by: Idra Novey Goodreads description: Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need tracks the aftermath of a long estrangement between a stepmother and daughter. Leah is a web editor and young mother who’s sought an urban life and clean break from her rural childhood. But with her stepmother Jean’s death, Leah must return […]
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We Are The Light
by: Matthew Quick Goodreads description: Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero—everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his […]
Upcoming Books August 2023
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August 2023 Tidbit
Holly and Helen have been trying to beat the heat during these dog days of summer! How have you been trying to stay cool? Helen says: Have you heard of the new self-care trend called “Bed Rotting”? Gross, but funny…. It is basically lying in bed with all your devices and streaming series and reading […]
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by: Robert Dugoni Goodreads description: Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his […]
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
By: Nash Jenkins Goodreads description: Prep meets The Secret History in this sprawling debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly millennial lens When Foster Dade arrives at Kennedy, an elite boarding school in New Jersey, the year is 2008. Barack […]
Hang the Moon
By: Jeannette Walls Goodreads description: A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn […]
The Housemaid
By: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more […]
Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang Goodreads description: Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s […]
June 2023 Tidbit
Happy Independence Day! We are feeling rather patriotic and want to share what we are up to this holiday. Helen says: Have you ever watched the show Nailed It on Netflix? It’s a hilarious baking show where people off the street get a set amount of time to recreate professionally made cake masterpieces. Maybe I […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 