by: John Boyne Goodreads description: Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with […]
Category: September 2023
Everyone Here is Lying
by: Shari Lapena Goodreads description: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William […]
Girls and Their Horses
by: Eliza Jane Brazier Goodreads description: Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show… When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it’s their chance at […]
Tom Lake
by: Ann Patchett Goodreads description: In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company […]
The Whispers
by: Ashley Audrain Goodreads description: From the author of THE PUSH, a pageturner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens–and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom […]
Tidbit- September 2023
Happy 3rd Birthday to Helen and Holly Hit the Books! Can you believe it? We sure have fun. After 3 years, one may ask where we keep coming up with interesting content for our Tidbits. Sometimes it is a struggle, so we look for inspiration. Helen says: I have two sites that are bringing me […]
Upcoming Books for September 2023
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