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Carrie Soto is Back

  • Post author:JVBrown
  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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I went on a Taylor Jenkins Reid kick recently and just love her storytelling. This book focuses on Carrie Soto, a retired tennis superstar who has sacrificed everything to become…

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If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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Perfect for fans of Nina Lacour and Tess Sharpe, If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come combines speculative fiction elements with the raw emotion, beautiful prose, and careful mental health representation characteristic of Lacour’s and…

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Piranesi

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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In a house with floors that reach so high they extend into the clouds, and so low they’re filled with ocean waves; halls that extend for miles, lined with thousands…

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Scattered Showers

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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This is a gorgeous book that is a collection of nine stories, four of which have been previously published by Rowell. This is mostly a YA/romance collection, but there were…

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The Celebrants

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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It’s been five years since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends and 28 years since graduation. Over the years they have reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old…

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The Grief Keeper

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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This speculative young adult novel uses elements of science fiction to interrogate what the U.S. demands of its most vulnerable populations in order to earn their dignity and freedom. Seventeen-year-old…

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The Housemaid

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  • Post published:October 31, 2023
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Oooh, TikTok made me read it! I kept seeing this book on BookTok and it became a huge hit with my book club. Millie needs a job, but she has…

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Final Girls

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  • Post published:September 29, 2023
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Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of massacre. She became known as a “Final Girl” and…

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Georgie, All Along

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  • Post published:September 29, 2023
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Georgie is fired as a personal assistant to a Hollywood producer and decides to move back home to small-town Virginia to help her best friend who is about to have…

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Long Shadows

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  • Post published:September 29, 2023
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In the “Long Shadows,” Baldacci takes you on a journey of twists and turns as you continue to follow the story of Amos Decker. This time Amos is sent to…

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