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Only If You’re Lucky By: Stacy Willingham
Margot, a quiet girl who made her best friend Eliza her entire life is thrown for a loop when Eliza tragically dies. Margot decides she must go on with their plans of college, even though she’ll have to do it alone. She isn’t alone for long, as here enters Lucy Sharpe. Lucy is larger than…
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The Lost Bookshop By: Evie Woods
A story written in two timelines the past and the present. Opaline and Martha have their own difficulties and journeys, but the one thing they have in common is where they feel safe … a disappearing bookshop. Magical realism is seeping through the books as readers are immersed in a world where a bookshop decides…
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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard By: Tom Felton
Unless you were living under a rock for the last 10… 20 years … you’ll know the name Harry Potter. Draco, excuse me, Tom, gives the fans a little more insight of what it was like in this whirlwind Harry Potter tornado in his ‘first chapter’ of his life story. Who can judge a book…
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop By: Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
The reader follows multiple characters as they make their way through life and unexpectedly, in their time of need, a magically coffee shop appears with guidance from an unexpected source. The premise of this book reminded me of the movie Midnight in Paris with Owen Wilson. Instead of prominent figures from 1920s Paris .. in…
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The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond By: Jamie Jo Wright
A dueling POV timeline going from 1907 to present day, set in Gossamer Grove, Wisconsin. Two main characters seemingly unconnected yet all the signs point to they are. Both trying to uncover the secrets of their town to hopefully save themselves from the upcoming disaster. Hard book to describe as much as it was a…
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The Girls on Floor 13 By: Helen Phifer
Maria and Frankie are back on the case when 2 girls are found dead in the infamous ‘haunted’ hotel, The Parker. Multiple situations, shall we say, happen in this murder mystery that will test the duo personally and professionally. My feelings are I didn’t feel anything one way or another. I didn’t hate it, I…
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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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