Category: Fiction
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride: Content Warnings
Synopsis: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the…
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The Vanderbeekers Ever After by Karina Yan Glaser: Content Warnings
Synopsis: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people! But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a newly-made and critically…
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The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned…
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Bunny Hunting by H.N. Defore: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Monroe Nyx Bevins: Content with her life writing romance books, Moe never really reaches outside her comforts. She has some darker interests that she tries to rope the men into town into partaking in, but they think blood doesn’t become a woman. Too bad Moe doesn’t shy away from…
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I See You, Charlotte by Coralee Taylor: Content Warnings
Synopsis: I thought I had it all. At the end of my junior year, I met the love of my life – the dark boy with the secret notebook who saw me like no one else did. But as secrets unravel and betrayals mount, my world was shattered. With a…
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Dear Henry, Love Edith by Becca Kinzer: Content Warnings
Synopsis: After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget love. Forget marriage. She plans to fill her thirties with adventure. As she awaits the final paperwork for a humanitarian trip to South Africa, she accepts a short-term nursing position in a small Midwestern…
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The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Mottee, the island’s only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret.…
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The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she’s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the…
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Renaissance by Susan Fish: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Elizabeth Fane is on the cusp of 50, but instead of celebrating with her family, she is on a plane to Italy alone, leaving behind her husband, three adult sons, and the profound rift between them. In Italy Liz plans to prune olive trees at a convent, explore the…
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The Peasant King by Tessa Afshar: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than…
