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 […]
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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 […]
The Lioness of Boston
by: Emily Franklin Goodreads Description: A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of […]
The Princess of Las Vegas
by: Chris Bohjalian Goodreads Description: A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime, cryptocurrency, and family secrets on the Las Vegas strip. Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by […]
May 2024 Tidbit:
Helen says: May is a doozy for me. Have you watched the Holderness family spoof on Maycember and the end of the school year? I really identify with it. Click here to watch. Have you watched Baby Reindeer on Netflix? It is so crazy and creepy. I can’t say that I suggest it, but I […]
Upcoming Books for June 2024
Summer is upon us and we have some good books to read…. We decided to throw a classic in. Someone posted a list of 15 Must Read Books, and this one was missing from our reading history. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith Goodreads description: It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper – and cousin by marriage – of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, […]
The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhorn Goodreads description: Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record […]
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