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The Stolen Queen |
Review: "I'm a big fan of Fiona Davis and love that New York City is the backdrop in many of her stories. My apartment is a ten-minute walk from the Met, so I was thrilled when I read the summary of this book and realized The Met was one of the stars.... More |
Book Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings,More |
Mrs. Quinn's Rise To Fame |
Review: If you enjoy the show The Great British Bake Off, you'll love this heartwarming story about second chances and making your mark in the world. Jenny is a seventy-something-year-old woman who secretly applies to be a contestant in a televised baking competition... More |
Book Summmary: "Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren-which Jenny never had-Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies .... More |
PBR's Book Club Pick |
 The Berry Pickers By Amanda Peters Book Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia ...More
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Review: "This is an engaging family saga and a story that highlights the strength of family bonds. It focuses on the characters and dives into complex family and cultural issues.
It's a book about family and follows the story of Ruthie, a four-year-old Indigenous girl who goes missing one summer. I felt a lot of emotions watching her family deal with their grief... More |
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2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist for the Clara Johnson Award A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Apple, People, Barnes & Noble, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, CrimeReads, Booklist, Debutiful, and more "A gripping read, a mystery and a moving narrative all in one book." -A New York Post Best Book of the Year "A lucid and assured debut." -The New Yorker "A stunning debut about love, race, brutality and the balm of forgiveness." -People, A Best New Book "Peters beautifully explores loss, grief, hope, and the invisible tether that keeps families intact even when they are ripped apart. A poignant debut from a writer to watch." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) More Book Club Questions For The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters | |
Spot Light Book - YA Thriller/Mystery |
 The Reappearance of Rachel Price By Holly Jackson Book Summary:
Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom's mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on. But the case is dredged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true More
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 Reese Witherspoon's Book Club PickIsola By Allegra Goodman Book Summary:
A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this "lushly painted" (People) historical epic of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam. 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 ...More
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 GMA's Book Club PickJunie By Erin Crosby Eckstine Book Summary:
A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister's ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master's daughter, Violet ...More
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 Read With Jenna Book Club PickThis Is a love Story By Jessica Soffer Book Summary:
For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. ...More
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 Oprah's Book Club Pick (#111)Dream State By Eric Puchner Book Summary:
Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws' lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate the ceremony, though Cece can't imagine anyone more ill-suited for the task-an airport baggage ...More
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 A Thousand Ships By Natalie Haynes
Book Summary: This is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all...in the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find More
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 The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Book Summary: It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people...More
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 The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her...More
 Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment ...More
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 The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions ...More
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 The Dutch House By Ann Patchett
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House ...More
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