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The Gardener’s Plot: A Mystery By: Deborah J. Benoit
Maggie had no idea what she was getting into when she volunteered to help organize the community garden opening. Murder, missing friends and a cute detective round up this cozy little mystery. If there isn’t already a genre called ‘cozy mysteries’ there should be and I’d like to submit this book for the taking. Sadly…
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The Jane Austen Society By: Natalie Jenner
An unusual group of people ban together to save Jane Austen’s history in her hometown, Chawton. Multiple POVs as the group forms ‘The Jane Austen Society’ to accomplish this goal. They overcome obstacles, make unlikely friendships all for their own reasons of loving the late author, Jane Austen. Let’s get this out of the way.…
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The Book Swap By: Tessa Bickers
Dueling point-of-view story from Erin and James as they navigate life after the loss of high school friend Bonnie and their own friendship. Both Erin and James’ present and future is bleak. Life isn’t going anywhere near as planned, until James stumbles across a heavily annotated book that never should have been in the ‘little…
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Wellness By: Nathan Hill
A story about marriage, relationships, hopes and life in the 90s Chicago area. This book exhausted me. There were two books inside this one novel and maybe I didn’t give it a real chance once the second book started … but at 75% I realized I was dredging picking this monster of a book up.…
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Never Lie By: Freida McFadden
A house showing of a missing psychiatrist, a snow in, a secret room full of tapes of people’s deepest secrets … what more could you ask for? Oh, maybe some muurrrdddeeerrrr? Everyone has secrets and the house of a missing psychiastrist is holding too many to count. Allow McFadden to take you on another twisty,…
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The Lost Story By: Meg Shaffer
Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, two boys who society would never expect to be friends get ‘lost’ in the woods together. After being miraculously found, no one knows how they survived, why they came back or where they were while they were missing. I was excited to read another Meg Shaffer book after…
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Think Twice By: Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar #12)
Former basketball star’s life is thrown for a loop when the feds come knocking at his door asking about a friend who died years ago. As Myron learns more about how his, thought to be dead, friend got on the FBI’s radar he finds himself twisted in a more complicated story than expected. Is he…
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