Sara’s Pick: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing by Jen Waite Three weeks after their daughter is born, a young woman who’s head over heels in love with her husband discovers he’s having an affair. In this memoir, she looks for answers to her questions of how everything went wrong only to discover that her husband is…
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Do Not Become Alarmed
Cori’s Pick: Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Accustomed to a life of luxury, best friends Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and young children on a holiday cruise and look forward to all that their Central American destination has to offer. One afternoon, the friends and their kids leave the…
Blame
Sara’s Pick: Blame by Jeff Abbott A young seventeen-year-old girl suffers from amnesia after a car crash that killed her best friend and next door neighbor, David. Jane has lost all her memories from the death of her father when she was fourteen until she awoke from a four day coma after the accident. Everyone…
Carve the Mark
Dallas’ Pick: Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth Veronica Roth is well known for her work in the Divergent series which I was a huge fan of. Well, she has come out with another young adult fantasy novel. Once you get in order the strange names, groups, and places it is actually a very good…
Going in Style
Alberto’s Pick: Going in Style directed by Zach Braff Stars Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret and Christopher Lloyd Joe (Michael Caine), Willie (Morgan Freeman), and Al (Alan Arkin) are three lifelong friends who spent decades working together for a steel factory. Towards the end of their lives, each one is worse for wear and…
Who is Walt Disney
Dallas’ Pick: Who is Walt Disney By: Whitney Stewart (Juvenile nonfiction) This is one of the first non-fiction books I have read in a while, and I can honestly say I enjoyed it. I just recently as an adult fell in love with Disney; movies, books, parks, everything. Who was Walt Disney is a biography…
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
Jane’s Pick: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington I love short stories, and I love Surrealism. So when I saw a collection of short stories by one of my favorite Surrealist artists – I had to pick it up to read. And now for something totally different….that’s the main thing I want…
The Good Widow
Sara’s Pick: The Good Widow by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke When her husband and his mistress, Dylan are killed in a fatal car accident in Maui, Jacqueline “Jacks” is stunned. He was supposed to be in Kansas City at a conference. When Dylan’s boyfriend, Nick, shows up suggesting they go to the island tracing…
Cinder
Kathryn’s Pick: Cinder by Marissa Meyer “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.” This futuristic retelling of the classic Cinderella tale brings a whole new light to the idea of fairy tales. Cinder ditches the traditional story of Cinderella and instead places Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, as its lead protagonist….
Every Last Lie
Sara’s Pick: Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica Clara’s life is upended when her husband, Nick, is killed in a car crash in which her four-year-old daughter, Maisie, is basically unharmed. She believes it is an accident until Maisie begins to have night terrors about a bad man in a black car. As she discovers…
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