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Atmosphere |
Review: If you're looking for a book that truly transports you and makes you feel like you're right there with the characters. Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" is a must-read. She has this incredible way of writing that feels so real. Needless to say, this book kept me turning the pages. The topic of space travel was fascinating, and the characters were unforgettable. I also loved... More |
Book Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember... More |
One Golden Summer |
Review: This was an incredible read, and everything I had expected from this author. Carley Fortune's character development and sense of place are amazing. I felt like I was experiencing the highs and lows right there with Alice in this beautiful lakeside summer setting... More |
Book Summmary: I never anticipated Charlie Florek.
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..... More |
PBR's Book Club Pick |
 Wild Dark Shore By Charlotte McConaghy Book Summary:
An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. 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 levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.... More
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Review: "This book takes you to a wild and beautiful place, making you feel deeply. It's a story set on a remote island where a family struggles to survive as the outside world changes. Then, to complicate matters, during an enormous storm, a woman named Rowen washes up on shore, and everything shifts as the family nurses her back to health.... More |
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - #1 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025
"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." -Emily St. John Mandel "SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane." -Washington Post "Abounds with EVOCATIVE nature writing." -The New York Times Book Review... More Book Club Questions - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
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YA Fantasy (age 14-18) |
 Better Than The Movies By Lynn Painter Book Summary:
Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar-and maybe snag him as a prom date-even befriend Wes Bennet. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz's butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated More
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Women's Biography |
 We Might Just Make It After All By Elyce Arons Book Summary:
A moving portrait of friendship by Elyce Arons as she reflects on her long relationship with Kate Spade, whom she met in college and with whom she cofounded the multi-billion-dollar fashion company as they came of age in 1990s New York. When Elyce Arons first met Katy Brosnahan in a University of Kansas dorm room, she had no idea that this polo shirt-wearing Missouri girl would not only ...More
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Backlist Book |
 The Red Tent By Anita Diamant Book Summary:
In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. The Red Tent begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through childhood,....More
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 Reese Witherspoon's Book Club PickSpectacular Things By Beck Dorey-Stein Book Summary:
What would you give up for the person you love most? What would you expect in return? Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the "Lowe girls" are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: ...More
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 Reese Witherspoon's Summer YA PickStuck Up And Stupid By Angourie Rice and Kate Rice Book Summary:
This sharp, hilarious, and heartfelt novel is giving major Austen vibes with a fresh twist - and we're obsessed."-Reese's Book Club (Reese's Book Club Summer '25 YA Pick). An ordinary girl. A Hollywood star. A love story that could change everything. Pride and Prejudice gets a modern twist in this summer romance from two debut authors who ....More
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 GMA's Book Club PickThe Compound By Aisling Rowle Book Summary:
Lily-a bored, beautiful twenty-something-wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for ...More
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 GMA's YA PickTime After Time By Mikki Daughtry Book Summary:
Two love stories. One hundred years apart. An unforgettable sapphic romance from the screenwriter and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart. Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to the old Victorian house on Mulberry Lane. So much so that when she sees a For Sale sign go up in the front yard, Libby uses....More
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 Read With Jenna Book Club PickHappy Wife By Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores Book Summary:
A prominent lawyer goes missing on the night of his birthday party in Florida, rocking the small community of Winter Park - and the townspeople are quick to suggest his younger wife is capable of murder, in Jenna Bush Hager's latest book club pick. ....More
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 Oprah's Book Club Pick (#115)The River Is Waiting By Wally Lamb Book Summary:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable tragedy as he searches for hope, redemption, and the possibility ...More
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 Behind Every Good Man By Sara Goodman Confino
Book Summary: A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-lifting novel by the bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write. It's a doozy of a bad day for Beverly Diamond when she catches her... More
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 Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Book Summary: Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her....More
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 Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks...More
 Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
This "haunting and poignant tale, one that won't be easy to forget any time soon" (Mystery and Suspense Magazine), follows an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past-from internationally bestselling author Liz Nugent.Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight....More
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 Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
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...More
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 The Book Of Doors By Gareth Brown
A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story ...More
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