The Tell: A Memoir

by: Amy Griffin Goodreads description: For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all […]

Theo of Golden

by: Allen Levi Goodreads description: Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern city of Golden.Who is he, and why is he here?He arrives early one spring and by chance – or is it? – he visits a coffee shop where 92 framed pencil portraits are on display. […]

Wild Dark Shore

by: Charlotte McConaghy Goodreads description: A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea […]

Tidbit- May 2025

Just in time for Mother’s Day, we have stumbled across a hilariously irreverent memoir by Andy Corren entitled Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother. This is a follow up to the wildly popular obituary he wrote for his mother back 2021. They hailed from Fayetteville, NC with a lot of pit stops along the […]

Bye, Baby

by: Carola Lovering Goodreads description: A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It’s her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she’s just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie […]

Isola

by: Allegra Goodman Goodreads description: Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardian’s servant and the two develop […]

The Island of Missing Trees

by: Elif Shafak Goodreads description: Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a […]

The Secret Life of Sunflowers

by: Marta Molnar Goodreads description: A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law. When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs […]