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The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins Goodreads description: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in […]

The Hunter

By: Tana French Goodreads description: It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural […]

Tidbit- April 2024

What are we digging this month? Helen says: I have been a manic reader this month! I only liked 2 out of 4 of our assigned books. I decided to read and listen to a few others. As I have already mentioned, I started The Court of Thorns and Roses series- very enjoyable and entertaining. […]

March 2024 Tidbit

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s what Helen and Holly are doing to celebrate this special day. Helen says: Top of the muffin to you! Do you remember that episode of Seinfeld? I like to greet people with that phrase in the morning. My favorite Irish recipe is Alton Brown’s Shepherd’s Pie. It is a crowd […]

The Caretaker

by: Ron Rash Goodreads description: Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash (“One of the great American authors at work today” —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek […]

First Lie Wins

by: Ashley Elston Goodreads description: Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by […]

The Fury

by: Alex Michaelides Goodreads description: A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Silent Patient. This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its […]

The Women

by: Kristin Hannah Goodreads description: From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised […]