Tag: Book of the Month
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We Are the Brennans
Explores the staying power of shame―and the redemptive power of love―in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.
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Beach Read
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily everafters.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Hannah Hall knows exactly whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
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Firekeeper’s Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on…
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Girl A
Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her siblings. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she…
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Infinite Country
Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality for the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family—for whom every triumph is stitched with regret and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred.
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Outlawed
Barren women are cast out of society or hanged as witches. Ada is one of those women. After being cast out from her home and all she has ever known, she ends up joining a group of outlaws.
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Blacktop Wasteland
Bug – loving husband, father, and car mechanic. As Bug falls into some financial troubles, he resurrects his past and agrees to be a getaway driver to a heist that should solve all his problems. Only the heist goes very wrong.
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What You Wish For
The story of elementary school librarian Sam who loves her school, her community, and her life. When tragedy strikes, a new principal takes over the school and runs it in a very different direction. That new principal just happens to be Sam’s old crush, who she remembers as starkly different.
