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Demon Copperhead By: Barbara Kingsolver
Inspired by Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, we follow Demon Copperhead throughout his life where he was ‘dealt the wrong hand’ straight from birth. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia reader can follow Demon as he faces the foster system, opioid epidemic, addiction and crushing losses of love and family. Will he make it out…
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The Lake of Lost Girls By: Katherine Greene
A cold case “resurfaces” when a body appears near the local lake. Sister Lindsey desperately wants to know what happened to her sister and three other girls that shaped her life. A popular podcast and media put pressure on the new wave of detectives to solve the 20 year old crime, bringing the truth right…
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One By One By: Freida McFadden
A group of friends plan a relaxing vacation in a secluded inn. On the way there, the mini van breaks down and they decide to walk the ‘short distance’ through the woods to the inn to get help. Then they are lost. Lost and one by one people in their group start disappearing. Who is…
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The Sunflower House By: Adriana Allegri
Handmaid’s Tale meets WWII Hitler’s Germany in this story about finding the truth, surviving and trying to save as many children as possible along the way. Family secrets come out when a daughter discovers a box in her mother’s closet. The truth of her parentage and what her parents did to keep her safe is…
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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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Listen for the Lie By: Amy Tintera
A terrible accident left one girl dead and one girl with no memory of what happened. Found covered in blood Lucy knows she wouldn’t kill her best friend… right? With no way to charge ‘caught red handed Lucy’, she thinks this is all in the past until a true crime podcaster starts digging around and…
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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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