Win is away at boarding school. He doesn’t see his family anymore and in chapters that alternate between the present and the past, Win, with the help of new girl Jordan and former friend Lex, works to come to terms with the curse within his bloodline. Kuehn does brilliant things here with voice and plotting. As the reader moves deeper […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! Elizabeth is Missing: A Novel by Emma Healey “Maude sinks into a confusing world in this gripping psychological mystery written in the voice of an aging woman with Alzheimer’s. She can’t remember what she’s doing or where she is, but she is obsessed with […]
After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story by Michael Hainey Genre: Memoir Michael Hainey has always been haunted by his father’s death. A seasoned journalist like his father before him, he knows intuitively that the facts just don’t add up with the story he was told as a kid. An obituary he discovers as a teenager reveals that his father died […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! We Were Liars by E. Lockhart “This brilliant and heartbreaking novel tells the story of a prestigious family living on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. Full of love, lies, secrets, no shortage of family dysfunction, and a shocking twist that you […]
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes Realistic Fiction After the restaurant where she works as a waitress closes down, Louisa Clark is left with few job prospects. Desperate for work, Louisa takes a job as a kind of caregiver/companion for Will Trainer, a wealthy quadriplegic has lost the will to live. His bitterness and anger about his condition is often […]
Timmy Faliure #1: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis Move over Greg Heffley, there’s a new…um…hero in town. Timmy Failure, and his polar bear Total, are the CEO and the assistant of the self-described “best detective agency in town, probably the nation.” But can they solve crimes? This unreliable, self-serving narrator is clueless and funny without trying. Recommended for upper […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin “A middle-aged bookseller mourning his lost wife, a feisty publisher’s rep, and a charmingly precocious abandoned child come together on a small island off the New England coast in this utterly delightful […]
Book Clubbers Book Club Meets the first Thursday of each month. Thursday, April 3rd @ 7pm (Harnish) The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian Laura Estabrook attempts to unravel the mystery of a homeless man’s true identity while battling her own demons from the past. Spine-Crackers Book Club Meets the first Friday of each month. Friday, April […]
Visit LibraryReads for more information about how this list was created, and to view favorites from previous months! The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh “The Dane family has been keeping secrets in the Ozark town of Henbane for years. An outsider steals the heart of one of the Dane brothers, and the secrets threaten to unravel. When sixteen-year-old Lucy’s friend is […]
Watching the Oscars on Sunday night, I was struck once again by how many of the year’s best films were adapted from books. Here are just a few of the nominations I spotted that have their roots in the printed word. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith Also published as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, BBC […]
