by: Olivia Hawker Goodreads description: For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II. Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped […]
July/August Tidbit 2022
Hey Wilmington Folks and Visitors to the area! Do you know about Spruced at Barclay Commons? Helen and Holly each have side hustles there. Come visit our booths – Elvis Shopped Here and Gourmet Gals. And Spruced has so much more to offer – wonderful booths filled with unique and fun finds! Decorate your home, […]
Upcoming Books for August 2022
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Book Lovers
by: Emily Henry Goodreads description: Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a […]
The Candy House
by: Jennifer Egan Goodreads description: It’s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He’s forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, Own […]
The Lioness
by: Chris Bohjalian Goodreads description: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the […]
The Pecan Man
by: Cassie Dandridge Selleck Goodreads description: The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to […]
Upcoming Books for July 2022
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June 2022 Tidbit
In addition to being Pulitzer prize winning journalists, Helen and Holly are also Master Gardeners- not! Our brown thumbs are getting some work this season. What do we like to grow you may ask? Helen says: I like to grow Zinnias every summer. I have a grave like flower bed by my front door. I […]
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by: Kim Michele Richardson Goodreads description: In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 