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May 25, 2021
Book of the Month Club - May
Big Brother turns out to be Big Sister in this piercing take on Silicon Valley and the misogyny that keeps it ticking.
Big Brother turns out to be Big Sister in this piercing take on Silicon Valley and the misogyny that keeps it ticking.
May 12, 2021
Book of the Month Club - January
When your town’s core belief is that Baby Jesus came from Mary of Texarkana, you know you’ve got trouble.
When your town’s core belief is that Baby Jesus came from Mary of Texarkana, you know you’ve got trouble.
May 11, 2021
Are words only real if we write them down?
Esme is the young daughter of a lexicographer who was part of the original team of men collecting, reviewing, and defining words for the original Oxford English Dictionary. Consumptively curious and extremely bright, Esme grows up listening to how words are selected for the OED and how they are defined. Having lost her mother at a very early age, Esme is completely immersed in her father’s work and spends her days with him under the work table at the “Scriptorium”, the magical place of all the words.
Esme is the young daughter of a lexicographer who was part of the original team of men collecting, reviewing, and defining words for the original Oxford English Dictionary. Consumptively curious and extremely bright, Esme grows up listening to how words are selected for the OED and how they are defined. Having lost her mother at a very early age, Esme is completely immersed in her father’s work and spends her days with him under the work table at the “Scriptorium”, the magical place of all the words.
May 6, 2021
Heading to a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to settle his recently deceased aunt’s affairs, Mark is more annoyed than he is grieving. It’s been many years since he’s heard from his globe-trotting aunt and now he has inherited her house in a town he’s never heard of.
May 4, 2021
Heartbreakingly beautiful and unexpected.
The Soul of Things is the memoir of Eva Fahidi and her journey from a privileged childhood, through the stark horror of Auschwitz-Buchenwald, and the life she built after. She has become a household name in both Hungary and Germany, with countless interviews, engagements, exhibitions and documentary films to include on her list of accomplishments.
The Soul of Things is the memoir of Eva Fahidi and her journey from a privileged childhood, through the stark horror of Auschwitz-Buchenwald, and the life she built after. She has become a household name in both Hungary and Germany, with countless interviews, engagements, exhibitions and documentary films to include on her list of accomplishments.
May 1, 2021
"An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." --Reese Witherspoon
Let’s be honest. If Reese loves it, I”m already obsessed. The remote luxe hotel, the snow, an element of creepiness…I couldn’t wait to settle in with the pups and get lost in it.
Let’s be honest. If Reese loves it, I”m already obsessed. The remote luxe hotel, the snow, an element of creepiness…I couldn’t wait to settle in with the pups and get lost in it.
May 1, 2021
This was an easy read…likable characters, interesting plot, predictable. Until it wasn’t!
Becky Braithwaite is dealing with the challenges typical of a first year university student. Being on her own for the first time, learning to live companionably with strangers, making new friends and fitting in, and oh yeah - being a student. But what happened before, those terrible events of June 16th, 2018, make everything seem unattainable.
Becky Braithwaite is dealing with the challenges typical of a first year university student. Being on her own for the first time, learning to live companionably with strangers, making new friends and fitting in, and oh yeah - being a student. But what happened before, those terrible events of June 16th, 2018, make everything seem unattainable.