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 […]

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 […]

The Missing Half

by: Ashley Flowers Goodreads description: Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a […]

Speak to Me of Home

by: Jeanine Cummins Goodreads description: On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway, in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to […]

What Kind of Paradise

by: Janelle Brown Goodreads description: The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world. Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to […]

Tidbit- June 2025

We don’t have any original ideas this month, but we have been watching a lot of good series on our Rokus! Helen says: Mobland on Paramount Plus is like a British version of The Sopranos with a star studded cast! It’s pretty violent- viewer beware. Sirens on Netflix was addictive and a good show to […]