Join us for another month of lofty aspirations!! Wish us luck. Here’s what we will be reading. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
A Family Matter
by: Clare Lynch Goodreads description: A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch […]
My Friends
by: Fredrik Backman Goodreads description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier […]
One Golden Summer
by: Carley Fortune Goodreads description: Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. […]
The River is Waiting
by: Wally Lamb Goodreads description: Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, […]
The Tenant
by: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: There’s no place like home… Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, […]
August Tidbit 2025
Helen and Holly are having a “busting at the seams” sale in conjunction with the upcoming sidewalk sale at Spruced… Here are the details: What: Helen and Holly’s book surplus! $5 per book! When: Saturday, August 23rd from 8 am- 2pm Where: Spruced- 2516 Independence Blvd, suite 101, Wilmington, NC (Across the street from Henry’s […]
Upcoming Books for September 2025
We are doing some serious reading this upcoming month. Wish us luck! Barbara Barbee’s suggestion! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase.
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
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 […]
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 […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 