The Berry Pickers

by: Amanda Peters Goodreads description: A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old […]

Day

by: Michael Cunningham Goodreads description: As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious—and learning to go on—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours April 5, 2019 : In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, […]

Familia

by: Lauren E. Rico Goodreads description: What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compelling, emotional novel, two young women are brought together by a genealogy test and a haunting question that shakes their understanding of what family is and who they truly are . […]

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

by: James McBride Goodreads description: The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the […]

Tidbit -January 2024

Screw New Year’s resolutions! Let’s find out your Primal Astrology Spirit Animal. Helen is a Jaguar and Holly is a Firefly. Click here for your free astrological report! Holly: 👆Funny, I really love a firefly, lightning bug, or illuminated beetle – whatever you want to call it! One of my favorite things is watching thousands of them from […]

Bright Young Women

by: Jessica Knoll Goodreads description: January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn’t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee. Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president […]

Crying in H Mart

by: Michelle Zauner Goodreads description: A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured […]

The Echo Chamber

by: John Boyne Goodreads description: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds – and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a […]

Top 5 Books of 2023

Helen says: #1 (A sweeping epic novel- I didn’t want it to end) #2 (I love novels about rich dysfunctional families) #3 (This is the funniest book I have read in years) #4 (Heavy and unsettling, but I couldn’t put it down) #5 (I loved this one!) Least Favorite: (Ugh- I don’t understand why this […]