
North Woods
by: Daniel Mason Goodreads description: A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. When a pair […]
Twenty Years Later
by: Charlie Donlea Goodreads description: Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation was abandoned. But TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past… Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects […]
The Winner
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 […]
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 […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 