by: Charlie Donlea Goodreads description: Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn’t. The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost—until Megan escapes from a bunker deep […]
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The Stillwater Girls
by: Minka Kent Goodreads description: Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air. Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin […]
November 2024 Tidbit
Helen and Holly have differing opinions when it comes to Thanksgiving preferences…Here’s what we think! Comment and tell us what you think, too! Ham or Turkey? Helen says: Honestly, I much prefer ham to turkey, but I am very much a purist. I feel that It is imperative to eat turkey on Thanksgiving, though it’s […]
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All the Colors of the Dark
by: Chris Whitaker Goodreads description: 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one […]
Familiaris
By: David Wroblewski Goodreads description: The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name. It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his […]
Long Island Compromise
by: Taffy Brodesser- Akner Goodreads description: In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the […]
Tidbit- October 2024
It’s spooky season. Have you noticed that everyone on the block has a giant skeleton? They are all doing bizarre tasks like mowing the lawn or eating at a picnic table. What would Stefon from SNL have to say about it? Helen says: Here is my favorite skeleton pose thus far…Cue the Righteous Brothers. Holly […]
Upcoming Books for November 2024
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James
by: Percival Everett Goodreads description: A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he […]
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