Category: June 2025

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 […]

Dream Count

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 […]

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 […]