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 […]
Category: July 2025
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 […]