by: James McBride Goodreads description: The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the […]
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Tidbit -January 2024
Screw New Year’s resolutions! Let’s find out your Primal Astrology Spirit Animal. Helen is a Jaguar and Holly is a Firefly. Click here for your free astrological report! Holly: 👆Funny, I really love a firefly, lightning bug, or illuminated beetle – whatever you want to call it! One of my favorite things is watching thousands of them from […]
Upcoming Books for February 2024
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Bright Young Women
by: Jessica Knoll Goodreads description: January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn’t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee. Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president […]
Crying in H Mart
by: Michelle Zauner Goodreads description: A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured […]
The Echo Chamber
by: John Boyne Goodreads description: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds – and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a […]
Top 5 Books of 2023
Helen says: #1 (A sweeping epic novel- I didn’t want it to end) #2 (I love novels about rich dysfunctional families) #3 (This is the funniest book I have read in years) #4 (Heavy and unsettling, but I couldn’t put it down) #5 (I loved this one!) Least Favorite: (Ugh- I don’t understand why this […]
Upcoming Books for January 2024
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Death at La Fenice
by: Donna Leon Goodreads description: There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable […]
Good Bad Girls
by: Alice Feeney Goodreads description: Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes […]
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