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Anything is Possible
By: Elizabeth Strout Goodreads description: Short story collection Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her […]
56 Days
By: Catherine Ryan Howard Goodreads description: No one knew they’d moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGOCiara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGOWhen lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests […]
Lessons in Chemistry
by: Bonnie Garmus Goodreads description: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except […]
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt Goodreads description: After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. […]
Tidbit- Our top 5 list for 2022!
Helen says: #1 A masterpiece! #2 Dysfunction junction. #3 All of his books are so different and equally great. #4 You should probably read The Glass Hotel first…This is a follow up. It blew my mind! #5 Wonderful historical fiction. WORST/ MOST DISTURBING BOOK I READ THIS YEAR: I love all of her other books- […]
Upcoming Books for January 2023
We chose 6 books to read over the next two months- wish us luck! Read along with us in the New Year. They are: Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
The Diamond Eye
by: Kate Quinn Goodreads description: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her […]
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
by: Jamie Ford Goodreads description: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the […]
The Marriage Portrait
by:Maggie O’Farrell Goodreads description: From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici. Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure […]
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