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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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Ninth House By: Leigh Bardugo
Welcome to New Haven – a place riddled with grays (ghosts) and magic galore. Instead of frat houses, we have magic houses. Instead of basements filled with beer pong, we have tombs and rituals. (Just kidding, beer pong is there too.) Alex is scooped out of her dejecting life and given the oppurtunity to join…
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Darling Girls By: Sally Hepworth
Follow the stories of 3 foster kids as they discover the dreamy farmhouse called, Wild Meadows, isn’t as dreamy as they might of thought. Starting out, Hepworth is one of my top authors. I’ll read anything she writes. So when I was offered an ARC of her upcoming book I dropped everything and dove in.…
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The Mystery Guest By: Nita Prose
I’m sure we can all agree that when we read The Maid no one was expecting a second. Yet, Molly returns to save the day once again at another unfortunate event at the hotel. We dive back to her past and get a glimpse at what made Molly, the Molly we know and love. And…
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