Category: August 2025

A Family Matter

by: Clare Lynch Goodreads description: A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch […]

My Friends

by: Fredrik Backman Goodreads description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier […]

One Golden Summer

by: Carley Fortune Goodreads description: Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. […]

The River is Waiting

by: Wally Lamb Goodreads description: Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, […]

The Tenant

by: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, […]

August Tidbit 2025

Helen and Holly are having a “busting at the seams” sale in conjunction with the upcoming sidewalk sale at Spruced… Here are the details: What: Helen and Holly’s book surplus! $5 per book! When: Saturday, August 23rd from 8 am- 2pm Where: Spruced- 2516 Independence Blvd, suite 101, Wilmington, NC (Across the street from Henry’s […]