by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Goodreads description: Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed and brokenhearted — she must […]
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Those Empty Eyes
by: Charlie Donlea Goodreads description: Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s no longer the terrified teenager a rapt audience saw on television, emerging in handcuffs from the quiet suburban home the night her family was massacred. That girl, Alexandra Quinlan, nicknamed Empty Eyes by the media, was accused […]
Upcoming Books for July 2025
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The Tell: A Memoir
by: Amy Griffin Goodreads description: For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all […]
Theo of Golden
by: Allen Levi Goodreads description: Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern city of Golden.Who is he, and why is he here?He arrives early one spring and by chance – or is it? – he visits a coffee shop where 92 framed pencil portraits are on display. […]
Wild Dark Shore
by: Charlotte McConaghy Goodreads description: A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea […]
Tidbit- May 2025
Just in time for Mother’s Day, we have stumbled across a hilariously irreverent memoir by Andy Corren entitled Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother. This is a follow up to the wildly popular obituary he wrote for his mother back 2021. They hailed from Fayetteville, NC with a lot of pit stops along the […]
Upcoming books for June 2025
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Bye, Baby
by: Carola Lovering Goodreads description: A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It’s her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she’s just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie […]
Isola
by: Allegra Goodman Goodreads description: Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardian’s servant and the two develop […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 