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Cheryl's Pick: "A Thousand Miles to Graceland" by Kristen Mei Chase
Grace Johnson doesn’t know what to do next. Her husband has announced that he’s finished with their marriage. What?! Grace doesn’t live...
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Feb 17, 20231 min read
Mariah's Pick: "Secretly Yours" by Tessa Bailey
Bubbly gardener, Hallie Welch, fell hard for Julian Vos after their almost-kiss years ago. After being hired to landscape the gardens of...
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Feb 10, 20231 min read
Cheryl's Pick: "Cradles of the Reich" by Jennifer Coburn
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn is based on historical events. In several countries during World War II there were places called...
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Feb 3, 20231 min read
Laurie's Pick: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie and Sam meet as children in the hospital and connect through their love of video games. Sam, whose foot has been crushed in a car...
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Jan 26, 20231 min read
Mariah's Pick: "Loathe to Love You" by Ali Hazelwood
Three adorable romances wrapped into one perfect package! Centered around a group of STEM-inist friends, we see all three women overcome...
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Jan 20, 20231 min read
Maria's Pick: "Foster" by Claire Keegan
After reading Claire Keegan’s previous novella, Small Things Like These, one of my favorite books last year, I jumped at the chance to...
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Jan 13, 20231 min read
Mariah's Pick: "Things We Never Got Over" by Lucy Score
Naomi had her five-year-plan set in motion until her life imploded and she ended up in small town Knockemout, Virginia, jobless and...
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Jan 8, 20231 min read
Val's Pick: "Signal Fires" by Dani Shapiro
I adored Dani Shaprio’s 2019 memoir Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love so when I found out she wrote a novel in...
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Dec 30, 20221 min read
Val's Pick: "Carrie Soto is Back" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid is quickly becoming one of my “go to” authors. From The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to Daisy Jones & the Six, her...
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Dec 22, 20221 min read
Maria's Pick: "We Are The Light" by Matthew Quick
Lucas Goodgame is the survivor of a mass shooting in which his wife, Darcy, was killed. Considered a hero in his small town of Majestic,...
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Dec 17, 20221 min read
Debbie's Pick: "The Twist of a Knife" by Anthony Horowitz
The Twist of a Knife is Anthony Horowitz’s fourth whodunit featuring Detective Hawthorne and Horowitz’s fictional self and is the latest...
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Dec 10, 20221 min read
Val's Pick: "We All Want Impossible Things" by Catherine Newman
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman is a book about death, life, love, and friendship. Edie and Ash have been best friends...
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Dec 3, 20221 min read
Mariah's Pick: "Kingdom of the Feared" by Kerri Maniscalco
(NOTE: This review has some mild spoilers for Kingdom of the Wicked and Kingdom of the Cursed. While the first book of the trilogy is...
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Nov 25, 20221 min read
Debbie's Pick: "Musical Tables" by Billy Collins
Poetry distills ideas down to their essence. Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States and author of twelve books of...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
Maria's Pick: "Fellowship Point" by Alice Elliott Dark
Agnes Lee, now in her 80’s, is an author of children’s books and writes an adult fiction series under a pen name. She and her lifelong...
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Nov 13, 20221 min read
Cheryl's Pick: "All Good People Here" by Ashley Flowers
After leaving Wakarusa, Indiana twenty years earlier, Margot reluctantly returns to her hometown to take care of her Uncle Luke who is in...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
Sami's Pick: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen
In this retelling of the classic Billy Goats Gruff, readers will encounter a delightful, and at times, a bit dark, story of a troll and...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Maria's Pick: "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng’s newest novel, Our Missing Hearts is set in a dystopian future where the US government, in an attempt to recover from a...
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Oct 22, 20221 min read
Debbie's Pick: "The Bullet That Missed" by Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club has found a new case to investigate: the murder of Bethany Waites. Her car was pushed over Sherlock Falls, but...
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Oct 16, 20221 min read
Maria's Pick: "Hester" by Laurie Lico Albanese
Set in the early 1800’s, Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese is a reimagining of the back story to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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