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Read more about the article A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life

  • Post author:JVBrown
  • Post published:March 9, 2023
  • Post category:Dana/Staff Picks
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Three people in Pennsylvania struggle with their own grief in this tender book. Chuck is still struggling after his wife Cat’s recent death and can’t imagine going on their yearly…

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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  • Post published:March 9, 2023
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This is a hilarious book for fans of “The Thursday Murder Club” and the “Knives Out” movies. Main character Ern is invited by his family to a remote ski resort…

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It Ends with Us

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  • Post published:March 8, 2023
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Who isn’t reading CoHo novels these days? My friends have been passing these books back and forth so I thought I would give this one a try. Lily moves to…

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It Starts with Us

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  • Post published:March 8, 2023
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The sequel to “It Ends with Us,” is about giving Lily her happy ending. Lily and Ryle are navigating divorce and co-parenting when she sees Atlas for the first time…

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Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered

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  • Post published:March 8, 2023
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This is the best-selling book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the hit podcast, “My Favorite Murder!”The authors shared personal stories about mental illness, addiction and eating…

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The World We Make (The Great Cities, Book 2)

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  • Post published:March 8, 2023
  • Post category:Jamie/Staff Picks
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Again, N.K. Jemisin has surprised me and surpassed my expectations in this continued urban fantasy of the Great City series. Her take on multiverse theory is like nothing I’ve ever…

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Attack of the Black Rectangles

  • Post author:JVBrown
  • Post published:January 31, 2023
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This is an amazing middle-grade book about censorship and intolerance that everyone should read. Mac opens a copy of his classroom text to find that some words are blacked out.…

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Norse Mythology

  • Post author:JVBrown
  • Post published:January 31, 2023
  • Post category:Sam/Staff Picks
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I’m continuing my journey into the works of Neil Gaiman with one of his more recent. Norse Mythology is a collection of stories retold with Neil Gaiman’s signature prose and atmospheric…

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November 9

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  • Post published:January 31, 2023
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Fallon is an 18-year-old aspiring actress about to move from LA to New York City when she meets Ben in a diner. They quickly have feelings for each other but…

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Pieces of Her

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  • Post published:January 31, 2023
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This is a psychological mystery in which Andrea Cooper learns that her mother, Laura, is not the average, middle-class, PTA mom she thought she knew. It turns out, Laura had…

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