by: Ellery Lloyd Goodreads description: Some women won’t be painted out of history . . . Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx. Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble across […]
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Great Big Beautiful Life
By: Emily Henry Goodreads description: Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet […]
The Missing Half
by: Ashley Flowers Goodreads description: Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a […]
Speak to Me of Home
by: Jeanine Cummins Goodreads description: On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway, in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to […]
What Kind of Paradise
by: Janelle Brown Goodreads description: The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world. Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to […]
July 2025 Tidbit
Helen and Holly are members of the “We Do Not Care” club…Have you caught wind of this trend and Melani Sanders’ cult instagram phenomenon? Click here to read a recent New York Times article about her. She is a riot! Here she is in all her glory!!!
Upcoming Books for August 2025
We chose a wide variety of easy, contemporary fiction for next month. These are perfect for vacation and don’t require a lot of concentration. Read along with us. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. And one highbrow choice if we have time…not to insult Fredrik […]
Tidbit- June 2025
We don’t have any original ideas this month, but we have been watching a lot of good series on our Rokus! Helen says: Mobland on Paramount Plus is like a British version of The Sopranos with a star studded cast! It’s pretty violent- viewer beware. Sirens on Netflix was addictive and a good show to […]
Alive and Beating
by: Rebecca Wolf Goodreads description: Inspired by a true story, Rebecca Wolf’s debut novel, “Alive and Beating,” follows six people from diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods throughout Jerusalem, all desperately in need of organ transplants, on the day their lives will forever be changed. In a place where ancient divides often seem insurmountable, these six characters—Leah, […]
Broken Country
by: Clare Leslie Hall Goodreads description: Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none […]
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