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Happy August!
We hope that you've been having a fantastic summer, and that you're staying cool in the South Carolina heat. (And what better way to beat the heat than to relax in the shade with a good book?)
Whether you're finishing up your summer reading or stockpiling back to school books, we've got you covered, and can special order anything on your reading list that we don't currently have in stock. Just let us know!
Have a wonderful August, and happy reading!
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From the Team at Fiction Addiction: -Nancy -Jill -Lee -Grace Anne -Melissa
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Back to School - Tax Free Weekend is August 6th-8th |
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6/18/19 - HarperFestival: 2019 - $7.99
Pete the Kitty is almost ready for his first day of preschool! Preschoolers and little ones getting ready to go to preschool for the first time will enjoy cheering Pete the Kitty's fun entry to preschool.
It's a big day for Pete the Kitty: his first day of preschool! He meets his cool teacher, sings a few fun songs, and even gets to paint. Who knew preschool could be so much fun?
Just don't forget your groovy backpack and your yummy snack, Pete the Kitty!
Little ones will enjoy exploring what the first day of school is like with Pete the Kitty.
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5/4/21 - Disney-Hyperion: 2021 - $7.99
Quick, let's go! It's time for school! My teachers there are pretty cool.
Race inside for a joy-filled day! School is full of fun, all thanks to a teacher who makes every school day the best. Full of energy and enthusiasm, this is a book all children will want to share with their favorite teacher.
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4/6/21 - World of Eric Carle: 2021 - $9.99
Show friends and family how much you appreciate them with the Very Hungry Caterpillar's colorful book of thanks.
Perfect for Thanksgiving or any day of the year, this charming book of pictures is the colorful way to tell loved ones "thanks!" Featuring art from the World of Eric Carle, this joyful book follows The Very Hungry Caterpillar and celebrates all that makes us most thankful.
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Preorder The Wish by Nicholas Sparks |
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9/28/21 - Grand Central Publishing: 2021 - $28.00
From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever. 1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. At thirty-seven, she splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she finds herself unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.
As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
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The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny |
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8/24/21 - Minotaur Books: 2021 - $28.99
Pre-order today and get a free vintage Three Pines keychain and a limited-edition wooden bookmark (while supplies last)!
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.
He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.
While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.
Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.
Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone.
When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
And the madness of crowds.
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8/24/21 - Minotaur Books - $28.99
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.
He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.
While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.
Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.
Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone.
When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
And the madness of crowds.
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8/3/21 - Penguin Books: 2021 - $17.00
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
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8/10/21 - Threshold Editions: 2021 - $28.00
From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America’s long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly magazine, and he went on to write for many other publications before becoming the primetime Fox News host he is today. In The Long Slide, Tucker delivers a few of his favorite pieces—annotated with new commentary and insight—to memorialize the tolerance and diversity of thought that the media used to celebrate instead of punish. In snapshots spanning the 1990s to today, he’ll take you on a visit to Africa with Al Sharpton and members of the Nation of Islam to stop the civil war in Liberia in 2003, inside the (not-so-) secret armies of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and on the campaign trail with Donald Trump in 2016. In case you missed it the first time around, you’ll also learn about the aesthetic merits of British colonialism, the second shift at a baked bean factory, the unexpected charm of James Carville, and the simple beauty of rural western Maine.
With his signature wit and 20/20 hindsight, Tucker investigates in this patriotic and memorable collection a question on all of our minds: Has America really changed that much in recent decades? The answer is, unequivocally, yes.
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8/10/21 - Vintage Books: 2021 - $17.00
In this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Bragg muses on everything from his love of Tupperware to the decline of country music; from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck; and from the best way to kill fire ants to why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife. An ode to the stories and the history of the South, crackling with tenderness, wit, and deep affection, Where I Come From celebrates “a litany of great talkers, blue-green waters, deep casseroles, kitchen-sink permanents, lying fishermen, haunted mansions, and dogs that never die, things that make this place more than a dotted line on a map or a long-ago failed rebellion, even if only in some cold-weather dream.” Evoking the beauty and the odd particularity of humble origins, Bragg's searching vision, generous humor, and richly nuanced voice bring a place, a people, and a world vividly to life.
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8/31/21 - First Second: 2021 - $12.99
Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are.
Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy.
As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects her to be? And who does she actually want to be?
With their signature humor, warmth, and insight, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham have crafted another incredible love letter to their younger selves and to readers everywhere, a reminder to us all that we are enough.
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8/31/21 - Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon: 2021 - $4.99
From Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author and illustrator Jonathan Fenske comes a funny, rhyming Level 1 Ready-to-Read that will have everyone asking the question: so what does fit a dinosaur?
It’s time to get ready for bed, but this silly dinosaur can’t find anything that fits! Find out what happens in this laugh-out-loud Level 1 Ready-to-Read.
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8/3/21 - Scholastic Press - $16.99
Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to a brand-new fantasy series. In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high.
In the Clandoms, everyone is born with wings, with tight-knit communities formed around bird types: Jay, Falcon, Crow. Ellie Meadows dreams of growing up to join the Goldwings -- the famed knights who defend all the people of the Clandoms. It was a Goldwing, after all, who saved her life on that terrible day her parents were killed. There's just one problem: Ellie is a Sparrow, and the Goldwings are almost invariably picked from the higher clans like Eagles and Ospreys. This rigid hierarchy means that Ellie is destined to become a farmer. Determined to honor her parents' memories and prove herself worthy of the Goldwings, Ellie sets out on her own for the capital. But her journey will be dangerous. Foul creatures called gargols lurk behind every cloud, ready to slay anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside in a storm -- just as Ellie's family was. Soon her path intertwines with a colorful band of fellow outcasts, each with their own aspirations... and their own secrets. Ellie's new friends offer not just roadside companionship. They'll challenge her ideas of right, wrong, and what truly makes a hero.
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8/1/21 - Sourcebooks Wonderland - $9.99
It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army of monsters, on broomsticks, buses, and bikes, all clamoring in the darkness. What is it they want? Are they coming for you?
A delightfully spooky Halloween adventure featuring iconic locations and landmarks from your favorite city, state, or country.
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8/3/21 - Orchard Books - $17.99
Join celebrated creator Gris Grimly in this spooky countdown, as one little girl ventures out into the night for an unforgettable Halloween adventure!
10 little pumpkins, sitting in a line,looking for a cat and they found nine.The wind said SWOOSH and the gate went CREAK.The owl cried WHOOOO, we all screamed EEK! Celebrated creator Gris Grimly, widely known for his gothic style illustrations, puts a spooky twist on a favorite preschool rhyme in this Halloween read-aloud. Join goblins, ghosts, witches, and more in this rhythmic countdown, traveling through the countryside and discovering more Halloween creatures along the way. Finally, the story culminates with them all joining together in a joyful celebration under the full harvest moon, dancing until it's time for bed. Paired with Gris Grimly's sweeping, stunning watercolor illustrations and a rhyming refrain reminiscent of classics like We're Going on a Bear Hunt, this is a read-aloud for the whole family to cherish.
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8/31/21 - Dutton Books for Young Readers - $17.99
New from bestselling author Stephanie Perkins, and the perfect companion to her New York Times bestseller There's Someone Inside Your House, soon to be a Netflix feature.
Bears aren’t the only predators in these woods. Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together—a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest.
Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare … and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways. Stephanie Perkins, the bestselling author of There’s Someone Inside Your House, returns with a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching novel about friendship, survival, and navigating unmarked paths even as evil watches from the shadows.
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Signed First Editions Club! |
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Our picks have won awards, been made into movies, or have simply been really good reads.
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August
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Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, $27.99
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September
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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, $27.99
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Jill finds herself in the surprising position of battling on the behalf of free speech against her national bookselling trade association and so will likely be reading these books in the near future. The book in question that is currently being "banned" can be found below:
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6/29/21 - PB - $16.99 |
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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
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NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES
"Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.
But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.”
Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
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Nancy M. (Jill's mom)
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I love mysteries & thrillers, police procedurals, and psychological mysteries. I also love well written southern fiction set in the early to late 1900's.
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8/3/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
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Dark Roads is dark, it is disturbing, and it is very, very entertaining. The mysterious prologue will give you a clue as to how dark it is. It shows us some of the worst of human nature. Disturbing because it is based in part on a highway in Canada where women (most of whom were First Nation) have gone missing with no resolution of their cases. Entertaining because the characters are so compelling, they force you to keep reading and reading and reading. Hailey is a remarkably strong young women whose ability to survive in the wilderness is truly a gift from her beloved father. Beths character really evolves in the book from a young woman with no purpose in life, who feels sorry for herself and cant stand being controlled by her parents into someone with a purpose find out who murdered her sister Amber in the small town of Cold Creek along the Canadian highway that has claimed many women over the years. Johnny is almost too good to be true but thank heavens he stays true to himself. And, then there is Wolf the best dog a woman could ever have. Chevy Stevens is at her best in this thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat through the entire book.
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8/3/21 - HC - $27.00 |
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Where the Truth Lies by Anna Bailey
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When teenaged Abi Blake goes missing after a party in the woods the search for her by her best friend Emma slowly uncovers the dark secrets the people of the small town of Whistling Ridge, CO have been hiding. Where The Truth Lies is a disturbing and very atmospheric novel about a town full of abusers, racists, bigots and homophobes, a fire and brimstone preacher, and a congregation of religious zealots who use God as an excuse for all their evil or for the secrets they keep about their abusers. Beautifully written considering the bleakness and sadness that pervade the novel you will not want to put it down in the hopes that at least the young can escape and find happiness and normalcy.
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8/17/21 - HC - $27.00 |
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The Family Plot by Megan Collins
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The Lighthouse family is obsessed with true crime. The four children are named for famous victims of true crime. They are home schooled using the stories of crime victims as their textbooks. They hold ceremonies on the anniversary of victims deaths to honor their names. They live in an old ancestral home, known by locals as the murder mansion, on an island accessible only by Ferry. An island known as the home of the Blackburn killings because 7 murder victims have washed up on its shores. Daniel Lighthouse, the family patriarch, dies and the body of his youngest son Andy who was thought to have run away 10 years earlier - is found in his grave. Thus begins one of the creepiest and macabre stories of family and loyalty and evil and sickness that I have ever read.
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8/24/21 - HC - $27.00 |
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Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger - SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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Having read the Cork O'Connor series before reading and loving Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, I couldnt wait to see the story of the young Cork and what helped him to become the man he has become. As much as I loved the other two coming of age books, I think I liked this one even more as I already knew Cork OConnor and now, I can begin to understand who he really is and why he acts the way he does. This is a beautiful tribute to Corks father and a stunning tale of how hard a job Liam OConnor had being an Irish Catholic sheriff at a time when the town all hated Indians and the Indians didnt trust any white man. I cant wait to re-read Iron Lake with my new knowledge of Corks childhood as a background.
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8/3/21 - HC - $27.00 |
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Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham
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A title of Rabbit Hole, a main character named Alice, and the setting inside an acute psychiatric ward guarantee a true psychological mystery. One can assume from the start that Alice, a former police detective and current patient, is an unreliable narrator, or is she? Some days she isnt really sure herself considering the different anti-psychotic drugs they keep giving her to stem her severe PTSD. When a murder occurs on her locked ward, she is convinced she can do a better job than the police can because she is on the inside and she has the training. However, when her prime suspect becomes the second victim, she begins to doubt herself and wonders if she is truly crazy. This uniquely crafted novel will take you down the Rabbit Hole with Alice as you try to figure out what is real and what is not, and as you try and wade through all the red herrings to identify the murderer.
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8/10/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen
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If you love Schaffhausen's Ellery Hathaway series, you will love this new series. If you have never read Schaffhausen this is a great place to start. A character driven thriller with a twist to end all twists at the end. Annalisa Vega is a cop. She does her job regardless of what is going on in her life and she never quits. Not one but two exes have reentered her life, a serial killer whose last victim was someone close to her has come back after 17 years and has now focused his sights on Annalisa, her father, an ex-cop, has parkinsons and is not coping well, and an older brother has fallen off the wagon and is in danger of losing his job. Gone for Good introduces us to a strong and immensely likeable character who you will want to get to know better as the series progresses.
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8/3/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
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Raw, powerful, sad, hopeful, violent, beautiful these all describe one of the most compelling books I have read this year. The story of wolves and how they live and breed and communicate, how hard it is to reintroduce them to an area where they are feared and misunderstood, and how vital they are to help the environment would be enough reason to read this book. But it is also a story of twins and the utterly amazing bond between them, it is a story of past trauma and how it affects people in different ways, it is a story of ordinary people and how they are not a whole lot different than wild animals in certain circumstances. It is a story so complex that it can not possibly be given justice in a short review. You must read this yourself to understand the true depth and beauty of this novel.
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8/3/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Down Range by Taylor Moore
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Garret Kohl is a special forces army hero turned undercover DEA agent. But, most of all he is a Texas cowboy with a big heart who will fight for the underdog and his family even if he must stretch the law and risk not only his career but also his life. When Garrett blew his cover in Kabul and killed the insurgents who massacred an entire village, the CIA used this as leverage to force Garrett to take custody of the 10-year-old Afghan boy, Asadi, whose life Garrett had saved. The boy witnessed the massacre and was needed to testify but he needed to be kept safe and out of sight until the CIA and Afghan government could get things together for a trial. What happens when Garrett and Asadi end up back in Texas is like a Jack Reacher novel on steroids. White knuckle non-stop action from one of the newest heroes to grace the covers of a book.
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8/3/21 - PB - $16.99 |
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The Guest List by Lucy Foley
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The Guest List is about the sumptuous wedding of Jules, a highly successful editor of an online magazine and Will, the charismatic handsome star of a survival TV show. The setting is a remote island haunted by ghosts and the characters all have deep secrets that are slowly revealed as the story unfolds. We know from the beginning that a body is found on the night of the wedding. But it could be the result of an accident, suicide or murder all are a possibility as we learn more about the wedding party themselves and members of the guest list. The writing is brilliant and as bits and pieces are revealed about a character you are sure you know who is dead and why until more bits and pieces are revealed about another character. You soon realize that you will not know the truth about anything or anyone until the last page of this fabulous Agatha Christie like mystery.
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8/10/21 - PB - $15.96 |
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The Last Blue by Isla Morley
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The writing in The Last Blue is lyrical and the story is mesmerizing. Knowing that the Blue People of Kentucky really existed made me feel like I was truly experiencing history. It is a story of bullying and prejudice different is different - and people reacted much the same back then as they do today. But more importantly it is a story of family, of sacrifice, of doing the right thing, and one of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read. There is also murder and attempted murder. However, because of the skillful way the story is told jumping back and forth from 1937 to 1972 you will be kept in suspense until the very end about what all happened in Chance, KY in 1937. I highly recommend this for book clubs the discussions will be endless.
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8/3/21 - PB - $17.99 |
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The Safe Place by Anna Downes
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When things seem to be too good to be true they usually are. Emily had just lost her last shot at an acting career, been fired from her temp job in London, and was estranged from her parents when she was offered, what she thought was the job of a lifetime. Her ex-boss needed someone to go Querencia, his fabulous but very isolated estate on the coast of France, to be a companion and au pair for his wife Nina and their 7 yo daughter Aurelia, who was supposed to have severe medical problems. Emily knew right away that things were very strange at Querencia but she immediately liked Nina and relished the close relationship that seemed to be developing. Because she finally felt useful, needed, and liked she kept rationalizing away the small things that started bugging her. But, the longer she was there the more she realized that something was very wrong with Nina and perhaps Aurelia wasnt as ill as she had been told. Emilys job of a lifetime was becoming a nightmare and Querencia might be a safe place for Nina but it definitely isnt for Emily. It may be the last job she ever has! A Safe Place is a carefully crafted story of love and trust that turns to hate and betrayal. This one will keep you up all night to finish.
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7/27/21 - PB - $17.00 |
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We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
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Three points of view, three really different and very flawed characters, a small town with horrible secrets all contributed to one of the best books I have read this year. It is a gut wrenching crime thriller that will shock you more than once as you race through to see how it ends. Then you will want to go back and read it again to savor the beautiful writing and to really understand each of the amazing characters.
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8/31/21 - PB - $17.00 |
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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
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Maggie Holt was the central character of the bestselling non-fiction book her father wrote about their 14 days living in the supposedly haunted Baneberry Hall. Maggie has always hated the book and the notoriety that came from it. She was only 5 when they lived there and she remembers nothing about the time. But since the book was essentially about her she is constantly bombarded with questions and made fun of by non-believers. All that she really knows is that her father swore the house was haunted and that everything he wrote was true and that on his deathbed he begged Maggie never to return to the house. Since Maggie doesnt believe in ghosts, and since her mother has refused to ever discuss what happened there. Maggie decides she must return to the house to find out for herself what caused them to run from the house twenty years ago with only the clothes on their backs, never to return. If like Maggie you dont believe in ghosts and think there is a rational explanation for everything you will love trying to figure out what that explanation is. As you hear Maggies father read his book and at the same time follow what is now happening to Maggie and what is going on at Baneberry Hall you may begin to believe that the only explanation is that Baneberry Hall is truly haunted. The brilliant plotting was instrumental in making this one of the creepiest and most believable ghost stories I have ever read and the ending was beyond amazing. If reading this doesnt put you in another place and time to escape what is going on in the real world then nothing ever will.
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Melissa O., Operations
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I love the faster pacing of books written for a younger audience (middle grade and young adult), but will try just about anything fiction, especially if it has some romance. I also have a soft spot for really special picture books.
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8/16/21 - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky: 2021 - $7.99
All the animals in Burrow Down are getting ready for bed by reading bedtime stories, like every night. But one night, something strange happens -- the books start disappearing! So Eliza Brown decides she must be brave and confront the Snatchabook who is stealing all the books. The lyrical text in this beautifully illustrated book is sure to make this a bedtime hit for younger children.
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8/31/21 - Hachette Books - $7.99
When Kate gets bored and writes to her rich uncle to beg a birthday present, she never dreams of getting an actual steam engine, much less that she would spend the night of her birthday on a journey to save endangered animals. A satisfying adventure story chock full of 'important life lessons' and train facts, with the environmentalism of Carl Hiaasen or Louis Sachar and the whimsy of Roald Dahl and Nevermoor.
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Grace Anne J., Marketing Specialist
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I love historical fiction, with World War II fiction usually topping my list of favorites. I also love YA contemporaries, mysteries, and adore anything having to do with musical theatre.
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6/1/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams - SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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Four years after her sister disappeared without a trace, Ruth Macalister receives a mysterious postcard that turns her life upside down. Based on the Cambridge Spy Ring, Our Woman in Moscow is a story of competing loyalties - family and romance, love and country. With espionage and intrigue, this look into the unsettling world of a post-World War II Russia is one that I couldn't put down.
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Linda H., Volunteer
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I enjoy nonfiction the most: biographies, true crime, sociology, and civil rights narratives to name a few. When I read fiction, I choose historical novels or literary fiction most often.
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8/3/21 - HC - $26.99 |
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We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
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Tracey Langes debut novel has already made it to the top of my list for the year. Who wouldnt love a story about a big Irish-American family who own a pub and are keeping damaging secrets from each other? Despite the familys many crises, they always manage to work out a plan together, usually around their large kitchen table, and keep moving forward. Lange has so much packed into this book, it could be a scintillating book club read as well as a long Netflix series. And I would be the first one watching. I miss the Brennans already.
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Jackie W., Volunteer
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I enjoy suspense, complex political plots, psychological thrillers, really any good mystery. I also enjoy southern historical novels, especially those set in Appalachia as well as regency romance.
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8/24/21 - PB - $9.99 |
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St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets by Annie England Noblin
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This is a charming book that adds humor and charm while addressing several very dark issues. Maeve is adopted and struggling at 36. None of her issues, including moving back home, have anything to do with her adoption. When her birth Mother dies she feels compelled to attend the funeral. The events that unfold from this decision will make you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time.
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8/31/21 - PB - $16.00 |
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The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson
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This is an engaging tale of loss, grief, regret and loneliness, and how community, shared purpose and compassion can lead the way to healing and new starts. June is grieving the loss of her Mother and living in the home they shared that serves as a memory bank of her youth. The library, where her Mother worked, and June now works is the only other place she is comfortable. An odd assortment of people use her library on a daily basis, some to work, some to read, some for companionship and some for escape. When that refuge for so many is threatened facets of all their personalities emerge that are so deeply buried, the person had no idea of their capabilities. You will laugh, become exasperated, shed tears, and possibly plan a trip to your local library when you finish this book. A heartwarming read that will engage you from beginning to ending.
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8/17/21 - HC - $28.00 |
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Wildwood Whispers by Willa Reece
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Once I started this book I did not want any interruptions until I finished reading. The mysticism of Appalachia comes to life on the pages of the book. Mel is in the foster system and has learned all the pitfalls of the system, but cares for no one until Sarah arrives at her foster home. Sarah is otherworldly to Mel, she is kind, timid and becomes Mel's family. They bond and escape terrible situations together, but Sarah always wants to return home to the Wildwood where she was born and raised. Mel would do anything for Sarah so she grants that wish and begins a journey with a cast of characters she could have never even imagined. I won't go into detail here as the discoveries are best made when you read this touching and heart grabbing book.
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Nancy H., Volunteer
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I love to read fast-paced thrillers that take you on a wild ride with twists and turns and surprise endings!! But, I also love a good novel, with great characters and a rich and bold plot.
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8/3/21 - PB - $16.00 |
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Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
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Jessica Fletcher meets Miss Marple and Sam Spade in this “who dun it” set soon after the war. This author has a clever wit and his young protagonist comes to life in the pages he writes. The story is complex, with lots of red herrings, and some good twists and turns. It’s a fun read, and would appeal to young adults…no swearing.
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