BEAU LEE COOPER #1 By Ben Crump A PROVOCATIVE DEBUT LEGAL THRILLER ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY On November 4, 2008, America's first Black president is elected and Chicago was the location of Obama’s victory speech.  Hollis Montrose, a 53-year-old Black ex–police officer from Chicago, is shot ten times by four white men during a traffic stop, just as the speech was ending off in the distance. Raised in 1970s Texas, Beau Lee Cooper, a serious lawyer, dreams of fighting for justice. Now ru

By Elizabeth Berg A TOUCHING AND SENTIMENTAL STORY OF A LIFE WELL LIVED ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Flo Greene, who is 94, can’t see very well or walk very far.  As she nears the end of her life, she wants to set her affairs in order.  She is leaving her house and her life story for Ruthie, a former neighbor and surrogate daughter. She is writing Ruthie a letter about all of her beloved possessions and the meanings behind them. In these final days, Flo also explores some new adventures

By Laura Dave Hannah Hall #2 A FASCINATING AND FAST-PACED SEQUEL    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Five years have passed since Hannah Hall’s husband, Owen, went missing. Following his disappearance, Hannah and Bailey, Owen’s daughter, have built a new life in Southern California. They've developed a close bond with Nicholas, Bailey’s grandfather, and are gradually moving forward. However, when Owen unexpectedly appears at Hannah’s new art exhibition, she realizes that she and Bailey are

By Izzy Broom AN INTRIGUING AND MYSTERIOUS STORY OF HOPE FOR A NEW BEGINNING    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Change Your Life for €1. Skye is not impulsive, but when she sees a derelict Greek cottage for sale by lottery for one euro, she applies. She needs a fresh start far from London and her husband. Weeks later, she feels disheartened as she opens the tattered blue door, questioning whether it can ever be her home. During renovations, she finds a bundle of faded letters behind a wall

By Anna Quinlen AN INTRIGUING STORY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIPS     ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Book clubs are great!   High school English teacher Polly Goodman talks about everything with her book club, except the book. They’re her closest friends and, with her veterinarian husband, her support system. Her students, her relationship with her mother, and her IVF struggles have all been shared with her book club. When the book club gives Polly an ancestry test as a joke, the results surpr

By Libby Page A Delightful and Captivating Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY When Tilly Nightingale receives a call about a birthday gift from her husband at her local bookshop, it's a shock. Joe had died five months ago, and she hadn’t read for pleasure ever since he got sick. Alfie, the bookshop owner, explains the gift—one book each month with a handwritten letter from Joe for the next twelve months. Though hesitant, Tilly begins reading Joe’s letters, and she immerses herself in t

By Jennifer Moorman A DELIGHTFUL MAGICAL REALISM STORY ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY All libraries are magic, and some libraries are more magical than others.  The public library in Blue Sky Valley, North Carolina, is in the latter category.  Stella Parker is an assistant librarian who is unaware of her library’s special magic, but she soon discovers strange characters in the library after hours. One of the characters is Jack Mathis, the main character from her favorite book. Stella finds

By A.D. Bell A CAPTIVATING STORY OF DETERMINATION   ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SUMMARY Lily  Delaney is a bookbinder apprentice in Oxford in 1901, and feels confined by her father’s failing bookshop and her status as a woman in a man’s profession. During a visit to a collector, she finds a burned book with a hidden fifty-year-old love letter. She becomes obsessed with the mystery of the young lovers and finds more hidden pages. As she searches through London’s booksellers, private libraries,